Member
Paulo CUNHA
EPP · Portugal
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 ⓘ
97.7 %
5 792 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
EPP median: 89.9 % (+7.8 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
95.1 %
5 508 of 5 792 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 93.6 % (+1.5 pts)
86 opposite (for ↔ against), 89 abstained against the line, 1 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Paulo CUNHA | 97.7 % |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Paulo CUNHA | 95.1 % |
| 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 final roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.
| Date | Decision | Result | Position | Majority line |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 Jun 2026 | Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers following an application from Belgium – EGF/2025/009 BE/Soliver | Passed 602 for, 47 against, 11 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 16 Jun 2026 | European political parties and foundations – 2026 report on the application of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2025/2445 and on the activities funded | Adopted 426 for, 140 against, 107 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Countering transnational repression – towards an EU strategy to protect Europe’s sovereignty and democratic values | Adopted 434 for, 128 against, 104 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Role of trade in strengthening the EU’s economic security | Adopted 415 for, 105 against, 142 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 16 Jun 2026 | Reinforcing development cooperation to address irregular population movements and their root causes in partner countries | Adopted 344 for, 237 against, 66 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Amending Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions as regards requirements for securitisation exposures | Negotiating mandate approved 294 for, 192 against, 90 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Amending Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 on securitisation and a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation | Negotiating mandate approved 294 for, 194 against, 86 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Periodic roadworthiness tests and technical roadside inspection (Roadworthiness package) | Negotiating mandate approved 369 for, 126 against, 84 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Rights, support and protection of victims of crime | Passed 440 for, 49 against, 84 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran | Adopted 516 for, 14 against, 39 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts | Adopted 480 for, 5 against, 83 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | The cases of human rights and environmental defenders Andrie Yunus and Muhammad Rosidi in Indonesia | Adopted 469 for, 38 against, 62 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | The multiannual plan for the Baltic Sea and ways forward | Adopted 337 for, 178 against, 44 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | Advancing towards a care society: addressing the gender care gap | Adopted 263 for, 83 against, 154 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 21 May 2026 | The need to reduce work-related fatalities | Adopted 395 for, 12 against, 41 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 20 May 2026 | EU-Uzbekistan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement | Consent given 493 for, 104 against, 45 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 20 May 2026 | International Agreement on Olive Oil and Table Olives: amendment of Article 36 | Consent given 644 for, 1 against, 2 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 20 May 2026 | United Nations Convention against Cybercrime | Consent given 497 for, 91 against, 46 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 20 May 2026 | EU-Lebanon Agreement on cooperation between Eurojust and the authorities of Lebanon competent for judicial cooperation in criminal matters | Consent given 581 for, 12 against, 45 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 20 May 2026 | EU-Cook Islands Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreement (2025-2032): Implementing Protocol | Consent given 476 for, 101 against, 74 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 20 May 2026 | EC-São Tomé and Príncipe Fisheries Partnership Agreement (2025–2029): Implementing Protocol | Consent given 545 for, 89 against, 15 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 20 May 2026 | EU-Canada Agreement laying down the conditions for the participation of Canadian legal entities and products originating in Canada to procurement under the SAFE Instrument | Consent given 466 for, 169 against, 14 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 20 May 2026 | EU-Uzbekistan Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (resolution) | Adopted 423 for, 16 against, 208 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 20 May 2026 | The impact of the implementation of the Maritime Spatial Planning Directive 2014/89/EU on fisheries in selected fishing areas and sea basins | Adopted 518 for, 31 against, 102 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 20 May 2026 | Recommendation on the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly | Adopted 369 for, 160 against, 112 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 20 May 2026 | Rule of law, fundamental rights and misuse of EU funds in Slovakia: the need for an EU response | Adopted 347 for, 165 against, 25 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 20 May 2026 | Opportunities and challenges presented by a comprehensive artificial intelligence strategy for EU trade | Adopted 527 for, 62 against, 59 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 19 May 2026 | Negative trade-related effects of global overcapacity on the Union steel market | Passed 606 for, 16 against, 39 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 19 May 2026 | Screening of foreign investments in the Union | Passed 508 for, 64 against, 90 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 19 May 2026 | Research Fund for Coal and Steel: research