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Member of the European Parliament · Bulgaria EPP

Ilia Lazarov

MEP for Bulgaria · European People's Party · Union of Democratic Forces · official EP profile

As of 14 September 2026, Ilia Lazarov (EPP, Bulgaria) has declared 26 lobby meetings this term - rank 465 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is somewhat below the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 129 of 185 within European People's Party.

23% 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%.

26
declared meetings
current term
26
records since 2019
full dataset
23%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
465/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
129/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Ilia Lazarov, this term
26
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: 0 declared meetings in Sep 2026. Peak: 3 in Oct 2025.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 1 declared meetingNovember 2024: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 2 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 2 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 1 declared meetingApril 2025: 0 declared meetingsMay 2025: 2 declared meetingsJune 2025: 1 declared meetingJuly 2025: 2 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 1 declared meetingSeptember 2025: 1 declared meetingOctober 2025: 3 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 2 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 1 declared meetingFebruary 2026: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 0 declared meetingsApril 2026: 0 declared meetingsMay 2026: 2 declared meetingsJune 2026: 2 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 1 declared meetingAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJanuary 2026: 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: 3 declared in October 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Ilia Lazarov meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
Ambassador of Israel to the Republic of Bulgaria3
newcleo2
Eli Lilly and Company1
Tesla Motors Netherlands B.V.1
European Shipowners | ECSA1

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

Consumer & retail (3), Transport & automotive (3), Chemicals & manufacturing (2)

Meetings by committee topic

International Trade (5), Agriculture and Rural Development (2)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
7 Jul 2026CLEPAMemberEU Industrial Accelerator Act
16 Jun 2026Spontaneous meeting with French ResearchersMemberNew Genomic Techniques (NGTs)
12 Jun 2026TeslaMemberIndustrial Accelerator Act
19 May 2026ILECMemberDirective sur les pratiques commerciales déloyales
13 May 2026Türkiye Exporters Assembly RepresentativesMemberEU Industrial Accelerator Act
20 Jan 2026Ambassador of Israel to the Republic of BulgariaMemberТhe peace process in Gaza
25 Nov 2025The European Steel Association MemberEU steel measure
20 Nov 2025Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco to the EUMemberEU-Morocco Trade Relations
14 Oct 2025European Cigar Manufacturers Association MemberEU Tobacco Control Framework
7 Oct 2025Cerame-UnieMemberChallenges faced by the ceramic industry in relations to new climate legislation
Show 16 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
2 Oct 2025adidas AG MemberEU-Indonesia FTA
9 Sep 2025Ambassador of Israel to the Republic of BulgariaMemberSituation in the Middle East
14 Aug 2025AGRIA S.A.MemberConcern Regarding Zineb Approval in the EU
3 Jul 2025newcleoMemberFuture of nuclear energy in Europe as an ecological alternative
2 Jul 2025European Community Shipowners' Associations MemberClean fuels in maritime transport
18 Jun 2025Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore to the European UnionMemberEU-Singapore trade relations
31 May 2025Bulgarian Rose PLCMemberMeeting with Bulgarian Rose PLC representatives in connection to the Bulgarian Rose Festival; Challenges in relations to the production of rose oil;
21 May 2025BulatomMemberIntroductory meeting with representatives
12 Mar 2025Ambassador of Israel to the Republic of BulgariaMemberIntroductory Meeting
20 Feb 2025Representative of Food and Drink BulgariaMemberIntroductory Meeting with representative
18 Feb 2025Ambassador of Egypt to the European UnionMemberEU-Egypt Relations
12 Dec 2024SCK-CENMemberVisite du centre de recherche nucléaire belge SCK-CEN dans le cadre du groupe de réflexion du Parlement européen sur l'énergie nucléaire
5 Dec 2024Eli Lilly and Company MemberIntroductory meeting with representative
20 Nov 2024newcleo MemberSmall modular reactors(SMRs)
5 Nov 2024Copa and CogecaMemberIntroductory meeting
11 Oct 2024Bulgarian Association of the Cement Industry (BACI)MemberIntroductory meeting with representative

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Ilia Lazarov 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.

72%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
435
final texts voted on
of 537
87%
voted with the EPP majority
on 432 final texts
56
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Ilia Lazarov537 final votes
71%19%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 432 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Ilia Lazarov 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 majority37687%
Voted differently5613%

Final texts where Ilia Lazarov differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
9 July 2026RC-B10-0357/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
8 July 2026B10-0333/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
8 July 2026B10-0335/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
8 July 2026B10-0344/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
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
8 July 2026A10-0163/2026 – Tonino Picula – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
7 July 2026A10-0187/2026 – Lukas Mandl, Pierfrancesco Maran – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
17 June 2026A10-0162/2026 – Thomas Waitz – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
17 June 2026A10-0106/2026 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor

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

Unlinked but matchable

5 counterpart entrys in Ilia Lazarov'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.