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Amending of Regulation (EU) 2021/1057 establishing the European Social Fund + (ESF+) as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges

Effect
Urgent procedure agreed
Result
370 for · 268 against · 16 abstained roll call
Date
7 May 2025, 13:23
Kind
New EU law · 1st reading
More facts (7)
Margin
by a clear majority
Counts are for
the request for urgent procedure
Topics
EU budget & fundsJobs, social affairs & equality Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Requested by
The Left (1 roll call)
Sitting
Wednesday 7 May 2025
Final vote
176091
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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: 370 for, 268 against, 16 abstained (roll call).

Urgent procedure agreed.

Parliament agreed to deal with the proposal by urgent procedure, without a committee report first; the vote on the text itself comes later.

Backed by Renew, EPP, ECR and Patriots; opposed by The Left, Greens, S&D 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 1Against 40Abst. 0No vote 5 of 46Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.96
GreensFor 0Against 49Abst. 0No vote 4 of 53Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 0Against 121Abst. 0No vote 15 of 136Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 68Against 0Abst. 0No vote 7 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 164Against 3Abst. 8No vote 13 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.91
ECRFor 65Against 2Abst. 7No vote 6 of 80Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.82
PatriotsFor 62Against 19Abst. 0No vote 4 of 85Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.65
ESNFor 0Against 21Abst. 0No vote 5 of 26Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
No groupFor 10Against 13Abst. 1No vote 6 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, 40

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
Austria713000.47
Belgium117040.42
Bulgaria105020.50
Cyprus4101—
Czechia123420.45
Germany37490100.35
Denmark77010.25
Estonia5200—
Spain2924070.32
Finland76020.31
France5121090.56
Greece813000.43
Croatia64020.40
Hungary103710.25
Ireland103010.65
Italy3140050.35
Lithuania74000.45
Luxembourg3201—
Latvia6201—
Malta0501—
Netherlands1416010.30
Poland434150.84
Portugal98040.29
Romania1812120.37
Sweden810300.21
Slovenia6201—
Slovakia112020.77

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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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
1Request for urgent procedure Final vote C10-0064/2025 – Request for an urgent decision Roll call370 for, 268 against, 16 abstained Adopted

Roll call requested by The Left.

Text

The text voted on.

Parliament’s vote records link no text to this decision.

Connections

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

Show 11 connections: Running issue: European Pillar of Social Rights · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Running issue: European Pillar of Social Rights

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/2025-05-07/2
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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Amending of Regulation (EU) 2021/1057 establishing the European Social Fund + (ESF+) as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges”. Decision, 7 May 2025. votingId 176091. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-07/2 (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-2025-05-07-2,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Amending of Regulation (EU) 2021/1057 establishing the European Social Fund + (ESF+) as regards specific measures to address strategic challenges}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-05-07},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-07/2}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-07/2},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 176091. 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)}
}