The 2021 Influence Index suggests female MEPs have the upper hand when influencing the EU’s health policy.

Our analysis is based on political and social media data from the one-year period up to August 2021.

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MEP Name Political ScoreSocial ScoreOverall ScoreRising Stars
Peter LIESE
EPP, @peterliese

Germany

9596.295.9
Sara CERDAS
S&D, @sara_saracerdas

Portugal

10087.893.9^4
Bartosz ARŁUKOWICZ
EPP, @Arlukowicz

Poland

9294.193.2^1
Véronique TRILLET-LENOIR
Renew Europe, @VTrillet_Lenoir

France

84100.091.9
Pascal CANFIN
Renew Europe, @pcanfin

France

8992.991.0^6
Alessandra MORETTI
S&D, @ale_moretti

Italy

9384.488.8^93
Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ
Renew Europe, @nicustefanuta

Romania

8676.681.5^242
Dolors MONTSERRAT
EPP, @DolorsMM

Spain

5496.875.6
Michèle RIVASI
Greens/EFA, @MicheleRivasi

France

4399.270.8^12
María Soraya RODRÍGUEZ RAMOS
Renew Europe, @sorayarr_

Spain

4596.070.4^27
Bas EICKHOUT
Greens/EFA, @BasEickhout

Netherlands

7367.570.2^12
Manfred WEBER
EPP, @ManfredWeber

Germany

2695.761.0^39
Frances FITZGERALD
EPP, @FitzgeraldFrncs

Ireland

2495.159.3^3
Jytte GUTELAND
S&D, @JytteGuteland

Sweden

7246.059.2^99
Carlo CALENDA
S&D, @CarloCalenda

Italy

2097.058.7^23
Pierre LARROUTUROU
S&D, @larrouturou

France

2394.358.7^203
Manon AUBRY
The Left, @ManonAubryFr

France

1596.255.6
Joanna KOPCIŃSKA
ECR, @j_kopcinska

Poland

910.045.7

Sara Cerdas (S&D, Portugal) ranks first for political influence and Veronique Trillet-Lenoir (Renew Europe, France) for social influence. Both women play a leading role on key policy initiatives such as tackling cross-border threats to health. Peter Liese (EPP, Germany) is most influential when considering both political and social influence.

Qualified medical doctors occupy the top four places in overall influence, showing that experienced medical practitioners are shaping Europe’s health policies. Also noteworthy is that all top 10 MEPs for overall social and political influence sit on European Parliament’s Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI Committee).

INFLUENCE BY COUNTRY

MEPs from Spain have most political influence on the EU’s health policy, on average, followed by Romania and Portugal. On social media, France is substantially ahead, compensating for ranking in the last place for political influence.

INFLUENCE BY POLITICAL GROUP

The Left-leaning Socialists & Democrats (S&D) group are most politically influential and have grown in influence since 2020, while MEPs from the Greens/EFA group lead when it comes to social influence.

INFLUENCE BY AGE AND GENDER

Female MEPs have marginally more political and significantly more social influence than their male peers in health policy. We also see a generational gap along the two dimensions of influence: female MEP over 60 years old wield the most political influence while MEPs under 39 perform best on social media.

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