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Cohesion

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Anti-discrimination & minorities (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted

How united do the delegations vote — over time, and on the votes of each committee or topic?

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Cohesion over time

Agreement Index per quarter, from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same). A vote counts for a bloc when at least 10 of its members and a third of its seats voted; a gap is a period with fewer than 20 votes counted.

Cohesion of the delegations per quarter, Q3 2024 to Q3 2026: Agreement Index from 0 (evenly split) to 1 (all voted the same).

Q3 2024 → Q3 2026; each panel highlights one series, the others faint behind it.

Dashed: a period with fewer than 20 votes counted (no value) between two that have one.

Data as a table
Agreement Index per period (0 = evenly split, 1 = all voted the same), with the votes counted in it. — : fewer than 20 votes counted in the period (a vote counts for a bloc when at least 10 of its members and a third of its seats voted).
PeriodAustriaBelgiumBulgariaCyprusCzechiaGermanyDenmarkEstoniaSpainFinlandFranceGreeceCroatiaHungaryIrelandItalyLithuaniaLuxembourgLatviaMaltaNetherlandsPolandPortugalRomaniaSwedenSloveniaSlovakia
Q3 2024—6 votes—6 votes—5 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—6 votes
Q4 20240.5241 votes0.7541 votes0.5039 votes—0 votes0.5041 votes0.6141 votes0.6440 votes—0 votes0.5641 votes0.8841 votes0.4141 votes0.6629 votes—15 votes—0 votes0.9439 votes0.4041 votes—2 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.6041 votes0.4041 votes0.7441 votes0.5141 votes0.6741 votes—0 votes0.4541 votes
Q3 2025—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—0 votes—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—0 votes—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—0 votes—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—0 votes—10 votes
Q4 20250.5292 votes0.6192 votes0.5392 votes—0 votes0.4392 votes0.5192 votes0.6092 votes—0 votes0.5692 votes0.7992 votes0.3492 votes0.5592 votes0.4060 votes0.7387 votes0.8392 votes0.4592 votes0.4153 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.5392 votes0.4992 votes0.5992 votes0.5992 votes0.6292 votes—0 votes0.3792 votes
Q1 2026—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—6 votes—0 votes—6 votes
Q2 2026—10 votes—10 votes—6 votes—0 votes—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—0 votes—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—9 votes—3 votes—1 vote—10 votes—10 votes—3 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—10 votes—0 votes—10 votes
Q3 20260.3958 votes0.6558 votes0.4158 votes—0 votes0.4358 votes0.4458 votes0.6558 votes—0 votes0.4558 votes0.8558 votes0.5358 votes0.5458 votes0.4349 votes0.4851 votes—5 votes0.3458 votes0.4055 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.5358 votes0.4158 votes0.6458 votes0.4458 votes0.7358 votes—0 votes0.4258 votes
Whole period0.470.650.50—0.460.520.63—0.530.820.420.570.440.630.850.410.44———0.550.450.640.540.66—0.41
Votes considered223223216022322322202232232232101431391682231290002232232232232230223

Over the whole selection

Each delegation’s Agreement Index over every vote in the selection where enough of its members voted.

Cohesion: the Agreement Index (0–1) over the votes counted — votes where at least 10 members and a third of the seats voted; — : fewer than 20 such votes. Seats: members now. Order as the backend lists the blocs, not a ranking.
DelegationCohesionVotes countedSeats
Austria 0.4722320
Belgium 0.6522322
Bulgaria 0.5021617
Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Czechia 0.4622321
Germany 0.5222395
Denmark 0.6322215
Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—07
Spain 0.5322360
Finland 0.8222315
France 0.4222381
Greece 0.5721021
Croatia 0.4414312
Hungary 0.6313921
Ireland 0.8516814
Italy 0.4122376
Lithuania 0.4412911
Luxembourg fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Latvia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Malta fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Netherlands 0.5522331
Poland 0.4522353
Portugal 0.6422321
Romania 0.5422333
Sweden 0.6622321
Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Slovakia 0.4122315

The tables by committee and by topic are computed over a whole period: choose Whole period.

About these figures

What was counted, what was left out, and how.

  • 223 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 2 of 15 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 1 672 times a bloc had too few members voting on a vote (fewer than 10, or under a third of its seats) and was left out of that vote (turnout rule).
  • Cohesion is the Agreement Index: 1 when every voting member took the same position, 0 when the bloc split evenly three ways (method). A bloc counts on a vote only when at least 10 of its members and a third of its seats voted; the non-attached have no group cohesion.
  • A delegation’s cohesion reflects the mix of groups its members sit in. Delegations with fewer than 10 seats are shown but not compared.
  • Months are offered for all roll calls only, and a month needs at least 20 votes.
  • Each member is counted in the group they belonged to on the day of the vote (group at the date).
  • Roll calls are not a random sample: final votes on laws are recorded by name, most other roll calls because a group asked for it. A group’s line is inferred from its members’ votes; the Parliament publishes no whip.
  • Methods: Cohesion (Agreement Index) v1, Final votes and all roll calls v1, Group at the date of the vote v1.
  • Data as of 25 Sept 2026, 03:36 UTC (data stamp f37e5638cded, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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data version f37e5638cded (25 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1 · methods
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EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Cohesion — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Anti-discrimination & minorities (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=social%2Fequality&to=2026-09-25 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1.
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@misc{epw-analysis-2026-09-25,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Cohesion — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · topic Anti-discrimination \& minorities (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · abstentions counted}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=social%2Fequality&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&scope=all&topic=social%2Fequality&to=2026-09-25},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version f37e5638cded (25 Sept 2026) · methods: group-at-date v1, participation v1, abstention v1, loyalty v1, against-clear v1, cohesion v1, agreement v1, group-agreement v1, winning-side v1, similar-votes v1, scope v1, data-version v1}
}