Member
Hildegard BENTELE
EPP · Germany
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 ⓘ
86.0 %
533 of 620 final votes while in office
EPP median: 90.6 % (−4.6 pts)
Chamber median: 90.6 %
With majority line ⓘ
96.8 %
516 of 533 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 95.6 % (+1.2 pts)
9 opposite (for ↔ against), 4 abstained against the line
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Hildegard BENTELE | 86.0 % |
| EPP median | 90.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 18.4 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.8 % |
| Members | 192 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Hildegard BENTELE | 96.8 % |
| EPP median | 95.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 67.8 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.0 % |
| Members | 192 |
- Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. 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 DevelopmentDEVE Committee | Vice-chair | 23 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food SafetyENVI Committee | Substitute | 3 Jul 2026 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Montenegro Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary CommitteeD-ME Joint parliamentary committee | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with IsraelD-IL Delegation | Chair | 4 Feb 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with PalestineDPAL Delegation | Substitute | 13 Jan 2026 | now |
| Intergroup on Cancer and Rare DiseasesIG10-05 Intergroup / working group | Member | 27 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Mental HealthIG10-17 Intergroup / working group | Member | 5 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on the Social Economy and Services of General InterestIG10-23 Intergroup / working group | Member | 30 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on DevelopmentDEVE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | 22 Jul 2024 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amending Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | ENVI | 12 Mar 2026 |
| Amending Regulation (EU) 2024/1252 | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | DEVE | 27 Feb 2026 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | ITRE | 19 Jan 2026 |
| Establishing Global Europe | Shadow rapporteur | DEVE | 16 Jan 2026 |
| 47th EP-Israel Interparliamentary Meeting Jerusalem and Tel Aviv\n | Official delegation | D-IL | 16 Oct 2025 |
| Global Gateway -– past impacts and future orientation | Rapporteur | DEVE | 9 Sept 2025 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | DEVE | 1 Jul 2025 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | DEVE | 1 Apr 2025 |
| Future of the EU biotechnology and biomanufacturing sector: leveraging research, boosting innovation and enhancing competitiveness/ 2025/2008(INI) | Rapporteur | ITRE | 28 Jan 2025 |
| No dossier named | Delegation chair | D-IL | 28 Jan 2025 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 19
- Economy & single market 10
- EU budget & funds 8
- Climate & environment 5
- Energy 4
- Digital, AI & data 3
- Justice, rule of law & rights 3
- Trade & customs 3
- Defence & security 2
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 2
- Migration & asylum 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.
51 contributions recorded; 8 on behalf of their group; 76 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 18
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 57
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 Germany 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 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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
- 2 October 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Hildegard BENTELE”. Member record. memberId 197408. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197408?page=62&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 2 October 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197408. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/197408?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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-197408,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Hildegard BENTELE}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197408?page=62&scope=final&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197408?page=62&scope=final&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-10-02},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 197408. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197408. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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}
}