Vote · Final vote

Final vote on the whole text

Setting up a Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield, and defining its responsibilities, numerical strength and term of office

Vote: Final vote on the whole text
Decision: No. 6 of the sitting of 18 Dec 2024
Result: 441 for · 178 against · 34 abstained Adopted · roll call
Date: 18 December 2024, 12:16

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Effect: Adopted — this vote decided the decision
Position: vote 7 of 7 on the decision
Requested by: roll call: Patriots
Official label: B10-0216/2024 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)
Text: Motion B-10-2024-0216
Dossier: 2024/2999(RSO)
Vote id: 171271

Effect: Adopted — this vote decided the decision
Position: vote 7 of 7 on the decision
Requested by: roll call: Patriots
Official label: B10-0216/2024 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole)
Text: Motion B-10-2024-0216
Dossier: 2024/2999(RSO)
Vote id: 171271

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Result

The vote as recorded by name.

Adopted · 68 % of the votes cast were for.

This was the final vote on the decision: Adopted.

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).
Group	For	Against	Abst.	No vote	Majority line	Clear line	Cohesion
The Left	For 25	Against 10	Abst. 7	No vote 4 of 46	Majority line For	Clear line Divided	Cohesion 0.39
Greens	For 49	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 4 of 53	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
S&D	For 125	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 11 of 136	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
Renew	For 74	Against 0	Abst. 0	No vote 3 of 77	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 1.00
EPP	For 166	Against 2	Abst. 0	No vote 20 of 188	Majority line For	Clear line For	Cohesion 0.98
ECR	For 1	Against 43	Abst. 27	No vote 9 of 80	Majority line Against	Clear line Divided	Cohesion 0.41
Patriots	For 0	Against 76	Abst. 0	No vote 10 of 86	Majority line Against	Clear line Against	Cohesion 1.00
ESN	For 0	Against 22	Abst. 0	No vote 3 of 25	Majority line Against	Clear line Against	Cohesion 1.00
No group	For 1	Against 25	Abst. 0	No vote 2 of 28	Majority 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, Fernand KARTHEISER changed group, Jessika VAN LEEUWEN changed group, Laurent CASTILLO changed group, Lukas SIEPER changed group, Malika SOREL changed group, Milan MAZUREK 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.

Countries × groups

How each country’s members of each group voted.

Each cell: members of that country in that group who voted for – against – abstained (group at the date of the vote). Shading: the share of the cell's votes that were for; the stronger the shading, the more for (scale below). — : no member voted.
Country	The Left	Greens	S&D	Renew	EPP	ECR	Patriots	ESN	No group
Austria	no member voted	2–0–0	5–0–0	2–0–0	4–1–0	no member voted	0–6–0	no member voted	no member voted
Belgium	0–2–0	1–0–0	4–0–0	5–0–0	2–0–0	0–0–2	0–2–0	no member voted	no member voted
Bulgaria	no member voted	no member voted	1–0–0	4–0–0	5–0–0	0–1–0	no member voted	0–3–0	no member voted
Cyprus	0–1–0	no member voted	1–0–0	no member voted	2–0–0	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted	0–1–0
Czechia	no member voted	1–0–0	no member voted	no member voted	4–0–0	0–3–0	0–9–0	0–1–0	0–2–0
Germany	1–2–1	15–0–0	12–0–0	8–0–0	28–0–0	no member voted	no member voted	0–11–0	1–8–0
Denmark	1–0–0	3–0–0	3–0–0	4–0–0	2–0–0	0–1–0	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted
Estonia	no member voted	no member voted	1–0–0	2–0–0	2–0–0	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
Spain	0–4–0	3–0–0	17–0–0	1–0–0	20–0–0	0–2–0	0–4–0	no member voted	0–1–0
Finland	3–0–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	3–0–0	3–0–0	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
France	9–0–0	5–0–0	12–0–0	13–0–0	5–0–0	0–4–0	0–29–0	0–1–0	no member voted
Greece	0–0–3	no member voted	3–0–0	no member voted	6–0–0	0–1–0	0–1–0	no member voted	0–4–0
Croatia	no member voted	1–0–0	4–0–0	no member voted	5–0–0	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
Hungary	no member voted	no member voted	1–0–0	no member voted	4–0–0	no member voted	0–8–0	0–1–0	no member voted
Ireland	2–0–1	no member voted	1–0–0	6–0–0	4–0–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
Italy	8–0–0	3–0–0	19–0–0	no member voted	8–0–0	0–0–23	0–6–0	no member voted	no member voted
Lithuania	no member voted	1–0–0	2–0–0	2–0–0	3–0–0	1–0–0	no member voted	0–1–0	no member voted
Luxembourg	no member voted	1–0–0	1–0–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
Latvia	no member voted	1–0–0	1–0–0	no member voted	1–0–0	0–2–1	0–1–0	no member voted	no member voted
Malta	no member voted	no member voted	3–0–0	no member voted	2–0–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
Netherlands	0–0–1	6–0–0	4–0–0	7–0–0	6–0–0	0–1–0	0–5–0	no member voted	no member voted
Poland	no member voted	no member voted	3–0–0	1–0–0	21–1–0	0–17–0	0–2–0	0–3–0	0–1–0
Portugal	0–1–1	no member voted	8–0–0	2–0–0	6–0–0	no member voted	0–2–0	no member voted	no member voted
Romania	no member voted	1–0–0	11–0–0	2–0–0	10–0–0	0–3–1	no member voted	no member voted	0–2–0
Sweden	1–0–0	3–0–0	5–0–0	3–0–0	5–0–0	0–3–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
Slovenia	no member voted	1–0–0	1–0–0	2–0–0	5–0–0	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted
Slovakia	no member voted	no member voted	no member voted	6–0–0	1–0–0	no member voted	no member voted	0–1–0	0–6–0

Share for: 0–19 %20–39 %40–59 %60–79 %80–100 %

Patriots members by country who voted for, against or abstained (group at the date of the vote).
Country	For	Against	Abst.	Bar
Austria	0	6	0
Belgium	0	2	0
Czechia	0	9	0
Denmark	0	1	0
Spain	0	4	0
France	0	29	0
Greece	0	1	0
Hungary	0	8	0
Italy	0	6	0
Latvia	0	1	0
Netherlands	0	5	0
Poland	0	2	0
Portugal	0	2	0

Members

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No vote recorded, 66

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.

