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Border Regions’ instrument for development and growth (BRIDGEforEU)

Effect
Approved without a vote
Result
approved without a vote
Date
6 May 2025
Kind
New EU law · 2nd reading
More facts (6)
Text
Report A-10-2025-0058
Dossier
2018/0198(COD)
Source
Committee report
Votes
1 vote · 0 roll calls
Sitting
Tuesday 6 May 2025
Final vote
176082
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Result

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

No vote recorded

Approved without a vote.

The Council’s position was approved without a vote: at second reading it stands when no one moves to reject or amend it.

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
Younous OMARJEE FranceThe LeftSpeeches26 May 2025 (verbatim report, official site)no roll call
Sandro GOZI FranceRenewSpeeches16 May 2025 (verbatim report, official site)no roll call

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 Approval without vote No vote

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0058

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The draft law sets up an EU mechanism to resolve legal and administrative obstacles in cross-border regions.

Parliament approved the Council's first-reading position, meaning the act is adopted as agreed between Parliament and the Council.

Parliament instructs its President and Secretary-General to sign the act and arrange its publication in the Official Journal.

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Parliament approves the Council position at first reading on a regulation to resolve legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2018/0198(COD) · Ordinary legislative procedure

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 19 May 2025 and now EU law.

Show the 6 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 3 April 2025 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 9 April 2025 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 9 April 2025 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Voted 6 May 2025 (done)
  5. Negotiations with the Council · Deal approved in committee 28 January 2025 (done)
  6. Published as law · 19 May 2025 (done)

Lead committee: REGI · Rapporteurs: MEP #125022 (ALDE), Sandro GOZI (Renew)

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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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/2025-05-06/5
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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Border Regions’ instrument for development and growth (BRIDGEforEU)”. Decision, 6 May 2025. votingId 176082, document A-10-2025-0058, reference 2018/0198(COD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-06/5 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Results of votes, sitting of 6 May 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-06-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-05-06, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-05-06/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2025-05-06-5,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Border Regions’ instrument for development and growth (BRIDGEforEU)}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-05-06},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-06/5}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-06/5},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 176082, document A-10-2025-0058, reference 2018/0198(COD). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-06-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-05-06 (CC BY 4.0)}
}