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Member of the European Parliament · France PfE

Christophe Bay

MEP for France · Patriots for Europe · Rassemblement national · official EP profile

Joined 23 months agoINTA

As of 12 September 2026, Christophe Bay (PfE, France) has declared 3 lobby meetings this term - rank 623 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

Christophe Bay took the seat on 27 September 2024, so the term-wide average of 85 meetings per MEP and the ranks below cover a longer period than this record does; they are not a like-for-like comparison.

33% 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%.

3
declared meetings
current term
3
records since 2019
full dataset
33%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
623/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
71/85
rank in PfE

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Compared with the averages

Christophe Bay, this term
3
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: 3 in Oct 2025.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 0 declared meetingsApril 2025: 0 declared meetingsMay 2025: 0 declared meetingsJune 2025: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 3 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 0 declared meetingsApril 2026: 0 declared meetingsMay 2026: 0 declared meetingsJune 2026: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkOctober 2025: 33.3% 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: 3 declared in October 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Christophe Bay meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
GROUPE SEB1
Ambassadeur d'Indonésie auprès de l'Union européenne1
Ambassadeur du Royaume du Maroc auprès de l'UE et de l'OTAN1

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

Consumer & retail (1)

Meetings by committee topic

International Trade (3)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
8 Oct 2025Ambassadeur d'Indonésie auprès de l'Union européenneMemberRéunion avec l'ambassadeur d'Indonésie
7 Oct 2025Ambassadeur du Royaume du Maroc auprès de l'UE et de l'OTANMemberRéunion avec l'Ambassadeur du Maroc
7 Oct 2025GROUPE SEB MemberCommerce international

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,448 roll-call votes while Christophe Bay held the seat, 528 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.

94%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,448 held while seated
492
final texts voted on
of 528
96%
voted with the PfE majority
on 464 final texts
18
differed from PfE
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 528 final votes held while seated.

Christophe Bay528 final votes
43%38%12%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 464 final texts where more than half of PfE members casting a vote went one way, and Christophe Bay 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 majority44696%
Voted differently184%

Final texts where Christophe Bay differed from the PfE majority

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