Member
Virgil-Daniel POPESCU
EPP · Romania
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 ⓘ
85.6 %
5 077 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
EPP median: 89.9 % (−4.3 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
97.6 %
4 955 of 5 077 votes where their group had a line
EPP median: 93.6 % (+4.0 pts)
29 opposite (for ↔ against), 13 abstained against the line, 1 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Virgil-Daniel POPESCU | 85.6 % |
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Virgil-Daniel POPESCU | 97.6 % |
| 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 Budgetary ControlCONT Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on the Environment, Climate and Food SafetyENVI Committee | Substitute | 20 Jan 2025 | now |
| Committee on Industry, Research and EnergyITRE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the Arab PeninsulaDARP Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation to the EU-Armenia Parliamentary Partnership Committee, the EU-Azerbaijan Parliamentary Cooperation Committee and the EU-Georgia Parliamentary Association CommitteeDSCA Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food SafetyENVI Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | 19 Jan 2025 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| No dossier named | Official delegation | ITRE | 9 Sept 2026 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | ITRE | 29 Apr 2026 |
| Amending Directives (EU) 2018/2001, (EU) 2019/944, (EU) 2024/1788 as regards acceleration of permit-granting procedures | Opinion rapporteur | ENVI | 10 Mar 2026 |
| Guidelines for trans-European energy infrastructure, amending Regulations (EU) 2019/942, (EU) 2019/943 and (EU) 2024/1789 and repealing Regulation (EU) 2022/869 | Shadow rapporteur | ITRE | 16 Feb 2026 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | ITRE | 25 Jul 2025 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 10
- Foreign affairs 10
- Energy 8
- Defence & security 7
- EU budget & funds 5
- Trade & customs 4
- Climate & environment 2
- Digital, AI & data 2
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.
10 contributions recorded; 1 on behalf of their group; 16 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 10
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 62
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 Romania 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
- 26 September 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Virgil-Daniel POPESCU”. Member record. memberId 257107. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257107?page=116&rows=all&vscope=all (retrieved 26 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257107. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/257107?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-257107,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Virgil-Daniel POPESCU}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257107?page=116&rows=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257107?page=116&rows=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-09-26},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 257107. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257107. 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}
}