Member
Vangelis MEIMARAKIS
EPP · Greece
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 ⓘ
77.4 %
4 589 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
EPP median: 89.9 % (−12.5 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
93.2 %
4 275 of 4 589 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 93.6 % (−0.5 pts)
142 opposite (for ↔ against), 60 abstained against the line, 4 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Vangelis MEIMARAKIS | 77.4 % |
| EPP median | 89.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 17.0 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.6 % |
| Members | 196 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Vangelis MEIMARAKIS | 93.2 % |
| EPP median | 93.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 70.2 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.5 % |
| Members | 196 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. 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 Foreign AffairsAFET Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Security and DefenceSEDE Committee | Member | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the United StatesD-US Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Freedom of Religion, Belief and ConscienceIG10-13 Intergroup / working group | Member | 27 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on the Future of Education and Skills for a Competitive EuropeIG10-14 Intergroup / working group | Member | 29 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Seas, Rivers, Islands and Coastal Areas (SEARICA)IG10-20 Intergroup / working group | Vice-chair | 4 Feb 2025 | now |
| Subcommittee on Security and DefenceSEDE Subcommittee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | 19 Jan 2025 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy concerning an enhanced EU-Canada cooperation in the light of the current geopolitical context, including the threats to Canada’s economic stability and sovereignty | Shadow rapporteur | AFET | 29 Oct 2025 |
| No dossier named | Shadow rapporteur | AFET | 18 Nov 2024 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 81
- Defence & security 8
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 8
- Climate & environment 4
- Justice, rule of law & rights 4
- Migration & asylum 4
- Transport & tourism 2
- EU budget & funds 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.
7 contributions recorded; 10 minutes of speaking time.
| Date | Debate | Kind | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jan 2026 | CFSP and CSDP (Article 36 TEU) (joint debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 16 Dec 2025 | EU Defence Readiness (joint debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 26 Nov 2025 | The situation of Christian communities and religious minorities in Nigeria and the Middle East, and Europe’s responsibility to protect them and guarantee freedom of conscience (topical debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 1 Apr 2025 | CFSP and CSDP (Article 36 TUE) (joint debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 1 Apr 2025 | CFSP and CSDP (Article 36 TUE) (joint debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 11 Mar 2025 | White paper on the future of European defence (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 10 Oct 2024 | The rise of religious intolerance in Europe (continuation of debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
Questions and motions, 66
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 33
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 Greece 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). “Vangelis MEIMARAKIS”. Member record. memberId 197662. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197662?page=4&rows=all&vscope=all (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197662. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/197662?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-197662,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Vangelis MEIMARAKIS}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197662?page=4&rows=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197662?page=4&rows=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 197662. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197662. 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}
}