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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Michael BLOSS

Which members voted against their group’s clear line, how often compared with the votes where the group had one, and did they vote with their national party when they did?

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Period Term202420252026Last 6 months
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Votes Final votes293All roll calls2 891
Order Highest rate firstBy name

Showing Michael BLOSS only. Show every member

Michael BLOSS’s votes against the line, 34

Every vote in the selection where the member’s position differed from their group’s clear line, newest first.

Position: the member’s vote. Clear line: the position of at least two thirds of Group (at least 10 members voting), the group they sat in on that day.
DateVotePositionClear lineGroup
16 Dec 2025Amendment 67 to Article 14 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
26 Nov 2025Paragraph 1, point ad — part 1 EU’s diplomatic strategy and geopolitical cooperation in the ArcticAgainstForGreens
25 Nov 2025Separate vote on recital AK Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is foundedAgainstForGreens
13 Nov 2025Amendment 3 to Article 1 Exceptional trade measures for countries and territories participating in or linked to the Stabilisation and Association ProcessAgainstForGreens
23 Oct 2025Paragraph 78 — part 1 UN Climate Change Conference 2025 in Belém, Brazil (COP30)AgainstForGreens
22 Oct 2025Amendment 104 to paragraph 58 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAgainstForGreens
22 Oct 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 36 — part 2 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAbstainedAgainstGreens
22 Oct 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 36 — part 1 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAbstainedAgainstGreens
9 Oct 2025Paragraph 20 — part 2 Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024AbstainedAgainstGreens
11 Sept 2025Amendment 26, adding text after recital H Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAgainstForGreens
11 Sept 2025Amendment 52, adding text after paragraph 5 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAbstainedForGreens
11 Sept 2025Amendment 49, adding text after paragraph 1 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAgainstForGreens
11 Sept 2025Amendment 46, adding text after paragraph 1 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAgainstForGreens
11 Sept 2025Amendment 45, adding text after paragraph 1 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAbstainedForGreens
11 Sept 2025Amendment 43, adding text after paragraph 1 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAgainstForGreens
11 Sept 2025Amendment 38, adding text after paragraph 1 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAgainstForGreens
11 Sept 2025Amendment 36, adding text after paragraph 1 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAbstainedForGreens
11 Sept 2025Amendment 31, adding text after paragraph 1 Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solutionAbstainedForGreens
9 Sept 2025Amendment 8 to paragraph 39 Public procurementAgainstForGreens
9 Sept 2025Amendment 150 to Article 6 — part 2 Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehiclesForAgainstGreens
8 Sept 2025Ordre du jour de mercredi — Demande du groupe PPE Final vote Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the PPE GroupForAbstainedGreens
9 Jul 2025Final vote — text as a whole 2023 and 2024 reports on Bosnia and HerzegovinaAgainstForGreens
8 May 2025Amendment 294 to Article 13, paragraph 3, après le point c Screening of foreign investments in the UnionForAgainstGreens
7 May 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 42 — part 2 The European Water Resilience StrategyForAgainstGreens
2 Apr 2025Amendment 36, adding text after paragraph 12 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024AgainstForGreens
2 Apr 2025Amendment 88 to paragraph 69 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2024AgainstForGreens
2 Apr 2025Amendment 82, adding text after paragraph 22 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIAgainstForGreens
1 Apr 2025Amendment 19 to Article 2, paragraph 1 — part 2 Macro-financial assistance to EgyptForAgainstGreens
12 Mar 2025Amendment 22 to recital K The need for EU support towards a just transition and reconstruction in SyriaForAgainstGreens
12 Mar 2025Amendment 43, adding text after paragraph 2 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstGreens
11 Feb 2025Amendment 32 to paragraph 36 European Central Bank – annual report 2024AgainstForGreens
11 Feb 2025Paragraph 32 — part 1 European Central Bank – annual report 2024ForAgainstGreens
23 Jan 2025Paragraph 5 — part 3 Situation in Venezuela following the usurpation of the presidency on 10 January 2025AgainstForGreens
23 Jan 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 4 Case of Jean-Jacques Wondo in the Democratic Republic of the CongoAgainstForGreens

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Members with at least one vote where their group had a clear line. Order: by rate, for members with at least 300 clear-line votes (the rest follow by name) — not a ranking.

Against the line: votes against the group’s clear line ÷ clear-line votes (votes where the member’s group at the date had a clear line and the member voted); a count below 50. Of the votes against: opposite (for ↔ against), abstained against the line, other (for or against when the line was to abstain), and with own party — with the majority of their national party’s members in the group (at least two voting).
MemberAgainst the lineClear-line votesOppositeAbstainedOtherWith own party
Michael BLOSS , Greens · Germany 1.2 %2 742267112

About these figures

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

  • 2 891 votes considered (all roll-call votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 78 of 371 decisions in the period had no final vote recorded by name (a show of hands or a count without names) and cannot be measured.
  • A vote counts against the group’s line when the group’s clear line — at least two thirds of its votes cast, with at least 10 members voting — was different from the member’s position; a divided group has no line to vote against (method). This is a different rule from group loyalty, which uses the majority line (loyalty).
  • Ordered by rate, only members with at least 300 votes where their group had a clear line are compared; fewer votes make a rate unstable, and below 50 the figure is shown as a count.
  • 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: Voted against the group’s clear line v1, Voted with the group’s majority line v1, Final votes and all roll calls v1, Group at the date of the vote v1.
  • Data as of 29 Sept 2026, 03:29 UTC (data stamp 2b7a29b98b0d, code 6d4005c55bde; what the stamp is).
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data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 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). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Michael BLOSS”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=197449&to=2025-12-31 (retrieved 30 September 2026). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0); data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 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-2026-09-30,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Michael BLOSS}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=197449&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=197449&to=2025-12-31},
  urldate = {2026-09-30},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Analysis. Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0); data version 2b7a29b98b0d (29 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}
}