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Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · topic Foreign affairs (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · for and against only

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

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Period Term202420252026Last 6 months
Custom dates
Votes Final votes245All roll calls2 136
Blocs GroupsDelegations
Periods Part-sessionsQuartersMonthsWhole period
Positions For, against, abstainedFor and against only ⓘ

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—7 votes—7 votes—5 votes—0 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—0 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—1 vote—4 votes—6 votes—7 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—7 votes—0 votes—6 votes
Q4 20240.7820 votes0.8820 votes—17 votes—0 votes0.6820 votes0.7120 votes—19 votes—0 votes0.8720 votes0.9020 votes0.8120 votes—18 votes—19 votes—9 votes—15 votes0.7820 votes—10 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.9420 votes0.8920 votes0.8920 votes0.9120 votes0.9720 votes—0 votes0.4320 votes
Q1 2025—19 votes—19 votes—19 votes—0 votes—19 votes—19 votes—17 votes—0 votes—19 votes—19 votes—19 votes—17 votes—14 votes—12 votes—18 votes—19 votes—14 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes—19 votes—19 votes—19 votes—19 votes—19 votes—0 votes—19 votes
Q2 20250.6430 votes0.7430 votes0.7229 votes—0 votes0.7230 votes0.6230 votes0.8330 votes—0 votes0.7630 votes0.8428 votes0.4330 votes0.5025 votes0.9323 votes0.7223 votes0.8430 votes0.7330 votes0.9425 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.7230 votes0.8730 votes0.8030 votes0.8730 votes0.7930 votes—0 votes0.5125 votes
Q3 20250.6425 votes0.7225 votes0.7325 votes—0 votes0.7325 votes0.6425 votes0.8725 votes—0 votes0.8425 votes0.9225 votes0.6125 votes0.5925 votes0.9423 votes—19 votes0.9222 votes0.7825 votes—17 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.7525 votes0.8825 votes0.8625 votes0.8725 votes0.8725 votes—0 votes0.6325 votes
Q4 20250.7640 votes0.7840 votes0.8137 votes—0 votes0.8240 votes0.7040 votes0.8940 votes—0 votes0.8940 votes0.8639 votes0.6640 votes0.6035 votes0.9729 votes0.8229 votes0.8740 votes0.8040 votes0.9132 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.8240 votes0.8740 votes0.8940 votes0.9540 votes0.8340 votes—0 votes0.5240 votes
Q1 20260.6536 votes0.6936 votes0.6636 votes—0 votes0.7136 votes0.7036 votes0.8636 votes—0 votes0.8336 votes0.8536 votes0.6336 votes0.5034 votes0.9230 votes0.8022 votes0.8030 votes0.7136 votes0.9521 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.7136 votes0.8136 votes0.8836 votes0.8736 votes0.8336 votes—0 votes0.5035 votes
Q2 20260.5940 votes0.7140 votes0.8338 votes—0 votes0.7840 votes0.7141 votes0.8440 votes—0 votes0.8041 votes0.8540 votes0.6040 votes0.4841 votes0.9824 votes0.7330 votes0.8540 votes0.7441 votes—19 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.7040 votes0.8341 votes0.8240 votes0.8941 votes0.8141 votes—0 votes0.6241 votes
Q3 20260.7027 votes0.7527 votes0.7727 votes—0 votes0.8426 votes0.7727 votes0.8727 votes—0 votes0.8027 votes0.8927 votes0.6127 votes0.5726 votes0.9625 votes0.7622 votes—16 votes0.7427 votes0.9527 votes—0 votes—0 votes—0 votes0.8027 votes0.7627 votes0.8527 votes0.9127 votes0.8827 votes—0 votes0.6627 votes
Whole period0.680.750.76—0.750.690.87—0.820.870.620.540.950.770.860.750.94———0.780.850.850.890.85—0.55
Votes considered244244233024324524102452412442281881702172451650002442452442452450238

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 0.6824420
Belgium 0.7524422
Bulgaria 0.7623317
Cyprus fewer than 10 seats — not compared—06
Czechia 0.7524321
Germany 0.6924595
Denmark 0.8724115
Estonia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—07
Spain 0.8224560
Finland 0.8724115
France 0.6224481
Greece 0.5422821
Croatia 0.9518812
Hungary 0.7717021
Ireland 0.8621714
Italy 0.7524576
Lithuania 0.9416511
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 0.7824431
Poland 0.8524553
Portugal 0.8524421
Romania 0.8924533
Sweden 0.8524521
Slovenia fewer than 10 seats — not compared—09
Slovakia 0.5523815

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.

  • 245 votes considered (final votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 28 of 273 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • 1 761 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 26 Sept 2026, 03:32 UTC (data stamp 579b2832c723, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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data version 579b2832c723 (26 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 — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · topic Foreign affairs (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · for and against only”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&topic=foreign-affairs&variant=forAgainst&to=2026-09-26 (retrieved 26 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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-2026-09-26,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Cohesion — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 26 Sept 2026 · topic Foreign affairs (model-assigned) · national delegations · per quarter · for and against only}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&topic=foreign-affairs&variant=forAgainst&to=2026-09-26}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/cohesion?by=country&topic=foreign-affairs&variant=forAgainst&to=2026-09-26},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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}
}