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Benoit CASSART

Renew · Belgium

Group
Renew
Country
Belgium
Roll-call participation
91.5 %ⓘ of 620 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.6 % · whole term, final votes
With majority line
94.7 %ⓘ of 563 votes where the group had a line · Renew median 93.6 %
More facts (5)
National party
MR Mouvement Réformateur
In office
Since 16 Jul 2024
Against clear line
11 of 524 votesⓘ
Committees
AGRI (substitute), INTA, TRAN
Member id
256891
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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 ⓘ

91.5 %

567 of 620 final votes while in office

Renew median: 91.5 % (−0.1 pts)

Chamber median: 90.6 %

With majority line ⓘ

94.7 %

533 of 563 votes where their group had a line

Renew median: 93.6 % (+1.1 pts)

Against clear line ⓘ

2.1 %

11 of 524 votes where their group had a clear line

2 opposite (for ↔ against), 8 abstained against the line, 1 voted for or against when the line was to abstain

Abstention ⓘ

2.3 %

13 of 567 votes cast

Participation 91.5 % — Renew median 91.5 %, 76 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
Participation among the 76 members of the Renew with enough votes.
FigureParticipation
Benoit CASSART91.5 %
Renew median91.5 %
Lowest in the group64.4 %
Highest in the group99.7 %
Members76
With majority line 94.7 % — Renew median 93.6 %, 76 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
With majority line among the 76 members of the Renew with enough votes.
FigureWith majority line
Benoit CASSART94.7 %
Renew median93.6 %
Lowest in the group79.8 %
Highest in the group97.6 %
Members76
  • Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. 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.

Votes, 620

Export

Every final roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.

Result: for–against–abstained. Majority line: how most of the member’s group voted that day (“Tie” when no position won). ≠ group marks a vote otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds, with at least 10 members voting) of their group.
DateDecisionResultPositionMajority line
23 Oct 2024Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States Passed 444 for, 179 against, 20 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
23 Oct 2024General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections Resolution rejected 233 for, 360 against, 59 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
22 Oct 2024Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine Passed 518 for, 56 against, 61 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
22 Oct 2024Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023 Passed 531 for, 91 against, 35 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
22 Oct 2024Draft amending budget No 4/2024: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to some decentralised agencies Passed 522 for, 115 against, 25 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
22 Oct 2024Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/001 BE/Match-Smatch Passed 601 for, 47 against, 17 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
22 Oct 20242022 discharge: EU general budget – European Council and Council Passed 431 for, 131 against, 83 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
10 Oct 2024The cases of unjustly imprisoned Uyghurs in China, notably Ilham Tohti and Gulshan Abbas Adopted 540 for, 23 against, 47 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
9 Oct 2024Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration Adopted 508 for, 53 against, 104 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
9 Oct 2024The democratic backsliding and threats to political pluralism in Georgia Adopted 495 for, 73 against, 86 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
8 Oct 2024Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and France further to natural disasters that occurred in 2023 Passed 632 for, 7 against, 3 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024EU/USA Agreement on the launch of Galileo satellites from U.S. Territory Consent given 582 for, 16 against, 17 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’ Adopted 565 for, 8 against, 43 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024The severe situation of political prisoners in Belarus Adopted 549 for, 21 against, 37 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024The case of José Daniel Ferrier García in Cuba Adopted 380 for, 182 against, 51 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States Adopted 425 for, 131 against, 63 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
19 Sept 2024Situation in Venezuela Adopted 309 for, 201 against, 12 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: For
18 Sept 2024Maximum residue levels for carbendazim and thiophanate-methyl Objection passed 516 for, 129 against, 27 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
18 Sept 2024Maximum residue levels for cyproconazole Objection passed 522 for, 127 against, 28 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
17 Jul 2024The need for the EU's continuous support for Ukraine Adopted 495 for, 137 against, 47 abstainedPosition: 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 on 5 of 80 sittings with roll calls.

"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.

At least 200 shared roll calls over at least six months in office together. Within = both sat in the same group on the date of the vote; a member who changed group can appear on both lists. Baseline = the median agreement of all pairs of members of the groups the two sat in on the date of each shared vote (within: the group they shared; outside: the two groups), weighted by the votes they shared in each combination.

