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Ruth FIRMENICH

No group · Germany

Group
No group NI
Country
Germany
Roll-call participation
96.9 %ⓘ of 516 roll calls in office · chamber median 93.4 % · 2024 (from july), roll calls
With majority line
—ⓘ The non-attached have no group line.
More facts (5)
National party
BSW Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht – Vernunft und Gerechtigkeit
In office
Since 16 Jul 2024
Against clear line
—ⓘ The non-attached have no group line.
Committees
AFET (substitute), REGI, SEDE (substitute)
Member id
25758
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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.

Period Whole term2024 (from July)20252026
Custom dates

Roll-call participation ⓘ

96.9 %

500 of 516 roll calls while in office

Non-attached median: 92.1 %

Chamber median: 93.4 %

With majority lineⓘ

—

The non-attached have no group line.

Against clear lineⓘ

—

The non-attached have no group line.

Abstention ⓘ

23.6 %

118 of 500 votes cast

Participation 96.9 % — Non-attached median 92.1 %, 30 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
Participation among the 30 members of the Non-attached with enough votes.
FigureParticipation
Ruth FIRMENICH96.9 %
Non-attached median92.1 %
Lowest in the group41.5 %
Highest in the group99.4 %
Members30
  • 2024 (from July), 516 roll-call votes. The dots are the other non-attached members; 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.
  • The non-attached have no group line: loyalty and votes against a clear line are not computed.

Votes, 5 928

Export

Every roll-call vote of the term with the member’s position, newest first.

Result: for–against–abstained. Majority line: how most of the member’s group voted that day (“Tie” when no position won). ≠ group marks a vote otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds, with at least 10 members voting) of their group.
DateDecision and voteResultPositionMajority line
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 16 to paragraph 48 198 for, 417 against, 11 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 43 198 for, 438 against, 5 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 47, adding text after paragraph 33 203 for, 425 against, 8 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 46, adding text after paragraph 33 238 for, 400 against, 10 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 45 to paragraph 33 238 for, 398 against, 9 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 44 to paragraph 24 368 for, 233 against, 42 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 13 to paragraph 22 209 for, 433 against, 4 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 28, adding text after paragraph 19 203 for, 434 against, 2 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 27, adding text after paragraph 19 200 for, 432 against, 6 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 12 to paragraph 19 199 for, 429 against, 2 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 26, adding text after paragraph 13 205 for, 436 against, 0 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 10 to paragraph 12 209 for, 432 against, 4 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 9 to paragraph 11 159 for, 426 against, 45 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 25, adding text after paragraph 2 186 for, 434 against, 18 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Paragraph 2 — part 2 591 for, 8 against, 46 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: Agencies Amendment 43, adding text after paragraph 1 219 for, 412 against, 10 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: European Public Prosecutor’s Office Final vote — text as a wholeDischarge decision adopted 454 for, 161 against, 29 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Data Protection Supervisor Final vote — text as a whole 528 for, 59 against, 62 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Data Protection Supervisor Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 20 217 for, 425 against, 3 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: European Public Prosecutor’s Office Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 63 206 for, 272 against, 169 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Ombudsman Final vote — text as a whole 593 for, 14 against, 45 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Committee of the Regions Final vote — text as a whole 567 for, 70 against, 13 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Economic and Social Committee Final vote — text as a whole 478 for, 146 against, 27 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European External Action Service Final vote — text as a whole 429 for, 145 against, 76 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European External Action Service Separate vote on paragraph 71 458 for, 178 against, 15 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European External Action Service Amendment 1 to paragraph 33 219 for, 418 against, 11 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European External Action Service Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 27 211 for, 431 against, 6 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European External Action Service Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 27 228 for, 264 against, 151 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European External Action Service Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 26 164 for, 389 against, 94 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Court of Auditors Final vote — text as a whole 343 for, 160 against, 150 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Court of Auditors Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 15 — part 2 350 for, 269 against, 24 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Court of Auditors Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 15 — part 1 529 for, 105 against, 11 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European Union Final vote — text as a whole 526 for, 79 against, 47 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European Union Amendment 4 to recital C 210 for, 432 against, 3 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European Union Amendment 1 to recital C 210 for, 432 against, 11 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European Union Amendment 3 to paragraph 41 193 for, 450 against, 6 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – Court of Justice of the European Union Amendment 2 to paragraph 5 205 for, 443 against, 4 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council Final vote — text as a whole 432 for, 160 against, 65 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council Separate vote on paragraph 30 329 for, 286 against, 29 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council Amendment 6 to paragraph 30 274 for, 365 against, 8 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Council and Council Amendment 2 to paragraph 30 219 for, 417 against, 9 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Parliament Final vote — text as a whole 441 for, 131 against, 81 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Parliament Amendment 58, adding text after paragraph 149 203 for, 442 against, 6 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Parliament Amendment 57 to paragraph 146 177 for, 435 against, 37 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Parliament Paragraph 138 — part 2 444 for, 131 against, 77 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Parliament Paragraph 138 — part 1 462 for, 159 against, 32 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Parliament Amendment 22 to paragraph 138 289 for, 349 against, 16 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Parliament Amendment 13 to paragraph 123 275 for, 374 against, 8 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Parliament Amendment 26 to paragraph 122 215 for, 426 against, 4 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
29 Apr 2026Discharge 2024: EU general budget – European Parliament Amendment 53, adding text after paragraph 94 202 for, 430 against, 9 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —

