← Votes·2025-09-11

Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution

Vote ID 179021Source: 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
✓Close result
✓High participation
✓Many MEPs voted against their group

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Topic importance+0 / 15

Turnout+4 / 5

Vote type+3 / 25

Close vote+10 / 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 “Gaza at breaking point: EU action to combat famine and the urgent need to release hostages and move towards a two-state solution”. EPP, ECR, PfE and ESN voted mostly in favour, while S&D, Renew, Greens-EFA, Left and NI voted mostly against. The motion was adopted by a narrow margin (290 for, 271 against, 22 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

290

Against

271

Abstain

Margin of victory

19 votes

Turnout (cast)

583

Absent

137

Participation rate

81.0%

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

Close vote analysis

The margin was 19 votes. 137 MEPs did not vote.

Could absences have changed the outcome? The number of absent MEPs (137) was larger than the 19-vote margin, so absences were numerically significant.

Groups whose absences exceeded the margin

EPPhad 30 absent MEPs (margin was 19)
S&Dhad 26 absent MEPs (margin was 19)

Countries whose absences exceeded the margin

Hungary (20 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

EPP185 MEPs

For 146Against 8Abstain 1Absent 30

S&D135 MEPs

For 3Against 104Abstain 2Absent 26

ECR82 MEPs

For 65Against 3Abstain 0Absent 14

PfE82 MEPs

For 45Against 8Abstain 12Absent 17

Renew79 MEPs

For 7Against 55Abstain 0Absent 17

Greens/EFA53 MEPs

For 0Against 43Abstain 0Absent 10

The Left45 MEPs

For 0Against 29Abstain 0Absent 16

ESN27 MEPs

For 18Against 3Abstain 4Absent 2

NI29 MEPs

For 5Against 17Abstain 3Absent 4

Country angle

Most in favour

Germany41
Poland39
Italy37
France35
Czech Republic15

Most against

Spain27
Netherlands19
Sweden16
Belgium12
Portugal10

Divided delegations

Austria
Bulgaria
Croatia
Estonia
France
Germany
Greece
Italy

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria20 MEPs

For 5Against 8Abstain 5Absent 2

Belgium22 MEPs

For 6Against 12Abstain 0Absent 4

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 7Against 5Abstain 0Absent 5

Croatia12 MEPs

For 5Against 5Abstain 0Absent 2

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 4Against 1Abstain 0Absent 1

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 15Against 2Abstain 1Absent 3

Denmark15 MEPs

For 3Against 8Abstain 0Absent 4

Estonia7 MEPs

For 3Against 3Abstain 0Absent 1

Finland15 MEPs

For 4Against 8Abstain 0Absent 3

France82 MEPs

For 35Against 33Abstain 0Absent 14

Germany96 MEPs

For 41Against 40Abstain 3Absent 12

Greece21 MEPs

For 7Against 9Abstain 0Absent 5

Hungary21 MEPs

For 0Against 1Abstain 0Absent 20

Ireland14 MEPs

For 1Against 7Abstain 1Absent 5

Italy76 MEPs

For 37Against 23Abstain 0Absent 16

Latvia9 MEPs

For 7Against 2Abstain 0Absent 0

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 6Against 2Abstain 1Absent 2

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 3Against 3Abstain 0Absent 0

Malta6 MEPs

For 0Against 5Abstain 0Absent 1

Netherlands31 MEPs

For 7Against 19Abstain 0Absent 5

Poland53 MEPs

For 39Against 5Abstain 3Absent 6

Portugal21 MEPs

For 6Against 10Abstain 0Absent 5

Romania33 MEPs

For 14Against 3Abstain 2Absent 14

Slovakia15 MEPs

For 2Against 10Abstain 0Absent 3

Slovenia9 MEPs

For 5Against 4Abstain 0Absent 0

Spain60 MEPs

For 23Against 27Abstain 6Absent 4

Sweden21 MEPs

For 5Against 16Abstain 0Absent 0

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