programme and multiannual technical and financial guidelines | Passed 537 for, 17 against, 83 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 30 Apr 2026 | Convention Establishing an International Claims Commission for Ukraine | Consent given 465 for, 57 against, 47 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 30 Apr 2026 | Escalating trafficking and exploitation by criminal groups in Haiti | Adopted 511 for, 21 against, 42 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 30 Apr 2026 | New Chinese law on ‘ethnic unity and progress’ and the intensified suppression of ethnic identities | Adopted 439 for, 52 against, 71 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 30 Apr 2026 | Shortcomings and deficiencies of the ‘Amnesty Law’ in Venezuela | Adopted 507 for, 31 against, 35 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 30 Apr 2026 | Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2027 – Section I – European Parliament | Adopted 401 for, 116 against, 68 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 30 Apr 2026 | Financial literacy and the rise of finfluencers in the context of the savings and investments union | Adopted 502 for, 46 against, 42 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 30 Apr 2026 | How to secure a sustainable future for the EU livestock sector in light of the need to ensure food security, farmers’ resilience and the challenges posed by animal diseases? | Adopted 426 for, 119 against, 40 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 30 Apr 2026 | Women’s entrepreneurship in rural and island areas and outermost regions | Adopted 404 for, 102 against, 67 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 30 Apr 2026 | Banking Union – annual report 2025 | Adopted 376 for, 187 against, 17 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 30 Apr 2026 | Ensuring accountability and justice in response to Russia’s continued attacks against the civilian population in Ukraine | Adopted 446 for, 63 against, 52 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 30 Apr 2026 | Supporting democratic resilience in Armenia | Adopted 476 for, 47 against, 48 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Simplification of certain requirements and procedures for chemical products | Passed 540 for, 60 against, 45 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Market stability reserve for the buildings, road transport and additional sector | Passed 433 for, 120 against, 91 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | European Chemicals Agency and amending regulations | Passed 526 for, 56 against, 69 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Amendment of the European Electoral Act allowing Members to vote in plenary by proxy voting during pregnancy and after giving birth | Consent given 616 for, 24 against, 8 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | EU-Iceland agreement on transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data to prevent, detect, investigate and prosecute terrorist offences and serious crime | Consent given 532 for, 75 against, 28 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | International Cocoa Agreement | Consent given 601 for, 13 against, 34 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | EU-USA-Iceland-Norway Air Transport Agreement, and EU-Iceland-Norway Ancillary Agreement on the application of the Air Transport Agreement | Consent given 631 for, 6 against, 10 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | EU-Norway Agreement on transfer of passenger name record (PNR) data for the prevention, detection, investigation and prosecution of terrorist offences and serious crime | Consent given 532 for, 72 against, 26 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Commission | Discharge decision adopted 418 for, 207 against, 14 abstained | Position: For | 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.
Seats
| Body | Role | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| Committee on Budgetary ControlCONT Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on PetitionsPETI Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the countries of Central America, including the EU-Central America Association Parliamentary CommitteeDCAM Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary AssemblyDACP Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 24 Jul 2025 | now |
| Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDAFR Parliamentary assembly | Substitute | 24 Jul 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Attracting Investment to Ensure a Competitive and Sustainable European UnionIG10-03 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and CountrysideIG10-04 Intergroup / working group | Member | 4 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Christians in the Middle EastIG10-07 Intergroup / working group | Member | 20 Feb 2025 | now |
Dossiers
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 13
- Digital, AI & data 9
- Foreign affairs 7
- EU budget & funds 4
- Energy 4
- Justice, rule of law & rights 4
- Trade & customs 4
- Climate & environment 3
- Defence & security 2
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 2
- Transport & tourism 2
- EU institutions & Parliament 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.
53 contributions recorded; 70 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 25
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 51
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 Portugal 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). “Paulo CUNHA”. Member record. memberId 257078. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257078?docs=all&page=3&speeches=all (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257078. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/257078?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-257078,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Paulo CUNHA}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257078?docs=all&page=3&speeches=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257078?docs=all&page=3&speeches=all},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 257078. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257078. 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}
}