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Flagship European defence projects of common interest

Effect
Adopted
Result
448 for · 122 against · 38 abstained roll call
Date
11 March 2026, 13:10
Kind
Resolution
More facts (8)
Margin
by a large majority
Text
Report A-10-2026-0014
Dossier
2025/2144(INI)
Source
Committee report by Lucia Annunziata
Topics
Defence & security Assigned by a model, not checked by hand.
Votes
1 vote · 1 roll call
Sitting
Wednesday 11 March 2026
Final vote
186092
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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: 448 for, 122 against, 38 abstained (roll call).

Adopted by a large majority.

Parliament adopted the text as its official position.

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 3Against 37Abst. 0No vote 6 of 46Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 0.89
GreensFor 41Against 3Abst. 3No vote 6 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.81
S&DFor 111Against 0Abst. 3No vote 21 of 135Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.96
RenewFor 64Against 0Abst. 1No vote 11 of 76Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.98
EPPFor 157Against 0Abst. 0No vote 27 of 184Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ECRFor 46Against 19Abst. 8No vote 8 of 81Majority line ForClear line Divided Cohesion 0.45
PatriotsFor 19Against 21Abst. 22No vote 22 of 84Majority line AbstainedClear line Divided Cohesion 0.03
ESNFor 0Against 24Abst. 0No vote 4 of 28Majority line AgainstClear line Against Cohesion 1.00
No groupFor 7Against 18Abst. 1No vote 5 of 31Majority 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, Ewa ZAJĄCZKOWSKA-HERNIK changed group, Lukas SIEPER changed group, Nikola BARTŮŠEK changed group, Nikolas FARANTOURIS changed group, Pina PICIERNO changed group, Taner KABILOV changed group.

Voted against their group, 13

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
Austria146000.55
Belgium155020.63
Bulgaria93050.63
Cyprus2121—
Czechia102720.29
Germany6625040.59
Denmark111120.77
Estonia6001—
Spain3437160.66
Finland140011.00
France4880250.79
Greece97230.25
Croatia100021.00
Hungary27012—
Ireland73130.45
Italy5112760.59
Lithuania91010.85
Luxembourg5100—
Latvia8001—
Malta2031—
Netherlands236020.69
Poland2322260.23
Portugal162210.70
Romania250170.94
Sweden142320.61
Slovenia7002—
Slovakia85020.42

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 Mar 2026 (verbatim report, official site) No vote recorded

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 A10-0014/2026 – Lucia Annunziata – Motion for a resolution Roll call448 for, 122 against, 38 abstained Adopted

Text

The text voted on.

Report A-10-2026-0014

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

Parliament adopted a resolution on flagship European defence projects of common interest, setting out its position on how the EU should develop large-scale collaborative defence capabilities.

The text calls for strategic guidance on selecting, implementing, financing and overseeing such projects, aiming to fill capability gaps and strengthen EU defence readiness.

It also stresses the need for autonomous strategic enablers and common deterrence to support joint military operations.

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

Parliament's resolution on flagship European defence projects of common interest sets out how such projects should be defined, selected, governed and financed, and stresses their role in filling EU capability gaps.

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Dossier

Where the dossier stands and its other decisions in plenary.

2025/2144(INI) · Own-initiative report

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

Show the 5 steps of the dossier
  1. Referred to committee · 10 July 2025 (done)
  2. Committee work · Report adopted 27 January 2026 (done)
  3. Tabled for plenary · 10 February 2026 (done)
  4. Plenary vote · Adopted 11 March 2026 (done)
  5. Parliament’s position · Final (done)

Lead committee: SEDE · Author: Lucia ANNUNZIATA (S&D)

Connections

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

Show 18 connections: Running issue: EU defence readiness · Running issue: EU defence and security partnerships · Other decisions of the part-session on SEDE dossiers · Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Running issue: EU defence readiness

Running issue: EU defence and security partnerships

Other decisions of the part-session on SEDE dossiers

See all: Other decisions of the part-session on SEDE dossiers

Final votes that split the chamber the same way

Sources & citation

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

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https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-03-11/12
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Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2026). “Flagship European defence projects of common interest”. Decision, 11 March 2026. votingId 186092, document A-10-2026-0014, reference 2025/2144(INI). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-03-11/12 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 11 March 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-11-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 11 March 2026 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-11-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-03-11, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2026-03-11/decisions?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-decision-2026-03-11-12,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Flagship European defence projects of common interest}},
  year = {2026},
  date = {2026-03-11},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-03-11/12}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/decisions/2026-03-11/12},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Decision. votingId 186092, document A-10-2026-0014, reference 2025/2144(INI). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-11-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2026-03-11-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: decisions of the sitting MTG-PL-2026-03-11 (CC BY 4.0)}
}