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Member of the European Parliament · Portugal S&D

Ana Catarina Mendes

MEP for Portugal · Socialists & Democrats · Partido Socialista · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Ana Catarina Mendes (S&D, Portugal) has declared 40 lobby meetings this term - rank 409 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is somewhat below the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 104 of 136 within Socialists & Democrats.

60% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - above the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 51%.

40
declared meetings
current term
40
records since 2019
full dataset
60%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
409/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
104/136
rank in S&D

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Compared with the averages

Ana Catarina Mendes, this term
40
Parliament average
85
S&D average
113

Transparency this term

Monthly declared meetings (bars) and the share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link, including diplomatic and government entries (line), July 2024 to September 2026. This is the same current-term window as the figures above, beginning 16 July 2024.

Current month, partial through 11 Sep 2026: 0 declared meetings in Sep 2026. Peak: 5 in Apr 2026.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 4 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 4 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 3 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 1 declared meetingJanuary 2025: 2 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 0 declared meetingsApril 2025: 3 declared meetingsMay 2025: 1 declared meetingJune 2025: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 1 declared meetingAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 2 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 1 declared meetingFebruary 2026: 1 declared meetingMarch 2026: 4 declared meetingsApril 2026: 5 declared meetingsMay 2026: 1 declared meetingJune 2026: 5 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJuly 2025: 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link202420252026
declared meetings per monthall counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link; diplomacy included (right axis)

Busiest month: 5 declared in April 2026. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Ana Catarina Mendes meets most

Counterparts are merged by resolved Transparency Register identity where possible. An entry counts as register-linked above only when the MEP declaration itself carries a Register link.

Where the meetings cluster

Most-met sectors

Human rights & humanitarian (7), Technology & digital (5), Media & publishing (3)

Meetings by committee topic

Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (7), European Democracy Shield (4), Culture and Education (1), DACP (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
17 Jun 2026EUPPORTUNITY (QB, Lda.) MemberTobacco Regulation
15 Jun 2026UNRWA - United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near EastMemberSituation in the Middle East
11 Jun 2026Sylvie JOSSERAND & Constance LE GRIP - Assemblée NationaleShadow rapporteurDemocracy Shield
11 Jun 2026La Strada International MemberAnti-Trafficking Directive & Migration policies
10 Jun 2026Association des Jeunes Iraniens au Luxembourg - AJILMemberPolitical situation in Iran
12 May 2026GoogleMemberCSAM Regulation
28 Apr 2026European Network Against Racism MemberGreetings
10 Apr 2026CEiiA - Engineering and Product Development CentreMemberEuropean Defense Industry
9 Apr 2026Maria Fernanda Lay - President of the National Parliament of Timor LesteMemberGreetings
8 Apr 2026CITEVE PortugalMemberEuropean Defense Industry
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
8 Apr 2026France Digitale Member28th Regime
16 Mar 2026Taiwan Digital Diplomacy AssociationMemberGreetings
16 Mar 2026ESNA - Europe Startup Nations Alliance, AssociaçãoMemberStartup Nation Standards Report Presentation
11 Mar 2026Embassy of the People's Republic of China in FranceMemberRelations EU-China
5 Mar 2026European Council on Refugees and Exiles RapporteurReturn Regulation and Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund within the Multiannual Financial Framework (2028–2034)
3 Feb 2026APDC - Digital Business CommunityMemberArtificial Intelligence
26 Jan 2026*Plataforma Portuguesa das Organizações Não Governamentais para o DesenvolvimentoMemberCivic space in the EU, Official Development Assistance and Education for Development and Global Citizenship
11 Dec 2025Mike Buckley - Independent Commission on UK-EU RelationsMemberRelations EU-UK
11 Dec 2025European Partnership for DemocracyMemberDemocracy Shield Priorities
11 Nov 2025Human Rights WatchMemberEU Migration Control and Externalisation in Mauritania
6 Nov 2025Associação Política Factual XXIMemberYouth Participation in European Politics
3 Jul 2025ESNA - Europe Startup Nations Alliance, AssociaçãoMember28th Regime
20 May 2025Civil Society Europe MemberCivil Society and Democracy
29 Apr 2025ASD-Eurospace MemberPolítica de Defesa da UE
29 Apr 2025ENPA; European Newspaper Publishers' Association Shadow rapporteurDemocracy Shield Piorities
23 Apr 2025Reporters sans frontières Shadow rapporteurDemocracy Shield Piorities
30 Jan 2025magellan circleMemberIndústria da Defesa
27 Jan 2025Google MemberDSA Implementation
4 Dec 2024Revolut Ltd MemberDSA Implementation
20 Nov 2024The ONE Campaign MemberPriorities for the new term

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Ana Catarina Mendes held the seat, 537 of them the final vote on a text. A member with no vote recorded may have been on parliamentary business, ill, on leave, or present without voting - the published record does not distinguish these and gives no reason. Votes taken by show of hands or by secret ballot are not recorded by name and are absent here.

90%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
496
final texts voted on
of 537
99%
voted with the S&D majority
on 494 final texts
3
differed from S&D
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Ana Catarina Mendes537 final votes
83%8%8%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 494 final texts where more than half of S&D members casting a vote went one way, and Ana Catarina Mendes also voted. Groups are not bound to vote together: a Member's mandate is personal and exercised freely, so neither figure is a measure of performance.

Voted with the S&D majority49199%
Voted differently31%

Final texts where Ana Catarina Mendes differed from the S&D majority

DateTextTheir voteS&D majority
17 June 2026A10-0161/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilAbstainedAgainst
17 June 2026A10-0160/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilAbstainedAgainst
7 May 2025A10-0074/2025 – Niclas Herbst – Proposal for a decisionAgainstFor

Unlinked but matchable

9 counterpart entrys in Ana Catarina Mendes's declarations appear to match an EU Transparency Register entry without being linked in the declaration:

Matching is automated and can be wrong - see how matching works. Linking the register entry is the fix, and it is the MEP office's to make.