Member
Dragoş BENEA
S&D · Romania
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 ⓘ
60.5 %
3 585 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
S&D median: 89.9 % (−29.4 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
94.2 %
3 375 of 3 583 votes where their group had a line
S&D median: 96.3 % (−2.1 pts)
121 opposite (for ↔ against), 67 abstained against the line, 2 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Dragoş BENEA | 60.5 % |
| S&D median | 89.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 30.4 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.6 % |
| Members | 138 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Dragoş BENEA | 94.2 % |
| S&D median | 96.3 % |
| Lowest in the group | 81.9 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.4 % |
| Members | 138 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of S&D; 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 Economic and Monetary AffairsECON Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI Committee | Chair | 23 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with MercosurDMER Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary AssemblyDLAT Parliamentary assembly | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on the Future of Education and Skills for a Competitive EuropeIG10-14 Intergroup / working group | Member | 29 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | 22 Jul 2024 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cohesion policy in the EU’s eastern border regions: strengthening territorial resilience and cross-border cooperation | Shadow rapporteur | REGI | 24 Jun 2026 |
| No dossier named | Opinion rapporteur | REGI | 1 Dec 2025 |
| Amending Regulations (EU) 2021/1058 and (EU) 2021/1056 as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review | Rapporteur | REGI | 10 Jun 2025 |
| Report named: Opinion on BUDG INI report on a a revamped long -term budget | Opinion rapporteur | REGI | 18 Nov 2024 |
| BUDG own - initiative report | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | REGI | 22 Oct 2024 |
| No dossier named | Committee chair | REGI | 22 Jul 2024 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- EU budget & funds 5
- Defence & security 1
- Economy & single market 1
- Foreign affairs 1
- Justice, rule of law & rights 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.
5 contributions recorded; 10 minutes of speaking time.
| Date | Debate | Kind | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 Sept 2026 | Devastating heatwaves, wildfires and droughts in Europe: lessons from summer 2026 (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 9 Sept 2025 | Amending ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review (debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 9 Sept 2025 | Amending ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review (debate) | Speech · 4 min | Read |
| 6 May 2025 | A revamped long-term budget for the Union in a changing world (debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
Questions and motions, 4
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 28
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 Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats S&D · Centre-left · social democracy
National delegation
- Delegation Romania 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 772c7b2d0380 (30 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
- 30 September 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Dragoş BENEA”. Member record. memberId 197658. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197658?amendments=all&page=87&vscope=all (retrieved 30 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197658. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/197658?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 772c7b2d0380 (30 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-197658,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Dragoş BENEA}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197658?amendments=all&page=87&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197658?amendments=all&page=87&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-30},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 197658. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197658. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 772c7b2d0380 (30 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}
}