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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.

Period Whole term2024 (from July)20252026
Custom dates
Votes Final votes620All roll calls5 928

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, 620

Export

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

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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: Against Majority line: Against
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: Against Majority line: Against
22 Oct 2024Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023 Passed 531 for, 91 against, 35 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
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: Against Majority line: Against
22 Oct 2024Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/001 BE/Match-Smatch Passed 601 for, 47 against, 17 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
22 Oct 20242022 discharge: EU general budget – European Council and Council Passed 431 for, 131 against, 83 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: Against
10 Oct 2024The cases of unjustly imprisoned Uyghurs in China, notably Ilham Tohti and Gulshan Abbas Adopted 540 for, 23 against, 47 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: Abstained
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: Against Majority line: Against
9 Oct 2024The democratic backsliding and threats to political pluralism in Georgia Adopted 495 for, 73 against, 86 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
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: No vote recorded 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: No vote recorded 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: No vote recorded Majority line: Abstained
19 Sept 2024The severe situation of political prisoners in Belarus Adopted 549 for, 21 against, 37 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Abstained
19 Sept 2024The case of José Daniel Ferrier García in Cuba Adopted 380 for, 182 against, 51 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Abstained
19 Sept 2024Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States Adopted 425 for, 131 against, 63 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Against
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: No vote recorded Majority line: Abstained
18 Sept 2024Maximum residue levels for cyproconazole Objection passed 522 for, 127 against, 28 abstainedPosition: No vote recorded Majority line: Abstained
17 Jul 2024The need for the EU's continuous support for Ukraine Adopted 495 for, 137 against, 47 abstainedPosition: Against 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
Roll calls held at each sitting while in office and how many of them the member voted in.
SittingRoll callsVoted in
17 Jul 202411
18 Sept 202420
19 Sept 202460
8 Oct 202410
9 Oct 202421
10 Oct 202411
22 Oct 202455
23 Oct 202422
24 Oct 202421
14 Nov 202455
26 Nov 202488
27 Nov 202477
28 Nov 202466
17 Dec 202466
18 Dec 202477
19 Dec 202454
21 Jan 202511
22 Jan 202511
23 Jan 202544
11 Feb 202541
12 Feb 202544
13 Feb 202521
11 Mar 202544
12 Mar 202577
13 Mar 202533
1 Apr 202577
2 Apr 202599
3 Apr 202555
6 May 202543
7 May 20252019
8 May 20251210
22 May 202566
17 Jun 202588
18 Jun 202577
19 Jun 202564
8 Jul 202580
9 Jul 20251414
10 Jul 202577
9 Sept 202566
10 Sept 20251513
11 Sept 202588
7 Oct 202544
8 Oct 2025108
9 Oct 2025109
21 Oct 202588
22 Oct 202565
23 Oct 202555
13 Nov 20251616
25 Nov 2025139
26 Nov 20251010
27 Nov 20251110
16 Dec 20251110
17 Dec 2025119
18 Dec 202566
20 Jan 202666
21 Jan 202686
22 Jan 202687
10 Feb 202685
11 Feb 2026109
12 Feb 202688
24 Feb 202611
10 Mar 202698
11 Mar 20261212
12 Mar 202666
26 Mar 20261313
28 Apr 20261413
29 Apr 20261716
30 Apr 20261110
19 May 202633
20 May 20261212
21 May 2026109
16 Jun 2026109
17 Jun 20261614
18 Jun 202676
7 Jul 20261514
8 Jul 20261514
9 Jul 202644
15 Sept 20261212
16 Sept 20261616
17 Sept 2026108

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.

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
16 Sept 2026State of the Union (debate) on behalf of ESNSpeech · 2 minRead
8 Jul 2026Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 18-19 June 2026 (debate) on behalf of ESNSpeech · 2 minRead
7 Jul 2026Welcome Speech · 1 minRead
17 Jun 2026Preparation of the European Council (joint debate) on behalf of ESNSpeech · 1 minRead
15 Jun 2026Time for European economic independence (debate) on behalf of ESNSpeech · 2 minRead
20 May 2026Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response (B10-0245/2026) (vote) Speech · 2 minRead
20 May 2026High time to deliver on the Single Market, providing certainty and predictability for EU businesses and quality jobs (debate) on behalf of ESNSpeech · 3 minRead
29 Apr 2026EU strategy in response to the ongoing Middle East crisis, its implications on energy prices and the availability of fertilizers (debate) on behalf of ESNSpeech · 2 minRead
25 Mar 2026Conclusions of the European Council meeting of 19 March 2026 (debate) on behalf of ESNSpeech · 1 minRead
11 Feb 2026Urgent actions to revive EU competitiveness, deepen the EU Single Market and reduce the cost of living - from the Draghi report to reality (debate) on behalf of ESNSpeech · 2 minRead

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.

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256929?page=13&scope=final&vscope=final
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). “René AUST”. Member record. memberId 256929. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256929?page=13&scope=final&vscope=final (retrieved 25 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 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-256929,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{René AUST}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256929?page=13&scope=final&vscope=final}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256929?page=13&scope=final&vscope=final},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  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 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}
}