Member
Verena MERTENS
EPP · Germany
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 ⓘ
87.3 %
5 178 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
EPP median: 89.9 % (−2.6 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
98.5 %
5 099 of 5 178 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 93.6 % (+4.9 pts)
26 opposite (for ↔ against), 21 abstained against the line
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Verena MERTENS | 87.3 % |
| EPP median | 89.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 17.0 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.6 % |
| Members | 196 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Verena MERTENS | 98.5 % |
| EPP median | 93.6 % |
| Lowest in the group | 70.2 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.5 % |
| Members | 196 |
- 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.
Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
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.
Seats
| Body | Role | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Committee on Foreign AffairsAFET Committee | Substitute | 3 Jul 2026 | now |
| Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender EqualityFEMM Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Chile Joint Parliamentary CommitteeD-CL Joint parliamentary committee | Vice-chair | 3 Oct 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary AssemblyDLAT Parliamentary assembly | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Children’s RightsIG10-06 Intergroup / working group | Member | 19 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on European Cultural Heritage, Ways of Saint James and other European Cultural RoutesIG10-11 Intergroup / working group | Member | 29 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Mental HealthIG10-17 Intergroup / working group | Member | 5 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on the PoliceIG10-18 Intergroup / working group | Member | 29 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on Budgetary ControlCONT Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | 21 Jan 2025 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical submission: addressing its consequences on women's rights and safety in the EU | Shadow rapporteur | FEMM | 7 Jul 2026 |
| Combating firearms trafficking and other firearms-related offences and amending Directive (EU) 2024/1260 of the European Parliament and of the Council | Shadow rapporteur | LIBE | 5 May 2026 |
| Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU | Shadow rapporteur | LIBE | 11 Mar 2025 |
| FEMM opinion on Combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) 2024/0035(COD) | Shadow rapporteur | FEMM | 14 Jan 2025 |
| No dossier named | Delegation vice-chair | D-CL | 28 Sept 2024 |
| Opening of negotiations in view of an agreement between the EU and USA on cross-border access to electronic evidence for judicial cooperation in criminal matters - COM(2019)0070 | Shadow rapporteur | LIBE | 10 Sept 2024 |
| Agreement between Mexico and the European Union on the transfer and processing of Passenger Name Record data | Shadow rapporteur | LIBE | 10 Sept 2024 |
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.
In the chamber
Speeches and statements in plenary debates, newest first; the verbatim report is on Parliament’s site.
13 contributions recorded; 1 on behalf of their group; 18 minutes of speaking time.
| Date | Debate | Kind | Verbatim |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 May 2026 | Recruitment of children by organised crime (debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 27 Apr 2026 | Importance of consent-based rape legislation in the EU (debate) on behalf of EPP | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 11 Mar 2026 | Child sexual abuse online: protect children, not perpetrators (topical debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 21 Oct 2025 | Changing security landscape and the role of police at the heart of the EU’s internal security strategy (debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 10 Feb 2025 | Escalation of gang violence in Sweden and strengthening the fight against organised crime (debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 10 Feb 2025 | Escalation of gang violence in Sweden and strengthening the fight against organised crime (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 22 Jan 2025 | Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate) | Speech | Read |
| 22 Jan 2025 | Links between organised crime and smuggling of migrants in light of the recent UN reports (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 27 Nov 2024 | Stepping up the fight against and the prevention of the recruitment of minors for criminal acts (debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 9 Oct 2024 | Prevention of drug-related crimes, their effect on European citizens and the need for an effective European response (debate) | Speech · 1 min | Read |
| 18 Sept 2024 | Organised crime, a major threat to the internal security of the European Union and European citizens (topical debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
| 16 Sept 2024 | Need to prevent security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration and effective return (debate) | Speech | Read |
| 16 Sept 2024 | Need to prevent security threats like the Solingen attack through addressing illegal migration and effective return (debate) | Speech · 2 min | Read |
Questions and motions, 17
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 27
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 group
- Group European People’s Party EPP · Centre-right · Christian democracy, conservatism
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 579b2832c723 (26 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
- 26 September 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Verena MERTENS”. Member record. memberId 256974. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256974?page=9&speeches=all&vscope=all (retrieved 26 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 579b2832c723 (26 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-256974,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Verena MERTENS}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256974?page=9&speeches=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/256974?page=9&speeches=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-26},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 256974. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/256974. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 579b2832c723 (26 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}
}