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Member of the European Parliament · Belgium EPP

Pascal Arimont

MEP for Belgium · European People's Party · Christlich Soziale Partei · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Pascal Arimont (EPP, Belgium) has declared 302 lobby meetings this term - rank 25 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is one of the fuller declaration sheets in the Parliament - 3.6× the average member, and 11 of 185 within European People's Party.

60% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - above the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 51%.

302
declared meetings
current term
618
records since 2019
full dataset
60%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
25/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
11/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Pascal Arimont, this term
302
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: 1 declared meeting in Sep 2026, 0% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link. Peak: 24 in Mar 2026.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 15 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 17 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 11 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 7 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 21 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 17 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 14 declared meetingsApril 2025: 10 declared meetingsMay 2025: 16 declared meetingsJune 2025: 11 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 5 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 18 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 16 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 12 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 9 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 10 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 16 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 24 declared meetingsApril 2026: 16 declared meetingsMay 2026: 15 declared meetingsJune 2026: 13 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 8 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 1 declared meetingnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkSeptember 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: 24 declared in March 2026. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Pascal Arimont 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

Health & pharma (24), Chemicals & manufacturing (22), Technology & digital (19)

Meetings by committee topic

Environment, Climate and Food Safety (84), Employment and Social Affairs (20), Regional Development (8)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
4 Sep 2026Maschinenbau Peters deutsche agrarholdingMemberCompany Visit
14 Jul 2026RPP Group MemberExchange on organisational aspects of planned event
10 Jul 2026Représentation de la Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine à BruxellesRapporteurRencontre avec les bureaux de représentation des Régions françaises sur le FEDER-INTERREG
8 Jul 2026Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership MemberIndustrial transition and competitiveness
8 Jul 2026VOKAMemberFaster Permitting Procedures + EU Inc.
8 Jul 2026industriAll European Trade Union Member28th regime
3 Jul 2026PSC EuropeMemberEUCCS
2 Jul 2026ETUCMember28th regime
1 Jul 2026Eurochild AISBL MemberChild Safety online
30 Jun 2026Denuo vzw/asbl ; BDE Bundesverband der Deutschen Entsorgungs-, Wasser- und Kreislaufwirtschaft e. V. MemberEvent - Battery Fire & Circular Economy
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DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
25 Jun 2026NATO CCOEMemberCIMIC
23 Jun 2026Norsk Hydro MemberCompany visit
22 Jun 2026UNDRRMemberDisaster Risk Reduction
18 Jun 2026European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS)MemberIntergroup Meeting on European Wildfire Response
16 Jun 2026Red Bull GmbH MemberPPWR
12 Jun 2026France AssureursMemberInsurance Policies, especially in Civil Protection
10 Jun 2026thyssenkrupp AG European Worker Council of Thyssenkrupp AGMemberIAA and EWC, General discussion of the future of European Industry
5 Jun 2026International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies MemberDiscussion on PPED
4 Jun 2026European Emergency Number Association Shadow rapporteurEmergency Communications
3 Jun 2026Umicore ; Syensqo SA MemberDiscussion on the Industrial Accelerator Act (IAA)
3 Jun 2026Climate Risk Assessment Center (CERAC)MemberPresentation of the Belgian Climate Risk Assessment
2 Jun 2026WWF European Policy Programme MemberEUDR + Habitats Directive
27 May 2026Permanent Representation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the European UnionMemberEmployment Policies and Fair Labour Mobility
26 May 2026ACV-CSC TranscomMemberDigitalisation and AI at the workplace
21 May 2026European Cyclists' Federation MemberPolicy priorities for cycling and active mobility
21 May 2026Spanish Secretary of State for HealthMemberIntergroup Meeting on the UCPM-Activation in response to the hantavirus on the MV Hondius
21 May 2026Space Y ; SES S.A. ; OHB MemberIntergroup Meeting on Space-based applications for EU Resilience
19 May 2026LABORATOIRE PURESSENTIELMemberChallenges for the sector of natural essential oils
13 May 2026Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft MemberEPP Group High-Level European Car Summit
13 May 2026Regional minister of the Dutch Province of Limburg, Mrs Elianne DemollinRapporteurFuture of EU Regional Funds

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Pascal Arimont 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.

93%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
502
final texts voted on
of 537
92%
voted with the EPP majority
on 498 final texts
42
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Pascal Arimont537 final votes
88%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 498 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Pascal Arimont 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 majority45692%
Voted differently428%

Final texts where Pascal Arimont differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
8 July 2026B10-0335/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
8 July 2026B10-0337/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
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
18 June 2026B10-0238/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
17 June 2026A10-0161/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilAgainstFor
17 June 2026A10-0160/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilAgainstFor
29 April 2026B10-0186/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
28 April 2026A10-0080/2026 – Julien Sanchez – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
11 February 2026B10-0108/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst

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

Unlinked but matchable

32 counterpart entrys in Pascal Arimont'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.