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Votes against the group’s line

Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · EPP · Niels Flemming HANSEN

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 votes620All roll calls5 928
Order Highest rate firstBy name

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Niels Flemming HANSEN’s votes against the line, 40

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
17 Sept 2026Final vote — text as a whole An EU health workforce crisis plan: sustainability of healthcare systems and employment and working conditions in the healthcare sectorAgainstForEPP
15 Sept 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Global role of the euroAgainstForEPP
15 Sept 2026Final vote — text as a whole Implementation of the Council Recommendation on a Bridge to Jobs – Reinforcing the Youth GuaranteeAgainstForEPP
9 Jul 2026Final vote on the motion for a resolution Feasibility of a 28th tax regime and its potential to support EU competitivenessAgainstForEPP
8 Jul 2026Final vote — text as a whole Trajectory to decrease the contribution of high indirect land-use change-risk biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels to renewable energy targetsAgainstForEPP
7 Jul 2026Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 1/2026: entering the surplus of the financial year 2025AbstainedForEPP
7 Jul 2026Final vote on the provisional agreement Coordination of social security systemsAgainstForEPP
16 Jun 2026Final vote on the provisional agreement Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForEPP
21 May 2026Final vote — text as a whole The need to reduce work-related fatalitiesAbstainedForEPP
21 May 2026Final vote — text as a whole Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gapAgainstForEPP
28 Apr 2026Final vote on the provisional agreement European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: workers affected by imminent job displacementAgainstForEPP
28 Apr 2026Final vote — text as a whole Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034AgainstForEPP
26 Mar 2026Final vote Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of applicationForAgainstEPP
11 Mar 2026Final vote — text as a whole European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2026AgainstForEPP
11 Mar 2026Final vote — text as a whole Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectorsAbstainedForEPP
10 Mar 2026Final vote — text as a whole Housing crisis in the European Union with the aim of proposing solutions for decent, sustainable and affordable housingAgainstForEPP
10 Mar 2026Final vote on the provisional agreement Establishing an EU talent poolAgainstForEPP
12 Feb 2026Final vote — text as a whole Developing a new EU anti-poverty strategyAbstainedForEPP
21 Jan 2026Amendments 1 + 243 (voted as one) Final vote Air passenger rightsAbstainedForEPP
17 Dec 2025Final vote Digitalisation, artificial intelligence and algorithmic management in the workplace – shaping the future of workAgainstForEPP
16 Dec 2025Final vote — text as a whole Relations between the EU and Saudi ArabiaAgainstForEPP
27 Nov 2025Final vote — text as a whole EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AbstainedForEPP
13 Nov 2025Final vote Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT)AgainstForEPP
22 Oct 2025Final vote — text as a whole General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2026 – all sectionsAgainstForEPP
9 Oct 2025Final vote — text as a whole Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAgainstForEPP
9 Oct 2025Final vote on the provisional agreement Establishment and functioning of European Works Councils - effective enforcementAgainstForEPP
8 Oct 2025Final vote Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForEPP
10 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policyAgainstForEPP
10 Sept 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Possibilities for simplification of cohesion fundsAgainstForEPP
10 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Role of cohesion policy investment in resolving the current housing crisisAgainstForEPP
9 Jul 2025Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: Application EGF/2025/000 TA 2025 - Technical assistance at the initiative of the CommissionAgainstForEPP
9 Jul 2025Final vote — text as a whole Draft amending budget No 1/2025: entering the surplus of the financial year 2024AbstainedForEPP
9 Jul 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Deforestation Regulation - list of countries presenting a low or high riskAbstainedForEPP
18 Jun 2025Final vote — text as a whole Implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience FacilityAgainstForEPP
8 May 2025Final vote on the motion for a resolution Ninth report on economic and social cohesionAgainstForEPP
7 May 2025Final vote — text as a whole A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing worldAgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Final vote — text as a whole European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025AbstainedForEPP
11 Mar 2025Final vote — text as a whole European Social Fund Plus post-2027AgainstForEPP
27 Nov 2024Joint text Final vote 2025 budgetary procedure: Joint textAbstainedForEPP
23 Oct 2024Final vote Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member StatesAgainstForEPP

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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 100 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
Niels Flemming HANSEN , EPP · Denmark 7.1 %563301000

About these figures

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

  • 620 votes considered (final votes matching the filters; scope).
  • 174 of 794 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 100 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 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). “Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · EPP · Niels Flemming HANSEN”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?group=PPE&mep=257033&scope=final&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 = {{Votes against the group’s line — Final votes · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · EPP · Niels Flemming HANSEN}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?group=PPE&mep=257033&scope=final&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?group=PPE&mep=257033&scope=final&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}
}