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The Council Recommendation on vocational education and training (VET) for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience

Education84%★
Confidence: 84%
Assigned by: rule-based classifier
Evidence:
  • title/description contains "education"
  • title/description contains "training"
Reviewed: yes
Methodology: topic-rules-v0.1
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Vote ID 125846Source: official EP roll-call records
Official roll-call results (EP minutes) ↗
37
/ 100

Importance Score

Low importance

Why this vote stands out:

  • ✓Strong political group division
  • ✓Some national delegation divergence
  • ✓High participation
  • ✓Many MEPs voted against their group
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Topic importance+5 / 15
Turnout+5 / 5
Vote type+0 / 25
Close vote+0 / 15
Legislative+0 / 15
Rebel votes+7 / 10
Group division+12 / 15
Country division+8 / 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 “The Council Recommendation on vocational education and training (VET) for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilience”. PfE and ESN voted mostly in favour, while EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens-EFA, NI and Left voted mostly against. ECR mostly abstained. The motion was rejected by a comfortable margin (115 for, 539 against, 38 abstentions).

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

Why it matters

This is a substantive vote (such as an amendment or resolution) that contributes to shaping the final position of the Parliament on a dossier. It reflects the political direction taken on specific provisions.

Result analysis

For
115
Against
539
Abstain
38
Margin of victory
424 votes
Turnout (cast)
692
Absent
12
Participation rate
98.3%
✓This was not a close vote — the margin was comfortable.

By political group

EPP180 MEPs
For 9Against 167Abstain 1Absent 3
S&D136 MEPs
For 0Against 135Abstain 0Absent 1
Renew100 MEPs
For 4Against 94Abstain 1Absent 1
Greens/EFA71 MEPs
For 0Against 69Abstain 0Absent 2
PfE66 MEPs
For 59Against 7Abstain 0Absent 0
ECR63 MEPs
For 26Against 2Abstain 34Absent 1
NI44 MEPs
For 11Against 27Abstain 2Absent 4
The Left38 MEPs
For 2Against 36Abstain 0Absent 0
ESN4 MEPs
For 4Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0

Country angle

Most in favour

None.

Most against
  • Germany83
  • France55
  • Spain55
  • Italy39
  • Romania31
Divided delegations
  • Denmark
  • Italy
Full breakdown by all countries
Austria19 MEPs
For 3Against 16Abstain 0Absent 0
Belgium21 MEPs
For 6Against 15Abstain 0Absent 0
Bulgaria17 MEPs
For 0Against 15Abstain 2Absent 0
Croatia12 MEPs
For 0Against 9Abstain 3Absent 0
Cyprus6 MEPs
For 0Against 6Abstain 0Absent 0
Czech Republic21 MEPs
For 6Against 14Abstain 0Absent 1
Denmark14 MEPs
For 5Against 9Abstain 0Absent 0
Estonia7 MEPs
For 1Against 6Abstain 0Absent 0
Finland14 MEPs
For 1Against 12Abstain 0Absent 1
France79 MEPs
For 24Against 55Abstain 0Absent 0
Germany96 MEPs
For 10Against 83Abstain 0Absent 3
Greece21 MEPs
For 2Against 16Abstain 1Absent 2
Hungary21 MEPs
For 0Against 20Abstain 0Absent 1
Ireland13 MEPs
For 1Against 12Abstain 0Absent 0
Italy76 MEPs
For 35Against 39Abstain 0Absent 2
Latvia8 MEPs
For 0Against 6Abstain 2Absent 0
Lithuania11 MEPs
For 0Against 10Abstain 1Absent 0
Luxembourg6 MEPs
For 0Against 6Abstain 0Absent 0
Malta6 MEPs
For 0Against 6Abstain 0Absent 0
Netherlands29 MEPs
For 8Against 21Abstain 0Absent 0
Poland52 MEPs
For 0Against 23Abstain 27Absent 2
Portugal21 MEPs
For 0Against 21Abstain 0Absent 0
Romania33 MEPs
For 2Against 31Abstain 0Absent 0
Slovakia14 MEPs
For 2Against 11Abstain 1Absent 0
Slovenia8 MEPs
For 0Against 8Abstain 0Absent 0
Spain59 MEPs
For 4Against 55Abstain 0Absent 0
Sweden20 MEPs
For 5Against 14Abstain 1Absent 0

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