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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 12 September 2026, Raffaele Topo (S&D, Italy) has declared 8 lobby meetings this term - rank 579 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 127 of 136 within Socialists & Democrats.

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 51%.

8
declared meetings
current term
8
records since 2019
full dataset
100%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
579/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
127/136
rank in S&D

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Compared with the averages

Raffaele Topo, this term
8
Parliament average
85
S&D average
113

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: 3 in Sep 2024.

0%25%50%75%100%July 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 meetingsnew termMonthly 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 link202420252026
declared meetings per monthall counterpart entries carrying a declared Register link; diplomacy included (right axis)

Busiest month: 3 declared in September 2024. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

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

Most-met sectors

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

Meetings by committee topic

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 5,568 roll-call votes while Raffaele Topo 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.

90%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
494
final texts voted on
of 537
98%
voted with the S&D majority
on 492 final texts
8
differed from S&D
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Raffaele Topo537 final votes
83%8%8%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 492 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 majority48498%
Voted differently82%

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

DateTextTheir voteS&D majority
8 July 2026B10-0337/2026 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)ForAgainst
17 June 2026A10-0161/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilForAgainst
17 June 2026A10-0106/2026 – Nacho Sánchez Amor – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
17 June 2026A10-0134/2026 – Saskia Bricmont – Draft Council decisionAbstainedFor
16 December 2025A10-0230/2025 – Hana Jalloul Muro – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
9 September 2025A10-0147/2025 - Piotr Müller - Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte)ForAbstained
9 July 2025B10-0316/2025 – Motion for a resolutionAbstainedAgainst
9 July 2025B10-0315/2025 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor