Member
Barbara BONTE
Patriots · Belgium
- Group
- Patriots PfE
- Country
- Belgium
- Roll-call participation
- 98.0 %ⓘ of 5 928 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.2 % · whole term, roll calls
- With majority line
- 84.0 %ⓘ of 5 786 votes where the group had a line · Patriots median 82.7 %
More facts (5)
- National party
- Vlaams Belang
- In office
- Since 16 Jul 2024
- Against clear line
- 371 of 4 591 votesⓘ
- Committees
- AGRI (substitute), ENVI, FEMM, ITRE (substitute)
- Member id
- 256881
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 ⓘ
98.0 %
5 807 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
Patriots median: 91.1 % (+6.8 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
84.0 %
4 863 of 5 786 votes where their group had a line
Patriots median: 82.7 % (+1.4 pts)
101 opposite (for ↔ against), 215 abstained against the line, 55 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Barbara BONTE | 98.0 % |
| Patriots median | 91.1 % |
| Lowest in the group | 44.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.9 % |
| Members | 89 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Barbara BONTE | 84.0 % |
| Patriots median | 82.7 % |
| Lowest in the group | 72.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 92.9 % |
| Members | 89 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of Patriots; 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 Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentAGRI Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food SafetyENVI Committee | Member | 20 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender EqualityFEMM Committee | Member | 14 Sept 2026 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Substitute | 22 Jan 2026 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-UK Parliamentary Partnership AssemblyD-UK Joint parliamentary committee | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with CanadaD-CA Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with South AfricaD-ZA Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and CountrysideIG10-04 Intergroup / working group | Member | 4 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Christians in the Middle EastIG10-07 Intergroup / working group | Member | 20 Feb 2025 | now |
| Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food SafetyENVI Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | 19 Jan 2025 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| No dossier named | Official delegation | ITRE | 21 Apr 2026 |
| Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | ENVI | 25 Feb 2026 |
| Amending Regulations (EU) 2016/679, (EU) 2016/1036, (EU) 2016/1037, (EU) 2017/1129, (EU) 2023/1542 and (EU) 2024/573 as regards the extension of certain mitigating measures available for small and medium sized enterprises to small mid-cap enterprises and further simplification measures | Shadow rapporteur | ENVI | 8 Oct 2025 |
| Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement | Shadow rapporteur for an opinion | ITRE | 14 May 2025 |
| Soil Monitoring Law | Shadow rapporteur | ENVI | 27 Nov 2024 |
| No dossier named | Shadow rapporteur | ENVI | 18 Oct 2024 |
| No dossier named | Delegation vice-chair | D-ZA | 26 Sept 2024 |
| No dossier named | Shadow rapporteur | ENVI | 17 Sept 2024 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Foreign affairs 40
- Economy & single market 39
- Trade & customs 19
- EU budget & funds 18
- Climate & environment 18
- Justice, rule of law & rights 18
- Energy 15
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 14
- EU institutions & Parliament 13
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 11
- Digital, AI & data 8
- Health 8
- Transport & tourism 6
- Migration & asylum 5
- Defence & security 3
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.
35 contributions recorded; 2 on behalf of their group; 44 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 109
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 93
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 Patriots for Europe Patriots · Far-right · national conservatism, right-wing populism
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). “Barbara BONTE”. Member record. memberId 256881. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256881?page=4&rows=all&vscope=all (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256881. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256881?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-256881,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Barbara BONTE}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256881?page=4&rows=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256881?page=4&rows=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 256881. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256881. 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}
}