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Thursday's agenda – Request by the Verts/ALE, Renew, The Left and S&D groups

Vote ID 166331Source: official EP roll-call records

Official roll-call results (EP minutes) ↗

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Importance Score

Medium importance

Why this vote stands out:

✓Procedural or paragraph vote
✓Some political group division
✓Some national delegation divergence
✓Very close result
✓Many MEPs voted against their group

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Topic importance+0 / 15

Turnout+0 / 5

Vote type+3 / 25

Close vote+12 / 15

Legislative+0 / 15

Rebel votes+10 / 10

Group division+10 / 15

Country division+10 / 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 “Thursday's agenda – Request by the Verts/ALE, Renew, The Left and S&D groups”. Renew, Greens-EFA, Left and NI voted mostly in favour, while S&D, EPP, PfE, ECR and ESN voted mostly against. The motion was adopted by a narrow margin (143 for, 135 against, 26 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. The outcome was close, which makes individual choices and absences especially consequential.

Result analysis

For

143

Against

135

Abstain

Margin of victory

8 votes

Turnout (cast)

304

Absent

400

Participation rate

43.2%

⚠️This was a close vote — the margin was small relative to the votes cast.

Close vote analysis

The margin was 8 votes. 400 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (400) was larger than the 8-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Groups whose absences exceeded the margin

EPPhad 117 absent MEPs (margin was 8)
S&Dhad 70 absent MEPs (margin was 8)
Renewhad 55 absent MEPs (margin was 8)
ECRhad 42 absent MEPs (margin was 8)
PfEhad 34 absent MEPs (margin was 8)
NIhad 33 absent MEPs (margin was 8)
Greens-EFAhad 24 absent MEPs (margin was 8)
Lefthad 22 absent MEPs (margin was 8)

Countries whose absences exceeded the margin

Germany (52 absent)Italy (49 absent)France (35 absent)Spain (34 absent)Poland (30 absent)Romania (23 absent)Greece (14 absent)Hungary (13 absent)Sweden (12 absent)Bulgaria (11 absent)Czech Republic (11 absent)Belgium (10 absent)Ireland (10 absent)Netherlands (10 absent)Portugal (10 absent)Austria (9 absent)

Absences larger than the margin are numerically significant but do NOT imply the outcome would have changed. That would require modelling how each absent member would have voted, which this analysis does not do.

By political group

S&D136 MEPs

For 15Against 47Abstain 4Absent 70

EPP179 MEPs

For 13Against 46Abstain 3Absent 117

Renew100 MEPs

For 43Against 1Abstain 1Absent 55

Greens/EFA69 MEPs

For 45Against 0Abstain 0Absent 24

PfE64 MEPs

For 2Against 16Abstain 12Absent 34

ECR65 MEPs

For 0Against 18Abstain 5Absent 42

The Left38 MEPs

For 16Against 0Abstain 0Absent 22

NI46 MEPs

For 7Against 5Abstain 1Absent 33

ESN4 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 3

Country angle

Most in favour

France30
Netherlands10
Czech Republic8
Sweden8
Greece6

Most against

Italy22
Germany21
Poland16
Spain15
Hungary8

Divided delegations

Belgium
Germany
Lithuania
Netherlands
Portugal
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 3Against 7Abstain 0Absent 9

Belgium21 MEPs

For 5Against 3Abstain 3Absent 10

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 1Against 5Abstain 0Absent 11

Croatia12 MEPs

For 1Against 3Abstain 0Absent 8

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 6

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 8Against 2Abstain 0Absent 11

Denmark14 MEPs

For 5Against 1Abstain 0Absent 8

Estonia7 MEPs

For 1Against 0Abstain 0Absent 6

Finland14 MEPs

For 5Against 1Abstain 0Absent 8

France79 MEPs

For 30Against 2Abstain 12Absent 35

Germany95 MEPs

For 20Against 21Abstain 2Absent 52

Greece21 MEPs

For 6Against 1Abstain 0Absent 14

Hungary21 MEPs

For 0Against 8Abstain 0Absent 13

Ireland13 MEPs

For 3Against 0Abstain 0Absent 10

Italy76 MEPs

For 4Against 22Abstain 1Absent 49

Latvia8 MEPs

For 0Against 2Abstain 0Absent 6

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 1Against 1Abstain 1Absent 8

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 2Against 1Abstain 0Absent 3

Malta6 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 5

Netherlands29 MEPs

For 10Against 9Abstain 0Absent 10

Poland52 MEPs

For 6Against 16Abstain 0Absent 30

Portugal21 MEPs

For 4Against 6Abstain 1Absent 10

Romania33 MEPs

For 5Against 3Abstain 2Absent 23

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 3Against 2Abstain 2Absent 7

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 3Against 3Abstain 0Absent 2

Spain59 MEPs

For 9Against 15Abstain 1Absent 34

Sweden21 MEPs

For 8Against 0Abstain 1Absent 12

Individual MEP positions

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