Member
Jüri RATAS
EPP · Estonia
Record
The member’s figures against the median of their group and of the chamber. Each vote counts the member in the group they belonged to that day.
Roll-call participation ⓘ
98.4 %
5 836 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
EPP median: 89.9 % (+8.5 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
97.9 %
5 712 of 5 836 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 93.6 % (+4.3 pts)
39 opposite (for ↔ against), 10 abstained against the line, 1 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Jüri RATAS | 98.4 % |
| EPP median | 89.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 17.0 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.6 % |
| Members | 196 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Jüri RATAS | 97.9 % |
| EPP median | 93.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 70.2 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.5 % |
| Members | 196 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of EPP; no ranks.
- “No vote recorded” is not the same as absent: leave, illness and chairing the sitting look the same.
- A group’s line is inferred from its members’ votes — Parliament publishes no whip.
Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
Roll-call participation
One cell per sitting while in office, shaded by the share of that day’s roll calls the member voted in. The official attendance register is kept separately by Parliament.
"No vote recorded" is not the same as absent: leave, illness and chairing the sitting look the same.
Data as a table
Voting neighbours
Members who voted the same way most often in the roll calls they both took part in, within and outside the member’s group (group at the date of each vote), over all roll calls of the term.
Work
Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.
Seats
| Body | Role | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Committee on BudgetsBUDG Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European UnionHOUS Special committee | Substitute | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the United StatesD-US Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for Northern cooperation and for relations with Switzerland and Norway and to the EU-Iceland Joint Parliamentary Committee and the European Economic Area (EEA) Joint Parliamentary CommitteeDEEA Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and CountrysideIG10-04 Intergroup / working group | Member | 4 Feb 2025 | now |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 7
- Defence & security 5
- Foreign affairs 5
- EU budget & funds 3
- Energy 3
- Trade & customs 3
- Climate & environment 2
- Digital, AI & data 2
- Migration & asylum 1
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 1
Counts: dossiers they spoke on, led or amended, and their questions and motions.
In the chamber
Speeches and statements in plenary debates, newest first; the verbatim report is on Parliament’s site.
41 contributions recorded, 7 written statements; 2 on behalf of their group; 49 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 3
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
| Date | Title | Kind | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Mar 2026 | Visa requirement imposed by Nicaragua on certain EU citizens and application of the reciprocity mechanism P-10-2026-000868 | Priority written questionwith 9 co-authors | 31 Mar 2026 |
| 8 Dec 2025 | EU-based banks, including Raiffeisen and UniCredit, still operate in Russia, raising concerns about sanctions circumvention and undermining EU credibility E-10-2025-004854 | Written questionwith 37 co-authors | 16 Mar 2026 |
| 2 Apr 2025 | Abolition of seasonal clock changes in the EU and follow-up actions by the Commission E-10-2025-001369 | Written questionwith 22 co-authors | 28 Jul 2025 |
Amendments tabled in committee, 29
Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.
Connections
Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.
Political group
- Group European People’s Party EPP · Centre-right · Christian democracy, conservatism
National delegation
- Delegation Estonia National delegation
Sources & citation
Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.
- Official source
- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Data version
- 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
- Retrieved
- 26 September 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Jüri RATAS”. Member record. memberId 188096. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/188096?page=115&scope=all&vscope=all (retrieved 26 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/188096. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/188096?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (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.
BibTeX
@misc{epw-member-188096,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Jüri RATAS}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/188096?page=115&scope=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/188096?page=115&scope=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-26},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 188096. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/188096. Data: EP Open Data: member record (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}
}