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Hélder Sousa Silva, official European Parliament portrait

Member of the European Parliament · Portugal EPP

Hélder Sousa Silva

MEP for Portugal · European People's Party · Partido Social Democrata · official EP profile

As of 14 September 2026, Hélder Sousa Silva (EPP, Portugal) has declared 69 lobby meetings this term - rank 315 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is somewhat below the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 83 of 185 within European People's Party.

33% 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%.

69
declared meetings
current term
69
records since 2019
full dataset
33%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
315/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
83/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Hélder Sousa Silva, this term
69
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: 2 declared meetings in Sep 2026, 50% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link. Peak: 8 in Mar 2025.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 4 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 5 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 3 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 3 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 4 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 4 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 8 declared meetingsApril 2025: 1 declared meetingMay 2025: 2 declared meetingsJune 2025: 4 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 1 declared meetingAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 4 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 3 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 1 declared meetingJanuary 2026: 2 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 6 declared meetingsApril 2026: 1 declared meetingMay 2026: 0 declared meetingsJune 2026: 7 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 2 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 2 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkSeptember 2026: 50% 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: 8 declared in March 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Hélder Sousa Silva meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
NOS2
Sony Music Entertainment2
Rolls-Royce1
CIP - Confederação Empresarial de Portugal1
School of International Futures Ltd1

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

Media & publishing (5), Finance (4), Technology & digital (4)

Meetings by committee topic

Culture and Education (33), Budgets (16), Security and Defence (11), D-BR (9), DCAM (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
9 Sep 2026Eupportunity – European Affairs ConsultancyMemberEmissions Trading System (EU ETS) Apresentar a visão da empresa sobre este assunto
2 Sep 2026EU Strategy MemberApresentação do estudo The TDM Equation, a new economic study
14 Jul 2026BID- Banco interamericano de DesenvolvimentoDelegation chairApresentação de atividades, acordo UE Mercosul e MMF
13 Jul 2026Euronext Rapporteur for opinionbudgetary assessment on the Amending Regulations
30 Jun 2026Digital Currencies Governance Group Limited Rapporteur for opinionthe EU Market Integration Package
22 Jun 2026Fastweb SpARapporteur for opinionRevisão mandato ENISA e CSA II
11 Jun 2026EMEE (European Music Exporters Exchange)Shadow rapporteurAgoraEU
11 Jun 2026Culture NextMemberCapitais Europeias da Cultura - preparação da próxima Culture Next Summit
9 Jun 2026MMG BrasilDelegation chairReforço dos laços comerciais e de investimento entre o Brasil e a União Europeia
8 Jun 2026Sony Music Entertainment RapporteurInteligência Artificial nos Setores Culturais e Criativos
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
2 Jun 2026DASSAULT AVIATION MemberEuropean strategic autonomy in combat aviation and sovereign defence industrial instruments
30 Apr 2026The Walt Disney Company Benelux BVBA MemberOnline Piracy; Audiovisual Media Services Directive – AVMSD; Impact of AI in Cultural and Creative sectors.
20 Mar 2026SABMemberabout EU Space Security
20 Mar 2026EBU-UER (European Broadcasting Union) Memberan event organisation about Auto Radios and the Digital Network Act
19 Mar 2026LIDE BélgicaDelegation chairApresentação da LIDE e Plano de actividades
18 Mar 2026FIPRA International SRLMemberThe European Union Civil Protection Mechanism
17 Mar 2026NOS MemberRevisão da AVMSD e Cybersecurity Act 2
13 Mar 2026GEOSATMemberabout EU Space programmes, next MFF
29 Jan 2026European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT)MemberExchange views on the EIT's future as an independent EU agency un light of the ongoing FP10 discussions
27 Jan 2026Vestas Wind Systems A/S MemberDiscuss the vulnerabilities of the EU energy infrastructure and the need to mitigate against current and future security risks.
8 Dec 2025International Union of CinemaMemberAgoraEU and Online Piracy
20 Nov 2025European Festivals Association MemberPresentation
19 Nov 2025International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI)MemberEU policies impacting in the music sector, in particular in the field of Artificial Intelligence
15 Oct 2025ONE Youth AmbassadorsMemberDiscuss policy recommendations on the next MFF and Global Europe Instrument
15 Oct 2025Euranet PlusMemberApresentação da network de estações de rádio públicas e privadas de vários países da UE
14 Oct 2025Fórum Académico para a Informação e Representação Externa (FAIRE) e European Students' Union (ESU)MemberApresentação da FAIRE e da ESU; Alianças de Universidades Europeias.
30 Sep 2025SONAE MemberDiscutir a proposta da Comissão Europeia relativa aos novos recursos próprios, em particular o ‘Corporate Resource for Europe’ (CORE).
29 Sep 2025Emergent MemberDiscussion around the EU preparedness agenda, the next MFF, and EU defence against CBRN threats
15 Sep 2025EUROPEAN PRODUCERS CLUBMemberNovo Programa AgoraEU
3 Sep 2025Tabaqueira IIMemberFiscalidade do tabaco e novos recursos próprios

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Hélder Sousa Silva 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.

84%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
447
final texts voted on
of 537
99%
voted with the EPP majority
on 443 final texts
3
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Hélder Sousa Silva537 final votes
73%9%17%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 443 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Hélder Sousa Silva 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 majority44099%
Voted differently31%

Final texts where Hélder Sousa Silva differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
8 July 2026B10-0344/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
17 June 2026A10-0134/2026 – Saskia Bricmont – Draft Council decisionAgainstFor
6 May 2025A10–0068/2025 – Ondřej Knotek – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor

Unlinked but matchable

16 counterpart entrys in Hélder Sousa Silva'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.