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Final vote on the whole text

Return of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred and deported by Russia

Vote
Final vote on the whole text
Decision
No. 9 of the sitting of 8 May 2025
Result
516 for · 3 against · 34 abstained Adopted · roll call
Date
8 May 2025, 13:08
More facts (7)
Effect
Adopted — this vote decided the decision
Position
vote 6 of 12 on the decision
Requested by
roll call: Renew
Official label
RC-B10-0249/2025 - Proposition de résolution (ensemble du texte)
Text
Motion B-10-2025-0247
Dossier
2025/2691(RSP)
Vote id
176309
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The members file includes members in office who did not vote.

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Result

The vote as recorded by name.

Result: 516 for, 3 against, 34 abstained (roll call).

Adopted · 93 % 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).
GroupForAgainstAbst.No voteMajority lineClear lineCohesionBar
The LeftFor 26Against 0Abst. 0No vote 20 of 46Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
GreensFor 48Against 0Abst. 0No vote 5 of 53Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
S&DFor 108Against 0Abst. 0No vote 28 of 136Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
RenewFor 63Against 0Abst. 0No vote 12 of 75Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
EPPFor 141Against 0Abst. 0No vote 47 of 188Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 1.00
ECRFor 61Against 0Abst. 3No vote 16 of 80Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.93
PatriotsFor 63Against 0Abst. 2No vote 20 of 85Majority line ForClear line For Cohesion 0.95
ESNFor 3Against 1Abst. 18No vote 5 of 27Majority line AbstainedClear line Abstained Cohesion 0.73
No groupFor 3Against 2Abst. 11No vote 13 of 29Majority 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, 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.

Greens members by country who voted for, against or abstained (group at the date of the vote).
CountryForAgainstAbst.Bar
Austria200
Belgium100
Germany1400
Denmark300
Spain300
Finland200
France500
Croatia100
Italy400
Lithuania100
Luxembourg100
Latvia100
Netherlands600
Sweden300
Slovenia100

Members

Each member’s recorded position, in the group they sat in that day. Filter by country, group, position or name.

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No vote recorded, 166

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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Similar votes

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.

The minority on this vote was under 10 % of the votes cast — too small to compare how it split the chamber.

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

Connections

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

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Sources & citation

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Permalink
https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2025-05-08/176309
Official sources
Data source
Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Retrieved
25 September 2026

Cite as

European Parliament (2025). “Final vote on the whole text — Return of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred and deported by Russia”. Vote, 8 May 2025. votingId 176309, reference 2025/2691(RSP). EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2025-05-08/176309 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Official sources: Roll-call votes, sitting of 8 May 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-08-RCV_EN.html; Results of votes, sitting of 8 May 2025 (European Parliament), https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-08-VOT_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-05-08, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/meetings/MTG-PL-2025-05-08/vote-results?format=application%2Fld%2Bjson (CC BY 4.0).
BibTeX 
@misc{epw-vote-2025-05-08-176309,
  author = {{European Parliament}},
  title = {{Final vote on the whole text — Return of Ukrainian children forcibly transferred and deported by Russia}},
  year = {2025},
  date = {2025-05-08},
  howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2025-05-08/176309}},
  url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/votes/2025-05-08/176309},
  urldate = {2026-09-25},
  publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
  note = {Vote. votingId 176309, reference 2025/2691(RSP). Official source: https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-08-RCV\_EN.html, https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/PV-10-2025-05-08-VOT\_EN.html. Data: EP Open Data API: vote results of the sitting MTG-PL-2025-05-08 (CC BY 4.0)}
}