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Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the PfE Group

Effect
Rejected
Result
132 for · 334 against · 5 abstained roll call
Date
21 May 2025, 17:03
Kind
Agenda vote
More facts (4)
Margin
by a large majority
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Sitting
Wednesday 21 May 2025
Final vote
176944
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Members on the final vote

Result

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

Final vote: 132 for, 334 against, 5 abstained (roll call).

Rejected by a large majority.

The agenda was left unchanged.

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

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 0Against 33Abst. 0No vote 13 of 46Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
GreensFor 1Against 39Abst. 0No vote 13 of 53Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.96
S&DFor 0Against 88Abst. 1No vote 47 of 136Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.98
RenewFor 0Against 44Abst. 0No vote 31 of 75Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 4Against 130Abst. 1No vote 53 of 188Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.94
ECRFor 36Against 0Abst. 2No vote 42 of 80Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.92
PatriotsFor 62Against 0Abst. 0No vote 23 of 85Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ESNFor 12Against 0Abst. 0No vote 15 of 27Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
No groupFor 17Against 0Abst. 1No vote 11 of 29Majority 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.

Voted against their group, 9

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
Austria510050.50
Belgium410170.50
Bulgaria38150.50
Cyprus1203—
Czechia115140.47
Germany14360460.58
Denmark2607—
Estonia0502—
Spain848040.79
Finland14010—
France25292250.28
Greece27012—
Croatia0705—
Hungary106050.44
Ireland0905—
Italy15360250.56
Lithuania38000.59
Luxembourg1302—
Latvia0405—
Malta0402—
Netherlands4140130.67
Poland9190250.52
Portugal215040.82
Romania2120190.79
Sweden216030.83
Slovenia2502—
Slovakia66030.25

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 by the PfE Group Final vote Roll call132 for, 334 against, 5 abstained Rejected

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Connections

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Sources & citation

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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-21/2
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Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the PfE Group”. Decision, 21 May 2025. votingId 176944. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-21/2 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 21 May 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-21-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 21 May 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-21-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-05-21, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-05-21/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2025-05-21-2,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Wednesday’s agenda – Request by the PfE Group}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-05-21},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-21/2}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-05-21/2},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 176944. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-21-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-21-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-05-21 (CC BY 4.0)}
}