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EC/Iceland/Norway Agreement: criteria and mechanisms for establishing the State responsible for examining a request for asylum lodged in a Member State or in Iceland or Norway regarding the access to Eurodac for law enforcement purposes. Protocol

Migration & Asylum66%★

Confidence: 66%

Assigned by: rule-based classifier

Evidence:

title/description contains "asylum"

Reviewed: no

Methodology: topic-rules-v0.1

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Vote ID 111141Source: official EP roll-call records

Official roll-call results (EP minutes) ↗

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Importance Score

Low importance

Why this vote stands out:

✓Procedural or paragraph vote
✓High-interest topic: Migration
✓Some political group division
✓High participation

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Topic importance+12 / 15

Turnout+4 / 5

Vote type+3 / 25

Close vote+0 / 15

Legislative+0 / 15

Rebel votes+0 / 10

Group division+10 / 15

Country division+0 / 15

Methodology: importance-v0.1 · The Importance Score is a prioritisation indicator. It does not judge whether a vote is good or bad.

What was this vote about?

This vote concerned “EC/Iceland/Norway Agreement: criteria and mechanisms for establishing the State responsible for examining a request for asylum lodged in a Member State or in Iceland or Norway regarding the access to Eurodac for law enforcement purposes. Protocol”. EPP, S&D, Renew, PfE, Greens-EFA, ECR, NI and ESN voted mostly in favour, while Left voted mostly against. The motion was adopted by a comfortable margin (521 for, 23 against, 0 abstentions).

Automated summary generated from official vote metadata and observed voting patterns. Not a legal interpretation.

Why it matters

This is a procedural vote — it concerns how Parliament organises its work rather than a substantive policy decision. It is generally of lower public-interest weight, though procedural votes can still signal political alignments.

Result analysis

For

521

Against

Abstain

Margin of victory

498 votes

Turnout (cast)

544

Absent

132

Participation rate

80.5%

✓This was not a close vote — the margin was comfortable.

By political group

EPP172 MEPs

For 144Against 0Abstain 0Absent 28

S&D132 MEPs

For 101Against 0Abstain 0Absent 31

Renew96 MEPs

For 81Against 0Abstain 0Absent 15

PfE64 MEPs

For 58Against 0Abstain 0Absent 6

Greens/EFA67 MEPs

For 51Against 0Abstain 0Absent 16

ECR59 MEPs

For 49Against 0Abstain 0Absent 10

NI42 MEPs

For 29Against 2Abstain 0Absent 11

The Left37 MEPs

For 4Against 21Abstain 0Absent 12

ESN4 MEPs

For 2Against 0Abstain 0Absent 2

Country angle

Most in favour

Germany76
Italy58
France57
Poland39
Spain38

Most against

None.

Divided delegations

None notably divided.

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria17 MEPs

For 17Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0

Belgium21 MEPs

For 16Against 1Abstain 0Absent 4

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 14Against 0Abstain 0Absent 3

Croatia11 MEPs

For 8Against 0Abstain 0Absent 3

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 3Against 0Abstain 0Absent 3

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 21Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0

Denmark13 MEPs

For 9Against 0Abstain 0Absent 4

Estonia6 MEPs

For 5Against 0Abstain 0Absent 1

Finland13 MEPs

For 5Against 0Abstain 0Absent 8

France74 MEPs

For 57Against 4Abstain 0Absent 13

Germany96 MEPs

For 76Against 3Abstain 0Absent 17

Greece21 MEPs

For 12Against 3Abstain 0Absent 6

Hungary21 MEPs

For 17Against 0Abstain 0Absent 4

Ireland11 MEPs

For 6Against 3Abstain 0Absent 2

Italy73 MEPs

For 58Against 0Abstain 0Absent 15

Latvia8 MEPs

For 6Against 0Abstain 0Absent 2

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 11Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 5Against 0Abstain 0Absent 1

Malta6 MEPs

For 5Against 0Abstain 0Absent 1

Netherlands26 MEPs

For 21Against 1Abstain 0Absent 4

Poland51 MEPs

For 39Against 0Abstain 0Absent 12

Portugal21 MEPs

For 14Against 4Abstain 0Absent 3

Romania32 MEPs

For 27Against 0Abstain 0Absent 5

Slovakia13 MEPs

For 8Against 0Abstain 0Absent 5

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 8Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0

Spain53 MEPs

For 38Against 3Abstain 0Absent 12

Sweden20 MEPs

For 15Against 1Abstain 0Absent 4

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