Verena MERTENS

• Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of EPP; 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.

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).

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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.

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Topics they work on (model-assigned)

• Justice, rule of law & rights 7
• Climate & environment 6
• Digital, AI & data 6
• Economy & single market 6
• Jobs, social affairs & equality 6
• Foreign affairs 3
• Health 3
• EU budget & funds 2
• Agriculture, food & fisheries 1
• Energy 1
• Migration & asylum 1
• Trade & customs 1
• Transport & tourism 1

Counts: dossiers they spoke on, led or amended, and their questions and motions.

13 contributions recorded; 1 on behalf of their group; 18 minutes of speaking time.

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.

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.

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Permalink

https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256974?docs=all&page=4&rows=all

Official source

• Member’s profile, European Parliament ↗

Data source

• EP Open Data: member record ↗

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

EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Verena MERTENS”. Member record. memberId 256974. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256974?docs=all&page=4&rows=all (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256974. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/256974?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.

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