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Member

Niclas HERBST

EPP · Germany

Group
EPP PPE
Country
Germany
Roll-call participation
98.4 %ⓘ of 620 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.6 % · whole term, final votes
With majority line
97.7 %ⓘ of 610 votes where the group had a line · EPP median 95.6 %
More facts (5)
National party
CDU Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands
In office
Since 16 Jul 2024
Against clear line
10 of 567 votesⓘ
Committees
BUDG (substitute), CONT (substitute), PECH, SEDE
Member id
197412
More

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 %

610 of 620 final votes while in office

EPP median: 90.6 % (+7.8 pts)

Chamber median: 90.6 %

With majority line ⓘ

97.7 %

596 of 610 votes where their group had a line

EPP median: 95.6 % (+2.1 pts)

Against clear line ⓘ

1.8 %

10 of 567 votes where their group had a clear line

6 opposite (for ↔ against), 4 abstained against the line

Abstention ⓘ

0.7 %

4 of 610 votes cast

Participation 98.4 % — EPP median 90.6 %, 192 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
Participation among the 192 members of the EPP with enough votes.
FigureParticipation
Niclas HERBST98.4 %
EPP median90.6 %
Lowest in the group18.4 %
Highest in the group99.8 %
Members192
With majority line 97.7 % — EPP median 95.6 %, 192 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
With majority line among the 192 members of the EPP with enough votes.
FigureWith majority line
Niclas HERBST97.7 %
EPP median95.6 %
Lowest in the group67.8 %
Highest in the group99.0 %
Members192
  • 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.

Votes, 5 928

Export

Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.

Result: for–against–abstained. Majority line: how most of the member’s group voted that day (“Tie” when no position won). ≠ group marks a vote otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds, with at least 10 members voting) of their group.
DateDecision and voteResultPositionMajority line
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Paragraph 9 — part 1 425 for, 199 against, 45 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 6 155 for, 435 against, 80 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 57, adding text after paragraph 5 568 for, 38 against, 64 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 60, adding text after paragraph 4 122 for, 465 against, 71 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 58, adding text after paragraph 4 93 for, 458 against, 103 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 30, adding text after paragraph 3 197 for, 465 against, 5 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 88, adding text after paragraph 2 169 for, 471 against, 27 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 29, adding text after paragraph 2 192 for, 465 against, 8 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 28, adding text after paragraph 1 198 for, 467 against, 5 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 1 210 for, 439 against, 14 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield Amendment 27 to paragraph 1 135 for, 480 against, 56 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Final vote — text as a wholePassed 440 for, 127 against, 104 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 3 to recital D 205 for, 456 against, 3 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 10 201 for, 453 against, 12 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 10 209 for, 444 against, 13 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Separate vote on paragraph 10 369 for, 278 against, 17 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 7 196 for, 463 against, 8 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Separate vote on paragraph 4 598 for, 56 against, 14 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 1 to paragraph 4 237 for, 361 against, 75 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 3 203 for, 445 against, 14 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 5, adding text after paragraph 2 191 for, 458 against, 15 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Separate vote on paragraph 2 588 for, 58 against, 19 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Draft amending budget No 2/2026: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure Amendment 4, adding text after paragraph 1 194 for, 467 against, 9 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Temporary trade-liberalisation measures applicable to Armenian products Final votePassed 583 for, 49 against, 39 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM): fishing in the GFCM Agreement area Final vote on the provisional agreementPassed 580 for, 51 against, 39 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Implementation into Union law of measures adopted by regional fisheries management organisations Final vote on the provisional agreementPassed 559 for, 48 against, 62 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Market stability reserve for the buildings, road transport and additional sectors Final vote on the provisional agreementPassed 467 for, 158 against, 41 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances Final votePassed 367 for, 240 against, 59 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances Amendment 6, adding text after Article 1; Decision (EU) 2015/1814 271 for, 376 against, 13 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances Amendment 5 367 for, 291 against, 7 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Market stability reserve for the EU Emissions Trading System (EU ETS): ceasing the invalidation of allowances Amendment 4 391 for, 275 against, 7 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Final votePassed 433 for, 97 against, 146 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 88, adding text after Recital 3 165 for, 465 against, 36 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 83 to recital 1 195 for, 465 against, 16 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 87 to Article 7, paragraph 3 190 for, 459 against, 18 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 96 to Article 7, after paragraph 1 194 for, 467 against, 6 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 86 to Article 7 193 for, 472 against, 10 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 94 to Article 6, paragraph 3 194 for, 466 against, 10 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 93 to Article 4, after paragraph 2 193 for, 455 against, 10 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 35 to Article 3, paragraph 4 415 for, 247 against, 11 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Establishing the Temporary Decarbonisation Fund Amendment 39 — part 2 439 for, 207 against, 22 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Final votePassed 464 for, 50 against, 159 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 102, adding text after paragraph 53 178 for, 463 against, 18 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 119, adding text after paragraph 50 198 for, 463 against, 3 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 116, adding text after recital 36 185 for, 480 against, 1 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 115, adding text after recital 14 189 for, 478 against, 2 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 99, adding text after recital 4 219 for, 439 against, 8 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 98 to recital 3 204 for, 451 against, 17 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 127 to Article 1 187 for, 461 against, 13 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
15 Sept 2026Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures Amendment 128 to Article 1 174 for, 471 against, 19 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against

