Decision

Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded

Effect: Adopted
Result: 415 for · 193 against · 28 abstained roll call
Date: 25 November 2025, 12:31–12:41
Kind: Resolution

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Margin: by a large majority
Text: Report A-10-2025-0231
Dossier: 2018/0902R
Source: Committee report by Tineke Strik
Topics: Justice, rule of law & rights Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes: 43 votes · 41 roll calls · 15 amendments
Requested by: Greens (1 roll call) · S&D (1 roll call) · Patriots (1 roll call) · ESN (1 roll call, 5 split votes)
Sitting: Tuesday 25 November 2025
Final vote: 181511

Margin: by a large majority
Text: Report A-10-2025-0231
Dossier: 2018/0902R
Source: Committee report by Tineke Strik
Topics: Justice, rule of law & rights Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes: 43 votes · 41 roll calls · 15 amendments
Requested by: Greens (1 roll call) · S&D (1 roll call) · Patriots (1 roll call) · ESN (1 roll call, 5 split votes)
Sitting: Tuesday 25 November 2025
Final vote: 181511

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Result

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Adopted by a large majority.

Parliament adopted the text as its official position.

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 15 amendments (15 rejected) and 27 parts of the text voted on separately (26 adopted, 1 rejected).

Backed by The Left, Greens, S&D, Renew and EPP; opposed by 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).
Group	For	Against	Abst.	No vote	Majority line	Clear line	Cohesion
The Left	For 35	Against 1	Abst. 1	No vote 9 of 46	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.92
Greens	For 49	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 4 of 53	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
S&D	For 120	Against 0	Abst. 1	No vote 15 of 136	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.99
Renew	For 66	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 9 of 75	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
EPP	For 140	Against 8	Abst. 14	No vote 26 of 188	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.80
ECR	For 1	Against 63	Abst. 8	No vote 7 of 79	Majority line Against	Clear line Against	Cohesion 0.81
Patriots	For 0	Against 79	Abst. 0	No vote 6 of 85	Majority line Against	Clear line Against	Cohesion 1.00
ESN	For 0	Against 22	Abst. 0	No vote 5 of 27	Majority line Against	Clear line Against	Cohesion 1.00
No group	For 4	Against 20	Abst. 4	No vote 2 of 30	Majority 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.

The Left line For · 1 voted against, 1 abstained of 37 who voted
Voted against (1)
- João OLIVEIRA Portugal
Abstained (1)
- Giorgos GEORGIOU Cyprus
S&D line For · 1 abstained of 121 who voted
Abstained (1)
- Maria GRAPINI Romania
EPP line For · 8 voted against, 14 abstained of 162 who voted
Voted against (8)
- Adina VĂLEAN Romania
- Branko GRIMS Slovenia
- Christophe GOMART France
- Iuliu WINKLER Romania
- Loránt VINCZE Romania
- Matej TONIN Slovenia
- Milan ZVER Slovenia
- Miriam LEXMANN Slovakia
Abstained (14)
- Céline IMART France
- Davor Ivo STIER Croatia
- François-Xavier BELLAMY France
- Ilia LAZAROV Bulgaria
- Isabelle LE CALLENNEC France
- Jessika VAN LEEUWEN Netherlands
- Karlo RESSLER Croatia
- Laurent CASTILLO France
- Massimiliano SALINI Italy
- Nadine MORANO France
- Nikolina BRNJAC Croatia
- Sunčana GLAVAK Croatia
- Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ Czechia
- Zala ČERNILEC TOMAŠIČ Slovenia
ECR line Against · 1 voted for, 8 abstained of 72 who voted
Voted for (1)
- Reinis POZŅAKS Latvia
Abstained (8)
- Assita KANKO Belgium
- Bert-Jan RUISSEN Netherlands
- Geadis GEADI Cyprus
- Johan VAN OVERTVELDT Belgium
- Kris VAN DIJCK Belgium
- Ondřej KRUTÍLEK Czechia
- Rihards KOLS Latvia
- Veronika VRECIONOVÁ Czechia

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).
Country	For	Against	Abst.	No vote	Cohesion
Austria	14	6	0	0	0.55
Belgium	15	3	3	1	0.57
Bulgaria	7	3	2	5	0.38
Cyprus	3	0	3	0	—
Czechia	5	13	3	0	0.43
Germany	72	20	0	4	0.67
Denmark	12	2	0	1	0.79
Estonia	6	1	0	0	—
Spain	42	9	0	9	0.74
Finland	12	1	0	2	0.88
France	33	34	6	8	0.20
Greece	15	4	1	1	0.63
Croatia	6	1	4	1	0.32
Hungary	2	11	0	8	0.77
Ireland	12	0	0	2	1.00
Italy	37	26	1	12	0.37
Lithuania	8	1	0	2	—
Luxembourg	5	1	0	0	—
Latvia	6	1	1	1	—
Malta	4	0	0	2	—
Netherlands	20	5	2	4	0.61
Poland	26	24	0	3	0.28
Portugal	14	3	0	4	0.74
Romania	15	10	1	7	0.37
Sweden	17	3	0	1	0.78
Slovenia	3	3	1	2	—
Slovakia	4	8	0	3	0.50

