Ivaylo VALCHEV
Ivaylo VALCHEV is a Member of the European Parliament from Bulgaria, representing There Is Such a People in the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) group. In the 10th parliamentary term (2024–2029), Ivaylo has submitted 898 amendments, delivered 43 speeches, authored 0 reports as rapporteur and 5 as shadow rapporteur, asked 29 questions, and filed 71 motions. Vote participation stands at 97.5% (5777 out of 5928 recorded roll-call votes within the Member's mandate period). All counts shown are raw figures from official European Parliament records, not adjusted for mandate length.
Parliamentary Activity
| Activity | Count | EP Avg | vs Avg | EP Rank | Country | Group |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amendments | 898 | 811.1 | +87 | 260th/743 | 4th/17 | 31st/84 |
| Speeches | 43 | 44.4 | -1 | 255th/743 | 3rd/17 | 33rd/84 |
| Reports (Rapporteur) | 0 | 0.8 | -1 | 263rd/743 | 8th/17 | 24th/84 |
| Reports (Shadow) | 5 | 3.8 | +1 | 172nd/743 | 5th/17 | 28th/84 |
| Questions | 29 | 39.7 | -11 | 365th/743 | 3rd/17 | 56th/84 |
| Motions | 71 | 19.6 | +51 | 72nd/743 | 3rd/17 | 20th/84 |
| Opinions (Rapporteur) | 1 | 0.6 | +0 | 85th/743 | 2nd/17 | 7th/84 |
| Opinions (Shadow) | 5 | 2.7 | +2 | 113th/743 | 1st/17 | 18th/84 |
| Explanations of Vote | 502 | 43.0 | +459 | 7th/743 | 1st/17 | 1st/84 |
| Vote Participation | 97.5% | 86.3% | – | 91st/745 | 1st/17 | 15th/84 |
Each row orders Members by a single recorded metric; tied values share the same rank. Counts are raw and are not adjusted for mandate length; vote participation is the share of roll-call votes cast within each Member's mandate period. EP Avg = mean across all 745 tracked Members of the 10th term, including former Members. Data: European Parliament term 10 (2024–2029).
Roles and Memberships
Committees
Delegations
Committees and delegations
Ivaylo VALCHEV holds the committee and delegation roles listed below in the 10th term (2024–2029).
Committees
- Committee on Foreign Affairs (AFET): Substitute, since 2024-07-19. Attended 17 of 41 committee meetings held during the membership
- Committee on Culture and Education (CULT): Member, since 2024-07-19. Attended 22 of 27 committee meetings held during the membership
- Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO): Substitute, since 2024-07-19. Attended 12 of 30 committee meetings held during the membership
- Committee on Petitions (PETI): Member, since 2024-07-19. Attended 16 of 24 committee meetings held during the membership
Delegations
- Delegation to the EU-North Macedonia Joint Parliamentary Committee (D-MK): Vice-Chair, since 2024-10-03
- Delegation to the EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Parliamentary Committee (D-RS): Substitute, since 2024-09-19
Reports and opinions
Reports as shadow rapporteur
All 5, most recent first.
- 2026-06-12 A10-0173/2026 REPORT on a new strategy for media literacy and digital learning (CULT)
- 2026-06-10 A10-0166/2026 REPORT on the 2025 Commission report on Kosovo (AFET)
- 2026-06-09 A10-0162/2026 REPORT on the 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia (AFET)
- 2025-06-27 A10-0118/2025 REPORT on the 2023 and 2024 Commission reports on North Macedonia (AFET)
- 2025-04-22 A10-0075/2025 REPORT on the 2023 and 2024 Commission Reports on Kosovo (AFET)
Opinions as rapporteur
All 1, most recent first.
- 2025-10-21 CULT_AD(2025)775391 OPINION on protection of minors online (CULT)
Opinions as shadow rapporteur
All 5, most recent first.
- 2026-02-27 IMCO_AD(2026)778089 OPINION on the impact of social media and the online environment on young people (IMCO)
- 2025-07-17 CULT_AD(2025)773116 OPINION on the implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (CULT)
- 2025-07-15 IMCO_AD(2025)773105 OPINION on the implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (IMCO)
- 2025-04-08 CULT_AD(2025)767866 OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on improving and enforcing working conditions of trainees and combating regular employment relationships disguised as traineeships (‘Traineeships Directive’) (CULT)
- 2025-02-04 CULT_AL(2025)765311 Opinion on a Proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on combating the sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children and child sexual abuse material and replacing Council Framework Decision 2004/68/JHA (recast) (CULT)
Amendments by procedure
Procedures with the most amendments Ivaylo VALCHEV has tabled as author or co-author in the 10th term. Amendments are counted per procedure reference.
