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Hilde Vautmans, official European Parliament portrait

Member of the European Parliament · Belgium Renew

Hilde Vautmans

MEP for Belgium · Renew Europe · Anders · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Hilde Vautmans (Renew, Belgium) has declared 209 lobby meetings this term - rank 75 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is one of the fuller declaration sheets in the Parliament - 2.5× the average member, and 17 of 77 within Renew Europe.

30% 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%.

209
declared meetings
current term
230
records since 2019
full dataset
30%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
75/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
17/77
rank in Renew

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Compared with the averages

Hilde Vautmans, this term
209
Parliament average
85
Renew average
140

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: 8 declared meetings in Sep 2026, 37.5% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link. Peak: 22 in Mar 2025.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 4 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 10 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 9 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 8 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 15 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 12 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 22 declared meetingsApril 2025: 15 declared meetingsMay 2025: 13 declared meetingsJune 2025: 16 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 7 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 10 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 8 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 7 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 1 declared meetingJanuary 2026: 2 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 6 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 7 declared meetingsApril 2026: 5 declared meetingsMay 2026: 4 declared meetingsJune 2026: 16 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 4 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 8 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkSeptember 2026: 37.5% 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: 22 declared in March 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Hilde Vautmans meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
European Horse Network7
Human Rights Watch5
Broederlijk Delen5
Mission of China to the European Union4
Amnesty International Limited3

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 (33), Agriculture & food (9), Business federations & chambers (5)

Meetings by committee topic

Foreign Affairs (113), DAFR (25), Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (24), Agriculture and Rural Development (2), Development (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
10 Sep 2026Palestine Mission to the EUMemberMiddle East
10 Sep 2026United Nations Liaison Office for Children and Armed ConflictDelegation chairChildren and Armed Conflict, with a focus on Africa
9 Sep 2026Geneva InitiativeMemberMiddle East
9 Sep 2026Human Rights Watch RapporteurChina
8 Sep 2026Rabbis for Human RightsMemberMiddle East
3 Sep 2026Appel de Genève / Geneva Call Delegation chairGeneva Call activities
2 Sep 2026Mission of China to the European UnionRapporteurChina
1 Sep 2026World Uyghur Congress RapporteurChina
13 Jul 2026The Brewers of EuropeMemberEuropean Brewing Sector
8 Jul 2026Vlaams Netwerk van Ondernemingen MemberExchange on upcoming activities
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
2 Jul 2026Mission of China to the European UnionRapporteurChina
1 Jul 2026Taipei Representative Office in the EU and BelgiumRapporteurChina
30 Jun 2026The Walt Disney Company Benelux BVBA MemberChildren and AI
25 Jun 2026European Horse NetworkMemberEuropean Horse Network planning
25 Jun 2026European Horse NetworkMemberVeterinarian - EU antibiotic and medication legislation
25 Jun 2026AEPIDelegation chairActivities of AEPI
24 Jun 2026World Food ProgrammeDelegation chairDevelopment situation
24 Jun 2026Mouvement de la Révolution pour la Libération totale de notre PaysDelegation chairDRC
24 Jun 2026Biram Dah AbeidDelegation chairSlavery
23 Jun 2026afruibanaDelegation chairFruit production in Africa
17 Jun 2026Microsoft Corporation MemberDigital Legislation
9 Jun 2026Alon SaharMemberUNRWA
9 Jun 2026Coolmore Ireland & veterinariansMemberAnimal transport
4 Jun 2026Mission of China to the European UnionRapporteurChina
3 Jun 2026Taipei Representative Office in the EU and BelgiumRapporteurChina
3 Jun 2026Bantu heritage foundationDelegation chairDRC
3 Jun 2026Embassy of IranMemberSituation in the Middle East
1 Jun 2026Jos ClaesMemberCAP en Fruit
8 May 2026Mission of China to the European UnionRapporteurChina
7 May 2026DRC Ministers and diasporaDelegation chairDRC

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Hilde Vautmans 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.

97%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
505
final texts voted on
of 537
98%
voted with the Renew majority
on 492 final texts
12
differed from Renew
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Hilde Vautmans537 final votes
82%10%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 492 final texts where more than half of Renew members casting a vote went one way, and Hilde Vautmans 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 Renew majority48098%
Voted differently122%

Final texts where Hilde Vautmans differed from the Renew majority

DateTextTheir voteRenew majority
8 July 2026B10-0337/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
18 June 2026B10-0238/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
17 June 2026A10-0160/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilForAgainst
21 May 2026A10-0083/2026 – Eleonora Meleti, Rosa Estaràs Ferragut – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
29 April 2026A10-0098/2026 – Danuše Nerudová – Commission proposalAbstainedFor
12 February 2026A10-0256/2025 – Johan Danielsson – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
26 November 2025C10-0263/2025 – Commission proposalForAgainst
26 November 2025A10-0213/2025 – Christel Schaldemose – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
13 November 2025A10-0197/2025 – Jörgen Warborn – Commission proposalForAgainst
9 July 2025B10-0321/2025 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst

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

Unlinked but matchable

28 counterpart entrys in Hilde Vautmans'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.