Member
Barry COWEN
Renew · Ireland
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 ⓘ
83.2 %
4 932 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
Renew median: 90.4 % (−7.2 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
92.2 %
4 546 of 4 931 votes where their group had a line
Renew median: 95.5 % (−3.3 pts)
302 opposite (for ↔ against), 32 abstained against the line, 2 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Barry COWEN | 83.2 % |
| Renew median | 90.4 % |
| Lowest in the group | 65.3 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.7 % |
| Members | 76 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Barry COWEN | 92.2 % |
| Renew median | 95.5 % |
| Lowest in the group | 77.5 % |
| Highest in the group | 98.3 % |
| Members | 76 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of Renew; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 Oct 2024 | Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States | Passed 444 for, 179 against, 20 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 23 Oct 2024 | General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections | Resolution rejected 233 for, 360 against, 59 abstained | Position: Against | Majority line: Against |
| 22 Oct 2024 | Establishing the Ukraine Loan Cooperation Mechanism and providing exceptional macro-financial assistance to Ukraine | Passed 518 for, 56 against, 61 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 22 Oct 2024 | Draft amending budget No 2/2024: entering the surplus of the financial year 2023 | Passed 531 for, 91 against, 35 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 22 Oct 2024 | Draft amending budget No 4/2024: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to some decentralised agencies | Passed 522 for, 115 against, 25 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 22 Oct 2024 | Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/001 BE/Match-Smatch | Passed 601 for, 47 against, 17 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 22 Oct 2024 | 2022 discharge: EU general budget – European Council and Council | Passed 431 for, 131 against, 83 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 10 Oct 2024 | The cases of unjustly imprisoned Uyghurs in China, notably Ilham Tohti and Gulshan Abbas | Adopted 540 for, 23 against, 47 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Oct 2024 | Strengthening Moldova’s resilience against Russian interference ahead of the upcoming presidential elections and a constitutional referendum on EU integration | Adopted 508 for, 53 against, 104 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 9 Oct 2024 | The democratic backsliding and threats to political pluralism in Georgia | Adopted 495 for, 73 against, 86 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 8 Oct 2024 | Mobilisation of the European Union Solidarity Fund: assistance to Italy, Slovenia, Austria, Greece and France further to natural disasters that occurred in 2023 | Passed 632 for, 7 against, 3 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 19 Sept 2024 | EU/USA Agreement on the launch of Galileo satellites from U.S. Territory | Consent given 582 for, 16 against, 17 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 19 Sept 2024 | The deteriorating situation of women in Afghanistan due to the recent adoption of the law on the ‘Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice’ | Adopted 565 for, 8 against, 43 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 19 Sept 2024 | The severe situation of political prisoners in Belarus | Adopted 549 for, 21 against, 37 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 19 Sept 2024 | The case of José Daniel Ferrier García in Cuba | Adopted 380 for, 182 against, 51 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 19 Sept 2024 | Continued financial and military support to Ukraine by EU Member States | Adopted 425 for, 131 against, 63 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 19 Sept 2024 | Situation in Venezuela | Adopted 309 for, 201 against, 12 abstained | Position: No vote recorded | Majority line: For |
| 18 Sept 2024 | Maximum residue levels for carbendazim and thiophanate-methyl | Objection passed 516 for, 129 against, 27 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 18 Sept 2024 | Maximum residue levels for cyproconazole | Objection passed 522 for, 127 against, 28 abstained | Position: For | Majority line: For |
| 17 Jul 2024 | The need for the EU's continuous support for Ukraine | Adopted 495 for, 137 against, 47 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 Agriculture and Rural DevelopmentAGRI Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on International TradeINTA Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Special Committee on the Housing Crisis in the European UnionHOUS Special committee | Substitute | 23 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with South AfricaD-ZA Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with Australia and New ZealandDANZ Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Biodiversity, Hunting and CountrysideIG10-04 Intergroup / working group | Member | 4 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Sustainable LivestockIG10-15 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Conclusion, on behalf of the Union, of the Agreement in respect of Gibraltar between the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community, of the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the other part | Shadow rapporteur | INTA | 22 Jul 2026 |
| Establishing the conditions for the implementation of the Union support to the Common Agriculture Policy for the period from 2028 to 2034 | Rapporteur | AGRI | 20 Jan 2026 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | INTA | 22 Oct 2025 |
| Accession of Vanuatu to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community, of the one part, and the Pacific States, of the other part | Shadow rapporteur | INTA | 23 Jun 2025 |
| Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement | Shadow rapporteur | INTA | 30 Apr 2025 |
| Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain | Shadow rapporteur | AGRI | 17 Mar 2025 |
| I have been invited to participate in the upcoming REGI Mission to Ireland on February 26. I have been allowed to attend due to the fact that the Mission is arriving in my home town in Ireland. | Official delegation | 14 Feb 2025 | |
| NON-LEGISLATIVE REPORT - The future of agriculture and what CAP after 2027? | Shadow rapporteur | AGRI | 18 Dec 2024 |
| The INTA Delegation to London, UK (28-30 October) | Official delegation | 22 Oct 2024 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Economy & single market 10
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 9
- Foreign affairs 8
- EU budget & funds 6
- Trade & customs 6
- Climate & environment 3
- Health 2
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 2
- Transport & tourism 2
- Energy 1
- EU institutions & Parliament 1
- Justice, rule of law & rights 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.
34 contributions recorded; 2 on behalf of their group; 44 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 13
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 71
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 Renew Europe Renew · Centre · liberalism, pro-Europeanism
National delegation
- Delegation Ireland 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). “Barry COWEN”. Member record. memberId 257297. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257297?page=13&rows=all (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257297. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/257297?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-257297,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Barry COWEN}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257297?page=13&rows=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/257297?page=13&rows=all},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 257297. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/257297. 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}
}