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Member

René AUST

ESN · Germany

Group
ESN
Country
Germany
Roll-call participation
89.7 %ⓘ of 620 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.6 % · whole term, final votes
With majority line
98.2 %ⓘ of 556 votes where the group had a line · ESN median 93.9 %
More facts (5)
National party
AfD Alternative für Deutschland
In office
Since 16 Jul 2024
Against clear line
7 of 537 votesⓘ
Committees
EMPL (substitute), ITRE (substitute)
Member id
256929
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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 ⓘ

89.7 %

556 of 620 final votes while in office

ESN median: 90.8 % (−1.1 pts)

Chamber median: 90.6 %

With majority line ⓘ

98.2 %

546 of 556 votes where their group had a line

ESN median: 93.9 % (+4.3 pts)

Against clear line ⓘ

1.3 %

7 of 537 votes where their group had a clear line

5 opposite (for ↔ against), 2 abstained against the line

Abstention ⓘ

14.2 %

79 of 556 votes cast

Participation 89.7 % — ESN median 90.8 %, 27 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
Participation among the 27 members of the ESN with enough votes.
FigureParticipation
René AUST89.7 %
ESN median90.8 %
Lowest in the group65.8 %
Highest in the group97.7 %
Members27
With majority line 98.2 % — ESN median 93.9 %, 27 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
With majority line among the 27 members of the ESN with enough votes.
FigureWith majority line
René AUST98.2 %
ESN median93.9 %
Lowest in the group64.4 %
Highest in the group99.3 %
Members27
  • Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. The dots are the other members of ESN; 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, 5 928

Export

Every 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.
DateDecision and voteResultPositionMajority line
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 69 — part 3 305 for, 309 against, 53 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 69 — part 2 355 for, 155 against, 159 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 69 — part 1 528 for, 75 against, 67 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 16, adding text after paragraph 68 208 for, 400 against, 70 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 68 198 for, 459 against, 14 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Separate vote on paragraph 68 480 for, 130 against, 67 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 108 to paragraph 68 97 for, 517 against, 56 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 14 to paragraph 68 231 for, 390 against, 53 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 85, adding text after paragraph 66 200 for, 425 against, 53 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 71, adding text after paragraph 64 102 for, 528 against, 46 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 70, adding text after paragraph 63 54 for, 569 against, 44 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 69, adding text after paragraph 63 52 for, 566 against, 43 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 68, adding text after paragraph 63 65 for, 571 against, 35 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 66 to paragraph 62 — part 2 227 for, 425 against, 21 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 66 to paragraph 62 — part 1 122 for, 502 against, 47 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 67, adding text after paragraph 61 64 for, 514 against, 93 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Separate vote on paragraph 59 476 for, 184 against, 13 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 65, adding text after paragraph 58 62 for, 588 against, 29 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 58 — part 4 467 for, 114 against, 77 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 58 — part 3 373 for, 279 against, 24 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 62 to paragraph 58 258 for, 383 against, 35 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 13, adding text after paragraph 57 191 for, 445 against, 31 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Separate vote on paragraph 57 466 for, 176 against, 36 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 56 209 for, 283 against, 180 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 98, adding text after paragraph 55 92 for, 541 against, 40 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 61 to paragraph 54 176 for, 459 against, 25 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Separate vote on paragraph 52 439 for, 136 against, 96 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 48 188 for, 473 against, 20 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 97, adding text after paragraph 47 203 for, 456 against, 18 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 96, adding text after paragraph 47 203 for, 448 against, 13 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 103 to paragraph 46 — part 2 316 for, 281 against, 58 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 103 to paragraph 46 — part 1 478 for, 102 against, 94 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: For
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 44 — part 2 513 for, 122 against, 32 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 44 — part 1 561 for, 76 against, 41 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 101 to paragraph 39 159 for, 442 against, 73 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 11 to paragraph 37 236 for, 427 against, 16 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 100 to paragraph 34 281 for, 318 against, 78 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Separate vote on paragraph 33 581 for, 41 against, 57 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 59, adding text after paragraph 32 485 for, 129 against, 55 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 10 to paragraph 32 219 for, 445 against, 15 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 29 — part 3 528 for, 63 against, 85 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 29 — part 2 567 for, 27 against, 75 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 105, adding text after paragraph 22 523 for, 76 against, 72 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 84, adding text after paragraph 22 457 for, 172 against, 45 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 57, adding text after paragraph 22 77 for, 510 against, 71 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 56, adding text after paragraph 22 91 for, 501 against, 85 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Amendment 55 to paragraph 20 379 for, 270 against, 26 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 19 — part 4 469 for, 132 against, 69 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 19 — part 3 466 for, 142 against, 62 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
12 Mar 2025White paper on the future of European defence Paragraph 19 — part 2 409 for, 208 against, 52 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against

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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 4 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 ESN

