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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 126251Source: official EP roll-call records
Official roll-call results (EP minutes) ↗
71
/ 100

Importance Score

High importance

Why this vote stands out:

  • ✓Main vote
  • ✓Legislative procedure
  • ✓Some 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+25 / 25
Close vote+0 / 15
Legislative+15 / 15
Rebel votes+7 / 10
Group division+6 / 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”. EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens-EFA, ECR, NI and Left voted mostly in favour. PfE and ESN mostly abstained. The motion was adopted by a comfortable margin (616 for, 22 against, 58 abstentions).

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Why it matters

This is a main (final) vote on a dossier — the decisive moment where the European Parliament adopts or rejects a legislative or political text. These are the votes that most directly shape EU law and policy, and the ones citizens and journalists should watch most closely.

Result analysis

For
616
Against
22
Abstain
58
Margin of victory
594 votes
Turnout (cast)
696
Absent
8
Participation rate
98.9%
✓This was not a close vote — the margin was comfortable.

By political group

EPP180 MEPs
For 176Against 1Abstain 1Absent 2
S&D136 MEPs
For 135Against 0Abstain 0Absent 1
Renew100 MEPs
For 95Against 4Abstain 0Absent 1
Greens/EFA71 MEPs
For 71Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0
PfE66 MEPs
For 29Against 7Abstain 30Absent 0
ECR63 MEPs
For 51Against 6Abstain 6Absent 0
NI44 MEPs
For 21Against 4Abstain 16Absent 3
The Left38 MEPs
For 35Against 0Abstain 2Absent 1
ESN4 MEPs
For 1Against 0Abstain 3Absent 0

Country angle

Most in favour
  • Germany82
  • Italy74
  • Spain59
  • France56
  • Poland51
Most against

None.

Divided delegations
  • Denmark
Full breakdown by all countries
Austria19 MEPs
For 16Against 3Abstain 0Absent 0
Belgium21 MEPs
For 18Against 3Abstain 0Absent 0
Bulgaria17 MEPs
For 17Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0
Croatia12 MEPs
For 10Against 0Abstain 2Absent 0
Cyprus6 MEPs
For 6Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0
Czech Republic21 MEPs
For 20Against 1Abstain 0Absent 0
Denmark14 MEPs
For 9Against 5Abstain 0Absent 0
Estonia7 MEPs
For 6Against 1Abstain 0Absent 0
Finland14 MEPs
For 12Against 1Abstain 1Absent 0
France79 MEPs
For 56Against 0Abstain 23Absent 0
Germany96 MEPs
For 82Against 1Abstain 11Absent 2
Greece21 MEPs
For 17Against 2Abstain 1Absent 1
Hungary21 MEPs
For 8Against 0Abstain 12Absent 1
Ireland13 MEPs
For 13Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0
Italy76 MEPs
For 74Against 0Abstain 0Absent 2
Latvia8 MEPs
For 8Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0
Lithuania11 MEPs
For 11Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0
Luxembourg6 MEPs
For 6Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0
Malta6 MEPs
For 6Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0
Netherlands29 MEPs
For 22Against 2Abstain 5Absent 0
Poland52 MEPs
For 51Against 0Abstain 0Absent 1
Portugal21 MEPs
For 19Against 0Abstain 2Absent 0
Romania33 MEPs
For 32Against 0Abstain 0Absent 1
Slovakia14 MEPs
For 13Against 0Abstain 1Absent 0
Slovenia8 MEPs
For 8Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0
Spain59 MEPs
For 59Against 0Abstain 0Absent 0
Sweden20 MEPs
For 17Against 3Abstain 0Absent 0

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