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EU strategic defence and security partnerships

Effect
Adopted
Result
440 for · 119 against · 85 abstained roll call
Date
11 February 2026, 12:26
Kind
Resolution
More facts (8)
Margin
by a large majority
Text
Report A-10-2026-0005
Dossier
2025/2119(INI)
Source
Committee report by Michał Szczerba
Topics
Defence & securityForeign affairs Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
2 votes · 1 roll call
Sitting
Wednesday 11 February 2026
Final vote
184426
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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: 440 for, 119 against, 85 abstained (roll call).

Adopted by a large majority.

Parliament adopted the text as its official position.

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 1 part of the text voted on separately (1 adopted).

Backed by Greens, S&D, Renew, EPP and ECR; opposed by The Left and ESN; Patriots 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. 4No vote 3 of 46Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.83
GreensFor 35Against 2Abst. 10No vote 6 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.62
S&DFor 117Against 3Abst. 1No vote 15 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.95
RenewFor 57Against 1Abst. 10No vote 7 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.76
EPPFor 164Against 3Abst. 0No vote 20 of 187Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.97
ECRFor 59Against 2Abst. 6No vote 12 of 79Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.82
PatriotsFor 1Against 24Abst. 49No vote 10 of 84Majority line AbstainedClear line Divided Cohesion 0.49
ESNFor 1Against 25Abst. 0No vote 1 of 27Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.94
No groupFor 5Against 21Abst. 5No vote 1 of 32Majority 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, 44

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
Austria135020.58
Belgium124150.56
Bulgaria113120.60
Cyprus4110—
Czechia93720.21
Germany6227070.54
Denmark132000.80
Estonia7000—
Spain396780.63
Finland110310.68
France2094480.40
Greece108300.21
Croatia120001.00
Hungary213060.80
Ireland94010.54
Italy4881190.57
Lithuania100011.00
Luxembourg4110—
Latvia7101—
Malta2301—
Netherlands227020.64
Poland393290.83
Portugal172020.84
Romania241260.83
Sweden192000.86
Slovenia9000—
Slovakia56220.19

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
Roberta METSOLA MaltaEPPSpeeches111 Feb 2026 (verbatim report, official site) No vote recorded
Michał SZCZERBA PolandEPPSpeeches111 Feb 2026 (verbatim report, official site) For

All votes on this decision, 2

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
1Separate vote on paragraph 21 Show of hands Adopted
2Final vote — text as a whole A10-0005/2026 – Michał Szczerba – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) Roll call440 for, 119 against, 85 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2026-0005

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

Parliament adopted a resolution on EU strategic defence and security partnerships, setting out its position on strengthening cooperation with like-minded partners.

The text stresses that such partnerships are essential for the EU to become more sovereign and responsible for its own defence, while remaining complementary with NATO.

It calls for sustained support for Ukraine and for deepening ties with partners such as the UK, Canada, Norway, Japan, and South Korea.

Parliament asks for a multi-stakeholder process involving EU institutions and member states to monitor and encourage new partnerships.

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

The report addresses EU strategic defence and security partnerships (SDPs), stressing their necessity for EU security and strategic autonomy, and calls for stronger cooperation with NATO, Ukraine, the US and other like-minded partners.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2025/2119(INI) · Own-initiative report

Parliament adopted the text on 11 February 2026. This is its final position on the matter.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 19 June 2025 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 15 January 2026 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 28 January 2026 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 11 February 2026 (done)
  5. Parliament’s position · Final (done)

Lead committee: SEDE · Author: Michał SZCZERBA (EPP)

Connections

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

Show 17 connections: Running issue: EU defence and security partnerships · Running issue: Russia's war against Ukraine · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Running issue: EU defence and security partnerships

Running issue: Russia's war against Ukraine

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/2026-02-11/10
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “EU strategic defence and security partnerships”. Decision, 11 February 2026. votingId 184426, document A-10-2026-0005, reference 2025/2119(INI). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-02-11/10 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 11 February 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-02-11-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 11 February 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-02-11-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-02-11, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-02-11/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2026-02-11-10,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{EU strategic defence and security partnerships}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-02-11},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-02-11/10}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-02-11/10},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 184426, document A-10-2026-0005, reference 2025/2119(INI). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-02-11-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-02-11-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-02-11 (CC BY 4.0)}
}