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Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2025/001 BE/BelGaN – Belgium

Effect
Passed
Result
578 for · 47 against · 16 abstained roll call
Date
8 October 2025, 14:01–14:02
Kind
Budget decision
More facts (9)
Margin
by an overwhelming majority
Text
Report A-10-2025-0163
Dossier
2025/0198(BUD)
Source
Committee report by Bogdan Rzońca
Topics
Jobs, social affairs & equalityEU budget & funds Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
5 votes · 3 roll calls · 2 amendments
Requested by
ESN (1 roll call)
Sitting
Wednesday 8 October 2025
Final vote
179211
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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: 578 for, 47 against, 16 abstained (roll call).

Passed by an overwhelming majority.

The budget decision was approved.

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 2 amendments (2 rejected) and 2 parts of the text voted on separately (2 rejected).

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D, Renew, EPP, ECR and Patriots; opposed by 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 36Against 0Abst. 0No vote 10 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
GreensFor 48Against 0Abst. 0No vote 5 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 115Against 0Abst. 0No vote 21 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 62Against 6Abst. 0No vote 7 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.87
EPPFor 169Against 2Abst. 0No vote 17 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
ECRFor 58Against 9Abst. 5No vote 7 of 79Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.71
PatriotsFor 72Against 6Abst. 0No vote 7 of 85Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.88
ESNFor 0Against 21Abst. 3No vote 3 of 27Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.81
No groupFor 18Against 3Abst. 8No 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, 31

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
Austria190011.00
Belgium180041.00
Bulgaria143000.74
Cyprus5010—
Czechia164010.70
Germany6415890.60
Denmark102030.75
Estonia7000—
Spain522060.94
Finland131010.89
France6704100.92
Greece170220.84
Croatia120001.00
Hungary171030.92
Ireland120021.00
Italy680081.00
Lithuania100100.86
Luxembourg6000—
Latvia8001—
Malta4002—
Netherlands216040.67
Poland443060.90
Portugal140071.00
Romania241080.94
Sweden147000.50
Slovenia9000—
Slovakia132000.80

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
Christel SCHALDEMOSE DenmarkS&DSpeeches18 Oct 2025 (verbatim report, official site) No vote recorded

All votes on this decision, 5

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
1Amendment 1, adding text after recital D A10-0163/2025 – Bogdan Rzońca – After recital D – Am 1 Roll call200 for, 420 against, 13 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: ESN
2Separate vote on recital E Show of hands Rejected
3Amendment 2, adding text after recital F A10-0163/2025 – Bogdan Rzońca – After recital F – Am 2 Roll call176 for, 419 against, 28 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: ESN
4Separate vote on recital J Show of hands Rejected
5Final vote — text as a whole A10-0163/2025 – Bogdan Rzońca – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) Roll call578 for, 47 against, 16 abstained Adopted
Show the other 4 votesShow the other 0 votes
Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
2Separate vote on recital E Show of hands Rejected
3Amendment 2, adding text after recital F A10-0163/2025 – Bogdan Rzońca – After recital F – Am 2 Roll call176 for, 419 against, 28 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: ESN
4Separate vote on recital J Show of hands Rejected
5Final vote — text as a whole A10-0163/2025 – Bogdan Rzońca – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) Roll call578 for, 47 against, 16 abstained Adopted

Roll call requested by ESN.

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0163

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

Parliament approved the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers to support workers made redundant by the Belgian semiconductor company BelGaN.

The decision releases EU funding for personalised measures such as training, job-search assistance and outplacement for the 417 displaced workers.

Parliament also called for faster procedures and comprehensive final evaluations of the support provided.

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AI: The text in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source

Parliament approves the mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers (EGF) with EUR 931 690 for Belgium following 417 redundancies at BelGaN, a semiconductor manufacturer in Oost-Vlaanderen.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2025/0198(BUD) · Budgetary procedure

Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers following an application from Belgium - EGF/2025/001 BE/BelGaN

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 20 October 2025 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 8 September 2025 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 23 September 2025 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 25 September 2025 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 8 October 2025 (done)
  5. Published as law · 20 October 2025 (done)

Lead committee: BUDG · Rapporteur: Bogdan RZOŃCA (ECR)

Connections

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

Show 8 connections: Running issue: European Pillar of Social Rights · Other decisions of the part-session on BUDG dossiers

Running issue: European Pillar of Social Rights

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Sources & citation

Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-08/8
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2025/001 BE/BelGaN – Belgium”. Decision, 8 October 2025. votingId 179211, document A-10-2025-0163, reference 2025/0198(BUD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-08/8 (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-2025-10-08-8,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2025/001 BE/BelGaN – Belgium}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-10-08},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-08/8}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-08/8},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 179211, document A-10-2025-0163, reference 2025/0198(BUD). 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)}
}