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Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Ombudsman

Effect
Discharge decision adopted
Result
568 for · 54 against · 43 abstained roll call
Date
7 May 2025, 13:48–13:49
Kind
Budget decision
More facts (10)
Margin
by an overwhelming majority
Counts are for
the proposal for a discharge decision
Text
Report A-10-2025-0055
Dossier
2024/2027(DEC)
Source
Committee report by Joachim Stanisław Brudziński
Topics
EU budget & funds Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
4 votes · 3 roll calls · 1 amendment
Requested by
S&D (1 roll call) · ECR (1 roll call)
Sitting
Wednesday 7 May 2025
Final vote
175707
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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: 568 for, 54 against, 43 abstained (roll call).

Discharge decision adopted by an overwhelming majority.

Parliament voted on its discharge decision for this budget; whether discharge was granted, refused or postponed is set out in the report.

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 1 amendment (1 rejected) and 1 part of the text voted on separately (1 rejected).

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

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 40Against 1Abst. 0No vote 5 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.96
GreensFor 49Against 0Abst. 0No vote 4 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 70Against 0Abst. 0No vote 5 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 173Against 1Abst. 0No vote 14 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.99
ECRFor 70Against 0Abst. 6No vote 4 of 80Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.88
PatriotsFor 17Against 47Abst. 18No vote 3 of 85Majority line AgainstClear line Divided Cohesion 0.36
ESNFor 3Against 2Abst. 17No vote 4 of 26Majority line AbstainedClear line Abstained Cohesion 0.66
No groupFor 21Against 3Abst. 2No vote 4 of 30Majority 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, Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group, Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group, Pina PICIERNO changed group, Roberto VANNACCI changed group, Sander SMIT changed group, Taner KABILOV changed group, Volker SCHNURRBUSCH 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
Austria140600.55
Belgium170051.00
Bulgaria130310.72
Cyprus6000—
Czechia172020.84
Germany7221390.74
Denmark121110.79
Estonia7000—
Spain480660.83
Finland130021.00
France4929030.44
Greece154200.57
Croatia100021.00
Hungary1010010.25
Ireland130011.00
Italy710051.00
Lithuania90110.85
Luxembourg5001—
Latvia7101—
Malta5001—
Netherlands240610.70
Poland453050.91
Portugal162030.83
Romania310110.95
Sweden180300.79
Slovenia8001—
Slovakia130110.89

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 MaltaEPPSpeeches17 May 2025 (verbatim report, official site) No vote recorded

All votes on this decision, 4

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 A10-0055/2025 – Joachim Stanisław Brudziński – Proposal for a decision Roll call568 for, 54 against, 43 abstained Adopted
2Vote on text inserted after paragraph 15 Show of hands Rejected
3Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 47 A10-0055/2025 – Joachim Stanisław Brudziński – After § 47 – Am 1 Roll call246 for, 267 against, 139 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: ECR
4Final vote — text as a whole A10-0055/2025 – Joachim Stanisław Brudziński – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) Roll call611 for, 8 against, 46 abstained Adopted
Show the other 3 votesShow the other 0 votes
Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
2Vote on text inserted after paragraph 15 Show of hands Rejected
3Amendment 1, adding text after paragraph 47 A10-0055/2025 – Joachim Stanisław Brudziński – After § 47 – Am 1 Roll call246 for, 267 against, 139 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: ECR
4Final vote — text as a whole A10-0055/2025 – Joachim Stanisław Brudziński – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) Roll call611 for, 8 against, 46 abstained Adopted

Roll calls requested by S&D, ECR.

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0055

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Parliament decided to grant discharge to the European Ombudsman for the implementation of its 2023 budget, approving the spending.

The decision covers the EU general budget for 2023, Section VIII – European Ombudsman, and includes observations in a resolution.

Parliament also forwards the decision to the Ombudsman, the Council, the Commission, and other EU bodies for publication.

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Parliament grants the European Ombudsman discharge for the 2023 budget and adopts a resolution with observations on the Ombudsman's financial management, performance, staff, ethics, buildings, digitalisation, environment, cooperation and communication.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2024/2027(DEC) · Discharge procedure

2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - European Ombudsman

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 8 October 2025 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 17 September 2024 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 18 March 2025 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 2 April 2025 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 7 May 2025 (done)
  5. Parliament’s position · Final (done)

Lead committee: CONT · Rapporteur: Joachim Stanisław BRUDZIŃSKI (ECR)

Connections

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

Show 16 connections: Running issue: Annual budget discharge procedure · Other decisions of the part-session on CONT dossiers

Running issue: Annual budget discharge procedure

Other decisions of the part-session on CONT dossiers

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Sources & citation

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

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-07/10
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Ombudsman”. Decision, 7 May 2025. votingId 175707, document A-10-2025-0055, reference 2024/2027(DEC). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-07/10 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 7 May 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-07-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 7 May 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-07-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-05-07, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-05-07/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2025-05-07-10,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Ombudsman}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-05-07},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-07/10}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-07/10},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 175707, document A-10-2025-0055, reference 2024/2027(DEC). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-07-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-07-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-05-07 (CC BY 4.0)}
}