Within Renew

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in the same group (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of that group.
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Olivier CHASTEL RenewBelgium99 % of 4 873 shared92 %
Sophie WILMÈS RenewBelgium98 % of 3 700 shared92 %
Hilde VAUTMANS RenewBelgium96 % of 5 253 shared92 %
Dan BARNA RenewRomania95 % of 4 757 shared92 %
Valérie HAYER RenewFrance94 % of 5 163 shared92 %
Anna-Maja HENRIKSSON RenewFinland94 % of 4 845 shared92 %
Dainius ŽALIMAS RenewLithuania94 % of 5 036 shared92 %
Elsi KATAINEN RenewFinland94 % of 5 309 shared92 %
Ilhan KYUCHYUK RenewBulgaria94 % of 5 014 shared92 %
Michał KOBOSKO RenewPoland94 % of 5 002 shared92 %

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Outside the group

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in different groups (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of the groups the two sat in on those votes (groups at the date, weighted by the votes shared in each combination).
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Dan NICA S&DRomania89 % of 3 262 shared86 %
Liesbet SOMMEN EPPBelgium88 % of 5 197 shared82 %
Isabel WISELER-LIMA EPPLuxembourg88 % of 5 205 shared82 %
Willemien KONING EPPNetherlands88 % of 1 898 shared82 %
Martine KEMP EPPLuxembourg88 % of 4 397 shared82 %
Wouter BEKE EPPBelgium87 % of 5 240 shared82 %
Mika AALTOLA EPPFinland87 % of 4 436 shared82 %
Isilda GOMES S&DPortugal87 % of 4 939 shared86 %
Aura SALLA EPPFinland87 % of 4 488 shared82 %
Manfred WEBER EPPGermany87 % of 4 185 shared82 %

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Work

Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.

Seats

Body: the committee, delegation or intergroup, with its kind. Role: the member’s role in it. From, To: the dates of the seat (“now” while it lasts).
BodyRoleFromTo
Committee on Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentAGRI CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 2024now
Committee on International TradeINTA CommitteeMember19 Jul 2024now
Committee on Transport and TourismTRAN CommitteeMember19 Jul 2024now
Delegation for relations with the countries of the Andean CommunityDAND DelegationMember19 Sept 2024now
Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union, including the EU-Morocco, EU-Tunisia and EU-Algeria Joint Parliamentary CommitteesDMAG DelegationMember19 Sept 2024now
Delegation for relations with MercosurDMER DelegationSubstitute23 Sept 2024now
Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary AssemblyDLAT Parliamentary assemblyMember19 Sept 2024now
Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and CountrysideIG10-04 Intergroup / working groupMember4 Feb 2025now
Intergroup on Sustainable LivestockIG10-15 Intergroup / working groupChair co31 Jan 2025now
Intergroup on Resilience, Disaster Management and Civil ProtectionIG10-19 Intergroup / working groupMember17 Mar 2025now

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Dossiers

Dossier: the procedure the declaration names (“No dossier named” for a delegation without one). Role: rapporteur, shadow rapporteur, negotiator or delegation. Committee: the committee that appointed them. Date: of the declaration.
DossierRoleCommitteeDate
No dossier namedShadow rapporteur for an opinionTRAN12 Jun 2026
Amending Council Directive 98/58/EC and Directive 2009/128/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the simplification and strengthening of food and feed safety requirements, and repealing Council Directives 82/711/EEC and 85/572/EECShadow rapporteurAGRI20 Mar 2026
Amending Regulations (EC) No 999/2001, (EC) No 1829/2003, (EC) No 1831/2003, (EC) No 852/2004, (EC) No 853/2004, (EC) No 396/2005, (EC) No 1099/2009, (EC) No 1107/2009, (EU) No 528/2012, (EU) 2017/625 as regards the simplification and strengthening of food and feed safety requirementsShadow rapporteurAGRI20 Mar 2026
Protocol amending the Euro-Mediterranean Aviation Agreement between the European Community and its Member States, of the one part, and the Kingdom of Morocco, of the other part, to take account of the accession to the European Union of the Republic of CroatiaShadow rapporteurTRAN20 Mar 2026
Empowering Austria to amend its existing bilateral road transport agreement with Switzerland with a view to authorising cabotage operations in the course of the provision of international road passenger transport services by coach and bus in the border regions between the two countriesShadow rapporteurTRAN26 Feb 2026
No dossier namedShadow rapporteur for an opinionTRAN13 Feb 2026
Monitoring and controlling drug precursors and repealing Regulations (EC) No 273/2004 and (EC) No 111/2005Shadow rapporteurINTA13 Feb 2026
Guidelines for the 2027 Budget - Section IIIShadow rapporteur for an opinionTRAN18 Jan 2026
No dossier namedOpinion rapporteurTRAN11 Nov 2025
Establishing the European Fund for economic, social and territorial cohesion, agriculture and rural, fisheries and maritime, prosperity and security for the period 2028-2034Shadow rapporteur for an opinionTRAN11 Nov 2025

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Topics they work on (model-assigned)

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.

