Member
Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE
Renew · Belgium
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 ⓘ
71.2 %
4 219 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
Renew median: 90.4 % (−19.3 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
96.0 %
4 046 of 4 214 votes where their group had a line
Renew median: 95.5 % (+0.5 pts)
93 opposite (for ↔ against), 26 abstained against the line
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE | 71.2 % |
| Renew median | 90.4 % |
| Lowest in the group | 65.3 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.7 % |
| Members | 76 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE | 96.0 % |
| Renew median | 95.5 % |
| Lowest in the group | 77.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 98.3 % |
| Members | 76 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of Renew; 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 final roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
| Date | Decision | Result | Position | Majority line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Apr 2026 | Discharge 2024: European Public Prosecutor’s Office | Discharge decision adopted 454 for, 161 against, 29 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Discharge 2024: Agencies | Discharge decision adopted 475 for, 107 against, 71 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Discharge 2024: Joint Undertakings | Discharge decision adopted 525 for, 104 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/008 BE/Liberty - Belgium | Passed 586 for, 48 against, 16 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Genetically modified soybean MON 94637 | Objection passed 412 for, 145 against, 11 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Situation of fundamental rights in the European Union in 2024 and 2025 | Adopted 328 for, 199 against, 98 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | The Commission’s 2025 Rule of Law report | Adopted 387 for, 191 against, 46 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Monitoring the application of European Union law in 2023, 2024 and 2025 | Adopted 416 for, 190 against, 15 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Generalised scheme of tariff preferences | Passed 459 for, 127 against, 70 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Welfare of dogs and cats and their traceability | Passed 558 for, 35 against, 52 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Amendments to Biocidal Products Regulation as regards the extension of certain data protection periods | 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 | Passed 566 for, 67 against, 26 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Interim report on the proposal for the multiannual financial framework for 2028-2034 | Interim report adopted 370 for, 201 against, 84 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Guidelines for the 2027 budget - Section III | Adopted 389 for, 191 against, 75 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Amendments to Parliament's Rules of Procedure concerning appointments to Union agencies and bodies (Rule 135) | Adopted 657 for, 0 against, 3 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Control of the financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2024 | Adopted 377 for, 254 against, 31 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU | Adopted 447 for, 160 against, 43 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Protection of the European Union’s financial interests – combating fraud – annual report 2024 | Rejected 231 for, 389 against, 33 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 28 Apr 2026 | The role of ocean diplomacy for the competitiveness of EU fisheries and aquaculture | Adopted 430 for, 107 against, 115 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Control, transparency and traceability of performance-based instruments | Adopted 527 for, 85 against, 33 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Enhancing connectivity, preserving cultural heritage and driving local excellence in European tourism – destination management and regional tourism growth | Adopted 439 for, 42 against, 129 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 28 Apr 2026 | Extension of the term of office of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield | Adopted 422 for, 202 against, 9 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Common system for the return of third-country nationals staying illegally in the Union (Return Regulation) | Negotiating mandate approved 389 for, 206 against, 32 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Combating corruption | Passed 581 for, 21 against, 42 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application | Failed 228 for, 311 against, 92 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Adjustment of customs duties and opening of tariff quotas for the import of certain goods originating in the United States of America | Passed 417 for, 154 against, 71 abstained | Position: Abstained ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Non-application of customs duties on imports of certain goods | Passed 437 for, 144 against, 60 abstained | Position: Against ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Simplification of the implementation of harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Digital Omnibus on AI) | Passed 569 for, 45 against, 23 abstained | Position: Abstained ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 26 Mar 2026 | United Nations Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships | Consent given 605 for, 3 against, 9 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 26 Mar 2026 | EU-China Agreement: modification of concessions on all the tariff rate quotas included in the EU Schedule CLXXV | Consent given 603 for, 3 against, 33 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 26 Mar 2026 | EU-Lebanon Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation setting, participation of Lebanon in the Partnership for Research and Innovation in the Mediterranean Area (PRIMA) | Consent given 618 for, 6 against, 5 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/005 AT/KTM - Austria | Passed 584 for, 39 against, 13 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/007 BE/Casa - Belgium | Passed 575 for, 48 against, 10 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Union framework for the national calculation of life-cycle global warming potential | Objection failed 208 for, 414 against, 10 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Global Gateway – past impacts and future orientation | Adopted 371 for, 146 against, 80 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Calculation of emission credits for heavy-duty vehicles for the reporting periods of the years 2025 to 2029 | Passed 473 for, 81 against, 9 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Package travel and linked travel arrangements: make the protection of travellers more effective and simplify and clarify certain aspects | Passed 537 for, 2 against, 24 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Human trafficking and grave human rights violations linked to the recruitment of non-Russian nationals, in particular from Africa, for Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine | Adopted 479 for, 17 against, 43 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 12 Mar 2026 | The arbitrary detention of President Mohamed Bazoum by the junta in Niger | Adopted 524 for, 2 against, 29 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Case of Elene Khoshtaria and political prisoners under the Georgian Dream regime | Adopted 438 for, 37 against, 81 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Activities of the European Ombudsman – annual report 2024 | Rejected 233 for, 250 against, 76 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application | Passed 458 for, 103 against, 63 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law | Consent given 455 for, 101 against, 74 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 11 Mar 2026 | EU-Ecuador Agreement: cooperation between Europol and the Ecuadorian authorities competent for combating serious crime and terrorism | Consent given 586 for, 21 against, 11 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers: application EGF/2025/004 BE/Tupperware – Belgium | Passed 562 for, 53 against, 19 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Framework Agreement on relations between the European Parliament and the European Commission | Adopted 446 for, 100 against, 72 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Gender pay and pension gap in the EU: state of play, challenges and the way forward, and developing guidelines for the better evaluation and fairer remuneration of work in female-dominated sectors | Adopted 458 for, 72 against, 98 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 11 Mar 2026 | European Semester for economic policy coordination 2026 | Adopted 392 for, 219 against, 18 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 11 Mar 2026 | European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities for 2026 | Adopted 404 for, 208 against, 20 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 11 Mar 2026 | EU enlargement strategy | Adopted 385 for, 147 against, 98 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
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 the Environment, Climate and Food SafetyENVI Committee | Substitute | 20 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer ProtectionIMCO Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Vice-chair | 23 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Public HealthSANT Committee | Substitute | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the Pan-African ParliamentDPAP Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 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 Attracting Investment to Ensure a Competitive and Sustainable European UnionIG10-03 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Sky and SpaceIG10-21 Intergroup / working group | Member | 27 Feb 2025 | now |
| Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food SafetyENVI Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | 19 Jan 2025 |
Dossiers
No rapporteur, shadow or negotiator role recorded this term.
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 30
- Foreign affairs 20
- Digital, AI & data 17
- Climate & environment 10
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 8
- Justice, rule of law & rights 8
- Energy 7
- Trade & customs 7
- Health 6
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 5
- EU budget & funds 4
- Transport & tourism 4
- Defence & security 3
- EU institutions & Parliament 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.
26 contributions recorded, 4 written statements; 3 on behalf of their group; 28 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 57
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 78
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 Renew Europe Renew · Centre · liberalism, pro-Europeanism
National delegation
- Delegation Belgium 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). “Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE”. Member record. memberId 256879. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256879?page=4 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256879. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256879?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-256879,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Yvan VEROUGSTRAETE}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256879?page=4}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256879?page=4},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 256879. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256879. 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}
}