← Votes·2025-11-26

Access to finance for SMEs and scale-ups

Vote ID 181544Source: official EP roll-call records

Official roll-call results (EP minutes) ↗

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Importance Score

High importance

Why this vote stands out:

✓Main vote
✓Legislative procedure
✓Some political group division
✓Some national delegation divergence
✓Close result
✓High participation
✓Some MEPs voted against their group

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Topic importance+0 / 15

Turnout+5 / 5

Vote type+25 / 25

Close vote+6 / 15

Legislative+15 / 15

Rebel votes+4 / 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 “Access to finance for SMEs and scale-ups”. EPP, PfE, ECR, NI and ESN voted mostly in favour, while S&D, Renew, Greens-EFA and Left voted mostly against. The motion was adopted by a comfortable margin (360 for, 298 against, 8 abstentions).

Automated summary generated from official vote metadata and observed voting patterns. Not a legal interpretation.

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

360

Against

298

Abstain

Margin of victory

62 votes

Turnout (cast)

666

Absent

Participation rate

92.6%

✓This was not a close vote — the margin was comfortable.

By political group

EPP185 MEPs

For 168Against 3Abstain 3Absent 11

S&D135 MEPs

For 1Against 125Abstain 0Absent 9

PfE84 MEPs

For 74Against 6Abstain 0Absent 4

ECR82 MEPs

For 76Against 0Abstain 0Absent 6

Renew78 MEPs

For 5Against 65Abstain 1Absent 7

Greens/EFA53 MEPs

For 0Against 51Abstain 1Absent 1

The Left45 MEPs

For 0Against 38Abstain 0Absent 7

NI29 MEPs

For 15Against 10Abstain 2Absent 2

ESN27 MEPs

For 20Against 0Abstain 1Absent 6

Country angle

Most in favour

Germany45
Poland45
France40
Italy36
Spain29

Most against

Austria15
Netherlands14
Belgium13
Sweden13
Finland9

Divided delegations

Croatia
Denmark
Estonia
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Lithuania

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria20 MEPs

For 5Against 15Abstain 0Absent 0

Belgium22 MEPs

For 6Against 13Abstain 2Absent 1

Bulgaria17 MEPs

For 10Against 5Abstain 0Absent 2

Croatia12 MEPs

For 7Against 5Abstain 0Absent 0

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 4Against 2Abstain 0Absent 0

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 16Against 2Abstain 3Absent 0

Denmark15 MEPs

For 6Against 8Abstain 0Absent 1

Estonia7 MEPs

For 3Against 4Abstain 0Absent 0

Finland15 MEPs

For 4Against 9Abstain 0Absent 2

France81 MEPs

For 40Against 34Abstain 0Absent 7

Germany96 MEPs

For 45Against 45Abstain 1Absent 5

Greece21 MEPs

For 10Against 9Abstain 0Absent 2

Hungary21 MEPs

For 16Against 2Abstain 0Absent 3

Ireland14 MEPs

For 4Against 9Abstain 0Absent 1

Italy76 MEPs

For 36Against 33Abstain 0Absent 7

Latvia9 MEPs

For 6Against 3Abstain 0Absent 0

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 5Against 5Abstain 0Absent 1

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 1Against 5Abstain 0Absent 0

Malta6 MEPs

For 2Against 3Abstain 0Absent 1

Netherlands31 MEPs

For 13Against 14Abstain 0Absent 4

Poland53 MEPs

For 45Against 3Abstain 1Absent 4

Portugal21 MEPs

For 9Against 9Abstain 0Absent 3

Romania33 MEPs

For 17Against 14Abstain 1Absent 1

Slovakia15 MEPs

For 8Against 5Abstain 0Absent 2

Slovenia9 MEPs

For 5Against 4Abstain 0Absent 0

Spain60 MEPs

For 29Against 25Abstain 0Absent 6

Sweden21 MEPs

For 8Against 13Abstain 0Absent 0

Individual MEP positions

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