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Decision

Renewal of the Agreement on cooperation in science and technology between the European Community and Ukraine

Effect
Consent given
Result
591 for · 9 against · 9 abstained roll call
Date
11 February 2025, 12:43
Kind
International agreement · Consent procedure
More facts (8)
Margin
by an overwhelming majority
Source
Committee report
Topics
Foreign affairs Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Final vote
171705
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Result

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

Final vote: 591 for, 9 against, 9 abstained (roll call).

Consent given by an overwhelming majority.

Parliament gave its consent.

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D, Renew, EPP, ECR, Patriots and 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 34Against 1Abst. 0No vote 11 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.96
GreensFor 51Against 0Abst. 0No vote 2 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 113Against 0Abst. 0No vote 23 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 67Against 0Abst. 0No vote 8 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 163Against 0Abst. 0No vote 25 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ECRFor 68Against 0Abst. 2No vote 10 of 80Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.96
PatriotsFor 68Against 6Abst. 2No vote 10 of 86Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.84
ESNFor 14Against 0Abst. 2No vote 10 of 26Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.81
No groupFor 13Against 2Abst. 3No vote 11 of 29Majority line —Clear line No line Cohesion —

Members who changed group are counted in the group of the day: Branko GRIMS 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, Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group, Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group, Pina PICIERNO changed group, Roberto VANNACCI changed group, Sander SMIT changed group, Taner KABILOV changed group.

Voted against their group, 13

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
Austria145010.61
Belgium190031.00
Bulgaria130041.00
Cyprus5001—
Czechia190021.00
Germany7701180.98
Denmark130021.00
Estonia6001—
Spain4800121.00
Finland140011.00
France6800131.00
Greece161220.76
Croatia9003—
Hungary141060.90
Ireland110031.00
Italy5700191.00
Lithuania110001.00
Luxembourg6000—
Latvia8001—
Malta5001—
Netherlands300011.00
Poland420290.93
Portugal181020.92
Romania281130.90
Sweden210001.00
Slovenia9000—
Slovakia100320.65

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 MaltaEPPSpeeches111 Feb 2025 (verbatim report, official site) No vote recorded

All votes on this decision, 1

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
1Final vote on the draft Council decision A10–0007/2025 – Borys Budka – Draft Council decision Roll call591 for, 9 against, 9 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0007

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

Parliament gave its consent to renewing the EU-Ukraine agreement on science and technology cooperation for another five years.

The agreement, first signed in 2002, has been renewed four times and will otherwise stay unchanged.

Parliament's decision allows the existing cooperation to continue, with no new rights or obligations.

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Parliament gives its consent to the renewal of the Agreement on cooperation in science and technology between the European Community and Ukraine.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2024/0240(NLE) · Non-legislative procedure

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 7 March 2025 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 16 December 2024 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 29 January 2025 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 31 January 2025 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 11 February 2025 (done)
  5. Adopted by the Council · 7 March 2025 (done)

Lead committee: ITRE · Rapporteur: Borys BUDKA (EPP)

Connections

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

No connections found for this decision.

Sources & citation

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

Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Renewal of the Agreement on cooperation in science and technology between the European Community and Ukraine”. Decision, 11 February 2025. votingId 171705, document A-10-2025-0007, reference 2024/0240(NLE). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-02-11/1 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 11 February 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-02-11-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 11 February 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-02-11-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-02-11, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-02-11/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-decision-2025-02-11-1,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Renewal of the Agreement on cooperation in science and technology between the European Community and Ukraine}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-02-11},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-02-11/1}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-02-11/1},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 171705, document A-10-2025-0007, reference 2024/0240(NLE). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-02-11-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-02-11-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-02-11 (CC BY 4.0)}
}