
Member of the European Parliament · Italy S&D
Brando Benifei
MEP for Italy · Socialists & Democrats · Partito Democratico · official EP profile
As of 12 September 2026, Brando Benifei (S&D, Italy) has declared 194 lobby meetings this term - rank 85 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.
That is one of the fuller declaration sheets in the Parliament - 2.3× the average member, and 21 of 136 within Socialists & Democrats.
74% 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%.
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Compared with the averages
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: 26 in Mar 2025.
Busiest month: 26 declared in March 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.
Who Brando Benifei 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
Technology & digital (40), Chemicals & manufacturing (17), Business federations & chambers (16)
Meetings by committee topic
Internal Market and Consumer Protection (43), International Trade (41), D-US (18), Legal Affairs (8), Constitutional Affairs (7), Environment, Climate and Food Safety (1)
Most recent declared meetings
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 Jun 2026 | Anthropic, PBC ↗ | Member | Meeting with Anthropic |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Reset Tech GmbH | Member | Meeting with Reset Tech |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Meta Platforms Ireland Limited and its various subsidiaries | Member | AI governance |
| 29 May 2026 | Cloudflare ↗ | Member | Meeting on cybersecurity and AI, AI agents, and compensation for rightsholders |
| 28 May 2026 | Tesla | Member | Industrial Accelerator Act |
| 28 May 2026 | ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical ↗ | Member | Visit of ExxonMobil's methane emissions monitoring center |
| 27 May 2026 | American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union ↗ | Member | Update on EU-US trade deal |
| 27 May 2026 | United States Mission to the EU | Delegation chair | Discussion with U.S.-based global standards development organizations |
| 27 May 2026 | Cheniere Energy | Member | U.S: LNG Production and Exports to Europe |
| 12 May 2026 | Eurasia Group Ltd. | Member | EU trade policy |
Show 20 more meetings
| Date | Counterpart | Capacity | Subject |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 May 2026 | Autodesk, Inc. ↗ | Member | AI Applications in Sustainability and AI Safety |
| 5 May 2026 | US mission to the EU - staff congress delegation | Delegation chair | Meeting with Staff delegation on economic security |
| 5 May 2026 | European Environmental Bureau ↗ | Member | Meeting on Critical Raw Material in Latin America |
| 29 Apr 2026 | Animal Law Italia ETS ↗ | Member | Misure speculari sugli standard UE di benessere animale negli allevamenti, durante il trasporto e al macello |
| 28 Apr 2026 | European Aluminium AISBL ↗ | Member | CBAM scope extension |
| 27 Apr 2026 | Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America ↗ | Delegation chair | Organisation reception event on TPLF |
| 23 Apr 2026 | spiritsEUROPE ↗ | Member | EU US trade |
| 22 Apr 2026 | CONSORZIO PER LA TUTELA DEL FORMAGGIO GRANA PADANO | Member | EU trade policy |
| 20 Apr 2026 | Tools for Humanity | Member | Nuova tecnologia sviluppata: AI - distinguere esseri umani da bot, senza compromettere la privacy degli utenti. |
| 15 Apr 2026 | ADPA - European Independent Automotive Data Publishers Association ↗ | Rapporteur for opinion | Digital Omnibus provisions |
| 14 Apr 2026 | LEGACOOP AGROALIMENTARE - Associazione Nazionale delle Cooperative Agroitticoalimentari per lo Sviluppo Rurale e Costiero | Member | Tema abitazione |
| 13 Apr 2026 | DIGITALEUROPE ↗; noyb - European Center for Digital Rights ↗ | Rapporteur for opinion | Digital Omnibus provisions |
| 9 Apr 2026 | European DIGITAL SME Alliance ↗; EUROPEAN TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION ↗ | Rapporteur for opinion | Digital Omnibus provisions |
| 9 Apr 2026 | Mission of the United Kingdom to the EU | Shadow rapporteur | Steel overcapacity |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Confederazione Generale dell'Industria Italiana ↗ | Rapporteur for opinion | Digital Omnibus provisions |
| 26 Mar 2026 | Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America ↗ | Delegation chair | Third Party Litigation Funding |
| 19 Mar 2026 | European Savings and Retail Banking Group ↗; HOTREC, Hotels, Restaurants & Cafés in Europe ↗ | Rapporteur for opinion | Digital Omnibus provisions |
| 19 Mar 2026 | Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung ↗ | Member | Lunch with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung - Delegation with Venezuelan Representatives |
| 17 Mar 2026 | CEMA - European Agricultural Machinery Industry Association ↗ | Member | EU trade policy |
| 17 Mar 2026 | Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammer ↗ | Member | EU US Tariffs |
The full record is in the official EP declarations.
Roll-call voting record
Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Brando Benifei 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.
How they voted on final texts
Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.
With and against the group
On the 426 final texts where more than half of S&D members casting a vote went one way, and Brando Benifei 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.
Final texts where Brando Benifei differed from the S&D majority
| Date | Text | Their vote | S&D majority |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 December 2025 | A10-0230/2025 – Hana Jalloul Muro – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Abstained | For |
| 12 March 2025 | RC-B10-0146/2025/REV1 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) | Abstained | For |
Unlinked but matchable
24 counterpart entrys in Brando Benifei's declarations appear to match an EU Transparency Register entry without being linked in the declaration:
- “Federazione italiana industriali produttori esportatori ed importatori di vini, acquaviti, liquori, sciroppi, aceti ed affini” - likely Federazione italiana industriali produttori esportatori ed importatori di vini, acquaviti, liquori, sciroppi, aceti ed affini (2 counterpart entrys)
- “ASSTEL” - likely Assotelecomunicazioni (1 counterpart entry)
- “Amnesty International Limited” - likely Amnesty International Limited (1 counterpart entry)
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.