Member · Former member
Sebastian EVERDING
The Left · Germany · left on 12 September 2026
- Group
- The Left
- Country
- Germany
- Roll-call participation
- 93.3 %ⓘ of 582 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.6 % · whole term, final votes
- With majority line
- 80.9 %ⓘ of 538 votes where the group had a line · The Left median 86.6 %
More facts (4)
- National party
- Die Tierschutzpartei PARTEI MENSCH KLIMA TIERSCHUTZ
- In office
- 16 Jul 2024 – 12 Sept 2026 (left on 12 September 2026)
- Against clear line
- 62 of 449 votesⓘ
- Member id
- 256961
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 ⓘ
93.3 %
543 of 582 final votes while in office
The Left median: 86.9 % (+6.4 pts)
Chamber median: 90.6 %
With majority line ⓘ
80.9 %
435 of 538 votes where their group had a line
The Left median: 86.6 % (−5.8 pts)
10 opposite (for ↔ against), 23 abstained against the line, 29 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Sebastian EVERDING | 93.3 % |
| The Left median | 86.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 37.7 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.4 % |
| Members | 47 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Sebastian EVERDING | 80.9 % |
| The Left median | 86.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 64.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 91.8 % |
| Members | 47 |
- Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. The dots are the other members of The Left; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 Sept 2025 | Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution | Adopted 305 for, 151 against, 122 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 11 Sept 2025 | Situation in Colombia after the wave of recent terrorist attacks | Adopted 355 for, 173 against, 15 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 10 Sept 2025 | European Social Fund (ESF+): specific measures to address strategic challenges | Passed 453 for, 149 against, 59 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Amending ERDF, Cohesion Fund and Just Transition Fund as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges in the context of the mid-term review | Passed 440 for, 168 against, 52 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism: simplification and strengthening | Passed 617 for, 18 against, 19 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Insolvency proceedings: replacing Annexes A and B | Passed 662 for, 3 against, 2 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Securities settlement in the EU and central securities depositories (CSDs): shorter settlement cycle in the Union | Passed 612 for, 7 against, 45 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Extension of the timeframe for the establishment of the Eurojust case management system | Passed 634 for, 4 against, 29 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Sept 2025 | EC-Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement: accession of Vanuatu | Consent given 528 for, 89 against, 48 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 10 Sept 2025 | EC-India Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation: renewal of the Agreement | Consent given 624 for, 9 against, 32 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Sept 2025 | EU-Switzerland Cooperation Agreement: European Satellite Navigation Programmes | Consent given 627 for, 4 against, 33 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Role of cohesion policy in supporting the just transition | Adopted 519 for, 99 against, 48 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Investments and reforms for European competitiveness and the creation of a Capital Markets Union | Adopted 407 for, 161 against, 97 abstained | Position: Abstained ≠ group | Majority line: Against |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Role of cohesion policy investment in resolving the current housing crisis | Adopted 462 for, 142 against, 63 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Future of agriculture and the post-2027 common agricultural policy | Adopted 393 for, 145 against, 123 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Possibilities for simplification of cohesion funds | Adopted 513 for, 111 against, 40 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 10 Sept 2025 | Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian hybrid threats and malign interference | Adopted 490 for, 65 against, 86 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: Abstained |
| 9 Sept 2025 | Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles | Passed 431 for, 145 against, 76 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 9 Sept 2025 | EU-Brazil Agreement: cooperation with and through Europol and the Federal Police of Brazil | Consent given 606 for, 5 against, 19 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Sept 2025 | EU-Kyrgyz Republic Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement | Consent given 473 for, 114 against, 58 abstained | Position: Abstained ≠ group | Majority line: Against |
| 9 Sept 2025 | EU-Kyrgyz Republic Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (Resolution) | Adopted 434 for, 49 against, 168 abstained | Position: For ≠ group | Majority line: Abstained |
| 9 Sept 2025 | Public procurement | Adopted 432 for, 95 against, 124 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 9 Sept 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Ukraine | Adopted 418 for, 135 against, 41 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Against |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 as regards obligations of economic operators concerning battery due diligence policies | Passed 542 for, 97 against, 12 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Motion of censure on the Commission | Rejected 175 for, 360 against, 18 abstained | Position: Abstained ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Case of Ryan Cornelius in Dubai | Adopted 511 for, 50 against, 75 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Arbitrary arrest and torture of Belgian-Portuguese researcher Joseph Figueira Martin in the Central African Republic | Adopted 617 for, 4 against, 18 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Urgent need to protect religious minorities in Syria following the recent terrorist attack on Mar Elias Church in Damascus | Adopted 625 for, 7 against, 10 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Future of the EU biotechnology and biomanufacturing sector: leveraging research, boosting innovation and enhancing competitiveness | Adopted 494 for, 83 against, 71 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: Against |
