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Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Parliament

Effect
Discharge decision adopted
Result
513 for · 119 against · 20 abstained roll call
Date
7 May 2025, 13:40
Kind
Budget decision
More facts (9)
Margin
by a large majority
Counts are for
the proposal for a discharge decision
Text
Report A-10-2025-0062
Dossier
2024/2020(DEC)
Source
Committee report by Monika Hohlmeier
Topics
EU budget & funds Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Sitting
Wednesday 7 May 2025
Final vote
175116
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Cite this page Roll-call results (EP) (opens the official site)
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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: 513 for, 119 against, 20 abstained (roll call).

Discharge decision adopted by a large majority.

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

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D, Renew, EPP and ECR; opposed by 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 39Against 1Abst. 0No vote 6 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.96
GreensFor 47Against 2Abst. 0No vote 4 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.94
S&DFor 120Against 1Abst. 0No vote 15 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.99
RenewFor 69Against 0Abst. 0No vote 6 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 173Against 0Abst. 0No vote 15 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ECRFor 54Against 9Abst. 7No vote 10 of 80Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.66
PatriotsFor 0Against 76Abst. 7No vote 2 of 85Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.87
ESNFor 0Against 22Abst. 0No vote 4 of 26Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
No groupFor 11Against 8Abst. 6No vote 5 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, 27

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
Austria146000.55
Belgium135040.58
Bulgaria133010.72
Cyprus6000—
Czechia551010.25
Germany66155100.65
Denmark122010.79
Estonia6010—
Spain466080.83
Finland120120.88
France4236030.31
Greece144300.50
Croatia100021.00
Hungary911010.33
Ireland120021.00
Italy5870110.84
Lithuania91010.85
Luxembourg5001—
Latvia7101—
Malta5001—
Netherlands246010.70
Poland413090.90
Portugal162030.83
Romania302010.91
Sweden173010.78
Slovenia8001—
Slovakia131010.89

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, 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 A10-0062/2025 – Monika Hohlmeier – Proposal for a decision Roll call513 for, 119 against, 20 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0062

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

The European Parliament voted on granting discharge for the implementation of the EU general budget for 2023, specifically for its own section.

MEPs approved the spending, meaning the Parliament's budget execution for that year was accepted.

The decision will be forwarded to the Council, the Commission, and the Court of Auditors for publication.

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The European Parliament grants discharge to its President for implementing the EU general budget for 2023, Section I – European Parliament, based on the Court of Auditors' assurance and internal reports.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2024/2020(DEC) · Discharge procedure

2023 discharge: General budget of the EU - European Parliament

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 · 11 April 2025 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 7 May 2025 (done)
  5. Parliament’s position · Final (done)

Lead committee: CONT · Rapporteur: Monika HOHLMEIER (EPP)

Connections

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

Show 21 connections: Running issue: Annual budget discharge procedure · Other decisions of the part-session on CONT dossiers · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Running issue: Annual budget discharge procedure

Other decisions of the part-session on CONT dossiers

See all: Other decisions of the part-session on CONT dossiers

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/2025-05-07/4
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Parliament”. Decision, 7 May 2025. votingId 175116, document A-10-2025-0062, reference 2024/2020(DEC). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-07/4 (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-2025-05-07-4,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Discharge 2023: EU general budget – European Parliament}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-05-07},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-07/4}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-07/4},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 175116, document A-10-2025-0062, reference 2024/2020(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)}
}