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Dragoş BENEA

S&D · Romania

Group
S&D
Country
Romania
Roll-call participation
59.8 %ⓘ of 2 891 roll calls in office · chamber median 91.2 % · 2025, roll calls
With majority line
93.2 %ⓘ of 1 727 votes where the group had a line · S&D median 96.5 %
More facts (5)
National party
PSD Partidul Social Democrat
In office
Since 16 Jul 2024
Against clear line
111 of 1 711 votesⓘ
Committees
ECON (substitute), REGI (chair)
Member id
197658
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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 ⓘ

59.8 %

1 729 of 2 891 roll calls while in office

S&D median: 90.0 % (−30.2 pts)

Chamber median: 91.2 %

With majority line ⓘ

93.2 %

1 610 of 1 727 votes where their group had a line

S&D median: 96.5 % (−3.3 pts)

Against clear line ⓘ

6.5 %

111 of 1 711 votes where their group had a clear line

60 opposite (for ↔ against), 49 abstained against the line, 2 voted for or against when the line was to abstain

Abstention ⓘ

5.0 %

86 of 1 729 votes cast

Participation 59.8 % — S&D median 90.0 %, 136 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
Participation among the 136 members of the S&D with enough votes.
FigureParticipation
Dragoş BENEA59.8 %
S&D median90.0 %
Lowest in the group54.5 %
Highest in the group99.7 %
Members136
With majority line 93.2 % — S&D median 96.5 %, 136 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
With majority line among the 136 members of the S&D with enough votes.
FigureWith majority line
Dragoş BENEA93.2 %
S&D median96.5 %
Lowest in the group80.8 %
Highest in the group99.5 %
Members136
  • 2025, 2 891 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.

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
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 42, adding text after paragraph 35 135 for, 502 against, 13 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 36, adding text after paragraph 35 213 for, 433 against, 13 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 35, adding text after paragraph 26 256 for, 373 against, 17 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 4 to paragraph 22 342 for, 260 against, 61 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 3 to paragraph 15 555 for, 56 against, 50 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 2 to paragraph 12 327 for, 291 against, 40 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 1 to paragraph 6 236 for, 377 against, 42 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 34, adding text after paragraph 5 173 for, 448 against, 20 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 8 to paragraph 1 123 for, 512 against, 21 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 20262025 Commission report on Türkiye Amendment 33 to paragraph 1 179 for, 445 against, 27 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF): access to VAT information at Union level Final votePassed 549 for, 33 against, 84 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Hague Convention (1980) on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction: accession of Cabo Verde Final votePassed 659 for, 1 against, 1 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products Final votePassed 325 for, 304 against, 29 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026General arrangements for excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products Amendment 4 to Article 1, paragraph 1, after point 1; Directive (EU) 2020/262 287 for, 352 against, 20 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Final voteFailed 181 for, 439 against, 38 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 93 to recital 18 300 for, 331 against, 31 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 92 to recital 15 281 for, 315 against, 62 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 91, adding text after Recital 4 297 for, 267 against, 87 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 90, adding text after Recital 3 284 for, 293 against, 70 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 89 to recital 3 287 for, 304 against, 69 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendments 67 + 70 (voted as one) to Article 20 289 for, 316 against, 51 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendments 60 + 61 (voted as one) to Article 16 328 for, 294 against, 32 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 96 to Article 12, after paragraph 4 266 for, 363 against, 32 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 95 to Article 12, paragraph 4 273 for, 352 against, 32 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) Amendment 94 to Article 12, after paragraph 3 269 for, 353 against, 37 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026EU–Liberia Voluntary Partnership Agreement on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products: termination (Resolution) Final vote on the motion for a resolutionAdopted 542 for, 52 against, 70 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026EU–Liberia Voluntary Partnership Agreement on forest law enforcement, governance and trade in timber products: termination Final vote on the draft Council decisionConsent given 608 for, 38 against, 15 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026EU-Pakistan Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV Final vote on the draft Council decisionConsent given 276 for, 13 against, 9 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation) Final vote on the provisional agreementPassed 418 for, 218 against, 30 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation) Proposal to vote on amendments 258 for, 394 against, 6 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation) Proposal to reject the text 198 for, 453 against, 5 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 30, adding text after Recital 68 261 for, 365 against, 30 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 1 to recital 34 270 for, 349 against, 38 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 20 + 28 (voted as one), adding text after Recital 25 258 for, 370 against, 25 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 19, adding text after Recital 18 185 for, 450 against, 21 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 27, adding text after Recital 15 212 for, 424 against, 29 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 18 + 26 (voted as one), adding text after Recital 1 209 for, 433 against, 19 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 37 to Annex II, after point 2 205 for, 425 against, 24 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 15 + 16 + 24 + 36 (voted as one), adding text after Article 37 280 for, 343 against, 40 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 9 to Article 27, paragraph 1, point c 257 for, 353 against, 45 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 23 + 35 (voted as one), adding text after Article 24 262 for, 369 against, 29 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 34, adding text after Article 11 264 for, 372 against, 29 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 22 + 33 (voted as one) to Article 10, after paragraph 1 258 for, 376 against, 29 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 32 to Article 10, paragraph 1 264 for, 372 against, 25 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 8 to Article 9, paragraph 1, subparagraph 2, after point d 269 for, 355 against, 33 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 7 to Article 7, paragraph 2, after point d 257 for, 354 against, 44 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendment 6 to Article 6, paragraph 3, after point d 269 for, 357 against, 39 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 21 + 31 (voted as one), adding text after Article 4 202 for, 428 against, 33 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
17 Jun 2026Plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques and their food and feed Amendments 17 + 25 (voted as one) 201 for, 431 against, 29 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
16 Jun 2026Reinforcing development cooperation to address irregular population movements and their root causes in partner countries Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 344 for, 237 against, 66 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For

