Skip to content
EU Parl WatchResearch
Projects

Analysis

Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Nela RIEHL

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?

Cite
Export
Period Term202420252026Last 6 months
Custom dates
Votes Final votes293All roll calls2 891
Order Highest rate firstBy name

Showing Nela RIEHL only. Show every member

Nela RIEHL’s votes against the line, 43

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 18 to recital 2 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
16 Dec 2025Amendment 52 to recital 2 Bilateral safeguard clause of the EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement and the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement for agricultural productsAgainstForGreens
25 Nov 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Impact of artificial intelligence on the financial sectorAbstainedAgainstGreens
22 Oct 2025Amendment 84, adding text after paragraph 28 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAgainstForGreens
22 Oct 2025Amendment 49, adding text after paragraph 26 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAgainstForGreens
22 Oct 2025Amendment 48, adding text after paragraph 26 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAbstainedForGreens
22 Oct 2025Amendment 73, adding text after paragraph 22 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAgainstForGreens
22 Oct 2025Amendment 72, adding text after paragraph 22 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAbstainedForGreens
22 Oct 2025Amendment 71, adding text after paragraph 22 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAbstainedForGreens
20 Oct 2025Tuesday’s agenda — Request by the ECR Group Final vote Tuesday’s agenda – Request by the ECR GroupAbstainedAgainstGreens
9 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 5 Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024ForAgainstGreens
9 Oct 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 3 Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2024AbstainedForGreens
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on paragraph 29 EU political strategy on Latin AmericaForAgainstGreens
8 Oct 2025Amendment 121, adding text after recital 3 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForGreens
10 Sept 2025Separate vote on recital O Role of cohesion policy investment in resolving the current housing crisisAbstainedForGreens
10 Sept 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision EC-Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement: accession of VanuatuForAgainstGreens
9 Sept 2025Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 1 2023 and 2024 reports on UkraineAgainstForGreens
10 Jul 2025Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 4 Urgent need to protect religious minorities in Syria following the recent terrorist attack on Mar Elias Church in DamascusForAgainstGreens
22 May 2025Final vote Euratom Research and Training Programme for the period 2026-2027 complementing Horizon EuropeForAgainstGreens
22 May 2025Amendment 5, adding text after recital 11 Granting equivalence to Moldova and Ukraine for field inspections and seed productionAbstainedAgainstGreens
8 May 2025Paragraph 30 — part 1 Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal marketAbstainedForGreens
8 May 2025Amendment 11 to paragraph 14 Competition policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForGreens
8 May 2025Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 11 Competition policy – annual report 2024AbstainedForGreens
8 May 2025Final vote Suspending certain parts of Regulation (EU) 2015/478 as regards imports of Ukrainian products into the European UnionAgainstForGreens
8 May 2025Final vote The protection status of the wolf (Canis lupus)AbstainedAgainstGreens
8 May 2025Amendments 1 + 2 (voted as one) The protection status of the wolf (Canis lupus)AbstainedForGreens
7 May 2025Amendment 4 to paragraph 42 — part 2 The European Water Resilience StrategyForAgainstGreens
7 May 2025Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 37 A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing worldAbstainedAgainstGreens
12 Mar 2025Amendment 2, adding text after recital P European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025AgainstForGreens
12 Mar 2025Amendment 13, adding text after recital K European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025AbstainedAgainstGreens
12 Mar 2025Amendment 1, adding text after recital F European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025AbstainedForGreens
12 Mar 2025Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 35 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025AgainstForGreens
12 Mar 2025Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 21 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025AgainstForGreens
12 Mar 2025Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 21 European Semester for economic policy coordination 2025AgainstForGreens
12 Mar 2025Final vote on the draft Council decision Agreement between Canada and the European Union on the transfer and processing of Passenger Name Record (PNR) dataAbstainedAgainstGreens
12 Feb 2025Amendment 2, adding text after recital M Genetically modified maize MON 95275AbstainedForGreens
12 Feb 2025Amendment 2, adding text after recital V Genetically modified maize DP910521AbstainedForGreens
11 Feb 2025Amendment 20, adding text after recital A European Central Bank – annual report 2024AgainstForGreens
11 Feb 2025Amendment 19, adding text after recital A European Central Bank – annual report 2024AgainstForGreens
11 Feb 2025Amendment 18, adding text after recital A European Central Bank – annual report 2024AgainstForGreens
11 Feb 2025Amendment 17, adding text before recital A European Central Bank – annual report 2024AgainstForGreens
11 Feb 2025Paragraph 32 — part 1 European Central Bank – annual report 2024ForAgainstGreens
23 Jan 2025Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 4 Case of Jean-Jacques Wondo in the Democratic Republic of the CongoAbstainedForGreens

By member, 1

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
Nela RIEHL , Greens · Germany 1.8 %2 4272320038

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).
Export
Cite

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256964&to=2025-12-31
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version
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
Retrieved
29 September 2026

Cite as

EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Nela RIEHL”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256964&to=2025-12-31 (retrieved 29 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.
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-analysis-2026-09-29,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Votes against the group’s line — All roll calls · 1 Jan 2025 – 31 Dec 2025 · Nela RIEHL}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256964&to=2025-12-31}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?from=2025-01-01&mep=256964&to=2025-12-31},
  urldate = {2026-09-29},
  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}
}