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Member of the European Parliament · Italy S&D

Raffaele Topo

MEP for Italy · Socialists & Democrats · Partito Democratico · official EP profile

As of 8 November 2026, Raffaele Topo (S&D, Italy) has declared 8 lobby meetings this term - rank 594 of 720 MEPs by declared meetings, a place shared with 4 other MEPs.

That is one of the lighter declaration records in the Parliament - against an average of 100 meetings per MEP, and it ranks 126 of 135 in the S&D group.

100% 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 52%.

8
declared meetings
current term
8
records since 2016
full dataset
100%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 52% EP‑wide
594/720
rank, all MEPs
tied with 4 others
126/135
rank in S&D

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Compared with the averages

Raffaele Topo, this term
8
Parliament average
100
S&D average
134

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 November 2026. This is the same current-term window as the figures above, beginning 16 July 2024.

Current month, partial through 6 Nov 2026: 0 declared meetings in Nov 2026. Peak: 3 in Sep 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%03July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 3 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 3 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 1 declared meetingFebruary 2025: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 1 declared meetingApril 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: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 0 declared meetingsMarch 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 meetingsOctober 2026: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonths with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; the dashes join the months either sideMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJanuary 2025: 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkMarch 2025: 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link2024202520260%25%50%75%100%03July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 3 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 3 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 1 declared meetingFebruary 2025: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 1 declared meetingApril 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: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 0 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 0 declared meetingsMarch 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 meetingsOctober 2026: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2026: 0 declared meetingsnew termMonths with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; the dashes join the months either sideMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkJanuary 2025: 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkMarch 2025: 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link2024202520260%50%100%03202420252026
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Declared meetings each month, and the share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link.
MonthMeetingsLinked
Jul 20240-
Aug 20240-
Sep 20243100%
Oct 20243100%
Nov 20240-
Dec 20240-
Jan 20251100%
Feb 20250-
Mar 20251100%
Apr 20250-
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Jul 20250-
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Busiest month: 3 declared in September 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value; a dashed stretch of the line joins the months either side.

Who Raffaele Topo 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

Both lists count this term. Sector pages count the full 2016–2026 record, and committee pages show each member's current-term total across all subjects, so their figures for this member can be higher.

Most-met sectors this term

Consumer & retail (4), Energy (1), Finance (1)

Meetings by committee topic this term

Regional Development (3), Environment, Climate and Food Safety (2), Public Health (2)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
18 Mar 2025European Respiratory Society⁠↗MemberHealth
22 Jan 2025FuelsEurope⁠↗MemberFuels
23 Oct 2024CITTADINANZATTIVA APS⁠↗MemberHealth
16 Oct 2024Save the Children Europe⁠↗MemberCohesion policy and children rights
3 Oct 2024British American Tobacco⁠↗MemberRegional policies
25 Sep 2024Manifatture Sigaro Toscano S.r.l.⁠↗MemberRegional policies
24 Sep 2024Philip Morris International Inc.⁠↗MemberENVI
12 Sep 2024Unipol Gruppo⁠↗MemberPublic health

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 6,412 roll-call votes while Raffaele Topo held the seat, 606 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.

91%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 6,412 held while seated
560
final texts voted on
of 606
98%
voted with the S&D majority
on 558 final texts
9
differed from S&D
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 606 final votes held while seated.

Raffaele Topo606 final votes
83%8%8%
For 502Against 51Abstained 7No vote recorded 46

With and against the group

On the 558 final texts where more than half of S&D members casting a vote went one way, and Raffaele Topo 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 S&D majority54998%
Voted differently92%

Final texts where Raffaele Topo differed from the S&D majority

DateTextTheir voteS&D majority
8 October 2026Motion for a resolution on the draft Commission regulation amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards certain botanical species containing hydroxyanthracene derivatives B10-0465/2026 · Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
8 July 2026Motion for a resolution on Commission delegated regulation of 10 April 2026 amending Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/807 to introduce a trajectory to gradually decrease the contribution of high indirect land-use change-risk biofuels, bioliquids and biomass fuels to renewable energy targets B10-0337/2026 · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
17 June 2026Council directive on the structure and rates of excise duty applied to tobacco and tobacco related products (recast) A10-0161/2026 · Tomáš Kubín · Commission proposal to the CouncilForAgainst
17 June 2026The 2025 Commission report on Türkiye A10-0106/2026 · Nacho Sánchez Amor · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
17 June 2026The Agreement in the form of an Exchange of Letters between the European Union and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan pursuant to Article XXVIII of the General… A10-0134/2026 · Saskia Bricmont · Draft Council decisionAbstainedFor
16 December 2025Relations between the EU and Saudi Arabia A10-0230/2025 · Hana Jalloul Muro · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
9 September 2025Public procurement A10-0147/2025 · Piotr Müller · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAbstained
9 July 2025Motion for a resolution on the Commission delegated regulation of 10 June 2025 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 to add Algeria, Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Monaco, Namibia, Nepal and Venezuela to the list of high-risk third countries which have provided a written high-level political commitment to address the identified deficiencies and have developed an action plan with the FATF, and to remove Barbados, Gibraltar, Jamaica, Panama, the Philippines, Senegal, Uganda and the United Arab Emirates from that list B10-0316/2025 · Motion for a resolutionAbstainedAgainst
9 July 2025Motion for a resolution on the Commission delegated regulation of 10 June 2025 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1675 to add Algeria, Angola, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Laos, Lebanon, Monaco, Namibia, Nepal and Venezuela to the list of high-risk third countries which have provided a written high-level political commitment to address the identified deficiencies and have developed an action plan with the FATF, and to remove Barbados, Gibraltar, Jamaica, Panama, the Philippines, Senegal, Uganda and the United Arab Emirates from that list B10-0315/2025 · Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor