The European Parliament publishes an enormous public record: speeches, amendments, reports, opinions, questions, motions, votes, committee attendance. All of it exists, but it is scattered across thousands of pages of official registers, minutes, and per-Member profiles. The MEP Activity Explorer exists to solve exactly that problem. It gathers the recorded work of all 742 Members who have held a seat in the 10th term (2024–2029) into a single table you can sort, filter, and drill into, with every figure counted from the Parliament’s own published records.
One table instead of a thousand pages
The Explorer’s home view is a grid: one row per Member, one column per activity. Plenary speeches, committee and plenary amendments (counted separately, because they are different procedures), reports and opinions as rapporteur or shadow, written and oral questions, motions for resolutions, explanations of vote, and roll-call vote participation. Click any column header and the table re-sorts by that activity. In a few seconds you can see how any Member compares with the rest of the chamber on any recorded dimension, something that would take hours to assemble from the official registers directly.
The point is not to crown anyone. The Explorer deliberately shows raw counts, not grades: it never combines activities into a composite score, and it draws no conclusion about whether a Member’s work is good or bad. What it gives you is the complete quantitative picture, so you can ask your own questions of it.
What you can find out
A few examples of questions the Explorer answers in a couple of clicks. How active is your country’s delegation compared with the EP average, and on which activities? Which Members of a political group do most of its drafting work in committee? Does a Member who is highly visible in the media actually table amendments and reports, or is their footprint mainly in plenary speeches? Who asks the Commission written questions week after week, and who has never asked one? Each cell links onward: click a number and a drilldown lists the underlying activities themselves: the actual speeches, amendments, or questions behind the count, each traceable to the Parliament’s published record.
Aggregate rows put individual numbers in context. The Explorer computes averages for the whole Parliament, for each country, and for each political group, so a figure like “61 written questions” stops being abstract: you can see it next to the EP-wide average and the Member’s own national delegation.
The activity-period filter
Parliamentary terms are long, and mandates start and end mid-term. The Explorer’s date filter recomputes activity counts for a window you choose: a year, a semester, or the months since a particular political event. Metrics that cannot be computed for a partial window are blanked rather than estimated, so what you see is always an actual count, never an extrapolation.
Where the numbers come from
Every figure is counted from official European Parliament sources: the Parliament’s Open Data portal and its published registers, with Parltrack used as a third-party aggregator that mirrors those records for the historical baseline. The Data page documents each source and each field’s definition and limitations. When a count on MEPScore differs from a figure quoted elsewhere, the difference is almost always definitional, and the definition is published, so you can check it.
Where to go deeper
Each Member’s name links to a full profile: activity histories with the underlying documents, plenary and committee attendance within their mandate period, corrections of votes, meetings with interest representatives, and verbatim speech texts. For single-activity views, the discovery pages present each activity column of the Explorer as its own page. And for voting behaviour specifically, Votes and Vote Match take over where activity counts end.
The recorded work of the European Parliament belongs to the public. The Activity Explorer’s job is to make that record usable: complete, comparable, and always traceable back to the official source.