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Inese Vaidere, official European Parliament portrait

Member of the European Parliament · Latvia EPP

Inese Vaidere

MEP for Latvia · European People's Party · Jaunā Vienotība · official EP profile

As of 14 September 2026, Inese Vaidere (EPP, Latvia) has declared 4 lobby meetings this term - rank 613 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 154 of 185 within European People's Party.

0% 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%.

4
declared meetings
current term
4
records since 2019
full dataset
0%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
613/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
154/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Inese Vaidere, this term
4
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: 1 in Oct 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 1 declared meetingNovember 2024: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 0 declared meetingsApril 2025: 0 declared meetingsMay 2025: 0 declared meetingsJune 2025: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 1 declared meetingDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 1 declared meetingFebruary 2026: 1 declared meetingMarch 2026: 0 declared meetingsApril 2026: 0 declared meetingsMay 2026: 0 declared meetingsJune 2026: 0 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkOctober 2024: 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkNovember 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: 1 declared in October 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Inese Vaidere meets most

Declared counterpartMeetings
A.I.S.E.1
Alienor Fagette, Policy adviser (Digital industries), Mission of Canada to the EU1
H.E. Jaime Victor Ledda1
Monika Sopkovicova1

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

Meetings by committee topic

International Trade (2), Internal Market and Consumer Protection (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
4 Feb 2026H.E. Jaime Victor LeddaMemberMeeting with Ambassador of Philippines to the EU
21 Jan 2026Alienor Fagette, Policy adviser (Digital industries), Mission of Canada to the EUShadow rapporteur for opinionMeeting with Canada Mission to the EU
18 Nov 2025Monika SopkovicovaRapporteurMeeting with Slovak Coreper 1 Ambassador
24 Oct 2024A.I.S.E.Rapporteur for opinionDetergents Regulation

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Inese Vaidere 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.

94%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
498
final texts voted on
of 537
95%
voted with the EPP majority
on 494 final texts
26
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Inese Vaidere537 final votes
86%7%7%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 494 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Inese Vaidere 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 majority46895%
Voted differently265%

Final texts where Inese Vaidere 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
28 April 2026A9-0147/2022 – Bernd Lange – Commission proposalAgainstFor
12 February 2026A10-0256/2025 – Johan Danielsson – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
11 February 2026B10-0108/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
11 February 2026B10-0109/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
11 February 2026B10-0106/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
11 February 2026B10-0107/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
17 December 2025B10-0566/2025 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst

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