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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 on 4 of 22 sittings with roll calls.

"No vote recorded" is not the same as absent: leave, illness and chairing the sitting look the same.

Data as a table
Roll calls held at each sitting while in office and how many of them the member voted in.
SittingRoll callsVoted in
17 Jul 20242322
18 Jul 202411
16 Sept 202420
18 Sept 202422
19 Sept 20249291
7 Oct 202420
8 Oct 202411
9 Oct 20241818
10 Oct 202444
21 Oct 202420
22 Oct 20241010
23 Oct 2024129127
24 Oct 20241313
13 Nov 202420
14 Nov 20243636
25 Nov 202422
26 Nov 20241818
27 Nov 20241111
28 Nov 20245755
17 Dec 20241313
18 Dec 20243333
19 Dec 20244543

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.

At least 200 shared roll calls over at least six months in office together. Within = both sat in the same group on the date of the vote; a member who changed group can appear on both lists. Baseline = the median agreement of all pairs of members of the groups the two sat in on the date of each shared vote (within: the group they shared; outside: the two groups), weighted by the votes they shared in each combination.

Within No group

No member meets the rule within the group.

Outside the group

Agreement: roll calls where both cast the same position, of the roll calls both voted in while in different groups (“shared”); a count below 50 shared. Baseline: the median agreement of every pair of members of the groups the two sat in on those votes (groups at the date, weighted by the votes shared in each combination).
SelectMemberGroupCountryAgreementBaseline
Fabio DE MASI No groupGermany98 % of 5 685 shared44 %
Jan-Peter WARNKE No groupGermany97 % of 5 494 shared44 %
Thomas GEISEL No groupGermany97 % of 4 993 shared44 %
Michael VON DER SCHULENBURG No groupGermany96 % of 5 147 shared44 %
Martin SONNEBORN No groupGermany71 % of 5 047 shared44 %
Kateřina KONEČNÁ No groupCzechia60 % of 5 316 shared44 %
Branislav ONDRUŠ No groupSlovakia59 % of 4 414 shared44 %
Ondřej DOSTÁL No groupCzechia58 % of 5 355 shared44 %
Friedrich PÜRNER No groupGermany56 % of 5 029 shared44 %
Ľuboš BLAHA No groupSlovakia56 % of 5 131 shared44 %

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Work

Seats in committees, delegations and intergroups, and the dossiers the member leads, shadows or negotiates.

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).
BodyRoleFromTo
Committee on Foreign AffairsAFET CommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 2024now
Committee on Regional DevelopmentREGI CommitteeMember19 Jul 2024now
Committee on Security and DefenceSEDE CommitteeSubstitute23 Jan 2025now
Subcommittee on Human RightsDROI SubcommitteeSubstitute19 Jul 2024now
Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of ChinaD-CN DelegationSubstitute19 Sept 2024now
Delegation for relations with the countries of South AsiaDSAS DelegationMember19 Sept 2024now
Delegation to the OACPS-EU Joint Parliamentary AssemblyDACP Parliamentary assemblySubstitute19 Sept 2024now
Delegation to the Africa-EU Parliamentary AssemblyDAFR Parliamentary assemblyMember19 Sept 2024now

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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.
DossierRoleCommitteeDate
Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China Mission to Beijing and Wuhan 26-29 May Official delegationD-CN9 May 2026
First EU-Africa Parliamentary Assembly in Eswatini, May 2026Official delegationDAFR5 May 2026
No dossier namedOfficial delegation23 Oct 2024

Topics they work on (model-assigned)

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.

