Member
Matthias ECKE
S&D · 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 ⓘ
90.2 %
5 350 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
S&D median: 89.9 % (+0.4 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
97.1 %
5 191 of 5 348 votes where their group had a line
S&D median: 96.3 % (+0.8 pts)
83 opposite (for ↔ against), 27 abstained against the line, 5 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Matthias ECKE | 90.2 % |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Matthias ECKE | 97.1 % |
| 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.
| Date | Decision and vote | Result | Position | Majority line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Apr 2026 | Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 1 | 505 for, 109 against, 29 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Final vote — text as a whole | Adopted 447 for, 160 against, 43 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AP — part 2 | 336 for, 266 against, 32 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AP — part 1 | 497 for, 108 against, 46 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Amendment 4, adding text after Recital AL | 316 for, 298 against, 33 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AL — part 2 | 482 for, 83 against, 77 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AL — part 1 | 571 for, 33 against, 48 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AJ — part 2 | 394 for, 217 against, 29 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AJ — part 1 | 468 for, 129 against, 55 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AC — part 2 | 325 for, 269 against, 49 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Recital AC — part 1 | 475 for, 109 against, 68 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Separate vote on citation 16 | 347 for, 257 against, 43 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 28 — part 2 | 459 for, 134 against, 46 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 28 — part 1 | 491 for, 111 against, 51 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 25 — part 2 | 361 for, 218 against, 60 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 25 — part 1 | 518 for, 36 against, 100 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 21 — part 2 | 359 for, 218 against, 62 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 21 — part 1 | 444 for, 152 against, 54 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Amendment 6 to paragraph 21 | 312 for, 321 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 20 — part 2 | 335 for, 281 against, 24 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 20 — part 1 | 431 for, 184 against, 39 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 19 — part 2 | 369 for, 240 against, 40 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 19 — part 1 | 504 for, 116 against, 33 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Amendment 5 to paragraph 16 | 378 for, 213 against, 59 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 12 — part 3 | 491 for, 83 against, 63 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 12 — part 2 | 496 for, 94 against, 55 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 12 — part 1 | 578 for, 37 against, 36 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 7 | 223 for, 343 against, 86 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 4 — part 2 | 394 for, 227 against, 27 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Paragraph 4 — part 1 | 492 for, 126 against, 34 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Amendment 2 | 179 for, 457 against, 17 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU Amendment 1 | 180 for, 455 against, 18 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2024 Final vote — text as a whole | Adopted 377 for, 254 against, 31 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2024 Amendment 24, adding text after paragraph 37 | 156 for, 405 against, 58 abstained | Position: Against ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Amendments to Parliament's Rules of Procedure concerning appointments to Union agencies and bodies (Rule 135) Final vote | Adopted 657 for, 0 against, 3 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Amendments to Biocidal Products Regulation as regards the extension of certain data protection periods Final vote | Passed 591 for, 54 against, 8 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: workers affected by imminent job displacement Final vote on the provisional agreement | Passed 566 for, 67 against, 26 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Final vote | Passed 459 for, 127 against, 70 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability Final vote on the provisional agreement | Passed 558 for, 35 against, 52 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Amendment 139, adding text after Recital 27 | 171 for, 465 against, 10 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Amendments 125 + 129 (voted as one), adding text after Article 29 (corresponds to Article 34 in am 120) | 251 for, 334 against, 48 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Amendment 127, adding text after Article 29 (corresponds to Article 34 in am 120) | 169 for, 441 against, 37 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Amendment 130, adding text after Article 29 (corresponds to Article 34 in am 120) | 188 for, 437 against, 21 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Amendment 120 to Article 19, after paragraph 1 (corresponds to Article 22 in am 120) — part 3 | 502 for, 128 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Amendment 124 to Article 19, After paragraph 1 (corresponds to Article 22 in am 120) | 95 for, 551 against, 9 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Proposal to vote on amendments | 412 for, 225 against, 13 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences Proposal to reject the text | 39 for, 600 against, 16 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III Final vote — text as a whole | Adopted 389 for, 191 against, 75 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III Amendment 66 to paragraph 63 | 164 for, 466 against, 17 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III Amendment 6 to paragraph 60 | 349 for, 264 against, 43 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
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 BudgetsBUDG Committee | Member | 15 Dec 2025 | now |
| Committee on Economic and Monetary AffairsECON Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Subcommittee on Tax MattersFISC Subcommittee | Vice-chair | 23 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the Korean PeninsulaDKOR Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on DemographyIG10-09 Intergroup / working group | Member | 21 Mar 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on the Social Economy and Services of General InterestIG10-23 Intergroup / working group | Member | 30 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Trade UnionsIG10-24 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | 7 Dec 2025 |
| Subcommittee on Tax MattersFISC Subcommittee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | 22 Jul 2024 |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 24
- EU budget & funds 14
- Digital, AI & data 9
- Foreign affairs 4
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 4
- Climate & environment 2
- Energy 2
- Health 2
- Trade & customs 2
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 1
- Defence & security 1
- EU institutions & Parliament 1
- Migration & asylum 1
- Transport & tourism 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.
