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Member of the European Parliament · Germany S&D

Birgit Sippel

MEP for Germany · Socialists & Democrats · Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Birgit Sippel (S&D, Germany) has declared 475 lobby meetings this term - rank 6 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is one of the most extensive declaration records in the entire Parliament - 5.6× the average member, and 3 of 136 within Socialists & Democrats.

44% 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%.

475
declared meetings
current term
1,081
records since 2019
full dataset
44%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
6/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
3/136
rank in S&D

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Compared with the averages

Birgit Sippel, this term
475
Parliament average
85
S&D average
113

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: 47 in Sep 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 2 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 7 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 47 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 38 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 21 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 16 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 26 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 26 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 27 declared meetingsApril 2025: 16 declared meetingsMay 2025: 22 declared meetingsJune 2025: 20 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 10 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 1 declared meetingSeptember 2025: 18 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 21 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 24 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 10 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 18 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 22 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 17 declared meetingsApril 2026: 19 declared meetingsMay 2026: 15 declared meetingsJune 2026: 31 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 1 declared meetingAugust 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: 47 declared in September 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Birgit Sippel meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
European Digital Rights17
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung15
Permanent Representation of Germany to the EU14
DG Connect13
DG JUST11

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 (97), Think tanks & research (39), Technology & digital (31)

Meetings by committee topic

Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (313)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
3 Jul 2026Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien MemberArt. 88b Digital Omnibus
26 Jun 2026Südwestfalen AgenturMemberHow to translate research into practical gain for the region of South Westphalia
25 Jun 2026Frontex Fundamental Rights Officer UN Human Rights OfficeMemberCommon European Approach to Search and Rescue in the Mediterranean
25 Jun 2026Superrr Lab SL gGmbH MemberFuture digital consumer protection
25 Jun 2026International Centre for Migration Policy Development ; Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e.V. MemberMigration Diplomacy After the EU’s Asylum Reform
24 Jun 2026Foundation for European Progressive StudiesMemberDocumentary screening "From compassion to crime" on humanitarian aid to refugees
24 Jun 2026European Policy Centre MemberRoundtable “From Pact Implementation to New Strategic Priorities: What Way Forward for EU Migration Policy”
24 Jun 2026Cabinet Commissioner McGrathMemberNRPP proposal (2025/0240(COD) & AgoraEU (2025/0550(COD)); general RoL developments)
23 Jun 2026Deutscher Bundesjugendring MemberResilient democracies
23 Jun 2026Foundation for European Progressive Studies RES PUBLICA FOUNDATIONMemberLecture “How progressives should think about migration?”
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DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
23 Jun 2026Shopify Inc. MemberDigital Omnibus
23 Jun 2026European Digital RightsMemberConference "Fight for Us, not for Them”: A public interest vision for EU tech policy
23 Jun 2026Polskie Towarzystwo Prawa Antydyskryminacyjnego (Polish Society of Anti-discrimination Law)MemberAnti-discrimination legislation
22 Jun 2026Representation of the German Bundesland Northrhine-Westphalia to the EUMemberSummer reception
22 Jun 2026Bundesnotarkammer MemberEU Inc./28th regime
22 Jun 2026European Data Protection SupervisorMemberData retention
12 Jun 2026Internet Watch Foundation RapporteurChild Sexual Abuse and Interim-Regulation
10 Jun 2026Permanent German Representation to the EUMemberCSA Directive and Firearms-Directive
10 Jun 2026CYPRUS PRESIDENCY OF THE COUNCIL OF THE EURapporteurInformal Ministerial Conference on the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum
9 Jun 2026SAP ; Bitkom e.V. MemberCloud and AI Dev Act 2026/0138 (COD)
8 Jun 2026DG JUSTMemberDigital Omnibus
5 Jun 2026Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Evangelische Akademie Loccum Der Paritätische Bundesverband Netzwerk von Migrant*innenorganisationenMemberPodiumsdiskussion: „Ist ein Perspektivwechsel möglich und wie könnte eine andere Asylpolitikaussehen?“
4 Jun 2026Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung Memberrule of law and conditionality
4 Jun 2026European Council on Refugees and Exiles MemberECRE Annual General Conference
4 Jun 2026Foundation for European Progressive StudiesMemberDigital Policy in LIBE
3 Jun 2026Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung MemberRoundtable "The current political situation in the V4 countries"
3 Jun 2026Bremer Senatorin für Arbeit, Soziales, Jugend und Integration und RessortdelegationMemberMigrationspolitik und Schutz von Minderheiten sowie Kinder- und Jugendschutz
3 Jun 2026HateAid gGmbH MemberSafety by Design – Wege zu sichereren sozialen Netzwerken
3 Jun 2026NRW-LandesvertretungMemberCSA-Regulation
2 Jun 2026Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien MemberArt. 88b Digital Omnibus

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Birgit Sippel 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.

77%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
404
final texts voted on
of 537
97%
voted with the S&D majority
on 402 final texts
14
differed from S&D
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Birgit Sippel537 final votes
67%8%25%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 402 final texts where more than half of S&D members casting a vote went one way, and Birgit Sippel 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 S&D majority38897%
Voted differently143%

Final texts where Birgit Sippel differed from the S&D majority

DateTextTheir voteS&D majority
20 May 2026A10-0120/2026 – Stéphanie Yon-Courtin – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
26 March 2026A10-0073/2026 – Arba Kokalari, Michael McNamara – Commission proposalAbstainedFor
26 March 2026A10-0069/2026 – Bernd Lange – Commission proposalAbstainedFor
21 January 2026A10-0265/2025 – Thijs Reuten – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
13 November 2025B10-0479/2025 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
13 November 2025A10-0188/2025 – Kris Van Dijck – Commission proposalAgainstFor
9 October 2025RC-B10-0415/2025 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
8 October 2025A10-0164/2025 – André Rodrigues – Commission proposalAgainstFor
10 September 2025A10-0143/2025 - Carmen Crespo Díaz - Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte)AgainstFor
9 September 2025A10-0147/2025 - Piotr Müller - Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte)AgainstAbstained

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

Unlinked but matchable

53 counterpart entrys in Birgit Sippel'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.