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Eszter Lakos, official European Parliament portrait

Member of the European Parliament · Hungary EPP

Eszter Lakos

MEP for Hungary · European People's Party · Tisztelet és Szabadság Párt · official EP profile

As of 14 September 2026, Eszter Lakos (EPP, Hungary) has declared 118 lobby meetings this term - rank 179 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That sits close to the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 50 of 185 within European People's Party.

75% 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%.

118
declared meetings
current term
118
records since 2019
full dataset
75%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
179/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
50/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Eszter Lakos, this term
118
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: 1 declared meeting in Sep 2026, 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link. Peak: 21 in Oct 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 7 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 21 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 11 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 7 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 10 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 7 declared meetingsApril 2025: 1 declared meetingMay 2025: 1 declared meetingJune 2025: 1 declared meetingJuly 2025: 4 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 5 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 6 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 2 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 3 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 5 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 6 declared meetingsApril 2026: 1 declared meetingMay 2026: 2 declared meetingsJune 2026: 9 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 2 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 2 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 1 declared meetingnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkSeptember 2025: 60% 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: 21 declared in October 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Eszter Lakos 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

Energy (20), Think tanks & research (17), Health & pharma (14)

Meetings by committee topic

Industry, Research and Energy (89), Security and Defence (5)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
10 Sep 2026CLEPA - European Association of Automotive SuppliersMemberIndustrial Accelerator Act
28 Aug 2026ValeoMemberIndustrial Accelerator Act
6 Aug 2026Association des Constructeurs Européens d'Automobiles MemberIndustrial Accelerator Act
15 Jul 2026MOL Hungarian Oil and Gas Company MemberEU energy, industrial, and climate policies
8 Jul 2026UK Mission to the EUShadow rapporteurHorizon Europe
30 Jun 2026Transport and Environment (European Federation for Transport and Environment) MemberIndustrial Accelerator Act
25 Jun 2026Consortium of European Social Science Data Archives ERICShadow rapporteurHorizon Europe
25 Jun 2026Contemporary Amperex Technology HungaryMemberIndustrial Accelerator Act
24 Jun 2026Vereniging Universiteiten van NederlandShadow rapporteurHorizon Europe
23 Jun 2026Pomorskie Regional EU OfficeShadow rapporteurHorizon Europe
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
19 Jun 2026NestaShadow rapporteurHorizon Europe
17 Jun 2026Wizz Air Group MemberAviation sector
12 Jun 2026Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V. MemberIndustrial Accelerator Act
8 Jun 2026Corvinus University of BudapestShadow rapporteurHorizon Europe
13 May 2026Robert Bosch GmbH MemberIndustrial Accelerator Act
5 May 2026European Regions Research and Innovation Network Shadow rapporteurHorizon Europe
21 Apr 2026Eurelectric aisbl MemberRevision of the TEN-E regulation
26 Mar 2026Quebec Ministry of Higher EducationMemberEU research & innovation policy
19 Mar 2026European Association of Research and Technology Organisations Shadow rapporteurEU research & innovation policy
11 Mar 2026VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd ; RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB ; Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research TNO Shadow rapporteurHorizon Europe
5 Mar 2026SINTEF AS Shadow rapporteurEU research & innovation policy
3 Mar 2026Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V. Shadow rapporteurEU research & innovation policy
3 Mar 2026Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research Shadow rapporteur for opinionExchange of view on security-linked R&I
26 Feb 2026Schwarz Unternehmenskommunikation International GmbH MemberEU energy policy
25 Feb 2026Embassy of Canada to HungaryMemberEU-Canada relations
23 Feb 2026National Society of Conservationists -Friends of the Earth Hungary (Magyar Termeszetvedok Szovetsege) MemberEU climate & energy policy
5 Feb 2026University of Lorraine; ASD-Eurospace Shadow rapporteur for opinionExchange of view on security-linked R&I
2 Feb 2026Airbus MemberDefence industrial policies
29 Jan 2026WindEurope MemberEnergy policy, innovation
29 Jan 2026Norwegian University of Science and Technology Shadow rapporteur for opinionExchange of view on security-linked R&I

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Eszter Lakos 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.

59%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
350
final texts voted on
of 537
83%
voted with the EPP majority
on 349 final texts
61
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Eszter Lakos537 final votes
55%35%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 349 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Eszter Lakos 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 majority28883%
Voted differently6117%

Final texts where Eszter Lakos differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
8 July 2026B10-0335/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
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
7 July 2026A10-0169/2026 – Matthias Ecke – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
7 July 2026A10-0187/2026 – Lukas Mandl, Pierfrancesco Maran – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
17 June 2026A10-0161/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilAbstainedFor
29 April 2026A10-0051/2026 – Pasquale Tridico – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
28 April 2026A10-0094/2026 – Pierfrancesco Maran – Commission proposalAbstainedFor
28 April 2026A10-0086/2026 – Dick Erixon – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
11 February 2026C10-0006/2026 – Commission proposalAgainstFor

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

Unlinked but matchable

14 counterpart entrys in Eszter Lakos'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.