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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 on 0 of 80 sittings with roll calls.

"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.

At least 200 shared roll calls over at least six months in office together. Within = both sat in the same group on the date of the vote; a member who changed group can appear on both lists. Baseline = the median agreement of all pairs of members of the groups the two sat in on the date of each shared vote (within: the group they shared; outside: the two groups), weighted by the votes they shared in each combination.

Within EPP

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in the same group (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of that group.
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Axel VOSS EPPGermany99 % of 4 474 shared89 %
Alexandra MEHNERT EPPGermany99 % of 4 988 shared89 %
Verena MERTENS EPPGermany98 % of 4 971 shared89 %
Lena DÜPONT EPPGermany98 % of 4 691 shared89 %
Oliver SCHENK EPPGermany98 % of 5 618 shared89 %
Stefan KÖHLER EPPGermany98 % of 5 223 shared89 %
Marion WALSMANN EPPGermany98 % of 5 554 shared89 %
Ralf SEEKATZ EPPGermany98 % of 5 040 shared89 %
David MCALLISTER EPPGermany98 % of 4 820 shared89 %
Norbert LINS EPPGermany98 % of 5 551 shared89 %

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Outside the group

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in different groups (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of the groups the two sat in on those votes (groups at the date, weighted by the votes shared in each combination).
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Urmas PAET RenewEstonia89 % of 5 115 shared82 %
Dan BARNA RenewRomania87 % of 4 996 shared82 %
Hilde VAUTMANS RenewBelgium87 % of 5 511 shared82 %
Bart GROOTHUIS RenewNetherlands87 % of 4 272 shared82 %
Andreas GLÜCK RenewGermany87 % of 3 826 shared82 %
Jan-Christoph OETJEN RenewGermany87 % of 5 510 shared82 %
Olivier CHASTEL RenewBelgium87 % of 5 135 shared82 %
Eugen TOMAC RenewRomania87 % of 4 128 shared82 %
Katri KULMUNI RenewFinland87 % of 4 498 shared82 %
Jeannette BALJEU RenewNetherlands87 % of 4 988 shared82 %

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Work

Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.

Seats

Body: the committee, delegation or intergroup, with its kind. Role: the member’s role in it. From, To: the dates of the seat (“now” while it lasts).
BodyRoleFromTo
Committee on BudgetsBUDG CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 2024now
Committee on Budgetary ControlCONT CommitteeSubstitute9 Feb 2026now
Committee on FisheriesPECH CommitteeMember11 Mar 2026now
Committee on Security and DefenceSEDE CommitteeMember23 Jan 2025now
Delegation for relations with IsraelD-IL DelegationMember20 May 2026now
Intergroup on Anti-CorruptionIG10-01 Intergroup / working groupMember16 Jan 2025now
Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas (SEARICA)IG10-20 Intergroup / working groupMember4 Feb 2025now
Intergroup on Traditional Minorities, National Communities and LanguagesIG10-25 Intergroup / working groupMember29 Jan 2025now
Committee on Foreign AffairsAFET CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 202411 Sept 2024
Committee on Budgetary ControlCONT CommitteeChair23 Jul 20248 Feb 2026

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Dossiers

Show all 18 dossier roles

Topics they work on (model-assigned)

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.

