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MEPs whose initial is “B” · 22 MEPs

Barbara Bonte

• European industry pays four times more for gas than American competitors.

Barry Andrews

• The combined GDP of the EU is EUR 18 trillion.
• Israel has forbidden the Red Cross from visiting Palestinian detainees since 7 October 2023.
• Sierra Leone's doctor density has improved slightly since 2014.
• The US National Security Strategy was published two months ago (November 2025).
• Less than 10% of Global Gateway projects are invested in health.
• WindEurope has committed to deliver a 30% decrease in production costs based on political commitments made at the summit
• Suspected Russian drone activity was detected near Dublin Airport during President Zelenskyy's visit to Ireland in Decem
• The EU is the top trading partner for 80 countries.
• Israel hit 100 targets in 10 minutes across Lebanon
• 300 people were killed in the attack, including 100 women, children and elderly people
• 80% of Ireland's gas comes through just two pipelines from the United Kingdom.
• Cases of childhood HIV and AIDS transmission have increased.
• There are more cases of child marriage in 2026 than two years earlier.
• At least 10 EU member states have detected drones near airports and military units.
• Of 5,900 shipments that arrived in the EU, 17% contained settlement goods, according to Global Echo.
• US companies have developed 40 advanced AI systems.
• Ireland relies on fossil fuels for 80% of energy consumption.
• Ireland has 40 doctors per 10,000 population.
• Global development aid was cut by 25% in 2025 compared to 2024.
• In 2026, fewer girls are attending school globally than two years earlier.
• Sierra Leone has one doctor per 10,000 population.
• According to a recent IMF report, the EU imposes a 110% tariff equivalent on itself by not completing the single market

Barry Cowen

• The EU and India together account for almost a quarter of global GDP.
• The Strait of Hormuz has been closed for nearly 12 weeks.
• Europe's energy costs are among the highest in the developed world.
• The EU-India trade agreement will create a market of 2 billion people.
• Almost 30% of farmers in Ireland experienced at least one unfair trading practice last year

Bart Groothuis

• EIB financing volume increased from 90 billion euros in 2024 to a record 100 billion euros in 2025
• The European Tech Champions Initiative has resulted in the creation of 11 unicorns so far
• The European Investment Bank allocated EUR 18 billion to SMEs out of a total turnover of EUR 100 billion in 2025.
• The European Investment Bank invested approximately EUR 30 billion in energy out of a total turnover of EUR 100 billion
• In 2025, 5% of EIB activities inside the EU have been dedicated to security and defence

Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz

• The Venice Biennale closed the Russian pavilion two years ago and is now reopening it.
• A crowd of 80,000 people entered Ceuta within 48 hours.

Bas Eickhout

• The six largest oil companies are making profits of nearly USD 3,000 per second.
• These six companies are making around EUR 94 billion of fossil fuel profits per year.
• The 10 omnibus packages together bring savings of up to EUR 15 billion per year, representing only 1% of the investment
• The European Central Bank stated last year that the investment gap is EUR 1,200 billion per year.
• Today, half of the European Union's LNG comes from the United States.

Beatrice Timgren

• Spain has received half a million illegal migrants.
• The exemption of fertilizers from CBAM was initially included but was removed from the action plan.
• The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency estimated that the cost of implementing the Nature Restoration Regulation in
• 95% of all new coal power being built globally is built in China.

Benedetta Scuderi

• The world's seven largest fossil fuel companies earn a combined $3,000 per second.
• Italy should have had 5 gigawatts of energy communities by 2030 but is currently at 50 megawatts.
• In Spain, five men repeatedly raped a woman and for two court degrees there was no rape because there was no explicit re
• Europe has not yet suspended the association agreement with Israel
• The European Parliament's monthly session in Strasbourg costs hundreds of millions of euros of public money.
• The European Union devotes €800 billion to national rearmament.
• One week ago, 1,000 people died in the Mediterranean.
• Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) lost almost 50,000 workers between 2000 and 2020.
• The gas price increased by 50% in the last ten days.
• Italy has the highest energy cost in Europe.
• In France, an 11-year-old girl was abused by an adult man and the justice system hesitated to recognize the rape because
• In Italy, the Court of Cassation annulled a rape sentence because tight jeans cannot be removed without the woman's coll
• In ten days, the electricity price in Italy increased by over 60%.

Benoit Cassart

• The share of the EU budget allocated to the Common Agricultural Policy fell from 37% in 2020 to 28% at the end of the cu
• The Nitrates Directive is more than 25 years old.

Bernd Lange

• Tariffs on products containing steel and aluminum were increased from 15% to 50% after the deal was concluded.
• The European Union is required to set tariffs on industrial goods imported from the United States to 0%.
• Donald Trump negatively affected Mexico's economy eight times in the last year through tariff threats and measures.
• Tariffs on steel and aluminum remain at 50%.
• Washing machines were subjected to tariffs of more than 15% by the United States.
• The United States currently imposes a 15% tariff on all goods.

Bert-Jan Ruissen

• Disruptions in the Red Sea are driving oil and gas prices further up.
• No less than one third of all child pornography images in the world are stored on Dutch servers.
• The error rate in cohesion policy stands at 6.6%, according to the Court of Auditors' 2025 audit
• According to the EPPO, 5 billion euros have been defrauded from the corona recovery fund.

