Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield
EUDS · Special committee
The Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield (EUDS) has 33 full members.
33 members and 31 substitutes · lead committee in 1 procedure · 1 final vote in plenary
Membership
- Chair
- Nathalie Loiseau (Renew), since 3 Feb 2025
- Vice-Chairs
- Csaba Molnár (S&D), Vasile Dîncu (S&D), Sandra Kalniete (EPP), Stefano Cavedagna (ECR)
Full members by political group (33)
- The Left (2): Danilo Della Valle, Konstantinos Arvanitis
- Greens/EFA (2): Alexandra Geese, Kim Van Sparrentak
- S&D (6): Ana Catarina Mendes, Christel Schaldemose, Csaba Molnár (Vice-Chair), Kathleen Van Brempt, Sandro Ruotolo, Vasile Dîncu (Vice-Chair)
- Renew (4): Bart Groothuis, Helmut Brandstätter, Nathalie Loiseau (Chair), Pina Picierno
- EPP (9): Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz, Fulvio Martusciello, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Juan Ignacio Zoido Álvarez, Lena Düpont, Mika Aaltola, Sandra Kalniete (Vice-Chair), Tomas Tobé, Tomáš Zdechovský
- ECR (4): Assita Kanko, Beata Szydło, Cristian Terheş, Stefano Cavedagna (Vice-Chair)
- PfE (4): António Tânger Corrêa, Csaba Dömötör, Fabrice Leggeri, Jaroslav Bžoch
- ESN (1): Christine Anderson
- Non-attached Members (1): Fidias Panayiotou
Substitute members by political group (31)
- The Left (2): Jonas Sjöstedt, Li Andersson
- Greens/EFA (2): Markéta Gregorová, Mélissa Camara
- S&D (4): Evin Incir, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Maria Noichl, Raphaël Glucksmann
- Renew (4): Cynthia Ní Mhurchú, Eugen Tomac, Petras Auštrevičius, Sandro Gozi
- EPP (9): Ana Miguel Pedro, Andrey Kovatchev, Christophe Gomart, Eszter Lakos, Fredis Beleris, Lukas Mandl, Michał Wawrykiewicz, Milan Zver, Ondřej Kolář
- ECR (4): Carlo Fidanza, Claudiu-Richard Târziu, Daniele Polato, Mariusz Kamiński
- PfE (4): Ernő Schaller-Baross, Hermann Tertsch, Marieke Ehlers, Virginie Joron
- ESN (1): Petar Volgin
- Non-attached Members (1): Branislav Ondruš
Changes since January 2025
Since the first appointments on 23 Jan 2025: 3 new memberships, 4 ended, 3 changes of role.
- 9 Jul 2026: Pina Picierno (Renew), Rejoined as member
- 8 Jul 2026: Sophie Wilmès (Renew), Left as member
- 6 Jul 2026: Sandro Ruotolo (S&D), changed from substitute to member
- 16 Jun 2026: Pina Picierno (S&D), Left as member
- 18 Mar 2026: Ondřej Kolář (EPP), Joined as substitute
- 10 Mar 2026: Sander Smit (EPP), Left as substitute
- 9 Feb 2026: Sandro Ruotolo (S&D), Joined as substitute
- 8 Feb 2026: Giorgio Gori (S&D), Left as substitute
- 31 Mar 2025: Ernő Schaller-Baross (PfE), changed from member to substitute
- 31 Mar 2025: Csaba Dömötör (PfE), changed from substitute to member
Not counted: memberships beginning or ending in the first two weeks after the first appointments (constituent phase). Political group: on the day of the change.
Procedures
Procedures with a vote or date in plenary since July 2024. Lead: the committee drafts the report; with joint lead committees, the procedure appears for each of them. Opinion: the committee gives an opinion. Date: latest step.
Lead (1)
- Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield: 2025/2069(INI) · Own-initiative · Rapporteur: Tomas Tobé (EPP) · final vote: adopted · 15 Sep 2026
The procedure in the list of procedures
Votes in plenary
Committee votes are not part of Parliament’s open data (mostly published as PDF only). Shown here are membership, procedures and the final plenary votes in the procedures led by the committee.
1 roll-call final vote since July 2024 in procedures with this committee as lead committee: 1 adopted, 0 rejected. By type of procedure: other procedures 1.
- Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield: 15 Sep 2026 · A10-0199/2026 · Report · Adopted: 420 for, 220 against, 26 abstentions
It is also in the list of votes filtered by EUDS.
The vote in the statistics, with the political groups’ majorities
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (bodies, MEPs’ memberships, procedures, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0. Committee names from the European Parliament’s data. Committee page at the European Parliament Body record in the Open Data Portal (JSON-LD)
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (bodies, MEPs’ memberships, procedures, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0. Committee names from the European Parliament’s data.