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Member of the European Parliament · Belgium PfE

Barbara Bonte

MEP for Belgium · Patriots for Europe · Vlaams Belang · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Barbara Bonte (PfE, Belgium) 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 16 of 85 within Patriots for Europe.

38% 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
38%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
349/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
16/85
rank in PfE

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Compared with the averages

Barbara Bonte, this term
59
Parliament average
85
PfE average
30

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: 7 in Sep 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 1 declared meetingSeptember 2024: 7 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 5 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 4 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 1 declared meetingJanuary 2025: 2 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 1 declared meetingApril 2025: 0 declared meetingsMay 2025: 5 declared meetingsJune 2025: 1 declared meetingJuly 2025: 3 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 3 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 1 declared meetingDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 7 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 3 declared meetingsApril 2026: 4 declared meetingsMay 2026: 6 declared meetingsJune 2026: 3 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 2 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkMarch 2025: 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkJanuary 2026: 62.5% 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: 7 declared in September 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Barbara Bonte 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

Agriculture & food (8), Chemicals & manufacturing (5), Energy (4)

Meetings by committee topic

Industry, Research and Energy (22), Agriculture and Rural Development (9), Environment, Climate and Food Safety (4), Public Health (2)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
7 Jul 2026Corteva Agriscience International SARL MemberFood and Feed Omnibus
2 Jul 2026European Federation for Hunting and ConservationMemberCAP
17 Jun 2026No Patents on Seeds! MemberLandbouwbeleid
4 Jun 2026VarioMemberInudstrie- en energiebeleid
3 Jun 2026GROUP DE CEUSTER Aula Europe Srl NevemaMemberHorticultural Peat
29 May 2026Cloudflare ; Railroad Commission of Texas; Texas Legislature - Rep. Darby - Sen. SparksMemberIndustrie- en energiebeleid
28 May 2026ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical ; Rice University’s Baker Institute; European American Chamber of Commerce - Consulate General of Ireland; StarlinkMemberIndustrie- en energiebeleid
27 May 2026NASA; Sabine Pass LNG Terminal; Cheniere Energy; ESA Liaison Office; Axiom SpaceMemberIndustrie- en energiebeleid
5 May 2026Athena ForumMemberVrouwenrechten en genderbeleid in de EU
4 May 2026Edeniq, IncMemberEthanol manufacturers
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
4 May 2026Prisoners Defenders CubaMemberHandelsrelaties Cuba
16 Apr 2026J. KavalirekMemberDigital Omnibus
9 Apr 2026FEGRA asblMemberEUDR
8 Apr 2026EuropakMemberGSP+
8 Apr 2026EuropakMemberPakistan GSP+
31 Mar 2026Freedom HouseMemberGSP+ vs treatment of human rights activists
19 Mar 2026xAIMemberAI
18 Mar 2026GROKMemberDSA
29 Jan 2026ESAMemberITRE
26 Jan 2026PoliticoMemberDigital Omnibus
14 Jan 2026Made in Europe Solar PV; European Solar Manufacturing Council MemberSolar power
14 Jan 2026Boerenbond vzw MemberAgriculture
14 Jan 2026Boerenbond vzw MemberMercosur
13 Jan 2026Gide Loyrette Nouel MemberDigital Omnibus
13 Jan 2026Global Initiative for Digital Empowerment MemberDigital Security
6 Nov 2025Alber & Geiger MemberEFuel & ESA
27 Oct 2025Delegatie Kashmir; United Kashmir People's National PartyMemberGSP+
27 Oct 2025Jalil Carlos; Eurogroup for Animals MemberMercosur
13 Oct 2025FEGRA asblMemberImpact EUDR op sojasector
9 Jul 2025Food as Medicine NetworkMemberLIVE EU

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Barbara Bonte 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.

98%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
524
final texts voted on
of 537
82%
voted with the PfE majority
on 495 final texts
91
differed from PfE
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Barbara Bonte537 final votes
39%40%18%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 495 final texts where more than half of PfE members casting a vote went one way, and Barbara Bonte 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 majority40482%
Voted differently9118%

Final texts where Barbara Bonte differed from the PfE majority

DateTextTheir votePfE majority
8 July 2026A10-0156/2026 – Ilhan Kyuchyuk – Draft Council decisionAbstainedAgainst
7 July 2026A10-0189/2026 – Adam Bielan – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
7 July 2026A10-0171/2026 – Stéphanie Yon-Courtin – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstAbstained
18 June 2026B10-0303/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
17 June 2026A10-0161/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilForAgainst
17 June 2026A10-0146/2026 – Karin Karlsbro – Motion for a resolutionAgainstFor
16 June 2026A10-0148/2026 – Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez – Motion for a resolutionAgainstAbstained
16 June 2026A10-0158/2026 – Johan Van Overtveldt – Draft Council decisionAbstainedFor
21 May 2026RC-B10-0247/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAbstained
20 May 2026A10-0107/2026 – Ilhan Kyuchyuk – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstAbstained

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

Unlinked but matchable

11 counterpart entrys in Barbara Bonte'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.