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Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/002 BE/Limburg machinery and paper – Belgium

Effect
Passed
Result
599 for · 50 against · 7 abstained roll call
Date
17 December 2024, 12:58
Kind
Budget decision
More facts (8)
Margin
by an overwhelming majority
Text
Report A-10-2024-0019
Dossier
2024/0286(BUD)
Source
Committee report by Matjaž Nemec
Topics
Jobs, social affairs & equalityEU budget & funds Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
3 votes · 1 roll call
Sitting
Tuesday 17 December 2024
Final vote
171124
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Votes on this decision
Members on the final vote

Result

The final vote and what it means for this kind of decision.

Final vote: 599 for, 50 against, 7 abstained (roll call).

Passed by an overwhelming majority.

The budget decision was approved.

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 2 parts of the text voted on separately (2 rejected).

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D, Renew, EPP, ECR and Patriots; opposed by ESN.

Groups

Members' votes, each counted in the group they belonged to on the day. No vote: in office that day, no position recorded. Majority line: the most common position. Clear line: a position with at least two thirds of the group's votes (at least 10 members voting), otherwise Divided. Cohesion: Agreement Index, 0 = evenly split, 1 = all voted the same (method).
GroupForAgainstAbst.No voteMajority lineClear lineCohesionBar
The LeftFor 43Against 0Abst. 0No vote 3 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
GreensFor 48Against 0Abst. 0No vote 5 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 125Against 0Abst. 0No vote 11 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 69Against 6Abst. 0No vote 2 of 77Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.88
EPPFor 166Against 1Abst. 0No vote 21 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.99
ECRFor 54Against 8Abst. 5No vote 11 of 78Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.71
PatriotsFor 68Against 10Abst. 1No vote 7 of 86Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.79
ESNFor 2Against 19Abst. 1No vote 3 of 25Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.80
No groupFor 24Against 6Abst. 0No vote 0 of 30Majority line —Clear line No line Cohesion —

Members who changed group are counted in the group of the day: Branko GRIMS changed group, Diego SOLIER changed group, Elena YONCHEVA changed group, Elisabetta GUALMINI changed group, Ewa ZAJĄCZKOWSKA-HERNIK changed group, Fernand KARTHEISER changed group, Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group, Laurent CASTILLO changed group, Lukas SIEPER changed group, Malika SOREL changed group, Milan MAZUREK changed group, Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group, Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group, Nora JUNCO GARCÍA changed group, Pina PICIERNO changed group, Roberto VANNACCI changed group, Sander SMIT changed group, Taner KABILOV changed group.

Voted against their group, 34

Members who voted otherwise than a clear line (at least two thirds of the votes cast, at least 10 members voting) of the group they sat in that day. A group without a clear line is divided and not counted.

Countries

The final vote by national delegation.

Votes by country (27 delegations)
Members' votes by country. No vote: in office that day, no position recorded. Cohesion: Agreement Index of the delegation, 0 = evenly split, 1 = all the same; it reflects the mix of groups (method).
CountryForAgainstAbst.No voteCohesion
Austria200001.00
Belgium180041.00
Bulgaria112040.77
Cyprus6000—
Czechia163110.70
Germany7217070.71
Denmark131010.89
Estonia5101—
Spain513060.92
Finland121020.88
France740430.92
Greece160140.91
Croatia110011.00
Hungary171030.92
Ireland140001.00
Italy6500111.00
Lithuania8102—
Luxembourg6000—
Latvia6102—
Malta5001—
Netherlands255010.75
Poland424160.84
Portugal182010.85
Romania311010.95
Sweden137010.47
Slovenia9000—
Slovakia150001.00

Members

Each member’s recorded position on the final roll call, in the group they sat in that day. Filter by country, group, position or name.

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Debate speakers and how they voted

Members who spoke in the plenary debate on the dossier. Speeches: how many times they took the floor. Final vote: their recorded position on this decision's final roll call.
MemberGroupSpeechesSpokeFinal vote
Roberta METSOLA MaltaEPPSpeeches117 Dec 2024 (verbatim report, official site) No vote recorded

All votes on this decision, 3

In voting order. Result: for–against–abstained (a show of hands has no count). Requested by: the groups that asked for a roll call, a split vote or a separate vote.
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
1Separate vote on paragraph 8 Show of hands Rejected
2Separate vote on paragraph 13 Show of hands Rejected
3Final vote — text as a whole A10-0019/2024 – Matjaž Nemec – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) Roll call599 for, 50 against, 7 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2024-0019

AI: What this vote decides Written by AI from the official text — check the source

Parliament approved the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers to support workers made redundant in the machinery and paper sectors in Belgium's Limburg province.

The decision releases EU funding for personalised services such as guidance, training, and job-search support for the affected workers.

The application follows 681 redundancies at Sappi Lanaken and Purmo Group Belgium, with 632 workers targeted for assistance.

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AI: The text in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source

Parliament approves the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers with EUR 704 135 for Belgium, following 681 redundancies in the machinery and paper sectors in Limburg.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2024/0286(BUD) · Budgetary procedure

Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers following an application from Belgium — EGF/2024/002 BE/Limburg machinery and paper

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 10 January 2025 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 13 November 2024 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 21 November 2024 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 22 November 2024 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 17 December 2024 (done)
  5. Published as law · 10 January 2025 (done)

Lead committee: BUDG · Rapporteur: Matjaž NEMEC (S&D)

Connections

What this decision touches: the procedural chain, the same text, running issues, votes that split the chamber the same way.

Show 6 connections: Running issue: European Pillar of Social Rights

Running issue: European Pillar of Social Rights

Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-12-17/6
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Data source
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25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2024). “Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/002 BE/Limburg machinery and paper – Belgium”. Decision, 17 December 2024. votingId 171124, document A-10-2024-0019, reference 2024/0286(BUD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-12-17/6 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 17 December 2024 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-12-17-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 17 December 2024 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-12-17-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2024-12-17, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2024-12-17/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2024-12-17-6,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2024/002 BE/Limburg machinery and paper – Belgium}},
  year = {2024},
  date = {2024-12-17},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-12-17/6}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2024-12-17/6},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 171124, document A-10-2024-0019, reference 2024/0286(BUD). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-12-17-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-12-17-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2024-12-17 (CC BY 4.0)}
}