Members

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All votes on this decision, 43

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.	Vote	Recorded	Result	Requested by
1	Amendment 1 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Alternative motion for a resolution – Am 1	Roll call	184 for, 441 against, 15 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: Patriots
2	Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 1 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – After § 1 – Am 8	Roll call	186 for, 447 against, 11 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
3	Amendment 9 to paragraph 2 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 2 – Am 9	Roll call	184 for, 450 against, 10 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN

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Votes on this decision, continued
No.	Vote	Recorded	Result	Requested by
2	Amendment 8, adding text after paragraph 1 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – After § 1 – Am 8	Roll call	186 for, 447 against, 11 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
3	Amendment 9 to paragraph 2 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 2 – Am 9	Roll call	184 for, 450 against, 10 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN

Votes on this decision, continued
No.	Vote	Recorded	Result	Requested by
4	Separate vote on paragraph 2 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 2	Roll call	408 for, 213 against, 23 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN
5	Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 2 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – After § 2 – Am 10	Roll call	182 for, 446 against, 15 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
6	Amendment 11 to paragraph 4 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 4 – Am 11	Roll call	191 for, 443 against, 9 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
7	Separate vote on paragraph 4 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 4	Roll call	422 for, 199 against, 24 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN
8	Amendment 12 to paragraph 7 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 7 – Am 12	Roll call	151 for, 443 against, 49 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
9	Amendment 2 to paragraph 9 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 9 – Am 2	Roll call	225 for, 415 against, 10 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN, Greens
10	Amendment 13 to paragraph 10 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 10 – Am 13	Roll call	171 for, 445 against, 27 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
11	Amendment 14 to paragraph 12 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 12 – Am 14	Roll call	194 for, 439 against, 8 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
12	Amendment 15 to paragraph 13 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 13 – Am 15	Roll call	187 for, 444 against, 12 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
13	Separate vote on paragraph 13 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 13	Roll call	425 for, 171 against, 46 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN
14	Separate vote on paragraph 19 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 19	Roll call	445 for, 188 against, 11 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN
15	Separate vote on paragraph 22 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 22	Roll call	453 for, 168 against, 22 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN
16	Vote on text inserted after paragraph 22	Show of hands	Adopted
17	Amendment 16 to paragraph 24 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 24 – Am 16	Roll call	177 for, 451 against, 15 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
18	Separate vote on paragraph 24 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 24	Roll call	421 for, 203 against, 20 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN
19	Paragraph 27 — part 1 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 27/1 Part voted on: “Text as a whole without the words: ‘the removal of gender identity from the list of protected characteristics’”	Roll call	418 for, 183 against, 29 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN, S&D; split: ESN
20	Paragraph 27 — part 2 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 27/2 Part voted on: “those words”	Roll call	411 for, 209 against, 10 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN, S&D; split: ESN
21	Amendment 17 to paragraph 28 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 28 – Am 17	Roll call	163 for, 450 against, 31 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
22	Separate vote on paragraph 28 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – § 28	Roll call	432 for, 190 against, 22 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN
23	Vote on text inserted after recital A	Show of hands	Rejected
24	Amendment 4 to recital E A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital E – Am 4	Roll call	183 for, 441 against, 17 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
25	Amendment 6, adding text after recital H A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – After recital H – Am 6	Roll call	182 for, 447 against, 13 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
26	Amendment 7, adding text after recital J A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – After recital J – Am 7	Roll call	144 for, 481 against, 17 abstained Rejected	Requested byroll call: ESN
27	Separate vote on recital AK A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital AK	Roll call	440 for, 175 against, 22 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN
28	Separate vote on recital AP A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital AP	Roll call	472 for, 130 against, 34 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN
29	Recital BD — part 1 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BD/1 Part voted on: “Text as a whole without the words: ‘removal of gender identity as grounds for discrimination and a’”	Roll call	419 for, 180 against, 30 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN, S&D; split: ESN
30	Recital BD — part 2 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BD/2 Part voted on: “those words”	Roll call	416 for, 202 against, 12 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN, S&D; split: ESN
31	Recital BE — part 1 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BE/1 Part voted on: “Text as a whole without the words: ‘and gender identity’ (first occurrence) and ‘such as a ban on legal gender recognition on a constitutional footing and removing gender identity from the explicit list of protected characteristics under the Equal Treatment Act’”	Roll call	421 for, 178 against, 33 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN, S&D; split: ESN
32	Recital BE — part 2 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BE/2 Part voted on: ‘and gender identity’ (first occurrence)	Roll call	408 for, 209 against, 11 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN, S&D; split: ESN
33	Recital BE — part 3 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BE/3 Part voted on: “such as a ban on legal gender recognition on a constitutional footing and removing gender identity from the explicit list of protected characteristics under the Equal Treatment Act”	Roll call	411 for, 207 against, 14 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN, S&D; split: ESN
34	Separate vote on recital BF A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BF	Roll call	422 for, 180 against, 32 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: S&D
35	Separate vote on recital BG A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BG	Roll call	418 for, 158 against, 55 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: S&D
36	Recital BH — part 1 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BH/1 Part voted on: “Text as a whole without the words: ‘upon the production of evidence of gender reassignment surgery’”	Roll call	420 for, 188 against, 24 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN, S&D; split: ESN
37	Recital BH — part 2 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BH/2 Part voted on: “those words”	Roll call	417 for, 199 against, 14 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN, S&D; split: ESN
38	Separate vote on recital BI A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BI	Roll call	418 for, 160 against, 51 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN, S&D
39	Recital BJ — part 1 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BJ/1 Part voted on: ‘whereas in its decision of 15-17 September 2025 concerning the pending enhanced supervision of the execution of the ECtHR judgments in <i>Rana group</i> v. <i>Hungary</i>, the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe expressed deep concern about the authorities’ persistent failure to take any measures in response to the violations, recalled with deep regret that, while for many years recognition of gender reassignment was permitted on the basis of an informal practice, the May 2020 legislative amendments have made it impossible for transgender persons with Hungarian birth certificates to obtain legal gender recognition in Hungary and that these developments considerably aggravate the uncertainty for the persons concerned and could lead to similar violations, and deplored the fact that the 2025 amendment to the Fundamental Law enshrined this legal ban also at the constitutional level;’	Roll call	413 for, 189 against, 32 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN, S&D; split: ESN
40	Recital BJ — part 2 A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BJ/2 Part voted on: “whereas it strongly underlined the pressing need for legislative changes to lift the current legal ban on changing sex/gender markers in the Hungarian birth register and to eliminate any constitutional obstacles to legal gender recognition, as well as to introduce a clear legal framework regulating the conditions and procedures for legal gender recognition; whereas it urged the authorities to adopt, without further delay, a clear legal framework to enable transgender persons, both lawfully settled non-Hungarian and Hungarian nationals, to access quick, transparent and accessible procedures for changing their name and sex/gender marker in their official identification documents issued by the Hungarian authorities;”	Roll call	410 for, 190 against, 29 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN, S&D; split: ESN
41	Separate vote on recital BK A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BK	Roll call	418 for, 190 against, 26 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: S&D
42	Separate vote on recital BP A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Recital BP	Roll call	429 for, 188 against, 21 abstained Adopted	Requested byroll call: ESN
43	Final vote — text as a whole A10-0231/2025 – Tineke Strik – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)	Roll call	415 for, 193 against, 28 abstained Adopted

