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Member of the European Parliament · Netherlands PfE

Auke Zijlstra

MEP for the Netherlands · Patriots for Europe · Partij voor de Vrijheid · official EP profile

As of 8 November 2026, Auke Zijlstra (PfE, Netherlands) has declared 118 lobby meetings this term - rank 219 of 720 MEPs by declared meetings, a place shared with 2 other MEPs.

That sits close to the Parliament average of 100 meetings per MEP, and it ranks 4 of 85 in the PfE group.

87% 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 52%.

118
declared meetings
current term
118
records since 2016
full dataset
87%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 52% EP‑wide
219/720
rank, all MEPs
tied with 2 others
4/85
rank in PfE

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Compared with the averages

Auke Zijlstra, this term
118
Parliament average
100
PfE average
32

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 November 2026. This is the same current-term window as the figures above, beginning 16 July 2024.

Current month, partial through 6 Nov 2026: 0 declared meetings in Nov 2026. Peak: 10 in Oct 2025.

0%25%50%75%100%010July 2024: 4 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 9 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 4 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 8 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 2 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 5 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 8 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 6 declared meetingsApril 2025: 2 declared meetingsMay 2025: 6 declared meetingsJune 2025: 2 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 2 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 5 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 10 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 3 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 5 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 5 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 8 declared meetingsApril 2026: 5 declared meetingsMay 2026: 4 declared meetingsJune 2026: 5 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 6 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2026: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonths with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; the dashes join the months either sideMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJuly 2024: 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link2024202520260%25%50%75%100%010July 2024: 4 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 9 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 4 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 8 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 2 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 5 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 8 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 6 declared meetingsApril 2025: 2 declared meetingsMay 2025: 6 declared meetingsJune 2025: 2 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 2 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 5 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 10 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 3 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 5 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 5 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 8 declared meetingsApril 2026: 5 declared meetingsMay 2026: 4 declared meetingsJune 2026: 5 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 6 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2026: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonths with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; the dashes join the months either sideMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJuly 2024: 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link2024202520260%50%100%010202420252026
declared meetings per month (left axis)all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link; diplomacy included (right axis)
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Declared meetings each month, and the share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link.
MonthMeetingsLinked
Jul 20244100%
Aug 20240-
Sep 20249100%
Oct 20244100%
Nov 20248100%
Dec 20242100%
Jan 20255100%
Feb 20258100%
Mar 20256100%
Apr 20252100%
May 2025685.7%
Jun 2025250%
Jul 2025250%
Aug 20250-
Sep 20255100%
Oct 20251090%
Nov 20253100%
Dec 2025475%
Jan 2026560%
Feb 20265100%
Mar 2026855.6%
Apr 2026583.3%
May 2026450%
Jun 2026580%
Jul 2026666.7%
Aug 20260-
Sep 20260-
Oct 20260-
Nov 20260-

Busiest month: 10 declared in October 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; a dashed stretch of the line joins the months either side.

Who Auke Zijlstra 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

Both lists count this term. Sector pages count the full 2016–2026 record, and committee pages show each member's current-term total across all subjects, so their figures for this member can be higher.

Most-met sectors this term

Finance (25), Consumer & retail (16), Energy (15)

