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Votes against the group’s line

All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Daniel CASPARY

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
Custom dates
Votes Final votes620All roll calls5 928
Order Highest rate firstBy name

Showing Daniel CASPARY only. Show every member

Daniel CASPARY’s votes against the line, 49

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
12 Feb 2026Paragraph 1, point aa — part 3 Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of WomenForAgainstEPP
12 Feb 2026Paragraph 1, point s — part 2 Recommendation to the Council on EU priorities for the 70th session of the UN Commission on the Status of WomenAbstainedForEPP
21 Jan 2026Separate vote on paragraph 7 Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025AgainstForEPP
20 Jan 2026Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 14 Murder of Mehdi Kessaci – urgent need for ambitious European action against drug traffickingAgainstForEPP
16 Dec 2025Final vote — text as a whole Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/003 SE/Northvolt – SwedenAgainstForEPP
27 Nov 2025Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 9 Escalation of the war and the humanitarian catastrophe in SudanAgainstForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 77 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AgainstForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 60 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AbstainedForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 23 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AbstainedForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 18 — part 2 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AbstainedForEPP
27 Nov 2025Paragraph 17 — part 3 EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024AgainstForEPP
25 Nov 2025Final vote — text as a whole 2024 budget: assessing the implementation of the gender mainstreaming methodology in the EU budgetAgainstForEPP
9 Oct 2025Final vote — text as a whole Second World Summit for Social DevelopmentAgainstForEPP
8 Oct 2025Final vote Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 141 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 139 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 137 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 125 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 124 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 133 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Amendment 132 to Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainForAgainstEPP
8 Oct 2025Separate vote on Article 1 Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chainAgainstForEPP
10 Sept 2025Final vote — text as a whole Role of cohesion policy investment in resolving the current housing crisisAgainstForEPP
9 Sept 2025Amendment 47 to paragraph 67 Public procurementAgainstForEPP
9 Sept 2025Amendment 133 to Article 6 — part 2 Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehiclesAgainstForEPP
17 Jun 2025Amendment 186 to Article 3, after paragraph 2 Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)AgainstForEPP
17 Jun 2025Amendment 29 — part 5 Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast)AgainstForEPP
7 May 2025Amendment 5, adding text after recital R The European Water Resilience StrategyForAgainstEPP
3 Apr 2025Amendment 15 to paragraph 6 — part 1 Energy-intensive industriesAgainstForEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 62, adding text after paragraph 52 Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2024ForAgainstEPP
2 Apr 2025Separate vote on recital Z Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AgainstForEPP
2 Apr 2025Paragraph 30 — part 2 Implementation of the common foreign and security policy – annual report 2024AgainstAbstainedEPP
2 Apr 2025Amendment 57, adding text after paragraph 12 Guidelines for the 2026 budget – Section IIIForAgainstEPP
1 Apr 2025Amendment 46 to Article 2, paragraph 2 Macro-financial assistance to EgyptForAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Final vote — text as a whole The need for EU support towards a just transition and reconstruction in SyriaAgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Paragraph 70 — part 2 White paper on the future of European defenceAgainstForEPP
12 Mar 2025Amendment 62 to paragraph 58 White paper on the future of European defenceForAgainstEPP
12 Mar 2025Final vote — text as a whole European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2025AbstainedForEPP
19 Dec 2024Amendment 12 to paragraph 1, point h Recommendation to the Council on the EU priorities for the 69th session of the UN Commission on the Status of WomenForAgainstEPP
18 Dec 2024Amendment 16 to paragraph 4, point 4, point 3 Amendment of Annex VI – Powers and responsibilities of the standing committeesForAgainstEPP
28 Nov 2024Amendment 18 to paragraph 7 Recommendation on smoke- and aerosol-free environmentsForAgainstEPP
23 Oct 2024Separate vote on paragraph 88 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForEPP
23 Oct 2024Paragraph 78 — part 3 General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sectionsAgainstForEPP
19 Sept 2024Separate vote on paragraph 1 Situation in VenezuelaAgainstForEPP
19 Sept 2024Separate vote on paragraph 8 Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member StatesAgainstForEPP
19 Sept 2024Separate vote on paragraph 6 The case of José Daniel Ferrier García in CubaAgainstForEPP
19 Sept 2024Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 6 The severe situation of political prisoners in BelarusAgainstForEPP
19 Sept 2024Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 8 The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’ForAgainstEPP

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
Daniel CASPARY , EPP · Germany · left on 28 Feb 2026 1.5 %3 252435123

About these figures

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

  • 5 928 votes considered (all roll-call 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 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 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 — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Daniel CASPARY”. Analysis. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=28219&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 — All roll calls · whole term, 16 Jul 2024 – 25 Sept 2026 · Daniel CASPARY}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=28219&to=2026-09-25}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/analysis/dissent?mep=28219&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}
}