← Votes·2024-04-22

Tuesday’s agenda – Request by the Verts/ALE Group (The responsibilities of fossil fuel companies in the cost-of-living crisis)

Vote ID 168689Source: 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+6 / 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 (The responsibilities of fossil fuel companies in the cost-of-living crisis)”. S&D, Greens-EFA and Left voted mostly in favour, while EPP, Renew, PfE, ECR, NI and ESN voted mostly against. The motion was rejected by a narrow margin (145 for, 165 against, 9 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

145

Against

165

Abstain

Margin of victory

20 votes

Turnout (cast)

319

Absent

386

Participation rate

45.3%

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

Close vote analysis

The margin was 20 votes. 386 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (386) was larger than the 20-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Groups whose absences exceeded the margin

EPPhad 108 absent MEPs (margin was 20)
S&Dhad 65 absent MEPs (margin was 20)
ECRhad 44 absent MEPs (margin was 20)
PfEhad 43 absent MEPs (margin was 20)
Renewhad 42 absent MEPs (margin was 20)
NIhad 38 absent MEPs (margin was 20)
Greens-EFAhad 22 absent MEPs (margin was 20)

Countries whose absences exceeded the margin

Italy (56 absent)Germany (40 absent)Spain (33 absent)France (32 absent)Poland (31 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 69Against 0Abstain 2Absent 65

EPP179 MEPs

For 1Against 69Abstain 1Absent 108

Renew100 MEPs

For 5Against 52Abstain 1Absent 42

Greens/EFA70 MEPs

For 48Against 0Abstain 0Absent 22

PfE64 MEPs

For 5Against 14Abstain 2Absent 43

ECR65 MEPs

For 0Against 21Abstain 0Absent 44

The Left38 MEPs

For 17Against 0Abstain 1Absent 20

NI46 MEPs

For 0Against 6Abstain 2Absent 38

ESN4 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 3

Country angle

Most in favour

France22
Spain16
Portugal11
Sweden10
Austria6

Most against

Germany30
Poland16
Netherlands14
Italy11
Romania10

Divided delegations

Belgium
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Hungary
Italy
Latvia

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 6Against 3Abstain 0Absent 10

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 9Abstain 0Absent 10

Denmark14 MEPs

For 5Against 3Abstain 0Absent 6

Estonia7 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 7

Finland14 MEPs

For 3Against 2Abstain 0Absent 9

France79 MEPs

For 22Against 22Abstain 3Absent 32

Germany96 MEPs

For 26Against 30Abstain 0Absent 40

Greece21 MEPs

For 1Against 2Abstain 1Absent 17

Hungary21 MEPs

For 3Against 5Abstain 0Absent 13

Ireland13 MEPs

For 4Against 0Abstain 0Absent 9

Italy76 MEPs

For 8Against 11Abstain 1Absent 56

Latvia8 MEPs

For 1Against 1Abstain 0Absent 6

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 1Against 4Abstain 0Absent 6

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 2Against 2Abstain 0Absent 2

Malta6 MEPs

For 1Against 0Abstain 0Absent 5

Netherlands29 MEPs

For 7Against 14Abstain 0Absent 8

Poland52 MEPs

For 5Against 16Abstain 0Absent 31

Portugal21 MEPs

For 11Against 2Abstain 1Absent 7

Romania33 MEPs

For 1Against 10Abstain 3Absent 19

Slovakia14 MEPs

For 1Against 4Abstain 0Absent 9

Slovenia8 MEPs

For 3Against 2Abstain 0Absent 3

Spain59 MEPs

For 16Against 10Abstain 0Absent 33

Sweden21 MEPs

For 10Against 4Abstain 0Absent 7

Individual MEP positions

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