Member
Jaak MADISON
ECR · 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 ⓘ
82.7 %
4 900 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
ECR median: 91.6 % (−9.0 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
89.0 %
4 349 of 4 884 votes where their group had a line
ECR median: 91.1 % (−2.1 pts)
139 opposite (for ↔ against), 89 abstained against the line, 88 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Jaak MADISON | 82.7 % |
| ECR median | 91.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 47.1 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.7 % |
| Members | 79 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Jaak MADISON | 89.0 % |
| ECR median | 91.1 % |
| Lowest in the group | 66.8 % |
| Highest in the group | 93.7 % |
| Members | 79 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of ECR; 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 final roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
| Date | Decision | Result | Position | Majority line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 Jun 2025 | The Commission’s 2024 Rule of Law report | Adopted 405 for, 210 against, 36 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro | Adopted 470 for, 102 against, 77 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova | Adopted 456 for, 118 against, 51 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Amending Regulation (EU) No 228/2013 as regards additional assistance and further flexibility to outermost regions affected by severe natural disasters and in the context of cyclone Chido devastating Mayotte | Passed 653 for, 7 against, 3 abstained | Position: Against ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) | Passed 599 for, 2 against, 62 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine amending the Agreement between the European Union and Ukraine on the carriage of freight by road of 29 June 2022 | Consent given 488 for, 137 against, 34 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Termination of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Cameroon on forest law enforcement governance and trade in timber and derived products to the Union | Consent given 583 for, 78 against, 8 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Termination of the Voluntary Partnership Agreement between the European Union and the Republic of Cameroon on forest law enforcement governance and trade in timber and derived products to the Union. | Adopted 557 for, 75 against, 37 abstained | Position: Against ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Amendments to Parliament’s Rules of Procedure concerning the declaration of input (Article 8 of Annex I to the Rules of Procedure) | Adopted 653 for, 0 against, 15 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Strengthening rural areas in the EU through cohesion policy | Adopted 622 for, 24 against, 21 abstained | Position: Abstained ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jun 2025 | Financing for development – ahead of the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development in Seville | Rejected 282 for, 340 against, 26 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 22 May 2025 | Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards simplifying and strengthening the carbon border adjustment mechanism | Passed 564 for, 20 against, 12 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 22 May 2025 | Modification of customs duties applicable to imports of certain goods originating in or exported from the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus | Passed 411 for, 100 against, 78 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 22 May 2025 | Granting equivalence to Moldova and Ukraine for field inspections and seed production | Passed 374 for, 176 against, 36 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Abstained |
| 22 May 2025 | Amendments to the Capital Requirements Regulation as regards securities financing transactions under the net stable funding ratio | Passed 436 for, 149 against, 11 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 22 May 2025 | Euratom Research and Training Programme for the period 2026-2027 complementing Horizon Europe | Passed 489 for, 55 against, 38 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 22 May 2025 | Deliberations of the Committee on Petitions in 2023 | Adopted 260 for, 194 against, 110 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | CO2 emission performance standards for new passenger cars and new light commercial vehicles for 2025 to 2027 | Passed 458 for, 101 against, 14 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | The protection status of the wolf (Canis lupus) | Passed 371 for, 162 against, 37 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season | Passed 425 for, 106 against, 43 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | Screening of foreign investments in the Union | Passed 378 for, 173 against, 24 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 8 May 2025 | Suspending certain parts of Regulation (EU) 2015/478 as regards imports of Ukrainian products into the European Union | Passed 354 for, 147 against, 53 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 8 May 2025 | Genetically modified soybean MON 87705 × MON 87708 × MON 89788 | Objection passed 373 for, 150 against, 10 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | Violations of religious freedom in Tibet | Adopted 478 for, 30 against, 41 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | Return of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred and deported by Russia | Adopted 516 for, 3 against, 34 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | Ninth report on economic and social cohesion | Adopted 392 for, 125 against, 55 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 8 May 2025 | Competition policy – annual report 2024 | Adopted 358 for, 124 against, 79 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Abstained |
| 8 May 2025 | Banking Union – annual report 2024 | Adopted 345 for, 135 against, 62 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Abstained |
