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Member of the European Parliament · Germany Greens/EFA

Erik Marquardt

MEP for Germany · Greens/EFA · Bündnis 90/Die Grünen · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Erik Marquardt (Greens/EFA, Germany) has declared 106 lobby meetings this term - rank 212 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That sits close to the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 30 of 53 within Greens/EFA.

79% 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%.

106
declared meetings
current term
179
records since 2019
full dataset
79%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
212/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
30/53
rank in Greens/EFA

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Compared with the averages

Erik Marquardt, this term
106
Parliament average
85
Greens/EFA average
128

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: 9 in Sep 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 2 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 9 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 8 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 7 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 2 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 3 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 8 declared meetingsApril 2025: 6 declared meetingsMay 2025: 4 declared meetingsJune 2025: 7 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 3 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 4 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 4 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 1 declared meetingFebruary 2026: 3 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 9 declared meetingsApril 2026: 4 declared meetingsMay 2026: 2 declared meetingsJune 2026: 7 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 3 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: 9 declared in September 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Erik Marquardt 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

Human rights & humanitarian (39), Media & publishing (11), Think tanks & research (10)

Meetings by committee topic

Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (17), Development (16), Culture and Education (8), Budgetary Control (6), D-CN (4), D-TR (2)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
8 Jul 2026Front Line Defenders MemberHuman Rights Defenders
7 Jul 2026WWF Deutschland MemberGeneral Exchange
2 Jul 2026Frontex DG HOMEMemberLaunch Event for Study on the Reform of the Mandate of Frontex
25 Jun 2026idealo internet GmbHMemberAustausch zur AVMD-Richtlinie
11 Jun 2026Human Rights Watch ; European Council on Refugees and Exiles ; Amnesty International Limited MemberRisks of deportations to Afghanistan
10 Jun 2026WWF European Policy Programme ; Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) ; Stichting BirdLife Europe ; European Environmental Bureau ; Climate Action Network Europe ; Civil Society Europe MemberCivil Society in policymaking
10 Jun 2026ACTION CONTRE LA FAIM Shadow rapporteur for opiniondiscussion on performance regulation
9 Jun 2026European Council on Refugees and Exiles MemberImplementation of the Pact on Asylum and Migration
4 Jun 2026European Council on Refugees and Exiles MemberEuropean Asylum Policy
4 Jun 2026Aurubis AG MemberWerksführung und Gespräch
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
19 May 2026Taipei Representative Office in the EU and BelgiumMemberExchange on bilateral relations between the EU and Taiwan
4 May 2026Deutscher Anwaltverein (German Bar Association) MemberReturn Regulation
21 Apr 2026International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies MemberAsylum Reception
18 Apr 2026EuropolMemberEuropol
16 Apr 2026EurojustMemberEurojust
1 Apr 2026European Council on Refugees and Exiles Shadow rapporteurAsylum in MFF and Pact Implementation
26 Mar 2026Civil Society Forum e.V.MemberHuman Rights Defenders and Civil Society
25 Mar 2026FrontexMemberFrontex in Brussels: Futureproofing the Role of European Integrated Border Management intelligence
24 Mar 2026European University Institute MemberReturns to Syria
19 Mar 202611.11.11, Koepel van Internationale Solidariteit MemberPushbacks and Serious Incident Reports
19 Mar 2026ActionAid Italia International ETS ; ActionAid Shadow rapporteurdevelopment cooperation and migration funding
18 Mar 2026Civil Society Europe MemberCivil Society
17 Mar 2026Kooperation Global e.V.Memberdevelopment cooperation effectiveness
17 Mar 2026Danish Refugee Council Brussels Memberhumanitarian situation Syria
2 Mar 2026EUROCINEMA, Association de producteurs de cinéma et de télévision MemberGeneral exchange on AgoraEU
26 Feb 2026ACTION CONTRE LA FAIM MemberDigital Briefing on Afghanistan
25 Feb 2026Save the Children Europe ; Access Now Europe MemberDigital surveillance and digital rights in migration
25 Feb 2026IPAC GLOBALMemberexchange on future IPAC initiatives
8 Jan 2026Spitzenorganisation der Filmwirtschaft e.V.MemberGeneral exchange
12 Dec 2025European Fact-Checking Standards Network MemberGeneral exchange; AgoraEU

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Erik Marquardt 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.

95%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
497
final texts voted on
of 537
98%
voted with the Greens/EFA majority
on 494 final texts
12
differed from Greens/EFA
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Erik Marquardt537 final votes
76%12%7%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 494 final texts where more than half of Greens/EFA members casting a vote went one way, and Erik Marquardt 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 Greens/EFA majority48298%
Voted differently122%

Final texts where Erik Marquardt differed from the Greens/EFA majority

DateTextTheir voteGreens/EFA majority
20 May 2026A10-0103/2026 – Andrey Kovatchev – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAbstained
26 March 2026A10-0069/2026 – Bernd Lange – Commission proposalForAgainst
26 March 2026A10-0040/2026 – Birgit Sippel – Commission proposalAbstainedAgainst
10 March 2026A10-0025/2026 – Borja Giménez Larraz – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedAgainst
12 February 2026RC-B10-0120/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAbstained
11 February 2026B10-0108/2026 – Motion for a resolutionAbstainedFor
11 February 2026B10-0109/2026 – Motion for a resolutionAbstainedFor
11 February 2026B10-0106/2026 – Motion for a resolutionAbstainedFor
11 February 2026B10-0107/2026 – Motion for a resolutionAbstainedFor
25 November 2025A10-0225/2025 – Arba Kokalari – Motion for a resolutionAbstainedAgainst

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

Unlinked but matchable

13 counterpart entrys in Erik Marquardt'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.