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Member of the European Parliament · Bulgaria EPP

Radan Kanev

MEP for Bulgaria · European People's Party · Democrats for Strong Bulgaria · official EP profile

As of 14 September 2026, Radan Kanev (EPP, Bulgaria) has declared 289 lobby meetings this term - rank 29 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is one of the fuller declaration sheets in the Parliament - 3.4× the average member, and 13 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%.

289
declared meetings
current term
303
records since 2019
full dataset
60%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
29/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
13/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Radan Kanev, this term
289
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: 10 declared meetings in Sep 2026, 70% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link. Peak: 20 in Oct 2025.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 19 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 13 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 14 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 18 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 9 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 10 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 11 declared meetingsApril 2025: 11 declared meetingsMay 2025: 15 declared meetingsJune 2025: 7 declared meetingsJuly 2025: 6 declared meetingsAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 17 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 20 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 14 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 9 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 4 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 15 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 20 declared meetingsApril 2026: 13 declared meetingsMay 2026: 5 declared meetingsJune 2026: 18 declared meetingsJuly 2026: 11 declared meetingsAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 10 declared meetingsnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkSeptember 2026: 70% 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: 20 declared in October 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Radan Kanev 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

Energy (70), Chemicals & manufacturing (54), Environment & climate (20)

Meetings by committee topic

Industry, Research and Energy (123), Environment, Climate and Food Safety (65), Public Health (10), DSCA (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
10 Sep 2026Novandino LithiumMemberEU-Chile Strategic Partnership on lithium
10 Sep 2026Cosmetics Europe Shadow rapporteur for opinionCosmetics sector- bioeconomy and the IAA
9 Sep 2026IBERDROLA MemberElectrification Action Plan
9 Sep 2026Ceramie UnieMemberLegislative files of concern to the ceramics sector
9 Sep 2026CEMBUREAU - The European Cement Association Shadow rapporteur for opinionIssues facing cement sector
9 Sep 2026Buy Better to Build Better CoalitionShadow rapporteur for opinionLow-carbon quotas in the Industrial Accelerator Act
7 Sep 2026GLOBSEC MemberEnergy policy and Central and Eastern Europe
3 Sep 2026Climate Action Network Europe MemberETS revision
3 Sep 2026EUROGAS aisbl MemberCO₂ Market and Infrastructure Package
2 Sep 2026WWF European Policy Programme Shadow rapporteurspeeding up environmental assessments; the nature laws and competitive sustainability
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
15 Jul 2026CalogenaMemberUpcoming ETS revision
15 Jul 2026ExxonMobil Petroleum & Chemical MemberUpcoming policies concerning energy and decarbonisation
14 Jul 2026Outokumpu Oyj MemberETS/ CBAM and impact on stainless steel sector
14 Jul 2026Zero Waste Europe MemberETS and the waste sector
13 Jul 2026CCS EuropeMemberCarbon capture and storage policy framework
13 Jul 2026Lightsource bp Shadow rapporteur for opinionIndustrial Accelerator Act
9 Jul 2026AmCham EUShadow rapporteurEnvironmental omnibus and Circular economy
7 Jul 2026Saint GobainShadow rapporteur for opinionIndustrial Accelerator Act
2 Jul 2026BraskemShadow rapporteur for opinionIndustrial Accelerator Act
1 Jul 2026Child Rights International NetworkMemberChildren exposed to harmful pesticides
1 Jul 2026IDEP MoldovaMemberSupporting the reconstruction of Ukraine and the European aspirations of Ukraine and Moldova
25 Jun 2026Bavarian Nordic A/SRapporteur for opinionEuropean Competitiveness Fund
24 Jun 2026Cosmetics EuropeMemberCircular Economy
24 Jun 2026EU TobaccoMemberEU Tobacco Legislation
24 Jun 2026European MetalsMemberEuropean Metals Day keynote speech
23 Jun 2026Public Affairs BrusselsMemberCan Europe decarbonise without deindustrialising? Evidence from ETS and CBAM
23 Jun 2026Welcome.org; WindEurope Shadow rapporteur for opinionEuropean Competitiveness Fund
17 Jun 2026GROUPE SEBMemberCBAM and TDF
17 Jun 2026Microsoft Corporation Shadow rapporteurEnvironmental omnibus- speeding up of environmental assessments
17 Jun 2026ENEL SpA Shadow rapporteurEnvironmental omnibus

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Radan Kanev 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.

74%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
387
final texts voted on
of 537
87%
voted with the EPP majority
on 383 final texts
50
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Radan Kanev537 final votes
60%8%28%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 383 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Radan Kanev 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 majority33387%
Voted differently5013%

Final texts where Radan Kanev differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
17 June 2026A10-0161/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilAgainstFor
26 March 2026A10-0040/2026 – Birgit Sippel – Commission proposalForAgainst
11 March 2026A10-0033/2026 – Nela Riehl – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
10 March 2026A10-0025/2026 – Borja Giménez Larraz – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
10 March 2026A10-0011/2026 – Veronika Cifrová Ostrihoňová – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
11 February 2026B10-0108/2026 – Motion for a resolutionAbstainedAgainst
11 February 2026B10-0109/2026 – Motion for a resolutionAbstainedAgainst
11 February 2026B10-0106/2026 – Motion for a resolutionAbstainedAgainst
11 February 2026B10-0107/2026 – Motion for a resolutionAbstainedAgainst
11 February 2026A10-0003/2026 – Željana Zovko – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor

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

Unlinked but matchable

66 counterpart entrys in Radan Kanev'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.