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Decision · Objection under Rule 114(3) · delegated act

InvestEU Fund strategic investments in the field of defence

Effect
Objection failed
Result
124 for · 401 against · 41 abstained roll call
Date
23 October 2025, 13:04
Kind
Objection to a Commission measure
More facts (10)
Margin
by a large majority
Counts are for
the objection
Text
Motion B-10-2025-0456
Dossier
2025/2846(DEA)
Source
Motion for a resolution
Topics
Economy & single marketDefence & securityEU budget & funds Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Requested by
The Left (1 roll call)
Sitting
Thursday 23 October 2025
Final vote
180250
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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: 124 for, 401 against, 41 abstained (roll call).

Objection failed by a large majority.

The objection failed — the Commission measure goes ahead.

Backed by The Left and Patriots; opposed by S&D, Renew, EPP, ECR and ESN; Greens 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 34Against 0Abst. 0No vote 12 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
GreensFor 11Against 8Abst. 24No vote 10 of 53Majority line AbstainedClear line Divided Cohesion 0.34
S&DFor 2Against 95Abst. 8No vote 31 of 136Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.86
RenewFor 2Against 57Abst. 0No vote 16 of 75Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.95
EPPFor 3Against 141Abst. 0No vote 44 of 188Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.97
ECRFor 3Against 60Abst. 1No vote 15 of 79Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.91
PatriotsFor 43Against 18Abst. 7No vote 17 of 85Majority line ForClear line Divided Cohesion 0.45
ESNFor 5Against 18Abst. 0No vote 4 of 27Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.67
No groupFor 21Against 4Abst. 1No vote 4 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, 24

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
Austria67610.05
Belgium316120.70
Bulgaria113030.89
Cyprus1104—
Czechia218010.85
Germany135612150.54
Denmark110220.65
Estonia0700—
Spain6410130.81
Finland38220.42
France40301100.35
Greece50115—
Croatia0813—
Hungary01020—
Ireland48020.50
Italy19370200.49
Lithuania110000.86
Luxembourg2400—
Latvia0801—
Malta0222—
Netherlands017770.56
Poland341180.87
Portugal314130.67
Romania3161130.70
Sweden113340.65
Slovenia0801—
Slovakia77010.25

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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Debate speakers and how they voted

No plenary speech is linked to this dossier.

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 motion for a resolution B10-0456/2025 – Motion for a resolution Roll call124 for, 401 against, 41 abstained RejectedRequested byroll call: The Left

Roll call requested by The Left.

Text

The text voted on.

Motion B-10-2025-0456

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The Commission delegated regulation of 28 August 2025 broadens the definition of eligible strategic investments under the InvestEU Fund to include more defence technologies and products for military use, and extends eligibility to entities in associated countries or controlled by non-associated countries under certain conditions.

Parliament rejected the objection, so the Commission measure goes ahead and the expanded defence investment rules will apply.

Parliament had asked the Commission to refrain from using delegated acts to change InvestEU's scope and to submit any further changes as a legislative proposal under the ordinary legislative procedure.

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Parliament objects to the Commission delegated regulation of 28 August 2025 that expands defence investment eligibility under InvestEU, including to non-EU-controlled entities.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2025/2846(DEA) · Scrutiny of a delegated act

Commission Delegated Regulation amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1078 as regards strategic investments in the field of defence set out in the investment guidelines for the InvestEU Fund

Parliament rejected the objection on 23 October 2025 — the Commission measure goes ahead.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 10 September 2025 (done)
  2. Committee work (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Rejected 23 October 2025 (done)
  5. Parliament’s position · No text adopted (done)

Lead committee: BUDG

Connections

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

Show 11 connections: Running issue: EU defence readiness · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Running issue: EU defence readiness

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/2025-10-23/4
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “InvestEU Fund strategic investments in the field of defence”. Decision, 23 October 2025. votingId 180250, document B-10-2025-0456, reference 2025/2846(DEA). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-23/4 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 23 October 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-23-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 23 October 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-23-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-10-23, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-10-23/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2025-10-23-4,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{InvestEU Fund strategic investments in the field of defence}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-10-23},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-23/4}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-10-23/4},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 180250, document B-10-2025-0456, reference 2025/2846(DEA). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-23-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-10-23-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-10-23 (CC BY 4.0)}
}