- 2025/0222(COD): 80 amendments, latest 2026-06-12 (CULT)
EP document title: BUDGETARY ASSESSMENT on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the Erasmus+ programme for the period 2028-2034, and repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/817 and (EU) 2021/888 - 2025/0550(COD): 70 amendments, latest 2026-06-22 (CULT)
EP document title: BUDGETARY ASSESSMENT on the proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing the ‘AgoraEU’ programme for the period 2028 to 2034, and repealing Regulations (EU) 2021/692 and (EU) 2021/818 - 2025/2060(INI): 68 amendments, latest 2025-07-22 (CULT)
EP document title: REPORT on the protection of minors online - 2025/2022(INI): 53 amendments, latest 2025-03-11 (AFET)
EP document title: REPORT on the 2023 and 2024 Commission reports on Serbia - 2025/2081(INI): 45 amendments, latest 2025-11-19 (CULT)
EP document title: OPINION on impact of social media and the online environment on young people
Questions, motions and explanations of vote
Records as published on the European Parliament website, including co-signed texts. Each list says how far its records reach.
Written questions
Most recent 20 of 25. Records up to 2026-09-09.
- 2026-08-08 Transitional application of Article 45(3) of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation to small businesses (E-10-2026-003236)
- 2026-07-01 The Erasmus+ ‘Spark’ project and the use of EU funds for sexual education programmes (E-10-2026-002732)
- 2026-06-17 Objections against the proposed Bulgarian 2 euro commemorative coin dedicated to the Bulgarian alphabet (P-10-2026-002505)
- 2026-04-30 Systemic shortcomings in food safety controls and imports in the EU (E-10-2026-001772)
- 2026-04-21 Turkish occupation forces escalate tensions in Cyprus (P-10-2026-001626)
- 2026-02-25 Derogation for Bulgaria from the requirement to receive relocated migrants (P-10-2026-000804)
- 2026-02-03 Measures to protect energy-intensive industries (E-10-2026-000423)
- 2025-12-04 2026-2030 LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy (E-10-2025-004821)
- 2025-11-14 Providing financial and regulatory incentives for nuclear energy in the EU (E-10-2025-004561)
- 2025-10-22 Unacceptable reference to gender self-identification ‘without age restrictions’ in the EU LGBTIQ+ equality strategy for 2026-2030 (E-10-2025-004172)
- 2025-10-20 Timeline for the decoupling of energy prices from the gas price (E-10-2025-004126)
- 2025-07-18 Rule of law in Albania (E-10-2025-003004)
- 2025-07-18 Electoral integrity in Albania (E-10-2025-003005)
- 2025-07-01 Use of EU funds for aquaculture in the Algarve, Portugal (E-10-2025-002679)
- 2025-05-30 Influence of the Muslim Brotherhood in the EU (P-10-2025-002185)
- 2025-04-01 Mandatory targets for corporate fleets (E-10-2025-001328)
- 2025-03-18 Escalation of violence against Christian minorities in Syria and the need for EU intervention (P-10-2025-001149)
- 2025-03-14 Double standards in EU nuclear policy (E-10-2025-001101)
- 2025-03-12 Concerns about the Commission’s neutrality in elections, given past cases of perceived interference amid Commissioner Virkkunen’s recent statement (E-10-2025-001060)
- 2025-03-06 Clarification of the concept of ‘interference’ in democratic debate and elections (E-10-2025-000959)
Questions for oral answer
All 3, most recent first. Records up to 2026-09-07.
- 2026-07-17 Adapting EU energy performance policies in the light of extreme heat episodes (O-10-2026-000032)
- 2026-01-26 Reporters Without Borders, a biased NGO heavily subsidised by Brussels (O-10-2026-000003)
- 2025-11-19 EU plan to promote gender self-ID without age limits under LGBTIQ+ equality strategy 2026-2030 (O-10-2025-000041)
Motions for resolutions
Most recent 20 of 71. Records up to 2026-09-11.