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
Christine ANDERSON ESNGermany98 % of 5 079 shared80 %
Marc JONGEN ESNGermany98 % of 4 897 shared80 %
Irmhild BOSSDORF ESNGermany98 % of 5 172 shared80 %
Hans NEUHOFF ESNGermany98 % of 4 055 shared80 %
Anja ARNDT ESNGermany98 % of 4 691 shared80 %
Alexander SELL ESNGermany97 % of 4 977 shared80 %
Arno BAUSEMER ESNGermany97 % of 4 664 shared80 %
Petr BYSTRON ESNGermany96 % of 4 677 shared80 %
Mary KHAN ESNGermany96 % of 4 910 shared80 %
Siegbert Frank DROESE ESNGermany96 % of 4 931 shared80 %

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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
Volker SCHNURRBUSCH changed group ESNGermany98 % of 216 shared49 %
Milan MAZUREK changed group ESNSlovakia78 % of 390 shared49 %
Ewa ZAJĄCZKOWSKA-HERNIK changed group PatriotsPoland78 % of 1 285 shared70 %
Gerald HAUSER PatriotsAustria78 % of 5 104 shared70 %
Georg MAYER PatriotsAustria77 % of 4 553 shared70 %
Petra STEGER PatriotsAustria77 % of 5 256 shared70 %
Guillaume PELTIER ECRFrance77 % of 4 693 shared64 %
Roman HAIDER PatriotsAustria77 % of 5 381 shared70 %
Mieke ANDRIESE PatriotsNetherlands77 % of 2 558 shared70 %
Elisabeth DIERINGER PatriotsAustria77 % of 5 363 shared70 %

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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 Employment and Social AffairsEMPL CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 2024now
Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 2024now
Subcommittee on Tax MattersFISC SubcommitteeSubstitute12 Nov 2025now
Delegation for relations with MercosurDMER DelegationSubstitute19 Sept 2024now
Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary AssemblyDACP Parliamentary assemblyMember19 Sept 2024now
Delegation to the Pacific-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDPAC Parliamentary assemblyMember19 Sept 2024now
Committee on Economic and Monetary AffairsECON CommitteeMember19 Jul 202430 Mar 2025
Committee on International TradeINTA CommitteeMember19 Jul 202411 Nov 2025
Subcommittee on Tax MattersFISC SubcommitteeMember19 Jul 202411 Nov 2025
Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary AssemblyDLAT Parliamentary assemblyMember19 Sept 20247 Jul 2025

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Dossiers

No rapporteur, shadow or negotiator role recorded this term.

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.

46 contributions recorded, 1 written statement; 40 on behalf of their group; 81 minutes of speaking time.

Show all 40 recent contributions

Questions and motions, 25

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
31 Jul 2026MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the need to combat migrant grooming gangs B-10-2026-0373Motion for a resolutionwith 80 co-authors—
18 Mar 2026Protecting our farmers from the cumulative effects of Mercosur, Ukraine’s accession to the EU and agricultural red tape G-10-2026-001004Major interpellationwith 2 co-authorsNot yet answered
22 Jan 2026MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the power outage in Berlin and on the protection of critical national infrastructure B-10-2026-0097Motion for a resolutionwith 10 co-authors—
17 Sept 2025GPS interference on the flight of Commission President von der Leyen – media disinformation and distorted facts O-10-2025-000030Oral questionwith 36 co-authorsNot yet answered
1 Sept 2025European Court of Auditors special report 11/2025 on Transparency of EU funding granted to NGOs E-10-2025-003339Written questionwith 57 co-authors25 Nov 2025
28 Jul 2025German citizen abducted in Somalia E-10-2025-003119Written questionwith 1 co-author15 Sept 2025
17 Jul 2025Surveillance of critical media professionals by the German constitutional protection authorities E-10-2025-002952Written questionwith 1 co-author3 Sept 2025
15 Jul 2025German export model under pressure – securing the manufacturing location instead of offshoring production E-10-2025-002891Written question11 Nov 2025
15 Jul 2025Protecting traditional retailers from online platforms from third countries E-10-2025-002892Written question3 Sept 2025
2 Jul 2025MOTION OF CENSURE ON THE COMMISSION B-10-2025-0319Motion for a resolutionwith 76 co-authors—

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Amendments tabled in committee, 0

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

No committee amendment by this member found this term.

Connections

Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.

Political group

National delegation

  • Delegation Germany 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 e994c83b5003 (27 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
28 September 2026

Cite as

EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “René AUST”. Member record. memberId 256929. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256929?page=103&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 28 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256929. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256929?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version e994c83b5003 (27 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-256929,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{René AUST}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256929?page=103&scope=final&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256929?page=103&scope=final&vscope=all},
  urldate = {2026-09-28},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Member record. memberId 256929. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256929. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version e994c83b5003 (27 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}
}