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Claudiu-Richard Târziu, official European Parliament portrait

Member of the European Parliament · Romania ECR

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

MEP for Romania · European Conservatives & Reformists · Partidul Acțiunea Conservatoare · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Claudiu-Richard Târziu (ECR, Romania) has declared 3 lobby meetings this term - rank 623 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 66 of 81 within European Conservatives & Reformists.

17% 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
17%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
623/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
66/81
rank in ECR

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Compared with the averages

Claudiu-Richard Târziu, this term
3
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: 1 in Jan 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: 1 declared meetingFebruary 2025: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 1 declared meetingApril 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: 0 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: 1 declared meetingJune 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 linkJanuary 2025: 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkMarch 2025: 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkMay 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: 1 declared in January 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Claudiu-Richard Târziu meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
EUROMETAUX1
AMBASSADOR OF EGYPT AHMED ABU ZEID1
HE Ambassador Faruk Kaymakci1
Mr. Efe Murat1
Mr. Ozan Gulhan1

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

Chemicals & manufacturing (1)

Meetings by committee topic

Foreign Affairs (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
4 May 2026AMBASSADOR OF EGYPT AHMED ABU ZEIDShadow rapporteurTransnational repression
5 Mar 2025Nuno Wahnon Martins; Mr. Efe Murat; Mr. Ozan Gulhan; HE Ambassador Faruk KaymakciMemberTürkiye's Banking Sector and the EU: Challenges and Opportunities
21 Jan 2025EUROMETAUX MemberMetals Day bilateral meeting

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Claudiu-Richard Târziu 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.

94%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
517
final texts voted on
of 537
91%
voted with the ECR majority
on 493 final texts
42
differed from ECR
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Claudiu-Richard Târziu537 final votes
68%15%14%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 493 final texts where more than half of ECR members casting a vote went one way, and Claudiu-Richard Târziu 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 majority45191%
Voted differently429%

Final texts where Claudiu-Richard Târziu differed from the ECR majority

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