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Beata Szydło, official European Parliament portrait

Member of the European Parliament · Poland ECR

Beata Szydło

MEP for Poland · European Conservatives & Reformists · Prawo i Sprawiedliwość · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Beata Szydło (ECR, Poland) has declared 14 lobby meetings this term - rank 536 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is one of the lighter declaration records in the Parliament - against an average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 51 of 81 within European Conservatives & Reformists.

14% 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%.

14
declared meetings
current term
14
records since 2019
full dataset
14%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
536/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
51/81
rank in ECR

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Compared with the averages

Beata Szydło, this term
14
Parliament average
85
ECR average
56

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: 4 in Oct 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 1 declared meetingAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 4 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 1 declared meetingJanuary 2025: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 1 declared meetingMarch 2025: 0 declared meetingsApril 2025: 0 declared meetingsMay 2025: 1 declared meetingJune 2025: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 1 declared meetingNovember 2025: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 0 declared meetingsApril 2026: 1 declared meetingMay 2026: 0 declared meetingsJune 2026: 1 declared meetingJuly 2026: 1 declared meetingAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJuly 2024: 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkFebruary 2025: 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkMay 2025: 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkOctober 2025: 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkApril 2026: 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: 4 declared in October 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Beata Szydło meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
Taipei Representative Office in the EU and Belgium3
EPPA SA1
Bureau du Tibet1
Chinese Mission to the EU1
Embassy of Israel Warsaw1

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 (1), Public affairs & consultancy (1)

Meetings by committee topic

DASE (2), Industry, Research and Energy (2), Transport and Tourism (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
14 Jul 2026Taipei Representative Office in the EU and BelgiumMemberBriefing on EU-Taiwan political and economic relations
25 Jun 2026Mission of the People's Republic of China to the European UnionMemberEU-China relations
29 Apr 2026Embassy of Israel WarsawMemberHorizon Europe
21 Oct 2025Taipei Representative Office in the European Union and BelgiumMemberEU-Taiwan relations
8 May 2025Taipei Representative Office in the EU and BelgiumMemberSupporting Taiwan's participation in the WHO
13 Feb 2025H.E. Mr. BALAZS HANKOMemberExclusion of Hungarian researchers from Horizon Europe Program
5 Dec 2024National Assembly of VietnamMemberEU-Vietnam Relations
26 Nov 2024Bureau du Tibet MemberSituation in Tibet
12 Nov 2024EPPA SA MemberTest and measurement role in critical EU industries
17 Oct 2024European Taiwan Friendship GroupMemberEU-Taiwan relations
Show 4 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
15 Oct 2024ZRZESZENIE MIĘDZYNARODOWYCH PRZEWOŹNIKÓW DROGOWYCH W POLSCEMemberThe challenges for the international road transport sector
9 Oct 2024Taipei Representative Office in the EU and BelgiumMemberEU-Taiwan relations
9 Oct 2024Embassy of the Republic of IndonesiaMemberEU-Indonesia relations
17 Jul 2024Chinese Mission to the EUMemberEU-China relations

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Beata Szydło 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.

93%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
509
final texts voted on
of 537
89%
voted with the ECR majority
on 487 final texts
52
differed from ECR
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Beata Szydło537 final votes
66%17%12%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 487 final texts where more than half of ECR members casting a vote went one way, and Beata Szydło 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 ECR majority43589%
Voted differently5211%

Final texts where Beata Szydło differed from the ECR majority

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