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Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2025/006 BE/Audi – Belgium

Effect
Passed
Result
593 for · 55 against · 9 abstained roll call
Date
11 February 2026, 12:20
Kind
Budget decision
More facts (8)
Margin
by an overwhelming majority
Text
Report A-10-2026-0006
Dossier
2026/0001(BUD)
Source
Committee report by Nicolae Ștefănuță
Topics
Jobs, social affairs & equalityEU budget & fundsEconomy & single market Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
6 votes · 1 roll call
Sitting
Wednesday 11 February 2026
Final vote
184106
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Cite this page Roll-call results (EP) (opens the official site)
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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: 593 for, 55 against, 9 abstained (roll call).

Passed by an overwhelming majority.

The budget decision was approved.

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 5 parts of the text voted on separately (5 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 42Against 1Abst. 0No vote 3 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.97
GreensFor 47Against 0Abst. 0No vote 6 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 123Against 0Abst. 0No vote 13 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 62Against 5Abst. 1No vote 7 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.87
EPPFor 171Against 1Abst. 0No vote 15 of 187Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.99
ECRFor 57Against 10Abst. 6No vote 6 of 79Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.67
PatriotsFor 61Against 12Abst. 1No vote 10 of 84Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.74
ESNFor 2Against 24Abst. 0No vote 1 of 27Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.88
No groupFor 28Against 2Abst. 1No 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, 39

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
Belgium180041.00
Bulgaria133010.72
Cyprus6000—
Czechia154020.68
Germany7216170.71
Denmark132000.80
Estonia5110—
Spain521070.97
Finland131010.89
France690480.92
Greece180300.79
Croatia120001.00
Hungary171030.92
Ireland130011.00
Italy671080.98
Lithuania100011.00
Luxembourg6000—
Latvia8001—
Malta5001—
Netherlands227020.64
Poland463040.91
Portugal190021.00
Romania271050.95
Sweden147000.50
Slovenia9000—
Slovakia112020.77

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

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
1Separate vote on paragraph 1 Show of hands Rejected
2Vote on text inserted after paragraph 1 Show of hands Rejected
3Vote on text inserted after paragraph 1 Show of hands Rejected
Show the other 5 votesShow the other 3 votes
Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
2Vote on text inserted after paragraph 1 Show of hands Rejected
3Vote on text inserted after paragraph 1 Show of hands Rejected
Votes on this decision, continued
No.VoteRecordedResultRequested by
4Separate vote on paragraph 9 Show of hands Rejected
5Vote on text inserted after recital G Show of hands Rejected
6Final vote — text as a whole A10-0006/2026 – Nicolae Ștefănuță – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) Roll call593 for, 55 against, 9 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2026-0006

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 Audi in Belgium.

The decision releases EU funding for personalised services such as counselling, training, job-search help and business start-up support for the affected workers.

Parliament also calls on Belgian authorities to help repurpose the closed factory and to tackle regional unemployment.

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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 7,527,625 for Belgium following 3,414 displacements at Audi and its suppliers.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2026/0001(BUD) · Budgetary procedure

Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund for Displaced Workers following an application from Belgium – EGF/2025/006 BE/ Audi

Completed: published in the Official Journal on 4 March 2026 and now EU law.

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 19 January 2026 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 28 January 2026 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 29 January 2026 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 11 February 2026 (done)
  5. Published as law · 4 March 2026 (done)

Lead committee: BUDG · Rapporteur: Nicolae ȘTEFĂNUȚĂ (Greens)

Connections

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

Show 6 connections: Running issue: European Pillar of Social Rights

Running issue: European Pillar of Social Rights

Sources & citation

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

Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-02-11/4
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2025/006 BE/Audi – Belgium”. Decision, 11 February 2026. votingId 184106, document A-10-2026-0006, reference 2026/0001(BUD). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-02-11/4 (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-2026-02-11-4,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2025/006 BE/Audi – Belgium}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-02-11},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-02-11/4}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-02-11/4},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 184106, document A-10-2026-0006, reference 2026/0001(BUD). 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)}
}