Member
Elena YONCHEVA
ECR · Bulgaria
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.
Chamber median: 91.5 %
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Elena YONCHEVA | 65.5 % |
| Non-attached median | 90.3 % |
| Lowest in the group | 55.6 % |
| Highest in the group | 100.0 % |
| Members | 30 |
- 2025, 293 final votes; 293 of 371 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. The dots are the other non-attached members; 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.
- This member changed group during the term, but sat in Non-attached throughout this period; each vote counts them in the group of that day.
- The non-attached have no group line: loyalty and votes against a clear line are not computed.
Every final 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
| Sitting | Roll calls | Voted in |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Jan 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| 22 Jan 2025 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 Jan 2025 | 4 | 0 |
| 11 Feb 2025 | 4 | 0 |
| 12 Feb 2025 | 4 | 4 |
| 13 Feb 2025 | 2 | 0 |
| 11 Mar 2025 | 4 | 4 |
| 12 Mar 2025 | 7 | 7 |
| 13 Mar 2025 | 3 | 1 |
| 1 Apr 2025 | 7 | 7 |
| 2 Apr 2025 | 9 | 9 |
| 3 Apr 2025 | 5 | 5 |
| 6 May 2025 | 4 | 4 |
| 7 May 2025 | 20 | 15 |
| 8 May 2025 | 12 | 0 |
| 22 May 2025 | 6 | 5 |
| 17 Jun 2025 | 8 | 0 |
| 18 Jun 2025 | 7 | 0 |
| 19 Jun 2025 | 6 | 0 |
| 8 Jul 2025 | 8 | 6 |
| 9 Jul 2025 | 14 | 12 |
| 10 Jul 2025 | 7 | 7 |
| 9 Sept 2025 | 6 | 5 |
| 10 Sept 2025 | 15 | 14 |
| 11 Sept 2025 | 8 | 5 |
| 7 Oct 2025 | 4 | 4 |
| 8 Oct 2025 | 10 | 9 |
| 9 Oct 2025 | 10 | 7 |
| 21 Oct 2025 | 8 | 0 |
| 22 Oct 2025 | 6 | 5 |
| 23 Oct 2025 | 5 | 0 |
| 13 Nov 2025 | 16 | 16 |
| 25 Nov 2025 | 13 | 12 |
| 26 Nov 2025 | 10 | 8 |
| 27 Nov 2025 | 11 | 10 |
| 16 Dec 2025 | 11 | 11 |
| 17 Dec 2025 | 11 | 0 |
| 18 Dec 2025 | 6 | 0 |
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 Employment and Social AffairsEMPL Committee | Member | 14 Sept 2026 | now |
| Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE Committee | Substitute | 2 Sept 2026 | now |
| Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the MediterraneanDMED Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 15 Jul 2026 | now |
| Committee on DevelopmentDEVE Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | 22 Dec 2024 |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Member | 23 Jan 2025 | 7 Jul 2026 |
| Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | 22 Dec 2024 |
| Subcommittee on Human RightsDROI Subcommittee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | 22 Dec 2024 |
| Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of ChinaD-CN Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | 22 Dec 2024 |
| Delegation for relations with IsraelD-IL Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | 22 Dec 2024 |
| Delegation for relations with the Arab PeninsulaDARP Delegation | Member | 31 Mar 2025 | 7 Jul 2026 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on enhancing police cooperation in relation to the prevention, detection and investigation of migrant smuggling and trafficking in human beings, and on enhancing Europol’s support to preventing and combating such crimes and amending Regulation (EU) 2016/794 -2023/0438(COD). | Shadow rapporteur | LIBE | 18 Sept 2024 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Justice, rule of law & rights 2
- Transport & tourism 2
- Digital, AI & data 1
- Economy & single market 1
- Foreign affairs 1
- Trade & customs 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.
20 contributions recorded; 25 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 2
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
| Date | Title | Kind | Answer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jul 2026 | Alleged unlawful disclosure and misuse of PNR data in Bulgaria E-10-2026-002896 | Written questionwith 1 co-author | Not yet answered |
| 3 Mar 2026 | Three years since the railway accident in Tempi, Greece O-10-2026-000010 | Oral questionwith 35 co-authors | Not yet answered |
Amendments tabled in committee, 3
Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.
| Date | Text amended | Committee | Amendments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Jul 2026 | Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790918 | AGRI | 2 |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790919 | AGRI | 1 |
| 13 Jul 2026 | Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790956 | AGRI | 1 |
Connections
Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.
Political groups this term
- Group European Conservatives and Reformists ECR · Right-wing · national conservatism, EU-critical
- Group Non-attached members No group · Not a group — members sitting without affiliation
- Group Renew Europe Renew · Centre · liberalism, pro-Europeanism
National delegation
- Delegation Bulgaria 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 579b2832c723 (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). “Elena YONCHEVA”. Member record. memberId 197842. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=11&period=2025&scope=final (retrieved 26 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197842. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/197842?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (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-197842,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Elena YONCHEVA}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=11&period=2025&scope=final}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/197842?page=11&period=2025&scope=final},
urldate = {2026-09-26},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 197842. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/197842. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (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}
}