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EC-Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement: accession of Vanuatu

Effect
Consent given
Result
528 for · 89 against · 48 abstained roll call
Date
10 September 2025, 14:21
Kind
International agreement · Consent procedure
More facts (8)
Margin
by a large majority
Text
Report A-10-2025-0141
Dossier
2025/0055(NLE)
Source
Committee report by Dariusz Joński
Topics
Foreign affairsTrade & customs Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Sitting
Wednesday 10 September 2025
Final vote
178425
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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: 528 for, 89 against, 48 abstained (roll call).

Consent given by a large majority.

Parliament gave its consent.

Backed by S&D, Renew, EPP, ECR and Patriots; opposed by The Left and Greens; 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 2Against 35Abst. 0No vote 9 of 46Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.92
GreensFor 7Against 37Abst. 4No vote 5 of 53Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.66
S&DFor 113Against 4Abst. 11No vote 8 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.82
RenewFor 68Against 0Abst. 0No vote 7 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 176Against 1Abst. 0No vote 11 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.99
ECRFor 71Against 0Abst. 1No vote 7 of 79Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
PatriotsFor 76Against 5Abst. 0No vote 4 of 85Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.91
ESNFor 1Against 2Abst. 23No vote 1 of 27Majority line AbstainedClear line Abstained Cohesion 0.83
No groupFor 14Against 5Abst. 9No vote 2 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, 38

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
Austria182000.85
Belgium145030.61
Bulgaria121220.70
Cyprus5100—
Czechia173100.71
Germany55162050.41
Denmark122010.79
Estonia6001—
Spain4610130.71
Finland84030.50
France55101150.59
Greece127110.40
Croatia111000.88
Hungary191010.93
Ireland102020.75
Italy5611090.75
Lithuania81110.70
Luxembourg5100—
Latvia8010—
Malta5001—
Netherlands207040.61
Poland450350.91
Portugal170041.00
Romania301110.91
Sweden162300.64
Slovenia8100—
Slovakia100320.65

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
Sabine VERHEYEN GermanyEPPSpeeches110 Sept 2025 (verbatim report, official site) For

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 on the draft Council decision A10-0141/2025 - Dariusz Joński - Projet de décision du Conseil Roll call528 for, 89 against, 48 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0141

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The draft decision concerns Vanuatu's accession to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the EU and Pacific States, a trade agreement.

Parliament gave its consent to the accession, meaning the agreement can proceed.

The accession reinforces the legal framework for EU trade with Pacific partners and incorporates Vanuatu into joint rules and institutions.

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Parliament gives its consent to the accession of Vanuatu to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the EU and Pacific States, reinforcing the legal framework for trade and incorporating Vanuatu into joint rules and institutions.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2025/0055(NLE) · Non-legislative procedure

Accession of Vanuatu to the Interim Partnership Agreement between the European Community, of the one part, and the Pacific States, of the other part

Parliament gave its consent on 10 September 2025. The Council can now conclude the act.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 16 June 2025 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 15 July 2025 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 16 July 2025 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 10 September 2025 (done)
  5. Adopted by the Council (to come)

Lead committee: INTA · Rapporteur: Dariusz JOŃSKI (EPP)

Connections

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

Show 9 connections: Running issue: EU-Pacific States partnership agreement · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Running issue: EU-Pacific States partnership 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/2025-09-10/7
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “EC-Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement: accession of Vanuatu”. Decision, 10 September 2025. votingId 178425, document A-10-2025-0141, reference 2025/0055(NLE). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-09-10/7 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 10 September 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-09-10-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 10 September 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-09-10-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-09-10, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-09-10/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2025-09-10-7,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{EC-Pacific States Interim Partnership Agreement: accession of Vanuatu}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-09-10},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-09-10/7}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-09-10/7},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 178425, document A-10-2025-0141, reference 2025/0055(NLE). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-09-10-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-09-10-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-09-10 (CC BY 4.0)}
}