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Parliamentary committee

Budgets (BUDG)

The Budgets committee (BUDG) has 40 members on this site's record; across the 2016–2026 full record for current members, 629 declared lobby meetings are tagged to its dossiers. (As of 7 November 2026.)

Members and their declared meetings

Member cards use current-term meeting totals across all subjects; the committee figure above uses the full-record set of meetings tagged to this committee's dossiers.

RenewFabienne KellerFrance · Renaissance268meetings3%linkedEPPFernando Navarrete RojasSpain · Partido Popular235meetings27%linkedS&DVictor NegrescuRomania · Partidul Social Democrat210meetings69%linkedS&DMatthias EckeGermany · Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands174meetings68%linkedThe LeftJussi SaramoFinland · Vasemmistoliitto153meetings51%linkedECRJohan van OvertveldtBelgium · Nieuw-Vlaamse Alliantie152meetings35%linkedEPPKarlo ResslerCroatia · Hrvatska demokratska zajednica119meetings39%linkedPfEAuke ZijlstraNetherlands · Partij voor de Vrijheid118meetings87%linkedS&DJean-Marc GermainFrance · Parti socialiste101meetings71%linkedRenewLucia YarSlovakia · Progresívne Slovensko97meetings32%linkedGreens/EFARasmus AndresenGermany · Bündnis 90/Die Grünen97meetings64%linkedEPPSiegfried MureşanRomania · Partidul Naţional LiberalSloppy90meetings12%linkedNon-attachedThomas GeiselGermany · Independent89meetings26%linkedEPPIsabel Benjumea BenjumeaSpain · Partido Popular84meetings42%linkedEPPHélder Sousa SilvaPortugal · Partido Social Democrata78meetings33%linkedEPPDanuše NerudováCzechia · Starostové a nezávisli72meetings78%linkedThe LeftYounous OmarjeeFrance · La France Insoumise70meetings22%linkedPfEJana NagyováCzechia · ANO 201161meetings62%linkedRenewOlivier ChastelBelgium · Mouvement Réformateur60meetings61%linkedECRRuggero RazzaItaly · FRATELLI D' ITALIA60meetings58%linkedS&DCarla TavaresPortugal · Partido Socialista50meetings37%linkedS&DNils UšakovsLatvia · "Saskaņa" sociāldemokrātiskā partija46meetings14%linkedRenewJoachim StreitGermany · Freie Wähler45meetings22%linkedGreens/EFANicolae ȘtefănuțăRomania · Independent38meetings33%linkedS&DGiuseppe LupoItaly · Partito Democratico24meetings92%linkedEPPMonika HohlmeierGermany · Christlich-Soziale Union in Bayern e.V.24meetings32%linkedGreens/EFAIgnazio Roberto MarinoItaly · Independent22meetings27%linkedPfEJulien SanchezFrance · Rassemblement national17meetings11%linkedECRTobiasz BocheńskiPoland · Prawo i Sprawiedliwość15meetings65%linkedESNAlexander JungbluthGermany · Alternative für Deutschland12meetings33%linkedECRBogdan RzońcaPoland · Prawo i Sprawiedliwość9meetings44%linkedPfETamás DeutschHungary · Fidesz-Magyar Polgári Szövetség-Kereszténydemokrata Néppárt7meetings18%linkedPfEAngéline FuretFrance · Rassemblement national6meetings33%linkedPfETomasz BuczekPoland · Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość6meetings57%linkedThe LeftJoão OliveiraPortugal · Partido Comunista Português5meetings100%linkedS&DNikolas FarantourisGreece · PASOK-KINAL3meetings67%linkedS&DSandra Gómez LópezSpain · Partido Socialista Obrero Español2meetings0%linkedEPPAndrzej HalickiPoland · Koalicja ObywatelskaBlack box0meetings–linkedEPPGeorgios AftiasGreece · Nea DemokratiaBlack box0meetings–linkedEPPJanusz LewandowskiPoland · Koalicja ObywatelskaBlack box0meetings–linked

Two labels can appear on these cards: black box for members seated at least two years with no lobby meeting on record at all, and sloppy for members who leave out the Register ID in at least 40% of the entries where they name an organisation that is in the Transparency Register (on 10 such entries or more, and at least 5 left out). Neither is a finding of a rule breach - how both are counted.