Member
Birgit SIPPEL
S&D · Germany
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 ⓘ
78.6 %
4 662 of 5 928 roll calls while in office
S&D median: 89.9 % (−11.2 pts)
Chamber median: 90.2 %
With majority line ⓘ
97.1 %
4 523 of 4 660 votes where their group had a line
S&D median: 96.3 % (+0.8 pts)
88 opposite (for ↔ against), 6 abstained against the line, 8 voted for or against when the line was to abstain
Data as a table
| Figure | Participation |
|---|---|
| Birgit SIPPEL | 78.6 % |
| S&D median | 89.9 % |
| Lowest in the group | 30.4 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.6 % |
| Members | 138 |
Data as a table
| Figure | With majority line |
|---|---|
| Birgit SIPPEL | 97.1 % |
| S&D median | 96.3 % |
| Lowest in the group | 81.9 % |
| Highest in the group | 99.4 % |
| Members | 138 |
- Whole term, 5 928 roll-call votes. The dots are the other members of S&D; 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 Employment and Social AffairsEMPL Committee | Substitute | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home AffairsLIBE Committee | Member | 19 Jul 2024 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the Mashreq countriesDMAS Delegation | Member | 19 Sept 2024 | now |
| Intergroup on Anti-Racism and DiversityIG10-02 Intergroup / working group | Member | 14 Feb 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on LGBTIQ+IG10-16 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
| Intergroup on Trade UnionsIG10-24 Intergroup / working group | Member | 31 Jan 2025 | now |
| Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union, including the EU-Morocco, EU-Tunisia and EU-Algeria Joint Parliamentary CommitteesDMAG Delegation | Substitute | 19 Sept 2024 | 2 Dec 2025 |
Dossiers
| Dossier | Role | Committee | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application | Rapporteur | LIBE | 15 Jan 2026 |
| Combating corruption, replacing Council Framework Decision 2003/568/JHA and the Convention on the fight against corruption involving officials of the European Communities or officials of Member States of the European Union and amending Directive (EU) 2017/1371 of the European Parliament and of the Council | Trilogue negotiator | LIBE | 24 Nov 2025 |
| No dossier named | Official delegation | EMPL | 14 Apr 2025 |
| No dossier named | Shadow rapporteur | LIBE | 15 Oct 2024 |
| No dossier named | Rapporteur | LIBE | 26 Sept 2024 |
| COM(2019) 70 final | Rapporteur | LIBE | 10 Sept 2024 |
| COM(2022) 132 final | Shadow rapporteur | LIBE | 10 Sept 2024 |
| No dossier named | Rapporteur | LIBE | 10 Sept 2024 |
| No dossier named | Shadow rapporteur | LIBE | 3 Sept 2024 |
Topics they work on (model-assigned)
- Justice, rule of law & rights 44
- Digital, AI & data 30
- Foreign affairs 11
- Migration & asylum 11
- Jobs, social affairs & equality 8
- Defence & security 7
- Economy & single market 5
- EU budget & funds 4
- EU institutions & Parliament 2
- Agriculture, food & fisheries 1
- Climate & environment 1
- Health 1
- Trade & customs 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; 7 on behalf of their group; 52 minutes of speaking time.
Questions and motions, 51
Parliamentary questions and motions for resolutions the member authored or co-signed, newest first.
Amendments tabled in committee, 38
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 Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats S&D · Centre-left · social democracy
National delegation
- Delegation Germany 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 7669c786bb14 (1 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
- 1 October 2026
Cite as
EU Parl Watch Research (2026). “Birgit SIPPEL”. Member record. memberId 96932. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/96932?page=87&speeches=all&vscope=all (retrieved 1 October 2026). Official source: Member’s profile, European Parliament, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96932. Data: EP Open Data: member record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meps/96932?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0); data version 7669c786bb14 (1 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-96932,
author = {{EU Parl Watch Research}},
title = {{Birgit SIPPEL}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/96932?page=87&speeches=all&vscope=all}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/members/96932?page=87&speeches=all&vscope=all},
urldate = {2026-10-01},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Member record. memberId 96932. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/meps/en/96932. Data: EP Open Data: member record (CC BY 4.0); data version 7669c786bb14 (1 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}
}