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Choice of performance indicators for audit and budgetary control in the context of financing measures to support the implementation of future European competitiveness

Effect
Adopted
Result
318 for · 247 against · 67 abstained roll call
Date
22 January 2026, 12:06–12:08
Kind
Resolution
More facts (9)
Margin
by a small majority
Text
Report A-10-2025-0268
Dossier
2025/2034(INI)
Source
Committee report by Olivier Chastel
Topics
EU budget & funds Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
6 votes · 3 roll calls · 2 amendments
Requested by
S&D (1 roll call) · EPP (1 roll call) · Members (1 split vote)
Sitting
Thursday 22 January 2026
Final vote
183057
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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: 318 for, 247 against, 67 abstained (roll call).

Adopted by a small majority.

Parliament adopted the text as its official position.

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 2 amendments (2 adopted) and 3 parts of the text voted on separately (2 adopted, 1 rejected).

Backed by Greens, Renew and EPP; opposed by The Left, S&D, 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 1Against 38Abst. 0No vote 7 of 46Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.96
GreensFor 45Against 3Abst. 0No vote 5 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.91
S&DFor 7Against 105Abst. 2No vote 22 of 136Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.88
RenewFor 62Against 0Abst. 0No vote 13 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 171Against 0Abst. 0No vote 16 of 187Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ECRFor 4Against 6Abst. 56No vote 13 of 79Majority line AbstainedClear line Abstained Cohesion 0.77
PatriotsFor 14Against 56Abst. 8No vote 8 of 86Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.58
ESNFor 0Against 26Abst. 0No vote 1 of 27Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
No groupFor 14Against 13Abst. 1No 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, 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, 45

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
Austria811010.37
Belgium105160.44
Bulgaria94130.46
Cyprus4200—
Czechia161220.76
Germany5333190.41
Denmark102120.65
Estonia5200—
Spain2625270.24
Finland92220.54
France2153070.57
Greece812010.40
Croatia74100.38
Hungary012091.00
Ireland93020.63
Italy122727100.11
Lithuania62210.40
Luxembourg5100—
Latvia5130—
Malta1302—
Netherlands217120.59
Poland2281760.20
Portugal711030.42
Romania149370.31
Sweden132330.58
Slovenia7101—
Slovakia104010.57

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 GermanyEPPSpeeches122 Jan 2026 (verbatim report, official site) For

All votes on this decision, 6

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 to paragraph 2 A10-0268/2025 – Olivier Chastel – § 2 – Am 1 Roll call343 for, 277 against, 14 abstained AdoptedRequested byroll call: S&D
2Paragraph 12 — part 1 of 2 Part voted on: “Text as a whole without the words: ‘the social and environmental footprint of’”Show of hands AdoptedRequested bysplit: Members
3Paragraph 12 — part 2 of 2 Part voted on: “those words”Counted275 for, 347 against, 6 abstained RejectedRequested bysplit: Members
Show the other 5 votesShow the other 3 votes
Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
2Paragraph 12 — part 1 of 2 Part voted on: “Text as a whole without the words: ‘the social and environmental footprint of’”Show of hands AdoptedRequested bysplit: Members
3Paragraph 12 — part 2 of 2 Part voted on: “those words”Counted275 for, 347 against, 6 abstained RejectedRequested bysplit: Members
Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
4Separate vote on paragraph 35 Counted360 for, 266 against, 6 abstained Adopted
5Amendment 3, adding text after paragraph 35 A10-0268/2025 – Olivier Chastel – After § 35 – Am 3 Roll call364 for, 258 against, 5 abstained AdoptedRequested byroll call: S&D, EPP
6Final vote — text as a whole A10-0268/2025 – Olivier Chastel – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) Roll call318 for, 247 against, 67 abstained Adopted

Roll calls requested by S&D, EPP · split votes by Members.

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2025-0268

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

Parliament adopted a resolution on choosing performance indicators for auditing and budgeting EU funds supporting European competitiveness.

The text calls for indicators that measure outputs, outcomes, and impacts, such as productivity gains and jobs created, to assess spending efficiency.

It stresses that indicators should be reliable, transparent, and based on sound financial management principles.

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

This resolution addresses the choice of performance indicators for audit and budgetary control of EU financing measures supporting competitiveness. It calls for a simplified, harmonised performance framework with reliable, result- and impact-oriented indicators, and proposes specific indicators for innovation, industrial relocation, energy, skills, and administrative burden.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2025/2034(INI) · Own-initiative report

Parliament adopted the text on 22 January 2026. This is its final position on the matter.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 13 February 2025 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 8 December 2025 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 16 December 2025 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 22 January 2026 (done)
  5. Parliament’s position · Final (done)

Lead committee: CONT · Author: Olivier CHASTEL (Renew)

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 competitiveness · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Running issue: EU competitiveness

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/2026-01-22/7
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Choice of performance indicators for audit and budgetary control in the context of financing measures to support the implementation of future European competitiveness”. Decision, 22 January 2026. votingId 183057, document A-10-2025-0268, reference 2025/2034(INI). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-01-22/7 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 22 January 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-01-22-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 22 January 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-01-22-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-01-22, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-01-22/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2026-01-22-7,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Choice of performance indicators for audit and budgetary control in the context of financing measures to support the implementation of future European competitiveness}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-01-22},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-01-22/7}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-01-22/7},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 183057, document A-10-2025-0268, reference 2025/2034(INI). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-01-22-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-01-22-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-01-22 (CC BY 4.0)}
}