Dossier · Own-initiative report
Strategic political relations with Australia – potential for deeper ties in the face of a volatile international order
- Reference
- 2026/2034(INI) Own-initiative report
- Where it stands
- In committee: AFET (Foreign Affairs) is preparing the report (draft published 19 June 2026).
- Stage
- First reading
- Lead committee
- Foreign Affairs AFET
Where it stands
The steps of this kind of dossier and how far it has come, from the procedure file.
- Referred to committee (done) 30 April 2026
- Committee work (current step) AFET (Foreign Affairs) preparing the report
- Tabled for plenary (to come)
- Plenary vote (to come)
- Parliament’s position (to come)
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People
Committees and members responsible for the dossier, as the procedure file names them. Groups as recorded there.
- Lead committee
- Foreign Affairs AFET
- Rapporteur
- Željana ZOVKO (EPP)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Tobias CREMER (S&D), Mieke ANDRIESE (Patriots), Adam BIELAN (ECR), Urmas PAET (Renew), Thomas WAITZ (Greens), Jonas SJÖSTEDT (The Left), Stanislav STOYANOV (ESN)
Decisions in plenary, 0
Every decision Parliament took on this dossier, newest first.
No plenary decision on this dossier is in the records yet.
Every roll-call vote on the dossier, in date and voting order, with each group's line at the date of the vote.
No roll-call vote was recorded on this dossier.
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Versions, 1
The text of the dossier, version by version, newest first. Compare shows what changed between two consecutive versions.
Committee draft19 Jun 2026
Draft report (AFET) AFET-PR-789129
AI: Each version in short Written by AI from the official text — check the source
- Draft report (AFET): A draft report by the Committee on Foreign Affairs on strategic political relations with Australia. It calls for deeper EU-Australia ties across foreign policy, security, trade, critical raw materials, digital and green transitions, research and parliamentary dialogue.
What changed
Between consecutive versions of the text, newest pair first.
No overview of what changed between versions is available for this dossier — fewer than two versions of its text are linked in the open data.
Timeline, 3
Every recorded step, newest first, grouped by stage; the latest stage is open.
Committee stage 3 steps · 30 Apr 2026–16 Sept 2026
16 September 2026
Amendments tabled in committee
Members of AFET (Foreign Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.
19 June 2026
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in AFET (Foreign Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
30 April 2026
Referred to the AFET (Foreign Affairs) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
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Sources & citation
Where the facts on this page come from, and how to cite it.
- Official source
- Data source
- Licensed CC BY 4.0.
- Retrieved
- 25 September 2026
Cite as
European Parliament (2026). “Strategic political relations with Australia – potential for deeper ties in the face of a volatile international order”. Dossier. reference 2026/2034(INI). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2026-2034 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official source: Legislative Observatory (OEIL), 2026/2034(INI), https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2026%2F2034(INI). Data: European Parliament Open Data, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/ (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX
@misc{epw-dossier-2026-2034,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{Strategic political relations with Australia – potential for deeper ties in the face of a volatile international order}},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2026-2034}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/dossiers/2026-2034},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Dossier. reference 2026/2034(INI). Official source: https://oeil.secure.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2026\%2F2034(INI). Data: European Parliament Open Data (CC BY 4.0)}
}