Meetings by committee or delegation this term

Industry, Research and Energy (48), Economic and Monetary Affairs (46), Budgets (1), Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Association Committee (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
7 Jul 2026APG Groep NV PGGM Pensioen­federatie (Dutch Federation of Pension Funds)Shadow rapporteurIORP II
7 Jul 2026Optiver⁠↗MemberMarket Integration and supervision
7 Jul 2026European Association Automotive Suppliers⁠↗MemberIndustrial Accelerator Act
3 Jul 2026Philip Morris International Inc.⁠↗MemberScientific research tobacco related harm reduction
2 Jul 2026Philip Morris International Inc.MemberNovel Tobacco Products
1 Jul 2026Axpo Holding AG⁠↗MemberHydropower
17 Jun 2026Vereniging VNO-NCWShadow rapporteurIORP II, PEPP, pension package
16 Jun 2026British American Tobacco⁠↗MemberTobacco tax directive
11 Jun 2026Pensioen­federatie (Dutch Federation of Pension Funds)⁠↗Shadow rapporteurIORP II
9 Jun 2026Vereniging VNO-NCW⁠↗Shadow rapporteurIORP II
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DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
9 Jun 2026Novartis International AG⁠↗MemberBiotech
19 May 2026European Association of Paritarian Institutions of Social ProtectionShadow rapporteurIORP II
19 May 2026Glastuinbouw Nederland⁠↗MemberHorticulture
7 May 2026NEMO MuseumMemberEcsite
5 May 2026Pensions­Europe⁠↗Shadow rapporteurPEPP
30 Apr 2026Axpo Holding AG⁠↗MemberSwiss energy
29 Apr 2026European Association of Paritarian Institutions of Social ProtectionShadow rapporteurIORP II, PEPP, pension package
21 Apr 2026Rabobank⁠↗Shadow rapporteurSingle Currency Package
15 Apr 2026Nederlandse Vereniging van Banken / Dutch Banking Association⁠↗Shadow rapporteurSecuritisatie
7 Apr 2026Vereniging VNO-NCW⁠↗; Nederlandse Vereniging van Banken / Dutch Banking Association⁠↗Shadow rapporteurdigital euro
30 Mar 2026Global Institute for Novel NicotineMemberTobacco Product Directive
26 Mar 2026Netherlands House for Education and Research (Neth-ER)⁠↗MemberFP10
24 Mar 2026N.V. Nederlandse GasunieMemberLNG, Grids Package
19 Mar 2026Eurelectric aisbl⁠↗MemberGrids package, ETS
19 Mar 2026Vereniging HogescholenMemberFramework Programme
11 Mar 2026EU StrategyMemberTech sovereignity
10 Mar 2026British American Tobacco⁠↗MemberTobacco Excise Directive
4 Mar 2026Glastuinbouw Nederland⁠↗; Gemeente Westland⁠↗MemberTuinbouw, R&D
27 Feb 2026Vereniging Nederlandse Sigaretten- en Kerftabak­fabrikanten⁠↗MemberTobacco tax directive
26 Feb 2026Pensioen­federatie (Federation of the Dutch Pension Funds)⁠↗Shadow rapporteurIORP-II

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 6,412 roll-call votes while Auke Zijlstra held the seat, 606 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.

88%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 6,412 held while seated
549
final texts voted on
of 606
75%
voted with the PfE majority
on 518 final texts
129
differed from PfE
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 606 final votes held while seated.

Auke Zijlstra606 final votes
32%43%15%9%
For 195Against 261Abstained 93No vote recorded 57

With and against the group

On the 518 final texts where more than half of PfE members casting a vote went one way, and Auke Zijlstra 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 PfE majority38975%
Voted differently12925%

Final texts where Auke Zijlstra differed from the PfE majority

DateTextTheir votePfE majority
6 October 2026The EU’s approach to corporate tax policy in a changing international environment A10-0238/2026 · Kinga Kollár · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstAbstained
16 September 2026Establishing the Single Market and Customs Programme for the period 2028-2034 and repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/444, (EU) 2021/690, (EU) 2021/785, (EU)… A10-0216/2026 · Adnan Dibrani · Commission proposalAgainstAbstained
16 September 2026Council regulation establishing the nuclear decommissioning assistance programme of the Ignalina nuclear power plant in Lithuania for the period 2028-2034… A10-0197/2026 · Virginijus Sinkevičius · Commission proposal to the CouncilAgainstFor
15 September 2026Amending Regulation (EU) 2023/956 as regards the extension of its scope to downstream goods and anti-circumvention measures A10-0201/2026 · Mohammed Chahim · Commission proposalAgainstAbstained
15 September 2026Temporary trade-liberalisation measures applicable to Armenian products A10-0226/2026 · Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski · Commission proposalForAgainst
15 September 2026The implementation of the Council Recommendation of 30 October 2020 on A Bridge to Jobs – Reinforcing the Youth Guarantee and replacing the Council… A10-0218/2026 · Hristo Petrov · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
7 July 2026A European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign… A10-0189/2026 · Adam Bielan · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
7 July 2026The financial activities of the European Investment Bank Group – annual report 2025 A10-0170/2026 · Joachim Streit · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
7 July 2026The mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers at the initiative of the Commission (EGF/2026/000 TA 2026 - Technical… A10-0179/2026 · Lucia Yar · Motion for a resolutionAgainstAbstained
7 July 2026Competition policy – annual report 2025 A10-0171/2026 · Stéphanie Yon-Courtin · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstAbstained

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

Unlinked but matchable

13 counterpart entries in Auke Zijlstra's declarations appear to match an EU Transparency Register entry without being linked in the declaration:

These are the 3 most frequent matches, covering 4 of the 13 entries; the other 9 are not listed.

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.