Roll calls requested by Greens, S&D, Patriots, ESN · split votes by ESN (5).

Text

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Report A-10-2025-0231

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Parliament adopted a resolution stating that Hungary poses a clear risk of seriously breaching the EU's founding values, including democracy, the rule of law, and fundamental rights.

The text updates Parliament's earlier findings and lists twelve problem areas, such as judicial independence, corruption, media freedom, and minority rights.

Parliament calls on the Council to act on its Article 7(1) procedure and urges the Commission to use all available tools to address the situation.

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2018/0902(NLE) · Non-legislative procedure

Proposal for a Council decision determining, pursuant to Article 7(1) of the Treaty on European Union, the existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded

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Lead committee: LIBE · Authors: Tineke STRIK (Greens), MEP #197531 (Greens)

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-25/9
Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 25 November 2025 (European Parliament)
Results of votes, sitting of 25 November 2025 (European Parliament)
Data source: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-11-25
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Retrieved: 25 September 2026

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European Parliament (2025). “Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded”. Decision, 25 November 2025. votingId 181511, document A-10-2025-0231, reference 2018/0902R. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-25/9 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 25 November 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-11-25-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 25 November 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-11-25-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-11-25, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-11-25/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).

BibTeX

@misc{epw-decision-2025-11-25-9,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Existence of a clear risk of a serious breach by Hungary of the values on which the Union is founded}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-11-25},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-25/9}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2025-11-25/9},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 181511, document A-10-2025-0231, reference 2018/0902R. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-11-25-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-11-25-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-11-25 (CC BY 4.0)}
}