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Member of the European Parliament · Sweden EPP

Arba Kokalari

MEP for Sweden · European People's Party · Moderaterna · official EP profile

As of 14 September 2026, Arba Kokalari (EPP, Sweden) has declared 243 lobby meetings this term - rank 54 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is one of the fuller declaration sheets in the Parliament - 2.9× the average member, and 19 of 185 within European People's Party.

58% 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%.

243
declared meetings
current term
405
records since 2019
full dataset
58%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
54/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
19/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Arba Kokalari, this term
243
Parliament average
85
EPP average
94

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: 27 in Mar 2025.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 2 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 7 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 14 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 5 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 10 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 6 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 18 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 27 declared meetingsApril 2025: 21 declared meetingsMay 2025: 10 declared meetingsJune 2025: 9 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 3 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 2 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 7 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 14 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 10 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 20 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 9 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 12 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 15 declared meetingsApril 2026: 11 declared meetingsMay 2026: 2 declared meetingsJune 2026: 6 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 2 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 1 declared meetingSeptember 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: 27 declared in March 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Arba Kokalari 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

Finance (51), Technology & digital (28), Business federations & chambers (19)

Meetings by committee topic

Internal Market and Consumer Protection (117), Economic and Monetary Affairs (79), Employment and Social Affairs (19), Women's Rights and Gender Equality (11), D-AL (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
10 Aug 2026LovableMemberDigital Policy
8 Jul 2026Teknikföretagen MemberDigital Policy
8 Jul 2026Women in TechRapporteurGender Equality and Tech Policy
24 Jun 2026Reset MemberDigital policy
23 Jun 2026TechSverigeRapporteurGender equality policy
23 Jun 2026Nationellt centrum för kvinnofridRapporteurGender Equality Policy
10 Jun 2026ZaplarMemberTech policy
9 Jun 2026Admin AIMemberTech policy
3 Jun 2026European Tech Alliance ; Adobe Systems Benelux bvba MemberDigital policy
26 May 2026Confederation of Swedish Enterprise MemberGender Equality Policy in Employment
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
5 May 2026Luxembourg Stock ExchangeMemberFinancial Markets Legislation
29 Apr 2026European Payment Institutions Federation MemberFinancial Markets Legislation
28 Apr 2026Deutsche Börse AG MemberMarket Integration and Supervision Package
24 Apr 2026FöretagarnaMemberEU Inc and employment policy
21 Apr 2026Almega MemberEmployment policy and skills
15 Apr 2026Intric; Inter Ikea Systems BVRapporteurDigital policy and AI
15 Apr 2026Spotify MemberDigital policy
14 Apr 2026UnionenMemberEmployment policy
14 Apr 2026Mannheimer SwartlingMemberEU Venture Capital Regulation (EUVeca)
13 Apr 2026Euronext MemberCapital markets integration package
10 Apr 2026Deutsche Bank AG MemberEU Venture Capital Regulation (EUVeca)
10 Apr 2026Swedish Securities Markets Association (Swedish: Föreningen Svensk Värdepappersmarknad) MemberCapital markets integration package
31 Mar 2026VingeMemberEU Venture Capital Regulation (EUVeca)
27 Mar 2026Livsmedelsföretagen (The Swedish Food Federation)MemberTobacco taxation directive
25 Mar 2026Synthesia LimitedRapporteurDigital and AI
25 Mar 2026European Fund and Asset Management Association MemberEU Venture Capital Regulation (EUVeca)
24 Mar 2026Sveriges RadioMemberAI and media
24 Mar 2026DIGITALEUROPE RapporteurDigital omnibus on AI
20 Mar 2026KvantabMemberUsing AI-tools in the work
19 Mar 2026Invest EuropeMemberEU Venture Capital Regulation (EUVeca)

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Arba Kokalari 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.

86%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
499
final texts voted on
of 537
94%
voted with the EPP majority
on 495 final texts
28
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Arba Kokalari537 final votes
78%13%7%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 495 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Arba Kokalari 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 EPP majority46794%
Voted differently286%

Final texts where Arba Kokalari differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
8 July 2026B10-0337/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
17 June 2026A10-0161/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilAgainstFor
17 June 2026A10-0160/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilAgainstFor
28 April 2026A10-0105/2026 – Siegfried Mureşan, Carla Tavares – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
26 March 2026B10-0178/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
11 March 2026A10-0033/2026 – Nela Riehl – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
10 March 2026A10-0019/2026 – Axel Voss – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
20 January 2026A10-0261/2025 – Jana Toom – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
20 January 2026A10-0272/2025 – Tomislav Sokol – Commission proposalAbstainedFor
17 December 2025A10-0244/2025 – Andrzej Buła – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor

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

Unlinked but matchable

37 counterpart entrys in Arba Kokalari'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.