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Name · group that day · country

Aldo PATRICIELLO group that day: Patriots · Italy
Alicia HOMS GINEL group that day: S&D · Spain
Alma EZCURRA ALMANSA group that day: EPP · Spain
Ana Miguel PEDRO group that day: EPP · Portugal
András LÁSZLÓ group that day: Patriots · Hungary
Andreas SCHWAB group that day: EPP · Germany
Angéline FURET group that day: Patriots · France
Brando BENIFEI group that day: S&D · Italy
Carmen CRESPO DÍAZ group that day: EPP · Spain
Christian EHLER group that day: EPP · Germany
Cristian TERHEŞ group that day: ECR · Romania
Cristina GUARDA group that day: Greens · Italy
Daniel OBAJTEK group that day: ECR · Poland
Diana RIBA I GINER group that day: Greens · Spain
Dominik TARCZYŃSKI group that day: ECR · Poland
Elena YONCHEVA group that day: Renew · Bulgaria
Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI group that day: EPP · Greece
Eszter LAKOS group that day: EPP · Hungary
Fulvio MARTUSCIELLO group that day: EPP · Italy
Galato ALEXANDRAKI group that day: ECR · Greece
Gerolf ANNEMANS group that day: Patriots · Belgium
Gheorghe PIPEREA group that day: ECR · Romania
Hermann TERTSCH group that day: Patriots · Spain
Ilaria SALIS group that day: The Left · Italy
Inese VAIDERE group that day: EPP · Latvia
Irmhild BOSSDORF group that day: ESN · Germany
Ivars IJABS group that day: Renew · Latvia
Javi LÓPEZ group that day: S&D · Spain
Jean-Marc GERMAIN group that day: S&D · France
Johan VAN OVERTVELDT group that day: ECR · Belgium
Jonas SJÖSTEDT group that day: The Left · Sweden
Jorge MARTÍN FRÍAS group that day: Patriots · Spain
José CEPEDA group that day: S&D · Spain
Katarina BARLEY group that day: S&D · Germany
Kinga GÁL group that day: Patriots · Hungary
Kinga KOLLÁR group that day: EPP · Hungary
Klára DOBREV group that day: S&D · Hungary
Konstantinos ARVANITIS group that day: The Left · Greece
Krzysztof HETMAN group that day: EPP · Poland
Laurent CASTILLO group that day: EPP · France
Liesbet SOMMEN group that day: EPP · Belgium
Manuela RIPA group that day: EPP · Germany
Marina KALJURAND group that day: S&D · Estonia
Maximilian KRAH group that day: No group · Germany
Mimmo LUCANO group that day: The Left · Italy
Monika BEŇOVÁ group that day: No group · Slovakia
Nikolina BRNJAC group that day: EPP · Croatia
Ondřej KOLÁŘ group that day: EPP · Czechia
Pál SZEKERES group that day: Patriots · Hungary
Péter MAGYAR group that day: EPP · Hungary
Petr BYSTRON group that day: ESN · Germany
Radan KANEV group that day: EPP · Bulgaria
Roberta METSOLA group that day: EPP · Malta
Sabrina REPP group that day: S&D · Germany
Sandro RUOTOLO group that day: S&D · Italy
Saskia BRICMONT group that day: Greens · Belgium
Siegbert Frank DROESE group that day: ESN · Germany
Silvia SARDONE group that day: Patriots · Italy
Sirpa PIETIKÄINEN group that day: EPP · Finland
Stefano CAVEDAGNA group that day: ECR · Italy
Tobiasz BOCHEŃSKI group that day: ECR · Poland
Ton DIEPEVEEN group that day: Patriots · Netherlands
Tsvetelina PENKOVA group that day: S&D · Bulgaria
Ville NIINISTÖ group that day: Greens · Finland
Vlad VASILE-VOICULESCU group that day: Renew · Romania
Waldemar TOMASZEWSKI group that day: ECR · Lithuania

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Permalink: https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2024-12-18/171271
Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 18 December 2024 (European Parliament)
Results of votes, sitting of 18 December 2024 (European Parliament)
Data source: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2024-12-18
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved: 25 September 2026

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European Parliament (2024). “Final vote on the whole text — Setting up a Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield, and defining its responsibilities, numerical strength and term of office”. Vote, 18 December 2024. votingId 171271, reference 2024/2999(RSO). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2024-12-18/171271 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 18 December 2024 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-12-18-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 18 December 2024 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-12-18-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2024-12-18, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2024-12-18/vote-results?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).

BibTeX

@misc{epw-vote-2024-12-18-171271,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Final vote on the whole text — Setting up a Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield, and defining its responsibilities, numerical strength and term of office}},
  year = {2024},
  date = {2024-12-18},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2024-12-18/171271}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2024-12-18/171271},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Vote. votingId 171271, reference 2024/2999(RSO). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-12-18-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2024-12-18-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2024-12-18 (CC BY 4.0)}
}