37 contributions recorded; 6 on behalf of their group; 51 minutes of speaking time.
| Date | Debate | Kind | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 Sept 2026 | One-minute speeches on matters of political importance | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 9 Jul 2026 | Feasibility of a 28th tax regime and its potential to support EU competitiveness (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 8 Jul 2026 | Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 18-19 June 2026 (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 7 Jul 2026 | A coherent tax framework for the EU's financial sector (A10-0169/2026 - Matthias Ecke) (vote) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 6 Jul 2026 | One-minute speeches on matters of political importance | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/008 BE/Liberty - Belgium (A10-0084/2026 - Matthias Ecke) (vote) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 27 Apr 2026 | One-minute speeches on matters of political importance | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Rise of political violence, notably by far-left organisations (debate) on behalf of S&D | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 12 Feb 2026 | Time to address economic inequalities in the EU and worldwide (debate) on behalf of S&D | Speech · 3 min | Read |
| 21 Jan 2026 | Presentation of the Digital Networks Act (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 16 Dec 2025 | Presentation of the automotive package (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 15 Dec 2025 | One-minute speeches on matters of political importance | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 25 Nov 2025 | Effective use of the EU trade and industrial policy to tackle China’s export restrictions (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 24 Nov 2025 | One-minute speeches on matters of political importance | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 8 Oct 2025 | Europe’s automotive future – reversing the ban on the sale of combustion cars in the EU (topical debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 7 Oct 2025 | Time to complete a fully integrated Single Market: Europe’s key to growth and future prosperity (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Taxation of large digital platforms in the light of international developments (debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 9 Sept 2025 | Cohesion policy (joint debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 8 Sept 2025 | Governance of the internet – renewal of the mandate of the Internet Governance Forum (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Need for the EU to scale up clean technologies (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 7 Jul 2025 | One-minute speeches on matters of political importance | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 7 May 2025 | Winning the global tech race: boosting innovation and closing funding gaps (topical debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 12 Mar 2025 | Action Plan for the Automotive Industry (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 12 Mar 2025 | European Semester (joint debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 13 Feb 2025 | Threats to EU sovereignty through strategic dependencies in communication infrastructure (debate) on behalf of S&D | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 11 Feb 2025 | US AI chip export restrictions: a challenge to European AI development and economic resilience (debate) on behalf of S&D | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 10 Feb 2025 | European Central Bank – annual report 2024 (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 18 Dec 2024 | Continued repression of civil society and independent media in Azerbaijan and the cases of Dr Gubad Ibadoghlu, Anar Mammadli, Kamran Mammadli, Rufat Safarov and Meydan TV | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 17 Dec 2024 | Misinformation and disinformation on social media platforms, such as TikTok, and related risks to the integrity of elections in Europe (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 16 Dec 2024 | A European Innovation Act: lowering the cost of innovating in Europe (debate) on behalf of S&D | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 27 Nov 2024 | Promoting a favourable framework for venture capital financing and safe foreign direct investments in the EU (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 9 Oct 2024 | Taxing the super-rich to end poverty and reduce inequalities: EU support to the G20 Presidency’s proposal (topical debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 8 Oct 2024 | The crisis facing the EU’s automotive industry, potential plant closures and the need to enhance competitiveness and maintain jobs in Europe (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 19 Sept 2024 | The historic CJEU ruling on the Apple state aid case and its consequences (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 18 Sept 2024 | The devastating floods in Central and Eastern Europe, the loss of lives and the EU’s preparedness to act on such disasters exacerbated by climate change (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 16 Sept 2024 | Need to prevent security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration and effective return (debate) on behalf of S&D | Speech · 2 min | Read |
Questions and motions, 12
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 82
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 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 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
- 1 October 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Matthias ECKE”. Member record. memberId 237465. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/237465?page=31&speeches=all&vscope=all (retrieved 1 October 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/237465. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/237465?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-237465,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Matthias ECKE}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/237465?page=31&speeches=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/237465?page=31&speeches=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-10-01},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 237465. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/237465. 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}
}