Top 10 Attendance
Highest attendance rates
100%
100%
99.9%
99.9%
99.9%
99.9%
99.8%
99.8%
99.8%
99.8%
Bottom 10 Attendance
Lowest attendance rates
1.9%
20.9%
22.9%
26.2%
32.6%
32.9%
34.1%
36.3%
37.2%
39.6%
Top 10 Outside Income
Declared financial interests alongside MEP salary (โฌ8,757/month)
1๐ท๐ด
Gheorghe PIPEREARomania
โฌ644,262โ708,688/yr
2๐ฎ๐น
Roberto VANNACCIItaly
โฌ200,000โ220,000/yr
3๐ฉ๐ช
Manfred WEBERGermany
โฌ199,032โ218,935/yr
4๐ฉ๐ช
Angelika NIEBLERGermany
โฌ177,528โ195,281/yr
5๐ฉ๐ช
Engin EROGLUGermany
โฌ177,500โ195,250/yr
6๐ช๐ธ
Alvise PรREZSpain
โฌ142,000โ156,200/yr
7๐ต๐ฑ
Daniel OBAJTEKPoland
โฌ139,297โ153,227/yr
8๐ท๐ด
Daniel BUDARomania
โฌ136,115โ149,727/yr
9๐ซ๐ท
Laurent CASTILLOFrance
โฌ128,633โ141,496/yr
10๐ฉ๐ช
Andreas SCHWABGermany
โฌ110,400โ121,440/yr
Political Group Attendance
Average attendance rates by political group (712 MEPs across 9 groups)
| Group | Attendance | MEPs |
|---|---|---|
The Left in the European Parliament (The Left) Far Left | 83.4% | 45 |
Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) Left-Green | 89% | 53 |
Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) Centre-Left | 86.1% | 134 |
Renew Europe (Renew) Centre | 86.6% | 75 |
European Peopleโs Party (EPP) Centre-Right | 87.5% | 181 |
European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) Right | 87.4% | 81 |
Patriots for Europe (PfE) Right-Populist | 87% | 84 |
Europe of Sovereign Nations (ESN) Far Right | 86.4% | 28 |
Non-attached Members (Non-attached) Non-attached | 84.5% | 31 |
Methodology
Attendance is calculated based on roll-call votes in plenary sessions of the European Parliament over the last 180 days. Committee votes are excluded. Abstaining counts as present; not voting counts as absent. Some MEPs may have partial terms affecting their attendance percentage.
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