Member
Michael GAHLER
EPP · Germany
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 ⓘ
94.8 %
588 of 620 final votes while in office
EPP median: 90.6 % (+4.3 pts)
Chamber median: 90.6 %
With majority line ⓘ
98.6 %
580 of 588 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 95.6 % (+3.1 pts)
4 opposite (for ↔ against), 3 abstained against the line
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Michael GAHLER | 94.8 % |
| EPP median | 90.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 18.4 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.8 % |
| Members | 192 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Michael GAHLER | 98.6 % |
| EPP median | 95.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 67.8 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.0 % |
| Members | 192 |
- Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. 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 Economic and Monetary AffairsECON Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Security and DefenceSEDE Committee | Substitute | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with South AfricaD-ZA Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the Pan-African ParliamentDPAP Delegation | Substitute | 8 Oct 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary AssemblyDACP Parliamentary assembly | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDAFR Parliamentary assembly | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on European Cultural Heritage, Ways of Saint James and other European Cultural RoutesIG10-11 Intergroup / working group | Member | 29 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Sky and SpaceIG10-21 Intergroup / working group | Member | 27 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Traditional Minorities, National Communities and LanguagesIG10-25 Intergroup / working group | Member | 29 Jan 2025 | now |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mission with the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Association Committee | Official delegation | 24 Jun 2026 | |
| Measures to facilitate consular protection for unrepresented citizens of the Union in third countries | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | AFET | 11 May 2026 |
| Meeting of the Africa-EU-Parliamentary Assembly in Eswatini, May 2026 | Official delegation | DAFR | 29 Apr 2026 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | AFET | 21 Apr 2026 |
| Establishing Global Europe | Rapporteur | AFET | 15 Apr 2026 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | AFET | 15 Apr 2026 |
| Establishing Global Europe | Rapporteur | AFET | 11 Mar 2026 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | AFET | 12 Feb 2026 |
| Laying down the multiannual financial framework for the years 2028 to 2034 | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | AFET | 20 Jan 2026 |
| Guidelines for the 2027 Budget - Section III | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | AFET | 14 Jan 2026 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 89
- Defence & security 29
- EU budget & funds 7
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 5
- Economy & single market 4
- Justice, rule of law & rights 4
- Climate & environment 3
- Migration & asylum 2
- Transport & tourism 2
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.
63 contributions recorded; 21 on behalf of their group; 103 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 71
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 39
Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.
| Date | Text amended | Committee | Amendments |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Jul 2026 | General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2027 - all sections AFET-AM-791057 | AFET | 13 |
| 15 Jun 2026 | EU-Syria political relations AFET-AM-789951 | AFET | 46 |
| 26 May 2026 | Establishing Global Europe CJ19-AM-789067 | CJ19 | 15 |
| 26 May 2026 | Establishing Global Europe CJ19-AM-789072 | CJ19 | 9 |
| 26 May 2026 | Establishing Global Europe CJ19-AM-789071 | CJ19 | 9 |
| 26 May 2026 | Establishing Global Europe CJ19-AM-789070 | CJ19 | 37 |
| 26 May 2026 | Establishing Global Europe CJ19-AM-789069 | CJ19 | 22 |
| 26 May 2026 | Establishing Global Europe CJ19-AM-789068 | CJ19 | 16 |
| 22 Apr 2026 | 2025 Commission report on Ukraine AFET-AM-786697 | AFET | 31 |
| 10 Apr 2026 | Framework of measures to facilitate the transport of military equipment, goods and personnel across the Union CJ57-AM-786977 | CJ57 | 17 |
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 Germany 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). “Michael GAHLER”. Member record. memberId 2341. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/2341?page=7&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 26 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/2341. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/2341?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-2341,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Michael GAHLER}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/2341?page=7&scope=final&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/2341?page=7&scope=final&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-26},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 2341. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/2341. 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}
}