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Anouk van Brug, official European Parliament portrait

Member of the European Parliament · Netherlands Renew

Anouk van Brug

MEP for Netherlands · Renew Europe · Volkspartij voor Vrijheid en Democratie · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Anouk van Brug (Renew, Netherlands) has declared 59 lobby meetings this term - rank 349 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is somewhat below the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 59 of 77 within Renew Europe.

32% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - below the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 51%.

59
declared meetings
current term
59
records since 2019
full dataset
32%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
349/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
59/77
rank in Renew

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Compared with the averages

Anouk van Brug, this term
59
Parliament average
85
Renew average
140

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: 10 in Sep 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 10 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 4 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 6 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 3 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 4 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 3 declared meetingsApril 2025: 0 declared meetingsMay 2025: 1 declared meetingJune 2025: 3 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 1 declared meetingAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 3 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 10 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 6 declared meetingsApril 2026: 1 declared meetingMay 2026: 0 declared meetingsJune 2026: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link202420252026
declared meetings per monthall counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link; diplomacy included (right axis)

Busiest month: 10 declared in September 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Anouk van Brug meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
ABN AMRO Bank N.V.3
European Central Bank3
Vereniging VNO-NCW2
De Nederlandsche Bank DNB2
Rabobank1

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

Finance (14), Technology & digital (3), Business federations & chambers (2)

Meetings by committee topic

Economic and Monetary Affairs (47), Budgets (6), Women's Rights and Gender Equality (2)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
8 Apr 2026LTO NederlandMemberMFF
24 Mar 2026Womeninc.nl Ministerie van Financien De ScheidingsdeskundigeMemberWeek of Money
11 Mar 2026Vereniging VNO-NCW MemberMFF
9 Mar 2026European Stability Mechanism ESMMemberCourtesy visit
6 Mar 2026EIOPAShadow rapporteurMeeting
3 Mar 2026DNB de Nederlandsche BankMembermeeting
2 Mar 2026GDV German Insurance AssociationShadow rapporteurMeeting
27 Feb 2026FNV NederlandShadow rapporteurMeeting
26 Feb 2026RABO Bank NederlandMemberCourtesy call
24 Feb 2026Young Women in PoliticsMemberMeeting
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
24 Feb 2026ABN AMRO Bank N.V. MemberCourtesy call
13 Feb 2026Centraal Plan Bureau CPBMemberCourtesy call
5 Feb 2026DUFAS; Netherlands Permanent RepresentationMemberMeeting
5 Feb 2026ING NederlandMemberCourtesy call
4 Feb 2026NethErMemberMeeting
4 Feb 2026ABN AMRO Debating ClubMemberGeneral visit
3 Feb 2026Pensioenfederatie (Federation of the Dutch Pension Funds) Shadow rapporteurPensions
26 Jan 2026Stichting VluchtelingMemberMeeting
15 Jan 2026ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Membermeeting
13 Jan 2026City The Hague aldermanMemberMeeting
16 Jul 2025European Payments InitiativeMemberMeeting
25 Jun 2025UASNL Universities of Applied Sciences NLMemberMeeting
24 Jun 2025DNB Bank ASA MemberDigital Euro
4 Jun 2025European Investment BankMemberWorking visit
21 May 2025Voorzitter Universiteiten van NederlandMemberCourtesy call
19 Mar 2025De Nederlandsche Bank DNBMembermeeting
18 Mar 2025Verbond van Verzekeraars ; Covington & Burling LLP MemberIntroduction
4 Mar 2025Kamer van Koophandel UtrechtMemberIntroduction
20 Feb 2025De Nederlandsche Bank DNBMemberWorking lunch
18 Feb 2025Brainport Development NV MemberCourtesy call

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Anouk van Brug 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.

74%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
387
final texts voted on
of 537
93%
voted with the Renew majority
on 376 final texts
28
differed from Renew
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Anouk van Brug537 final votes
59%10%28%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 376 final texts where more than half of Renew members casting a vote went one way, and Anouk van Brug 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 Renew majority34893%
Voted differently287%

Final texts where Anouk van Brug differed from the Renew majority

18 further instances are not listed. All roll-call votes.

Unlinked but matchable

4 counterpart entrys in Anouk van Brug'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.