| 10 Jul 2025 | Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions | Adopted 523 for, 75 against, 14 abstained | Position: Abstained ≠ group | Majority line: Against |
| 9 Jul 2025 | European Climate Law | Urgent procedure refused 300 for, 379 against, 8 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Amending Regulation (EU) No 1026/2012 on certain measures for the purpose of the conservation of fish stocks in relation to countries allowing non-sustainable fishing | Passed 681 for, 4 against, 4 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Draft amending budget No 1/2025: entering the surplus of the financial year 2024 | Passed 534 for, 102 against, 56 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Austria, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia and Moldova relating to floods that occurred in September 2024 and Bosnia and Herzegovina relating to floods that occurred in October 2024 | Passed 643 for, 13 against, 35 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: Application EGF/2025/000 TA 2025 - Technical assistance at the initiative of the Commission | Passed 574 for, 63 against, 56 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 to add certain countries to the list of high-risk third countries, and to remove other countries from that list | Objection failed 264 for, 369 against, 55 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Deforestation Regulation - list of countries presenting a low or high risk | Objection passed 373 for, 289 against, 26 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Product safety and regulatory compliance in e-commerce and non-EU imports | Adopted 619 for, 26 against, 46 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Albania | Adopted 502 for, 120 against, 64 abstained | Position: For ≠ group | Majority line: Abstained |
| 9 Jul 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina | Adopted 495 for, 130 against, 63 abstained | Position: For ≠ group | Majority line: Abstained |
| 9 Jul 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on North Macedonia | Adopted 461 for, 121 against, 107 abstained | Position: For ≠ group | Majority line: Abstained |
| 9 Jul 2025 | 2023 and 2024 reports on Georgia | Adopted 490 for, 147 against, 49 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 9 Jul 2025 | Implementation and delivery of the Sustainable Development Goals in view of the 2025 High-Level Political Forum | Adopted 422 for, 219 against, 31 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Jul 2025 | The human cost of Russia’s war against Ukraine and the urgent need to end Russian aggression: the situation of illegally detained civilians and prisoners of war, and the continued bombing of civilians | Adopted 507 for, 77 against, 45 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Tie |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Bulgaria’s adoption of the euro on 1 January 2026 | Passed 531 for, 69 against, 79 abstained | Position: Abstained | Majority line: Abstained |
| 8 Jul 2025 | The role of gas storage for securing gas supplies ahead of the winter season | Passed 542 for, 109 against, 30 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 Jul 2025 | Temporary derogation from certain provisions of Regulations (EU) 2017/2226 and (EU) 2016/399 | Passed 572 for, 42 against, 67 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 8 Jul 2025 | VAT: taxable persons, special scheme and special arrangements for declaration and payment, relating to distance sales of imported goods | Passed 623 for, 26 against, 28 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 Jul 2025 | EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 | Consent given 616 for, 29 against, 36 abstained | Position: Against ≠ group | Majority line: For |
| 8 Jul 2025 | EU-Greenland and Denmark Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement: Implementing Protocol 2025-2030 (Resolution) | Adopted 561 for, 109 against, 11 abstained | Position: Abstained ≠ group | 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.
Dossiers
No rapporteur, shadow or negotiator role recorded this term.
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 61
- Climate & environment 51
- Foreign affairs 50
- Economy & single market 22
- Health 22
- Justice, rule of law & rights 20
- Digital, AI & data 14
- EU budget & funds 11
- Trade & customs 11
- Migration & asylum 10
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 10
- Defence & security 9
- EU institutions & Parliament 6
- Transport & tourism 5
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.
56 contributions recorded; 15 on behalf of their group; 68 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 136
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 170
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 groups this term
- Group The Left in the European Parliament (GUE/NGL) The Left · Left · democratic socialism, communism
National delegation
- Delegation Germany 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). “Sebastian EVERDING”. Member record. memberId 256961. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256961?amendments=all&page=8&scope=final (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256961. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256961?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-256961,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Sebastian EVERDING}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256961?amendments=all&page=8&scope=final}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256961?amendments=all&page=8&scope=final},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 256961. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256961. 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}
}