16 contributions recorded; 2 on behalf of their group; 31 minutes of speaking time.

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Questions and motions, 16

Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.

Date: tabled. Title: the question or motion, with its id. Kind: written question or motion for a resolution, with the number of co-authors. Answer: the date of the answer to a question.
DateTitleKindAnswer
1 Jul 2026PROPOSAL FOR A DECISION requesting the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations to verify whether Europe of Sovereign Nations Party complies with the conditions laid down in Article 3(1), points (d) and (e), of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2025/2445 B-10-2026-0338Motion for a resolutionwith 246 co-authors—
24 Jun 2026Timeline and scope of the forthcoming simplification package on fisheries legislation to support the competitiveness of the EU fleet E-10-2026-002596Written questionwith 13 co-authors20 Aug 2026
10 Apr 2026EU support for the Cormorant Management Advisory Group E-10-2026-001478Written questionwith 10 co-authors11 Jun 2026
14 Jan 2026Strengthening Europe’s printed circuit boards & electronics production E-10-2026-000120Written questionwith 15 co-authors24 Mar 2026
15 Dec 2025MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the continuous Belarusian hybrid attacks against Lithuania B-10-2025-0571Motion for a resolutionwith 20 co-authors—
5 Dec 2025Interference by Hamas in the activities of EU-funded non-governmental organisations E-10-2025-004832Written questionwith 14 co-authors31 Mar 2026
26 Nov 2025EU funding for MIFTAH despite its dissemination of antisemitic allegations and its denial of the atrocities of 7 October 2023 E-10-2025-004690Written question13 May 2026
28 Sept 2025River passability and implementation of the EU Water Framework Directive in Germany E-10-2025-003758Written question4 Nov 2025
8 Sept 2025Response to antisemitic and anti-Israeli actions E-10-2025-003469Written questionwith 6 co-authors8 Dec 2025
22 May 2025EU funding of the Palestinian Authority E-10-2025-002057Written questionwith 16 co-authors17 Jul 2025

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Amendments tabled in committee, 27

Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.

Date: of the amendment document. Text amended: the dossier and the document’s id. Committee: where the amendments were tabled. Amendments: how many in the document are the member’s.
DateText amendedCommitteeAmendments
23 Jun 2026on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034 and amending Regulation (EU) 2023/955 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 CJ71-AM-790100 CJ711
23 Jun 2026on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034 and amending Regulation (EU) 2023/955 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 CJ71-AM-790159 CJ712
23 Jun 2026on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034 and amending Regulation (EU) 2023/955 and Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 CJ71-AM-790103 CJ713
26 May 2026Establishing Global Europe CJ19-AM-789068 CJ1915
26 May 2026Establishing Global Europe CJ19-AM-789067 CJ1913
26 May 2026Establishing Global Europe CJ19-AM-789069 CJ1935
26 May 2026Establishing Global Europe CJ19-AM-789070 CJ1929
26 May 2026Establishing Global Europe CJ19-AM-789071 CJ195
26 May 2026Establishing Global Europe CJ19-AM-789072 CJ199
20 Feb 2026Discharge 2024: General budget of the EU - Commission CONT-AM-784513 CONT1

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Connections

Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.

Political group

National delegation

  • Delegation Germany National delegation

Sources & citation

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

Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version
data version f5fe703effa9 (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). “Niclas HERBST”. Member record. memberId 197412. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197412?page=7&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 26 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197412. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/197412?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version f5fe703effa9 (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-197412,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Niclas HERBST}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197412?page=7&scope=final&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197412?page=7&scope=final&vscope=all},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Member record. memberId 197412. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197412. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version f5fe703effa9 (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}
}