14 contributions recorded; 2 on behalf of their group; 18 minutes of speaking time.

Date: the sitting. Debate: the item debated, and the group when they spoke on its behalf. Kind: speech or written statement, with speaking time. Verbatim: the verbatim report on Parliament’s site.
DateDebateKindVerbatim
19 May 2026Presentation of the Fertilisers Action Plan (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
30 Apr 2026How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases? (debate) on behalf of RenewSpeech · 1 minRead
9 Feb 2026Amending Regulations on agricultural products as regards market rules and sectoral support measures in the wine sector and for aromatised wine products (debate) on behalf of RenewSpeech · 2 minRead
15 Dec 2025Amending certain CAP Regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penalties (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
10 Sept 2025China’s unjustified decision to impose duties on imports of pork products from the EU and the need to support European farmers and workers (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
10 Sept 2025Implementation of EU-US trade deal and the prospect of wider EU trade agreements (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
10 Jul 2025Post-2027 Common Agricultural Policy (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
6 May 2025A unified EU response to unjustified US trade measures and global trade opportunities for the EU (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
13 Mar 2025A Vision for Agriculture and Food (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
13 Feb 2025EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement (debate) Speech · 1 minRead

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Questions and motions, 154

Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.

Date: tabled. Title: the question or motion, with its id. Kind: written question or motion for a resolution, with the number of co-authors. Answer: the date of the answer to a question.
DateTitleKindAnswer
14 Sept 2026MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Political prisoners in Cuba, in particular the case of Félix Navarro and his daughter Saylí Navarro B-10-2026-0403Motion for a resolutionwith 15 co-authors—
8 Sept 2026Chatbots directing women with unwanted pregnancies to anti-abortion websites E-10-2026-003539Written questionwith 67 co-authorsNot yet answered
25 Aug 2026Europe’s inland waterways – low water levels – the Connecting Europe Facility P-10-2026-003324Priority written questionNot yet answered
13 Aug 2026Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation creating additional red tape and legal uncertainty for businesses, especially SMEs E-10-2026-003276Written questionNot yet answered
30 Jul 2026VAT and company directors E-10-2026-003170Written question16 Sept 2026
30 Jul 2026VAT – collecting social security contributions via the VAT scheme E-10-2026-003171Written question17 Sept 2026
13 Jul 2026Support for the development of sexual assault centres in the EU E-10-2026-002872Written questionwith 20 co-authorsNot yet answered
6 Jul 2026MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the threat of war crimes, the escalating violations of international humanitarian law and the human rights situation in El-Obeid, Sudan B-10-2026-0361Motion for a resolutionwith 18 co-authors—
6 Jul 2026MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the abduction, forced conversion and child marriage of Maria Shahbaz and the protection of girls in Pakistan B-10-2026-0348Motion for a resolutionwith 16 co-authors—
6 Jul 2026MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Ongoing persecution of Christians in Nigeria, notably the Kawel village massacre B-10-2026-0353Motion for a resolutionwith 16 co-authors—

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Amendments tabled in committee, 139

Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.

Date: of the amendment document. Text amended: the dossier and the document’s id. Committee: where the amendments were tabled. Amendments: how many in the document are the member’s.
DateText amendedCommitteeAmendments
17 Jul 2026Strengthening competitiveness, resilience and fairness in EU agriculture AGRI-AM-791100 AGRI18
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790899 AGRI9
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790916 AGRI7
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790918 AGRI5
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790956 AGRI5
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790957 AGRI12
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790919 AGRI7
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790917 AGRI5
13 Jul 2026Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 AGRI-AM-790915 AGRI2
1 Jul 2026Connecting Europe through high-speed rail TRAN-AM-790790 TRAN41

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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.

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). “Benoit CASSART”. Member record. memberId 256891. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256891?page=13&rows=all&scope=final (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256891. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256891?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-256891,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Benoit CASSART}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256891?page=13&rows=all&scope=final}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256891?page=13&rows=all&scope=final},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Member record. memberId 256891. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256891. 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}
}