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Ruth FIRMENICH

No group · Germany

Group
No group NI
Country
Germany
Roll-call participation
98.9 %ⓘ of 620 roll calls in office · chamber median 90.6 % · whole term, final votes
With majority line
—ⓘ The non-attached have no group line.
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National party
BSW Bündnis Soziale Gerechtigkeit und Wirtschaftliche Vernunft
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.

Roll-call participation ⓘ

98.9 %

613 of 620 final votes while in office

Non-attached median: 89.2 %

Chamber median: 90.6 %

With majority lineⓘ

—

The non-attached have no group line.

Against clear lineⓘ

—

The non-attached have no group line.

Abstention ⓘ

24.3 %

149 of 613 votes cast

Participation 98.9 % — Non-attached median 89.2 %, 31 members.ⓘ
Data as a table
Participation among the 31 members of the Non-attached with enough votes.
FigureParticipation
Ruth FIRMENICH98.9 %
Non-attached median89.2 %
Lowest in the group59.2 %
Highest in the group99.4 %
Members31
  • Whole term, 620 final votes; 620 of 794 decisions had a final vote recorded by name. 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
9 Sept 2025EU-Kyrgyz Republic Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (Resolution) Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 434 for, 49 against, 168 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025EU-Kyrgyz Republic Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (Resolution) Amendment 12, adding text after paragraph 12 72 for, 522 against, 51 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025EU-Kyrgyz Republic Enhanced Partnership and Cooperation Agreement Final vote on the draft Council decisionConsent given 473 for, 114 against, 58 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025EU-Brazil Agreement: cooperation with and through Europol and the Federal Police of Brazil Final vote on the draft Council decisionConsent given 606 for, 5 against, 19 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Final votePassed 431 for, 145 against, 76 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 395 to recital 19 187 for, 442 against, 16 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendments 409 + 417 (voted as one) to Annex VII, Part C, point 16 208 for, 431 against, 7 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 371 to Annex VII, Part C, point 13 530 for, 112 against, 4 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendments 408 + 416 (voted as one) to Annex VII, Part C, point 6 204 for, 438 against, 8 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 407 to Annex VII, Part C, point 4 137 for, 447 against, 61 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 318 to Article 55, après le paragraph 2 512 for, 120 against, 14 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 390 to Article 55, après le paragraph 2 105 for, 538 against, 3 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 389 to Article 38, paragraph 3, après le point b 96 for, 549 against, 3 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 388 to Article 18, paragraph 1 124 for, 515 against, 7 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 387 to Article 7, après le paragraph 4 207 for, 431 against, 10 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 137 to Article 6, paragraph 3, alinéa 1 — part 2 451 for, 182 against, 10 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 137 to Article 6, paragraph 3, alinéa 1 — part 1 461 for, 185 against, 5 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 394 to Article 6, paragraph 1, après l'alinéa 2 142 for, 496 against, 8 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 403 to Article 6, paragraph 1, alinéa 2 192 for, 442 against, 11 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 130 to Article 6, paragraph 1, alinéa 1 444 for, 189 against, 14 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 402 to Article 6, paragraph 1, alinéa 1 194 for, 434 against, 15 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 393 to Article 6, paragraph 1, alinéa 1 120 for, 529 against, 2 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 150 to Article 6 — part 2 438 for, 196 against, 8 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 150 to Article 6 — part 1 452 for, 195 against, 2 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 134 to Article 6 473 for, 154 against, 22 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 133 to Article 6 — part 2 512 for, 122 against, 15 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 133 to Article 6 — part 1 505 for, 126 against, 19 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 401 to Article 6 131 for, 447 against, 72 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 392 to Article 4, après le paragraph 1 138 for, 504 against, 4 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 391 to Article 4, paragraph 1, après le point b 138 for, 508 against, 2 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendments 399 + 412 (voted as one) to Article 3, paragraph 1, point 15 168 for, 445 against, 36 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 398 to Article 3, paragraph 1, après le point 9 199 for, 437 against, 11 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 397 to Article 3, paragraph 1, point 9 158 for, 471 against, 17 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
9 Sept 2025Circularity requirements for vehicle design and management of end-of-life vehicles Amendment 396 to Article 2, paragraph 6, partie introductive 197 for, 418 against, 30 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
8 Sept 2025Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the PPE Group Ordre du jour de mercredi — Demande du groupe PPE 384 for, 10 against, 51 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 523 for, 75 against, 14 abstainedPosition: Against Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions Amendment 1 to paragraph 14 157 for, 428 against, 36 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 13 95 for, 420 against, 119 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions Paragraph 13 — part 2 483 for, 84 against, 67 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions Amendment 7 to paragraph 13 80 for, 407 against, 151 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions Amendment 6, adding text after paragraph 12 79 for, 531 against, 18 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions Amendment 5 to paragraph 10 47 for, 560 against, 27 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions Amendment 4 to paragraph 8 88 for, 520 against, 22 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 2 63 for, 552 against, 15 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Tackling China’s critical raw materials export restrictions Amendment 2, adding text after paragraph 1 123 for, 390 against, 110 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Future of the EU biotechnology and biomanufacturing sector: leveraging research, boosting innovation and enhancing competitiveness Final vote — text as a wholeAdopted 494 for, 83 against, 71 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Future of the EU biotechnology and biomanufacturing sector: leveraging research, boosting innovation and enhancing competitiveness Amendment 2, adding text after recital S 217 for, 409 against, 23 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Future of the EU biotechnology and biomanufacturing sector: leveraging research, boosting innovation and enhancing competitiveness Amendment 1, adding text after citation 2 226 for, 409 against, 17 abstainedPosition: For Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Future of the EU biotechnology and biomanufacturing sector: leveraging research, boosting innovation and enhancing competitiveness Paragraph 34 — part 2 566 for, 60 against, 23 abstainedPosition: Abstained Majority line: —
10 Jul 2025Future of the EU biotechnology and biomanufacturing sector: leveraging research, boosting innovation and enhancing competitiveness Paragraph 32 — part 1 588 for, 56 against, 7 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 0 of 80 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

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.

32 contributions recorded; 41 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

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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 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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
2 October 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=77&scope=final&vscope=all (retrieved 2 October 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 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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=77&scope=final&vscope=all}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/25758?page=77&scope=final&vscope=all},
  urldate = {2026-10-02},
  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 343d33dd3e67 (2 Oct 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}
}