Member
Eszter LAKOS
EPP · Hungary
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 ⓘ
61.4 %
3 639 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
EPP median: 89.9 % (−28.5 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
86.9 %
3 164 of 3 639 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 93.6 % (−6.7 pts)
183 opposite (for ↔ against), 184 abstained against the line, 2 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Eszter LAKOS | 61.4 % |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Eszter LAKOS | 86.9 % |
| 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 | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Security and DefenceSEDE Committee | Substitute | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Special Committee on the European Democracy ShieldEUDS Special committee | Substitute | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the United StatesD-US Delegation | Member | 15 Jun 2026 | now |
| Intergroup on Attracting Investment to Ensure a Competitive and Sustainable European UnionIG10-03 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises (SMEs)IG10-22 Intergroup / working group | Member | 12 Mar 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Traditional Minorities, National Communities and LanguagesIG10-25 Intergroup / working group | Member | 12 Jan 2026 | now |
| Delegation for relations with CanadaD-CA Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | 11 Jun 2026 |
| Delegation for relations with JapanD-JP Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | 11 Jun 2026 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Establishing the Programme for agile and rapid defence innovation (AGILE) | Shadow rapporteur | SEDE | 9 Jul 2026 |
| Establishing Horizon Europe, the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, for the period 2028-2034 laying down its rules for participation and dissemination, and repealing Regulation (EU) 2021/695 | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | SEDE | 16 Jan 2026 |
| Establishing the Specific Programme implementing Horizon Europe - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation for the period 2028-2034, laying down the rules for participation and dissemination under that Programme | Shadow rapporteur | ITRE | 3 Dec 2025 |
| AFET standing shadow rapporteur for Japan | Shadow rapporteur | AFET | 11 Dec 2024 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 22
- Defence & security 12
- Economy & single market 7
- Digital, AI & data 6
- Justice, rule of law & rights 4
- Energy 3
- EU budget & funds 2
- Migration & asylum 1
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 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.
24 contributions recorded, 5 written statements; 1 on behalf of their group; 30 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 9
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 74
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 Hungary 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 7669c786bb14 (1 Oct 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). “Eszter LAKOS”. Member record. memberId 256865. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256865?page=50&speeches=all&vscope=all (retrieved 1 October 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256865. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256865?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 7669c786bb14 (1 Oct 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-256865,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Eszter LAKOS}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256865?page=50&speeches=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256865?page=50&speeches=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-10-01},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 256865. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256865. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 7669c786bb14 (1 Oct 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}
}