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Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States

Effect
Passed
Result
412 for · 129 against · 98 abstained roll call
Date
8 October 2025, 13:56
Kind
New EU law · Consultation
More facts (9)
Margin
by a large majority
Text
Report A-10-2025-0160
Dossier
2025/0154(NLE)
Source
Committee report by Li Andersson
Topics
Jobs, social affairs & equality Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
14 votes · 1 roll call
Requested by
ESN (1 split vote, 1 separate vote)
Sitting
Wednesday 8 October 2025
Final vote
179203
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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: 412 for, 129 against, 98 abstained (roll call).

Passed by a large majority.

Parliament adopted its position on the law.

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 13 parts of the text voted on separately (11 adopted, 2 rejected).

Backed by Greens, S&D, Renew and EPP; opposed by The Left, Patriots and ESN; ECR 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 8Against 16Abst. 8No vote 14 of 46Majority line AgainstClear line Divided Cohesion 0.25
GreensFor 46Against 0Abst. 0No vote 7 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 116Against 0Abst. 0No vote 20 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 58Against 0Abst. 10No vote 7 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.78
EPPFor 172Against 0Abst. 1No vote 15 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.99
ECRFor 2Against 12Abst. 58No vote 7 of 79Majority line AbstainedClear line Abstained Cohesion 0.71
PatriotsFor 1Against 69Abst. 8No vote 7 of 85Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.83
ESNFor 0Against 24Abst. 0No vote 3 of 27Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
No groupFor 9Against 8Abst. 13No vote 0 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, 34

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
Austria136010.53
Belgium124240.50
Bulgaria123200.56
Cyprus4110—
Czechia54930.25
Germany56151690.47
Denmark92220.54
Estonia6010—
Spain459060.75
Finland131010.89
France36350100.26
Greece97050.34
Croatia110100.88
Hungary712020.45
Ireland93020.63
Italy3073180.18
Lithuania81200.59
Luxembourg5010—
Latvia5121—
Malta4002—
Netherlands215140.67
Poland2651750.31
Portugal111270.68
Romania172680.52
Sweden183000.79
Slovenia9000—
Slovakia112200.60

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

No plenary speech is linked to this dossier.

All votes on this decision, 14

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
1Vote on text inserted after recital 1 Show of hands Rejected
2Separate vote on recital 3 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: ESN
3Separate vote on recital 4 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: ESN
Show the other 13 votesShow the other 11 votes
Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
2Separate vote on recital 3 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: ESN
3Separate vote on recital 4 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: ESN
Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
4Recital 5 — part 1 of 2 Part voted on: “Text as a whole without the words: ‘A Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age, of 25 January 2023 on’”Show of hands AdoptedRequested bysplit: ESN
5Recital 5 — part 2 of 2 Part voted on: “those words”Show of hands AdoptedRequested bysplit: ESN
6Separate vote on recital 6 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: ESN
7Separate vote on recital 7 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: ESN
8Separate vote on recital 8 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: ESN
9Separate vote on recital 13 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: ESN
10Vote on text inserted after recital 13 Show of hands Rejected
11Separate vote on recital 14 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: ESN
12Separate vote on recital 15 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: ESN
13Separate vote on recital 16 Show of hands AdoptedRequested byseparate: ESN
14Final vote A10-0160/2025 – Li Andersson – Commission proposal to the Council Roll call412 for, 129 against, 98 abstained Adopted

split votes by ESN · separate votes by ESN.

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0160

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Parliament approved the Commission's proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the member states.

This means Parliament adopted its position on the proposed law, which sets out employment policy guidelines for member states.

Parliament asks the Council to notify it if the Council intends to depart from the text Parliament approved, and to consult Parliament again if it intends to substantially amend that text.

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Parliament approves the Commission proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2025/0154(NLE) · Non-legislative procedure

Parliament gave its opinion on 8 October 2025. The Council takes the final decision.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 8 September 2025 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 4 September 2025 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 10 September 2025 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 8 October 2025 (done)
  5. Adopted by the Council (to come)

Lead committee: EMPL · Rapporteur: Li ANDERSSON (The Left)

Connections

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

Show 13 connections: Running issue: European Semester · Other decisions of the part-session on EMPL dossiers · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Running issue: European Semester

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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/2025-10-08/3
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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States”. Decision, 8 October 2025. votingId 179203, document A-10-2025-0160, reference 2025/0154(NLE). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-08/3 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 8 October 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-08-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 8 October 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-08-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-10-08, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-10-08/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2025-10-08-3,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-10-08},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-08/3}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-08/3},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 179203, document A-10-2025-0160, reference 2025/0154(NLE). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-08-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-08-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-10-08 (CC BY 4.0)}
}