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Member of the European Parliament · Bulgaria EPP

Emil Radev

MEP for Bulgaria · European People's Party · Citizens for European Development of Bulgaria · official EP profile

As of 14 September 2026, Emil Radev (EPP, Bulgaria) has declared 23 lobby meetings this term - rank 484 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is somewhat below the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 134 of 185 within European People's Party.

50% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - close to the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 51%.

23
declared meetings
current term
23
records since 2019
full dataset
50%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
484/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
134/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Emil Radev, this term
23
Parliament average
85
EPP average
94

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 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 2 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 3 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 1 declared meetingDecember 2024: 3 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 3 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 0 declared meetingsApril 2025: 1 declared meetingMay 2025: 2 declared meetingsJune 2025: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 1 declared meetingOctober 2025: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 1 declared meetingDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 1 declared meetingFebruary 2026: 3 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 1 declared meetingApril 2026: 0 declared meetingsMay 2026: 0 declared meetingsJune 2026: 1 declared meetingJuly 2026: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkSeptember 2025: 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkNovember 2025: 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkJune 2026: 100% 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 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Emil Radev 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

Consumer & retail (4), Finance (3), Media & publishing (2)

Meetings by committee topic

Legal Affairs (8), DAFR (2), Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
24 Jun 2026MEDICINES FOR EUROPE MemberEuropean Biotech Act
18 Mar 2026Bundesnotarkammer Member28th regime
11 Feb 2026SpotifyMemberAI copyright
10 Feb 2026European Cigar Manufacturers Association MemberTobacco products directive
4 Feb 2026Bundesnotarkammer Member28th regime
20 Jan 2026Ambassador of Israel to BulgariaMemberBilateral and multilateral relations between Bulgaria, Israel, and the EU
18 Nov 2025Conseil national des administrateurs judiciaires et des mandataires judiciairesRapporteurInsolvency directive
9 Sep 2025Yosi Levi Sfari, Ambassador of Israel to BulgariaMemberBilateral and multilateral relations between Bulgaria, Israel, and the EU
29 May 2025The President; Representatives of the Ministry of Mines; Citizen Movements including youth organisationsMemberFact-finding mission to Kinshasa
28 May 2025local human rights defenders; Representatives of Équipe médicale & Avocat sans Frontiers; Meetings with representatives of the Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Communication, Ministry of Social and Humanitarian Affairs and National Solidarity,; Representatives of the Senate of DRCMemberFact-finding mission to Kinshasa
Show 13 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
8 Apr 2025CONSEIL NATIONAL DES GREFFIERS DES TRIBUNAUX DE COMMERCE; Athenora Consulting RapporteurHarmonising certain aspects of insolvency law
22 Jan 2025European FinTech Association MemberALM; Digital EUR; Priorities for the new mandate
21 Jan 2025Candidate for member of EU agency executive boardMemberAMLA
14 Jan 2025European Banking Federation RapporteurHarmonising certain aspects of insolvency law
18 Dec 2024The Walt Disney Company Benelux BVBA MemberCS3D; European Competitiveness; AI; Simplification
18 Dec 2024Candidate for member of EU agency executive boardMemberAMLA
12 Dec 2024Österreichische Notariatskammer Member28th regime in Draghi report
27 Nov 2024Mastercard Europe MemberIntroductory Meeting; AML and Digital Euro
23 Oct 2024American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium MemberCS3D; Forced Labour
22 Oct 2024European Federation of Essential Oils MemberFuture REACH revision
22 Oct 2024Candidates for AMLA chairMemberAMLA's chair
25 Sep 2024British American Tobacco Memberpresentation of the activities of British American Tobacco
17 Sep 2024METRO AG ; EuroCommerce MemberPresentation of the EuroCommerce and Harmonisation of EU legislation

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Emil Radev 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.

72%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
411
final texts voted on
of 537
91%
voted with the EPP majority
on 408 final texts
37
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Emil Radev537 final votes
70%23%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 408 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Emil Radev 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 EPP majority37191%
Voted differently379%

Final texts where Emil Radev differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
8 July 2026B10-0335/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
8 July 2026B10-0344/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
8 July 2026B10-0336/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
8 July 2026B10-0334/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
29 April 2026B10-0186/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
28 April 2026A10-0047/2026 – Evin Incir, Joanna Scheuring-Wielgus – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
12 February 2026A10-0256/2025 – Johan Danielsson – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
11 February 2026B10-0108/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
11 February 2026B10-0109/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
11 February 2026B10-0106/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst

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

Unlinked but matchable

3 counterpart entrys in Emil Radev'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.