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Tuesday’s agenda – Request by the Renew Group – Reduced US military deployment in Europe

Defence & Security66%★

Confidence: 66%

Assigned by: rule-based classifier

Evidence:

title/description contains "military"

Reviewed: no

Methodology: topic-rules-v0.1

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Vote ID 192715Source: 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
✓Strong political group division
✓Many MEPs voted against their group

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Topic importance+0 / 15

Turnout+2 / 5

Vote type+3 / 25

Close vote+0 / 15

Legislative+0 / 15

Rebel votes+7 / 10

Group division+12 / 15

Country division+0 / 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 Renew Group – Reduced US military deployment in Europe”. EPP, S&D, PfE, Renew and Greens-EFA voted mostly in favour, while Left, NI and ESN voted mostly against. ECR mostly abstained. The motion was adopted by a comfortable margin (342 for, 65 against, 41 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.

Result analysis

For

342

Against

Abstain

Margin of victory

277 votes

Turnout (cast)

448

Absent

263

Participation rate

63.0%

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

By political group

EPP179 MEPs

For 111Against 0Abstain 0Absent 68

S&D135 MEPs

For 80Against 0Abstain 0Absent 55

PfE85 MEPs

For 42Against 10Abstain 6Absent 27

Renew77 MEPs

For 45Against 0Abstain 0Absent 32

ECR82 MEPs

For 9Against 2Abstain 34Absent 37

Greens/EFA52 MEPs

For 42Against 0Abstain 0Absent 10

The Left45 MEPs

For 3Against 32Abstain 0Absent 10

NI29 MEPs

For 7Against 11Abstain 1Absent 10

ESN27 MEPs

For 3Against 10Abstain 0Absent 14

Country angle

Most in favour

France52
Germany40
Spain30
Poland23
Italy21

Most against

None.

Divided delegations

None notably divided.

Full breakdown by all countries

Austria19 MEPs

For 11Against 4Abstain 0Absent 4

Belgium22 MEPs

For 12Against 2Abstain 2Absent 6

Bulgaria16 MEPs

For 7Against 1Abstain 0Absent 8

Croatia12 MEPs

For 8Against 0Abstain 0Absent 4

Cyprus6 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 6

Czech Republic21 MEPs

For 16Against 2Abstain 1Absent 2

Denmark15 MEPs

For 14Against 1Abstain 0Absent 0

Estonia7 MEPs

For 1Against 0Abstain 0Absent 6

Finland15 MEPs

For 9Against 1Abstain 0Absent 5

France80 MEPs

For 52Against 8Abstain 1Absent 19

Germany95 MEPs

For 40Against 16Abstain 0Absent 39

Greece21 MEPs

For 11Against 4Abstain 0Absent 6

Hungary18 MEPs

For 5Against 0Abstain 0Absent 13

Ireland14 MEPs

For 3Against 0Abstain 0Absent 11

Italy76 MEPs

For 21Against 9Abstain 14Absent 32

Latvia9 MEPs

For 4Against 0Abstain 0Absent 5

Lithuania11 MEPs

For 6Against 0Abstain 0Absent 5

Luxembourg6 MEPs

For 3Against 1Abstain 0Absent 2

Malta5 MEPs

For 0Against 0Abstain 0Absent 5

Netherlands31 MEPs

For 18Against 6Abstain 3Absent 4

Poland53 MEPs

For 23Against 1Abstain 10Absent 19

Portugal21 MEPs

For 7Against 2Abstain 0Absent 12

Romania33 MEPs

For 12Against 0Abstain 2Absent 19

Slovakia15 MEPs

For 9Against 1Abstain 0Absent 5

Slovenia9 MEPs

For 5Against 0Abstain 0Absent 4

Spain60 MEPs

For 30Against 4Abstain 8Absent 18

Sweden21 MEPs

For 15Against 2Abstain 0Absent 4

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