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Gheorghe Cârciu, official European Parliament portrait

Member of the European Parliament · Romania S&D

Gheorghe Cârciu

MEP for Romania · Socialists & Democrats · Partidul Social Democrat · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Gheorghe Cârciu (S&D, Romania) has declared 20 lobby meetings this term - rank 501 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 119 of 136 within Socialists & Democrats.

48% 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%.

20
declared meetings
current term
20
records since 2019
full dataset
48%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
501/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
119/136
rank in S&D

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Compared with the averages

Gheorghe Cârciu, this term
20
Parliament average
85
S&D average
113

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: 5 in Jun 2026.

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: 2 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 1 declared meetingMarch 2025: 3 declared meetingsApril 2025: 0 declared meetingsMay 2025: 0 declared meetingsJune 2025: 1 declared meetingJuly 2025: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 1 declared meetingNovember 2025: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 0 declared meetingsApril 2026: 3 declared meetingsMay 2026: 4 declared meetingsJune 2026: 5 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJune 2025: 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkOctober 2025: 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: 5 declared in June 2026. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Gheorghe Cârciu 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

Agriculture & food (7), Consumer & retail (2), Environment & climate (1)

Meetings by committee topic

Agriculture and Rural Development (16)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
15 Jun 2026United Kingdom Mission to the European UnionShadow rapporteurAnimal, Plant and Public Health
10 Jun 2026Asociatia Industriei de Protectia Plantelor din Romania Shadow rapporteurFood and Feed Simplification Package
9 Jun 2026Cereals Canada Pulse Canada Grain Council Canada CropLife CanadaShadow rapporteurFood and Feed Simplification Package
3 Jun 2026GROUP DE CEUSTERShadow rapporteurFood and Feed Simplification Package
2 Jun 2026European Crop Care Association ; Alianța pentru Agricultură și CooperareShadow rapporteurFood and Feed Simplification Package
20 May 2026CropLife EuropeShadow rapporteurOmnibus Food and Feed Package
5 May 2026COPA COGECAShadow rapporteurEvent Food & Feed Omnibus
5 May 2026The EU Vegetable Oil and Proteinmeal Industry Shadow rapporteurFood & Feed Safety Omnibus Proposal
4 May 2026Pan-EuropeShadow rapporteurFood and Feed
22 Apr 2026Générations Futures Shadow rapporteurOmnibus Food and Feed Package
Show 10 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
21 Apr 2026Rud Pedersen Public Affairs Brussels Shadow rapporteurBiocontrol & low-risk provisions in the Food and Feed Safety Omnibus package
20 Apr 2026IBMAShadow rapporteurFood and Feed
21 Oct 2025Copa CogecaMemberExchange of views on the Common Agricultural Policy
18 Jun 2025DJI Europe B.V. MemberDrones in the field of agriculture
26 Mar 2025Nestlé S.A. Memberregenerative agriculture sourcing
12 Mar 2025AIM - European Brands Association Memberbuilding a fairer and more transparent trading environment within Europe’s agro-food supply chain, particularly in addressing persistent unfair trading practices from retailers
12 Mar 2025Representatives of European Federation of Foie GrasMemberEuropean foie gras producers
19 Feb 2025Representative of Coca Cola CompanyMemberEuropean Water Resilience Strategy
29 Jan 2025Euroseeds Shadow rapporteurGranting equivalence with EU requirements to Moldova and Ukraine as regards field inspections and production of seeds
24 Jan 2025European Pet Organization MemberProposal for new rules on the welfare and traceability of dogs and cats

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Gheorghe Cârciu 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
326
final texts voted on
of 537
94%
voted with the S&D majority
on 324 final texts
20
differed from S&D
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Gheorghe Cârciu537 final votes
55%39%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 324 final texts where more than half of S&D members casting a vote went one way, and Gheorghe Cârciu 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 S&D majority30494%
Voted differently206%

Final texts where Gheorghe Cârciu differed from the S&D majority

DateTextTheir voteS&D majority
8 July 2026B10-0335/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
8 July 2026B10-0337/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
8 July 2026B10-0336/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
8 July 2026B10-0334/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
17 June 2026A10-0161/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilForAgainst
16 June 2026A10-0147/2026 – Lukas Mandl – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
21 January 2026B10-0061/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
21 January 2026B10-0060/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
27 November 2025A10-0224/2025 – Marieke Ehlers – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
26 November 2025B10-0506/2025 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor

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

Unlinked but matchable

3 counterpart entrys in Gheorghe Cârciu'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.