- 2026-07-01 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the Commission delegated regulation (EU) of 27 March 2026 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/688 as regards infection with bluetongue virus (serotypes 1-24) and infection with epizootic haemorrhagic disease virus and introducing a derogation for movements of registered equine animals (B-10-2026-0342)
- 2026-06-17 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Continued crackdown on civic space and fundamental freedoms in Burkina Faso (B-10-2026-0329)
- 2026-06-16 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the deteriorating situation of political prisoners in Belarus, in particular the case of Aliaksandra Pulinovich (B-10-2026-0327)
- 2026-06-15 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Russia’s unacceptable provocative actions and drone incursions into Romania, the Baltic states and Finland (B-10-2026-0308)
- 2026-06-15 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Political prisoners in Nicaragua - the cases of Carlos Brenes, Salvadora del Socorro Martínez Aburto and Brooklyn Rivera (B-10-2026-0317)
- 2026-06-15 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION continued crackdown on civic space and fundamental freedoms in Burkina Faso (B-10-2026-0322)
- 2026-05-18 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION the situation of women and girls in Afghanistan following the Taliban's adoption of the Criminal Procedure Code for Courts (B-10-2026-0258)
- 2026-05-18 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the cases of human rights and environmental defenders Andrie Yunus and Muhammad Rosidi in Indonesia (B-10-2026-0264)
- 2026-05-18 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on Repression and execution of protesters, dissidents, political prisoners and religious minorities in Iran (B-10-2026-0266)
- 2026-04-27 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on escalating trafficking and exploitation by criminal groups in Haiti (B-10-2026-0230)
- 2026-04-27 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Shortcomings and deficiencies of the 'Amnesty Law' in Venezuela (B-10-2026-0231)
- 2026-04-27 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION New Chinese law on “ethnic unity and progress” and the intensified suppression of ethnic identities (B-10-2026-0234)
- 2026-03-11 JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on human trafficking and grave human rights violations linked to the recruitment of non-Russian nationals, in particular from Africa, for Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine
- 2026-03-11 JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the arbitrary detention of President Mohamed Bazoum by the junta in Niger
- 2026-03-11 JOINT MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the case of Elene Khoshtaria and political prisoners under the Georgian Dream Regime
- 2026-03-09 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the arbitrary detention of President Mohamed Bazoum by the junta in Niger (B-10-2026-0173)
- 2026-03-09 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the case of Elene Khoshtaria and other Political Prisoners under the Georgian Dream Regime (B-10-2026-0174)
- 2026-03-09 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION Human trafficking and grave human rights violations linked to the recruitment of non-Russian nationals, in particular from Africa, for Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine (B-10-2026-0175)
- 2026-02-09 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION on the post-election situation in Uganda and threats against opposition leader Bobi Wine (B-10-2026-0132)
- 2026-02-09 MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION systemic oppression, inhumane conditions and arbitrary detentions by the regime in Iran (B-10-2026-0133)
Written explanations of vote
20 of 502, in alphabetical order. The EP lists explanations of vote without dates.
- 2023 and 2024 reports on Albania
- 2023 and 2024 reports on Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2023 and 2024 reports on Georgia
- 2023 and 2024 reports on Kosovo
- 2023 and 2024 reports on Moldova
- 2023 and 2024 reports on Montenegro
- 2023 and 2024 reports on North Macedonia
- 2023 and 2024 reports on Serbia
- 2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye
- 2023 and 2024 reports on Ukraine
- 2024 budget – assessing the implementation of the gender mainstreaming methodology in the EU budget
- 2025 budgetary procedure: Joint text
- 2025 Commission report on Albania
- 2025 Commission report on Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2025 Commission report on Georgia
- 2025 Commission report on Kosovo
- 2025 Commission report on Moldova
- 2025 Commission report on Montenegro
- 2025 Commission report on North Macedonia
- 2025 Commission report on Serbia
Comparison with group and country means
Counts of Ivaylo VALCHEV set against the mean of all Members of the EP, of the European Conservatives and Reformists group and of the Members from Bulgaria. The word in brackets says whether the count is higher than, lower than or equal to that mean.
| Activity | Count | EP mean | ECR mean | Bulgaria mean |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amendments | 898 | 811.1 (higher) | 780.9 (higher) | 565.5 (higher) |
| Speeches | 43 | 44.4 (lower) | 49.4 (lower) | 25.8 (higher) |
| Reports (Rapporteur) | 0 | 0.8 (lower) | 0.6 (lower) | 1.2 (lower) |
| Reports (Shadow) | 5 | 3.8 (higher) | 4.7 (higher) | 3.6 (higher) |
| Questions | 29 | 39.7 (lower) | 47.0 (lower) | 16.1 (higher) |
| Motions | 71 | 19.6 (higher) | 39.4 (higher) | 24.5 (higher) |
| Opinions (Rapporteur) | 1 | 0.6 (higher) | 0.4 (higher) | 0.4 (higher) |
| Opinions (Shadow) | 5 | 2.7 (higher) | 3.6 (higher) | 1.2 (higher) |
| Explanations of Vote | 502 | 43.0 (higher) | 35.5 (higher) | 33.6 (higher) |
| Vote Participation | 97.5% | 86.3% (higher) | 88.0% (higher) | 81.9% (higher) |
Means are taken over all tracked Members of the 10th term, former Members included. Counts are raw and not adjusted for mandate length.