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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 26 of 51 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 S&D

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
Claudiu MANDA S&DRomania99 % of 1 770 shared93 %
Gabriela FIREA S&DRomania99 % of 2 470 shared93 %
Gheorghe CÂRCIU S&DRomania99 % of 2 439 shared93 %
Mihai TUDOSE S&DRomania99 % of 2 841 shared93 %
Ştefan MUŞOIU S&DRomania99 % of 2 997 shared93 %
Victor NEGRESCU S&DRomania98 % of 3 084 shared93 %
Andi CRISTEA S&DRomania98 % of 3 151 shared93 %
Dan NICA S&DRomania96 % of 2 663 shared93 %
Vasile DÎNCU S&DRomania95 % of 3 191 shared93 %
Vilija BLINKEVIČIŪTĖ S&DLithuania94 % of 3 370 shared93 %

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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
Elisabetta GUALMINI changed group RenewItaly92 % of 1 157 shared86 %
Pina PICIERNO changed group RenewItaly90 % of 203 shared86 %
Jérémy DECERLE RenewFrance90 % of 1 676 shared86 %
Dainius ŽALIMAS RenewLithuania89 % of 3 227 shared86 %
Bernard GUETTA RenewFrance89 % of 3 066 shared86 %
Valérie DEVAUX RenewFrance89 % of 3 207 shared86 %
Marjan ŠAREC RenewSlovenia89 % of 3 161 shared86 %
Valérie HAYER RenewFrance89 % of 3 503 shared86 %
Nathalie LOISEAU RenewFrance89 % of 2 755 shared86 %
Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE RenewBelgium89 % of 2 736 shared86 %

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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 Economic and Monetary AffairsECON CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 2024now
Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI CommitteeChair23 Jul 2024now
Delegation for relations with MercosurDMER DelegationSubstitute19 Sept 2024now
Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary AssemblyDLAT Parliamentary assemblyMember19 Sept 2024now
Intergroup on the Future of Education and Skills for a Competitive EuropeIG10-14 Intergroup / working groupMember29 Jan 2025now
Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI CommitteeMember19 Jul 202422 Jul 2024

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Dossiers

Dossier: the procedure the declaration names (“No dossier named” for a delegation without one). Role: rapporteur, shadow rapporteur, negotiator or delegation. Committee: the committee that appointed them. Date: of the declaration.
DossierRoleCommitteeDate
Cohesion policy in the EU’s eastern border regions: strengthening territorial resilience and cross-border cooperationShadow rapporteurREGI24 Jun 2026
No dossier namedOpinion rapporteurREGI1 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 reviewRapporteurREGI10 Jun 2025
Report named: Opinion on BUDG INI report on a a revamped long -term budgetOpinion rapporteurREGI18 Nov 2024
BUDG own - initiative reportShadow rapporteur for an opinionREGI22 Oct 2024
No dossier namedCommittee chairREGI22 Jul 2024

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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.

5 contributions recorded; 10 minutes of speaking time.

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Questions and motions, 4

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

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Amendments tabled in committee, 28

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
16 Sept 2026Establishing the European Fund for Regional Development including for European Territorial Cooperation (Interreg) and the Cohesion Fund as part of the Fund set out in Regulation (EU) […] [NRP] and establishing conditions for the implementation of the Union support to regional development from 2028 to 2034 REGI-AM-792057 REGI10
7 Sept 2026Establishing the European Fund for Regional Development including for European Territorial Cooperation (Interreg) and the Cohesion Fund as part of the Fund set out in Regulation (EU) […] [NRP] and establishing conditions for the implementation of the Union support to regional development from 2028 to 2034 REGI-AM-792058 REGI7
27 Aug 2026Cohesion policy in the EU’s eastern border regions: strengthening territorial resilience and cross-border cooperation REGI-AM-791869 REGI17
23 Jul 2026Cohesion policy in the EU’s eastern border regions: strengthening territorial resilienceand cross-border cooperation REGI-AM-791870 REGI3
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-790097 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-790098 CJ714
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-790099 CJ7113
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 CJ716
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-790101 CJ713
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-790102 CJ719

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Connections

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

Political group

National delegation

  • Delegation Romania 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 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?page=17&period=2025&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?page=17&period=2025&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197658?page=17&period=2025&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}
}