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European Climate Law

Effect
Urgent procedure refused
Result
300 for · 379 against · 8 abstained roll call
Date
9 July 2025, 13:12
Kind
New EU law · 1st reading
More facts (7)
Margin
by a small majority
Counts are for
the request for urgent procedure
Topics
Climate & environment Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Requested by
Greens (1 roll call) · Patriots (1 roll call)
Sitting
Wednesday 9 July 2025
Final vote
178111
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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: 300 for, 379 against, 8 abstained (roll call).

Urgent procedure refused.

Parliament refused the urgent procedure, so the proposal follows the normal route through committee.

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D and Renew; opposed by EPP, ECR, 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 42Against 0Abst. 0No vote 4 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
GreensFor 51Against 0Abst. 0No vote 2 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 128Against 0Abst. 1No vote 7 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.99
RenewFor 65Against 1Abst. 5No vote 4 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.87
EPPFor 4Against 174Abst. 0No vote 10 of 188Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.97
ECRFor 0Against 78Abst. 0No vote 1 of 79Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
PatriotsFor 0Against 82Abst. 0No vote 3 of 85Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
ESNFor 0Against 27Abst. 0No vote 0 of 27Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
No groupFor 10Against 17Abst. 2No vote 1 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, 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, 11

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
Austria911000.33
Belgium138010.43
Bulgaria512000.56
Cyprus3300—
Czechia119010.93
Germany4147530.26
Denmark103020.65
Estonia4300—
Spain2730030.29
Finland113010.68
France3939030.25
Greece811200.29
Croatia57000.38
Hungary219000.86
Ireland103010.65
Italy3439030.30
Lithuania56000.32
Luxembourg3300—
Latvia2502—
Malta3201—
Netherlands1713010.35
Poland346040.91
Portugal118020.37
Romania1118130.40
Sweden138000.43
Slovenia4500—
Slovakia68010.36

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 C10-0137/2025 – Request for an urgent decision Roll call300 for, 379 against, 8 abstained Rejected

Roll calls requested by Greens, Patriots.

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 14 connections: Running issue: EU climate neutrality · Running issue: Paris Agreement · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Running issue: EU climate neutrality

Running issue: Paris Agreement

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/2025-07-09/1
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “European Climate Law”. Decision, 9 July 2025. votingId 178111. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-07-09/1 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 9 July 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-07-09-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 9 July 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-07-09-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-07-09, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-07-09/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2025-07-09-1,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{European Climate Law}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-07-09},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-07-09/1}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-07-09/1},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 178111. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-07-09-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-07-09-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-07-09 (CC BY 4.0)}
}