| 8 May 2025 | Old challenges and new commercial practices in the internal market | Adopted 306 for, 80 against, 57 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Amending of the ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review | Urgent procedure agreed 316 for, 291 against, 27 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Amending of Regulation (EU) 2021/1057 establishing the European Social Fund + (ESF+) as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges | Urgent procedure agreed 370 for, 268 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds | Discharge decision adopted 412 for, 245 against, 5 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Parliament | Discharge decision adopted 513 for, 119 against, 20 abstained | Position: Abstained ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Council and Council | Discharge decision adopted 588 for, 62 against, 16 abstained | Position: Abstained ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European Union | Discharge decision adopted 541 for, 97 against, 26 abstained | Position: Abstained ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Court of Auditors | Discharge decision adopted 630 for, 16 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Economic and Social Committee | Discharge decision adopted 538 for, 96 against, 27 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – Committee of the Regions | Discharge decision adopted 549 for, 97 against, 18 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Ombudsman | Discharge decision adopted 568 for, 54 against, 43 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Data Protection Supervisor | Discharge decision adopted 564 for, 61 against, 43 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European External Action Service | Discharge decision adopted 519 for, 126 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: European Public Prosecutor’s Office | Discharge decision adopted 481 for, 157 against, 24 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: Agencies | Discharge decision adopted 473 for, 120 against, 64 abstained | Position: Against ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | Discharge 2023: Joint Undertakings | Discharge decision adopted 513 for, 101 against, 39 abstained | Position: Against ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world | Adopted 317 for, 206 against, 123 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Abstained |
| 7 May 2025 | The European Water Resilience Strategy | Adopted 470 for, 81 against, 92 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 7 May 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye | Adopted 367 for, 74 against, 188 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Abstained |
| 7 May 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Serbia | Adopted 419 for, 113 against, 88 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Abstained |
| 7 May 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Kosovo | Adopted 353 for, 145 against, 78 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 6 May 2025 | Amendments to the International Health Regulations contained in the Annex to Resolution WHA77.17 and adopted on 1 June 2024 | Consent given 514 for, 126 against, 6 abstained | Position: Against ≠ group | Majority line: For |
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 Foreign AffairsAFET Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on International TradeINTA Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of ChinaD-CN Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the United StatesD-US Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on DemographyIG10-09 Intergroup / working group | Member | 27 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on DisabilityIG10-10 Intergroup / working group | Member | 11 Mar 2025 | now |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 22
- Defence & security 9
- Migration & asylum 9
- Justice, rule of law & rights 7
- Economy & single market 5
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 5
- EU budget & funds 4
- Digital, AI & data 3
- Trade & customs 3
- EU institutions & Parliament 2
- Climate & environment 1
- Transport & tourism 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.
32 contributions recorded; 41 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 35
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 3
Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.
| Date | Text amended | Committee | Amendments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Dec 2025 | Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council addressing the negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market INTA-AM-781316 | INTA | 8 |
| 5 Dec 2025 | Addressing the negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market INTA-AM-781298 | INTA | 9 |
| 3 Apr 2025 | Public procurement INTA-AM-772121 | INTA | 1 |
Connections
Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.
Political group
- Group European Conservatives and Reformists ECR · Right-wing · national conservatism, EU-critical
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 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
- Retrieved
- 25 September 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Jaak MADISON”. Member record. memberId 197493. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197493?docs=all&page=10&rows=all (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197493. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/197493?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (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.
BibTeX
@misc{epw-member-197493,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Jaak MADISON}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197493?docs=all&page=10&rows=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197493?docs=all&page=10&rows=all},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 197493. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197493. Data: EP Open Data: member record (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}
}