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Establishing an EU talent pool

Effect
Negotiating mandate approved
Result
327 for · 229 against · 50 abstained roll call
Date
3 April 2025, 13:09
Kind
New EU law · 1st reading
More facts (10)
Margin
by a clear majority
Counts are for
the decision to open negotiations with the Council
Text
Report A-10-2025-0045
Dossier
2023/0404(COD)
Source
Committee report by Abir Al-Sahlani
Topics
Migration & asylumJobs, social affairs & equality Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Requested by
ECR (1 roll call) · Patriots (1 roll call) · ESN (1 roll call)
Sitting
Thursday 3 April 2025
Final vote
174881
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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: 327 for, 229 against, 50 abstained (roll call).

Negotiating mandate approved.

Parliament let its committee open negotiations with the Council on the basis of the committee’s report.

Backed by Greens, S&D, Renew and EPP; opposed by The Left, 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 17Against 21Abst. 0No vote 8 of 46Majority line AgainstClear line Divided Cohesion 0.33
GreensFor 36Against 3Abst. 12No vote 2 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.56
S&DFor 87Against 19Abst. 7No vote 23 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.65
RenewFor 62Against 0Abst. 0No vote 13 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 122Against 23Abst. 12No vote 31 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.67
ECRFor 0Against 48Abst. 18No vote 14 of 80Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.59
PatriotsFor 0Against 75Abst. 0No vote 11 of 86Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
ESNFor 0Against 21Abst. 1No vote 4 of 26Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.93
No groupFor 3Against 19Abst. 0No vote 6 of 28Majority 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, 95

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
Austria88310.13
Belgium108130.29
Bulgaria74060.45
Cyprus2103—
Czechia513030.58
Germany57231140.56
Denmark59010.46
Estonia5002—
Spain437370.72
Finland86010.36
France23406120.37
Greece36012—
Croatia111000.88
Hungary011640.47
Ireland121010.88
Italy34622140.32
Lithuania72110.55
Luxembourg3201—
Latvia5400—
Malta5001—
Netherlands167710.30
Poland343070.90
Portugal153030.75
Romania196080.64
Sweden710040.38
Slovenia7200—
Slovakia76020.31

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
Abir AL-SAHLANI SwedenRenewSpeeches110 Mar 2026 (verbatim report, official site) For
Katarina BARLEY GermanyS&DSpeeches110 Mar 2026 (verbatim report, official site) For
Christel SCHALDEMOSE DenmarkS&DSpeeches13 Apr 2025 (verbatim report, official site) Against

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
1Decision to open negotiations with the Council Final vote A10-0045/2025 - Abir Al-Sahlani - Décision d'engager des négociations interinstitutionnelles Roll call327 for, 229 against, 50 abstained AdoptedRequested byroll call: ESN, Patriots, ECR

Roll calls requested by ECR, Patriots, ESN.

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0045

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The EU talent pool is a proposed EU-wide platform to match jobseekers from non-EU countries with employers in the Union.

Parliament adopted its position on the law, backing the proposal with amendments.

The position calls on the Commission to refer the matter back if it substantially amends the proposal.

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Parliament's amended version of the proposed regulation establishing an EU talent pool to match jobseekers from third countries with employers in all member states.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2023/0404(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Establishing an EU talent pool

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 12 May 2026 and now EU law.

Show the 6 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 8 February 2024 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 19 March 2025 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 26 March 2025 (done)
  4. Negotiations with the Council · Deal approved in committee 3 December 2025 (done)
  5. Plenary vote · Adopted 10 March 2026 (done)
  6. Published as law · 12 May 2026 (done)

Lead committee: LIBE · Rapporteur: Abir AL-SAHLANI (Renew)

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Connections

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

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Running issue: EU competitiveness

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Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Sources & citation

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

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-04-03/1
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Establishing an EU talent pool”. Decision, 3 April 2025. votingId 174881, document A-10-2025-0045, reference 2023/0404(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-04-03/1 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 3 April 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-04-03-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 3 April 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-04-03-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-04-03, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-04-03/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2025-04-03-1,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Establishing an EU talent pool}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-04-03},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-04-03/1}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-04-03/1},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 174881, document A-10-2025-0045, reference 2023/0404(COD). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-04-03-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-04-03-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-04-03 (CC BY 4.0)}
}