Biljana Borzan

• The minimum gross wage in Croatia is below €1,000, while in Germany or Belgium it is over €2,000.
• Citizens in Eastern European countries often earn four times less than in Western Europe, and almost a third of salary g

Billy Kelleher

• Energy prices have been abnormally high for over four years
• EUR 4.6 billion in goods and services is traded daily between the European Union and the United States
• Farmers in Ireland have to pay up to €3.50 per sheep for shearing.
• SMEs spend 20% of their overall labour force on complying with regulations.
• Putin started the war in Ukraine five years ago (from March 2026)
• The EIB agreed to back a 260 million EUR solar portfolio across Ireland.
• The EIB lent 20 million EUR to a Swedish biotechnology company.
• 90% of the Gaza Strip has been destroyed.
• Cape Clear Island in West Cork, Ireland, has 110 year-round residents.
• Deposits in the European Union are earning on average around 1.6% to 1.8% per annum.
• In Ireland, only 5% of adults who experienced sexual violence reported it to the police.
• Ireland exported 5,895 tonnes of wool worth 14 million in 1984, falling to 5,641 tonnes worth only 6.8 million in 2019.
• Intra-EU trade between Member States dropped for the first time in a decade according to the Financial Times.
• Ireland catches less than 4% of the fish caught in EU waters.
• The EIB and the Commission announced a new financing package of more than 600 million EUR to support urgent reconstructi
• Ireland holds 12% of the fishing waters of the European Union.
• Life expectancy in Ireland rose from 70 to 83 years over the speaker's lifetime.
• Bluefin tuna is now very prevalent off the coast of Ireland, whereas it was not seen there 50 years ago.
• Employment in the Irish fishing sector fell by 15% over the last number of years.
• There is an estimated EUR 13 trillion sitting in deposits in the European Union.
• There is an investment gap of about EUR 800 billion per annum in Europe (Draghi report).
• Netanyahu and President Trump are invading Iran as of March 2026
• The EU is providing a EUR 90 billion loan to Ukraine for 2026 and 2027
• Direct gross value added of the Irish fishing sector decreased by 23% over the last number of years.

Birgit Sippel

• More than 140 people lost their lives in the Ceuta tragedy.
• The number of asylum applications in the EU fell last year

Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski

• Nearly 17 million people have been beneficiaries of the Erasmus+ programme.
• The Erasmus+ budget for the current multiannual financial framework is €26 billion.
• One million children have been born as a result of cooperation under the Erasmus+ programme.

Bogdan Rzońca

• Serious restrictions on the use of nitrous oxide have already been introduced in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, an
• The European Union's debt is currently at its highest level ever.
• Today we will be voting on aid for a Belgian company that fired 3,500 employees
• European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sent a letter to all EU leaders stating that countries resisting her
• Over 400 inquiries were initiated concerning potential cases of maladministration in EU institutions in 2024
• The European Union's debt is at its highest level ever; the EU has never been as indebted as it is now.

Borja Giménez Larraz

• This growth has lifted more than one billion people out of poverty.
• The EU and Mexico together have more than 580 million consumers.
• Between 2010 and 2025, housing prices in the European Union increased by 61%
• Only 16% of the money has been dedicated to maintenance and conservation
• The number of construction permits has decreased by 20% in the last five years
• Mexico is the country with the most murdered journalists in the world.
• Today, in many European cities, one in ten households dedicates more than 40% of their income to paying for housing
• EU-Mexico trade has grown by 148% over the 25 years since the start of the EU-Mexico trade relationship.
• 70% of world trade is conducted under the WTO.

Brando Benifei

• Global steel overcapacity is over 600 million tonnes, nearly four times the entire annual production of Europe
• Three companies control 90% of the cloud market in Europe.
• A few weeks ago, the Femwar02 group paralyzed La Sapienza University of Rome, blocking 400 servers and affecting hundred
• Trade between the EU and Canada increased by 65% in less than ten years
• Europe is the third largest steel producer in the world
• In Italy 34% of adolescents have suffered cyberbullying
• In 2024, the Russian group Black Basta published the medical reports of millions of Italians in the Synlab system.
• The new regulation reduces steel import quotas by 50%, sets a maximum ceiling of 18.3 million tonnes per year, and intro

Branislav Ondruš

• On Friday 2 November 2012, four workers died during the construction of a highway bridge at Kurimany in eastern Slovakia

Brigitte Van Den Berg

• While more than half of Europeans have completed vocational training, virtually no one with a vocational background sits
• According to the Draghi report, 80% of SMEs need workers with vocational education and training and experience major ski
• Three-quarters of Europeans believe that general education enjoys a more positive image than vocational education and tr

Bruno Gonçalves

• In industry, the average cost per cyberattack is 5 million euros.
• Galp announced profits with a rise of 41%.
• The Pentagon says there are 140 wounded troops, among them 7 dead
• In the last year, in the European Union, phishing success rate rose from 12% to 54% when comparing traditional attacks t
• Portuguese oil company Galp earned nearly double in the first half of 2026 what it earned in the whole of 2021.
• The eight largest companies in the oil sector recorded extraordinary profits of more than EUR 7 billion in the first hal
• Overall, there were 22% more cyberattacks compared to the previous year.
• Approximately 7,000 people were killed during the US-led Operation Epic Fury.

Bruno Tobback

• Team Hamburg alone in the wind energy sector directly employs more than 200,000 people in Europe.
• More than 200 companies and 11,000 jobs in Belgium alone.
• An electric car consumes three times less energy than an internal combustion engine vehicle for the same performance.
• In some member states, wind energy accounts for 80% of all electricity.