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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%.

194
declared meetings
current term
360
records since 2019
full dataset
74%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
85/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
21/136
rank in S&D

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Compared with the averages

Brando Benifei, this term
194
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: 26 in Mar 2025.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 14 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 12 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 12 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 7 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 9 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 26 declared meetingsApril 2025: 7 declared meetingsMay 2025: 3 declared meetingsJune 2025: 8 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 9 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 10 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 7 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 7 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 13 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 6 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 4 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 12 declared meetingsApril 2026: 11 declared meetingsMay 2026: 10 declared meetingsJune 2026: 3 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 0 declared meetingsAugust 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: 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

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
25 Jun 2026Anthropic, PBC MemberMeeting with Anthropic
24 Jun 2026Reset Tech GmbHMemberMeeting with Reset Tech
24 Jun 2026Meta Platforms Ireland Limited and its various subsidiariesMemberAI governance
29 May 2026Cloudflare MemberMeeting on cybersecurity and AI, AI agents, and compensation for rightsholders
28 May 2026TeslaMemberIndustrial Accelerator Act
28 May 2026ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical MemberVisit of ExxonMobil's methane emissions monitoring center
27 May 2026American Chamber of Commerce to the European Union MemberUpdate on EU-US trade deal
27 May 2026United States Mission to the EUDelegation chairDiscussion with U.S.-based global standards development organizations
27 May 2026Cheniere EnergyMemberU.S: LNG Production and Exports to Europe
12 May 2026Eurasia Group Ltd.MemberEU trade policy
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
8 May 2026Autodesk, Inc. MemberAI Applications in Sustainability and AI Safety
5 May 2026US mission to the EU - staff congress delegationDelegation chairMeeting with Staff delegation on economic security
5 May 2026European Environmental Bureau MemberMeeting on Critical Raw Material in Latin America
29 Apr 2026Animal Law Italia ETS MemberMisure speculari sugli standard UE di benessere animale negli allevamenti, durante il trasporto e al macello
28 Apr 2026European Aluminium AISBL MemberCBAM scope extension
27 Apr 2026Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America Delegation chairOrganisation reception event on TPLF
23 Apr 2026spiritsEUROPE MemberEU US trade
22 Apr 2026CONSORZIO PER LA TUTELA DEL FORMAGGIO GRANA PADANOMemberEU trade policy
20 Apr 2026Tools for HumanityMemberNuova tecnologia sviluppata: AI - distinguere esseri umani da bot, senza compromettere la privacy degli utenti.
15 Apr 2026ADPA - European Independent Automotive Data Publishers Association Rapporteur for opinionDigital Omnibus provisions
14 Apr 2026LEGACOOP AGROALIMENTARE - Associazione Nazionale delle Cooperative Agroitticoalimentari per lo Sviluppo Rurale e CostieroMemberTema abitazione
13 Apr 2026DIGITALEUROPE ; noyb - European Center for Digital Rights Rapporteur for opinionDigital Omnibus provisions
9 Apr 2026European DIGITAL SME Alliance ; EUROPEAN TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION Rapporteur for opinionDigital Omnibus provisions
9 Apr 2026Mission of the United Kingdom to the EUShadow rapporteurSteel overcapacity
26 Mar 2026Confederazione Generale dell'Industria Italiana Rapporteur for opinionDigital Omnibus provisions
26 Mar 2026Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America Delegation chairThird Party Litigation Funding
19 Mar 2026European Savings and Retail Banking Group ; HOTREC, Hotels, Restaurants & Cafés in Europe Rapporteur for opinionDigital Omnibus provisions
19 Mar 2026Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung MemberLunch with Konrad Adenauer Stiftung - Delegation with Venezuelan Representatives
17 Mar 2026CEMA - European Agricultural Machinery Industry Association MemberEU trade policy
17 Mar 2026Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammer MemberEU 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.

77%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
428
final texts voted on
of 537
100%
voted with the S&D majority
on 426 final texts
2
differed from S&D
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Brando Benifei537 final votes
72%7%20%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

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.

Voted with the S&D majority424100%
Voted differently20%

Final texts where Brando Benifei differed from the S&D majority

DateTextTheir voteS&D majority
16 December 2025A10-0230/2025 – Hana Jalloul Muro – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
12 March 2025RC-B10-0146/2025/REV1 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor

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:

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.