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Peter Liese

MEP for Germany · European People's Party · Christlich Demokratische Union Deutschlands · official EP profile

As of 12 September 2026, Peter Liese (EPP, Germany) has declared 345 lobby meetings this term - rank 17 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is one of the most extensive declaration records in the entire Parliament - 4.1× the average member, and 9 of 185 within European People's Party.

49% of this MEP's declared counterpart entries, including diplomatic and government entries, carry a declared EU Transparency Register link - close to the like-for-like raw Parliament-wide share of 51%.

345
declared meetings
current term
611
records since 2019
full dataset
49%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
17/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
9/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Peter Liese, this term
345
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: 22 in Oct 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 6 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 10 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 21 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 22 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 11 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 13 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 18 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 16 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 16 declared meetingsApril 2025: 1 declared meetingMay 2025: 16 declared meetingsJune 2025: 15 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 9 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 6 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 13 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 16 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 16 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 7 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 16 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 18 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 21 declared meetingsApril 2026: 16 declared meetingsMay 2026: 16 declared meetingsJune 2026: 18 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 8 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link202420252026
declared meetings per monthall counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link; diplomacy included (right axis)

Busiest month: 22 declared in October 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Peter Liese 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

Chemicals & manufacturing (95), Environment & climate (82), Energy (71)

Meetings by committee topic

Environment, Climate and Food Safety (1)

Most recent declared meetings

Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
26 Jun 2026K+S AGMemberAustausch
25 Jun 2026Salzgitter AG MemberAustausch
23 Jun 2026Zentralverband Gartenbau e.V.; Potsdam-Institut für Klimafolgenforschung ; Zentralverband des Deutschen Handwerks e.V. (ZDH)MemberAustausch
22 Jun 2026Cosmetics Europe MemberAustausch
19 Jun 2026VDAMemberAustausch
16 Jun 2026KlimaUnionMemberAustausch
12 Jun 2026European Fuels; ClientEarth AISBL MemberAustausch
11 Jun 2026STARCH EUROPE ; Tobias Hans GmbH; Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund ; IAWRMemberAustausch
10 Jun 2026EDF EU Affairs; Technip EnergiesMemberAustausch
9 Jun 2026Europen; Dow Europe GmbH MemberAustausch
8 Jun 2026European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)MemberAustausch
5 Jun 2026Mission of the Republic of Moldova to the European Union; Elektro Lefarth e.K.; Veyt; Vantaan Energia MemberAustausch
4 Jun 2026SOLAR MATERIALS GmbHMemberAustausch
3 Jun 2026Redbull; Global South CDR Coalition; PPG Industries, Inc. ; GDV – German Insurance AssociationMemberAustausch
2 Jun 2026Smart Energy for Europe Platform (SEFEP) gGmbH MemberAustausch
1 Jun 2026KlimaUnionMemberAustausch
29 May 2026EuroferMemberAustausch
28 May 2026Vattenfall ; ECCA; CRH International; European Aluminium AISBL MemberAustausch
27 May 2026Obermeier GmbH; Negative Emissions Platform ; Cool Heating Coalition MemberAustausch
26 May 2026Zentiva Group a.s. ; TUSIAD-Turkish Industry&Business Association ; Siemens AG ; Schneider Electric ; Orgalim – Europe's Technology Industries ; CEPSA ; FuelsEurope ; Eurelectric aisbl ; ENGIE ; European Chemical Industry Council ; ArcelorMittal ; ETIP Zero Emissions Platform MemberAustausch

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Peter Liese 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.

92%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
502
final texts voted on
of 537
99%
voted with the EPP majority
on 498 final texts
5
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Peter Liese537 final votes
82%11%
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 Peter Liese 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 majority49399%
Voted differently51%

Final texts where Peter Liese differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
7 July 2026A10-0169/2026 – Matthias Ecke – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
30 April 2026RC-B10-0216/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
8 October 2025A10-0161/2025 – Céline Imart – Commission proposalAgainstFor
10 September 2025A10-0139/2025 - Marcos Ros Sempere - Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte)AgainstFor
12 March 2025A10–0023/2025 – Maravillas Abadía Jover – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor

Unlinked but matchable

189 counterpart entrys in Peter Liese'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.