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Tuesday’s agenda – Request by the Verts/ALE Group (Simplification of certain CAP rules)

Vote ID 168687Source: 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
✓Some political group division
✓Some national delegation divergence
✓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+10 / 15

Legislative+0 / 15

Rebel votes+7 / 10

Group division+10 / 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 “Tuesday’s agenda – Request by the Verts/ALE Group (Simplification of certain CAP rules)”. S&D, Greens-EFA, PfE and Left voted mostly in favour, while EPP, Renew, ECR, NI and ESN voted mostly against. The motion was rejected by a narrow margin (157 for, 167 against, 3 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

157

Against

167

Abstain

Margin of victory

10 votes

Turnout (cast)

327

Absent

378

Participation rate

46.4%

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

Close vote analysis

The margin was 10 votes. 378 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (378) was larger than the 10-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Groups whose absences exceeded the margin

EPPhad 107 absent MEPs (margin was 10)
S&Dhad 65 absent MEPs (margin was 10)
ECRhad 43 absent MEPs (margin was 10)
Renewhad 42 absent MEPs (margin was 10)
PfEhad 38 absent MEPs (margin was 10)
NIhad 35 absent MEPs (margin was 10)
Greens-EFAhad 22 absent MEPs (margin was 10)
Lefthad 22 absent MEPs (margin was 10)

Countries whose absences exceeded the margin

Italy (54 absent)Germany (38 absent)Spain (33 absent)Poland (31 absent)France (27 absent)Romania (19 absent)Greece (16 absent)Bulgaria (14 absent)Hungary (13 absent)Croatia (12 absent)Austria (11 absent)Ireland (11 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

EPP179 MEPs

For 2Against 70Abstain 0Absent 107

S&D136 MEPs

For 70Against 0Abstain 1Absent 65

Renew100 MEPs

For 4Against 54Abstain 0Absent 42

Greens/EFA70 MEPs

For 48Against 0Abstain 0Absent 22

PfE64 MEPs

For 13Against 13Abstain 0Absent 38

ECR65 MEPs

For 0Against 22Abstain 0Absent 43

The Left38 MEPs

For 16Against 0Abstain 0Absent 22

NI46 MEPs

For 4Against 5Abstain 2Absent 35

ESN4 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 3

Country angle

Most in favour

France30
Spain17
Portugal11
Sweden9
Austria5

Most against

Germany31
Poland16
Italy13
Netherlands13
Romania11

Divided delegations

Austria
Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 5Against 3Abstain 0Absent 11

Belgium21 MEPs

For 5Against 7Abstain 0Absent 9

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 1Against 2Abstain 0Absent 14

Croatia12 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 12

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 6

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 2Against 10Abstain 0Absent 9

Denmark14 MEPs

For 5Against 3Abstain 0Absent 6

Estonia7 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 7

Finland14 MEPs

For 3Against 2Abstain 0Absent 9

France79 MEPs

For 30Against 21Abstain 1Absent 27

Germany96 MEPs

For 27Against 31Abstain 0Absent 38

Greece21 MEPs

For 2Against 2Abstain 1Absent 16

Hungary21 MEPs

For 3Against 5Abstain 0Absent 13

Ireland13 MEPs

For 2Against 0Abstain 0Absent 11

Italy76 MEPs

For 9Against 13Abstain 0Absent 54

Latvia8 MEPs

For 1Against 1Abstain 0Absent 6

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 2Against 3Abstain 0Absent 6

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 2Against 2Abstain 0Absent 2

Malta6 MEPs

For 1Against 0Abstain 0Absent 5

Netherlands29 MEPs

For 8Against 13Abstain 0Absent 8

Poland52 MEPs

For 5Against 16Abstain 0Absent 31

Portugal21 MEPs

For 11Against 4Abstain 0Absent 6

Romania33 MEPs

For 2Against 11Abstain 1Absent 19

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 2Against 2Abstain 0Absent 10

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 3Against 2Abstain 0Absent 3

Spain59 MEPs

For 17Against 9Abstain 0Absent 33

Sweden21 MEPs

For 9Against 5Abstain 0Absent 7

Individual MEP positions

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