Decision to open negotiations with the Council

The vote as recorded by name.

Members counted in their current group: the view with groups at the date of the vote is not available right now.

How each country’s members of each group voted.

Each member’s recorded position — groups as of today: the view with groups at the date of the vote is not available right now.

Members in office that day without a recorded position. No vote recorded is not the same as absent: leave, illness or chairing the sitting look the same.

Roll calls that split the chamber the most similarly: r is the correlation of members’ positions, over the members who voted in both. Other votes on the same decision are left out.

Groups’ lines side by side, and the members who switched between the two votes.

This vote’s decision, the other votes on it, and related votes.

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

European Parliament (2023). “Decision to open negotiations with the Council”. Vote, 20 April 2023. votingId 154561. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2023-04-20/154561 (retrieved 26 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 20 April 2023 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2023-04-20-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 20 April 2023 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2023-04-20-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2023-04-20, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2023-04-20/vote-results?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).

@misc{epw-vote-2023-04-20-154561,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Decision to open negotiations with the Council}},
  year = {2023},
  date = {2023-04-20},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2023-04-20/154561}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2023-04-20/154561},
  urldate = {2026-09-26},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Vote. votingId 154561. Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2023-04-20-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2023-04-20-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2023-04-20 (CC BY 4.0)}
}