31 contributions recorded; 40 minutes of speaking time.

Date: the sitting. Debate: the item debated, and the group when they spoke on its behalf. Kind: speech or written statement, with speaking time. Verbatim: the verbatim report on Parliament’s site.
DateDebateKindVerbatim
16 Sept 2026Urgent need for EU support to Ukraine against Russia’s escalation of its war of aggression (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
7 Jul 20262025 Commission report on Ukraine (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
19 May 2026Political repression and humanitarian situation in Cuba (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
19 May 2026Europe's response to reduced US military deployments in Europe, particularly at its Eastern flank in the light of the latest US decisions (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
29 Apr 2026Danger of normalising relations with Russia, including its participation in major cultural and sports events (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
25 Mar 2026One-minute speeches on matters of political importance Speech · 1 minRead
10 Mar 2026Defence (joint debate) Speech · 1 minRead
24 Feb 2026Four years of Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and European contributions to a just peace and sustained security for Ukraine (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
10 Feb 2026Building a stronger European defence in light of an increasingly volatile international environment (debate) Speech · 1 minRead
20 Jan 2026Territorial integrity and sovereignty of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark: the need for a united EU response to US blackmail attempts (debate) Speech · 1 minRead

Show all 31 recent contributions

Questions and motions, 14

Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.

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.
DateTitleKindAnswer
29 Jul 2026Territorial scope of the amended EU-Morocco Agreement for scientific and technological cooperation concerning Morocco’s participation in PRIMA E-10-2026-003166Written questionwith 18 co-authorsNot yet answered
3 Mar 2026Three years since the railway accident in Tempi, Greece O-10-2026-000010Oral questionwith 35 co-authorsNot yet answered
2 Mar 2026Nuclear technology and Horizon Europe E-10-2026-000847Written questionwith 8 co-authors28 May 2026
2 Mar 2026Breach of EU-Israel Association Agreement E-10-2026-000848Written questionwith 7 co-authors1 Jun 2026
27 Feb 2026Omnibus package and EU-Israel Association Agreement E-10-2026-000824Written questionwith 8 co-authors1 Jun 2026
25 Feb 2026Critical disparity in NDICI cushion allocations with regard to the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza E-10-2026-000802Written questionwith 12 co-authors20 May 2026
3 Oct 2025Splitting of the association agreement with Mercosur E-10-2025-003894Written questionwith 13 co-authors1 Dec 2025
23 Sept 2025Highly concerning comments by VP/HR Kaja Kallas at EUISS event E-10-2025-003692Written questionwith 10 co-authors19 Dec 2025
17 Sept 2025GPS interference on the flight of Commission President von der Leyen – media disinformation and distorted facts O-10-2025-000030Oral questionwith 36 co-authorsNot yet answered
15 Sept 2025MOTION OF CENSURE ON THE COMMISSION MOTION OF CENSURE ON THE COMMISSION B-10-2025-0402Motion for a resolutionwith 71 co-authors—

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Amendments tabled in committee, 4

Committee amendment documents that carry amendments by the member, with how many are theirs.

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.
DateText amendedCommitteeAmendments
22 Apr 20262025 Commission report on Ukraine AFET-AM-786697 AFET7
27 Jun 2025Amending Regulations (EU) 2021/694, (EU) 2021/695, (EU) 2021/697, (EU) 2021/1153, (EU) 2023/1525 and 2024/795, as regards incentivising defence-related investments in the EU budget to implement the ReArm Europe Plan SEDE-AM-775439 SEDE1
5 Jun 20252023 and 2024 Commission reports on Ukraine AFET-AM-774391 AFET2
26 May 2025Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement CJ38-AM-774277 CJ383

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Connections

Dossiers they lead or shadow, committees, party, delegation and other related pages.

Political group

National delegation

  • Delegation Germany National delegation

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Data version
data version 772c7b2d0380 (30 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
30 September 2026

Cite as

EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Ruth FIRMENICH”. Member record. memberId 25758. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/25758?page=28&period=2024&vscope=all (retrieved 30 September 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/25758. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/25758?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 772c7b2d0380 (30 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-25758,
  author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
  title = {{Ruth FIRMENICH}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/25758?page=28&period=2024&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/25758?page=28&period=2024&vscope=all},
  urldate = {2026-09-30},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Member record. memberId 25758. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/25758. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 772c7b2d0380 (30 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}
}