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Salvatore de Meo

MEP for Italy · European People's Party · Forza Italia · official EP profile

As of 14 September 2026, Salvatore de Meo (EPP, Italy) has declared 41 lobby meetings this term - rank 406 of 719 MEPs by declared meetings.

That is somewhat below the Parliament average of 85 meetings per MEP, and 106 of 185 within European People's Party.

48% 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%.

41
declared meetings
current term
245
records since 2019
full dataset
48%
all counterpart entries linked
incl. diplomacy; vs 51% EP-wide
406/719
rank, all MEPs
by declared meetings
106/185
rank in EPP

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Compared with the averages

Salvatore de Meo, this term
41
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, 100% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register link. Peak: 7 in Dec 2025.

0%25%50%75%100%July 2024: 0 declared meetingsAugust 2024: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2024: 0 declared meetingsOctober 2024: 0 declared meetingsNovember 2024: 0 declared meetingsDecember 2024: 4 declared meetingsJanuary 2025: 5 declared meetingsFebruary 2025: 5 declared meetingsMarch 2025: 2 declared meetingsApril 2025: 0 declared meetingsMay 2025: 2 declared meetingsJune 2025: 1 declared meetingJuly 2025: 1 declared meetingAugust 2025: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2025: 2 declared meetingsOctober 2025: 3 declared meetingsNovember 2025: 4 declared meetingsDecember 2025: 7 declared meetingsJanuary 2026: 0 declared meetingsFebruary 2026: 0 declared meetingsMarch 2026: 2 declared meetingsApril 2026: 0 declared meetingsMay 2026: 0 declared meetingsJune 2026: 1 declared meetingJuly 2026: 1 declared meetingAugust 2026: 0 declared meetingsSeptember 2026: 1 declared meetingnew termMonthly share of all counterpart entries carrying a declared Register linkMarch 2026: 50% of all counterpart entries carry a declared Register linkSeptember 2026: 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: 7 declared in December 2025. Months with no declared meetings have no Register-share value.

Who Salvatore de Meo 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 (9), Chemicals & manufacturing (5), Agriculture & food (4)

Meetings by committee topic

Internal Market and Consumer Protection (23), Agriculture and Rural Development (11), Economic and Monetary Affairs (1)

Most recent declared meetings

DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
9 Sep 2026Philip Morris International Inc. MemberTobacco
2 Jul 2026Confederazione Nazionale ColdirettiMemberNEW CAP 2028-2034
9 Jun 2026FONDAZIONE INARCASSAMemberPublic Procurement Directive
24 Mar 2026Philip Morris International Inc. MemberTobacco
3 Mar 2026Bayer AGMemberFood and Feed Omnibus
16 Dec 2025McDonald’s Global Franchising Limited MemberMercosur
11 Dec 2025Value of Beauty AllianceShadow rapporteurCosmetics
4 Dec 2025FERROVIE DELLO STATO ITALIANE S.p.A. MemberMilitary Mobility
4 Dec 2025European Chemical Industry Council Shadow rapporteurChemicals
4 Dec 2025AssofertilizzantiShadow rapporteurFertilizers
Show 20 more meetings
DateCounterpartCapacitySubject
4 Dec 2025DSM-Firmenich Shadow rapporteurCosmetics
1 Dec 2025FederchimicaShadow rapporteurChemicals
19 Nov 2025Cosmetica ItaliaShadow rapporteurCosmetics
18 Nov 2025Nestlé S.A.MemberEUDR
5 Nov 2025FIPEMemberFake reviews/digital euro
5 Nov 2025Affordable Medicines ItaliaMemberPharmaceuticals
15 Oct 2025AssodistilMemberEthanol
8 Oct 2025CGIAR System OrganizationMemberAgriculture and new CAP
1 Oct 2025British American Tobacco MemberEU Directives on Tobacco (TTD, TPD)
22 Sep 2025Mondelez Europe GmbH MemberDeforestation
3 Sep 2025COPA-COGECARapporteurEU Promotion Policy
16 Jul 2025Alibaba RapporteurE-commerce
11 Jun 2025Luigi Lavazza S.p.A. MemberAgri
13 May 2025COREPLAMemberPackaging
13 May 2025CONSORZIO PER LA TUTELA DEL FORMAGGIO GRANA PADANORapporteurPromotion of Agricultural Products
4 Mar 2025European Express Association RapporteurE-commerce
3 Mar 2025Alibaba RapporteurE-commerce
20 Feb 2025Geopost SA RapporteurE-commerce
19 Feb 2025TAC AllianceRapporteurE-commerce
6 Feb 2025AllegroRapporteurE-commerce

The full record is in the official EP declarations.

Roll-call voting record

Recorded votes only. Parliament held 5,568 roll-call votes while Salvatore de Meo 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.

88%
roll-calls with a vote recorded
of 5,568 held while seated
498
final texts voted on
of 537
97%
voted with the EPP majority
on 494 final texts
16
differed from EPP
listed below

How they voted on final texts

Share of the 537 final votes held while seated.

Salvatore de Meo537 final votes
81%10%7%
ForAgainstAbstainedNo vote recorded

With and against the group

On the 494 final texts where more than half of EPP members casting a vote went one way, and Salvatore de Meo 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 majority47897%
Voted differently163%

Final texts where Salvatore de Meo differed from the EPP majority

DateTextTheir voteEPP majority
8 July 2026B10-0344/2026 – Motion for a resolutionForAgainst
7 July 2026A10-0187/2026 – Lukas Mandl, Pierfrancesco Maran – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
17 June 2026A10-0161/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilAbstainedFor
17 June 2026A10-0160/2026 – Tomáš Kubín – Commission proposal to the CouncilAgainstFor
29 April 2026A10-0042/2026 – Anna Strolenberg – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
28 April 2026A9-0147/2022 – Bernd Lange – Commission proposalAbstainedFor
12 February 2026A10-0256/2025 – Johan Danielsson – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AgainstFor
27 November 2025RC-B10-0545/2025 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
27 November 2025RC-B10-0518/2025 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)AbstainedFor
13 November 2025A10-0223/2025 – Ondřej Knotek – Commission proposalAgainstFor

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

Unlinked but matchable

16 counterpart entrys in Salvatore de Meo'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.