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EU strategy on Central Asia

Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.

Where it stands: Parliament adopted the text on 17 January 2024. This is its final position on the matter.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 12 July 2023
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 28 November 2023
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 6 December 2023
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 17 January 2024
  5. ✓ Parliament’s position Final
How a file moves through Parliament

A file is referred to one lead committee (others may give an opinion). Its rapporteur writes a draft report, committee members table amendments, and the committee votes to adopt the report. The report is then tabled for all MEPs; political groups can table further amendments, which are voted on before the final vote in plenary. The adopted resolution is Parliament’s final position; it is not itself law.

Who is working on it

Lead committee
AFET — Foreign Affairs
Rapporteur
MEP #228286 S&D
Shadow rapporteurs
Thierry MARIANI IDMEP #197843 PPEMEP #197452 RenewMEP #197451 Verts/ALE

The rapporteur drafts and negotiates the text for the lead committee; each other political group names a shadow rapporteur to follow the file.

The text, version by version

Adopted by Parliament · latest Adopted text TA9-0027/2024 17 January 2024 ✦ Parliament's resolution on the EU strategy on Central Asia calls for a review of the 2019 strategy and stronger EU engagement with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A9-0407/2023 6 December 2023 ✦ Parliament's resolution on the EU strategy on Central Asia calls for a review of the 2019 strategy and closer EU engagement with the five Central Asian states.⇄ what changed Committee draft Draft report (AFET) 14 September 2023 ✦ This is a draft report by the Committee on Foreign Affairs on the EU strategy on Central Asia, prepared by rapporteur Karsten Lucke. It argues that geopolitical shifts since 2019 give the EU a window to deepen cooperation with Central Asia.

Newest version first. Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph; ✦ lines are AI-written from the texts themselves.

Timeline

  1. Plenary stage
  2. 17 January 2024 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 17 January 2024 📄 Report A9-0407/2023📄 Adopted text TA9-0027/2024
    Adopted Adopted by an overwhelming majority
    For 543 Against 42 Abstained 44

    Final vote — text as a whole at 12:36 · 86% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 2 ballots

    adopted rejected lapsed square = amendment circle = part of the text decisive vote Solid = roll call (click for every MEP’s vote); faded = no individual positions

    Show all 2 ballots in voting order
    1. Separate vote on paragraph 26
    — no individual positions recorded
    Adopted
    2. Final vote — text as a whole 12:36 A9-0407/2023 – Karsten Lucke – Motion for a resolution (text as a whole)
    Adopted
  3. 6 December 2023 Report tabled for plenary

    This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.

    📄 Report A9-0407/2023
  4. Committee stage
  5. 28 November 2023 Committee vote: report adopted

    AFET (Foreign Affairs) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.

  6. 14 September 2023 Draft report published

    The rapporteur’s first text in AFET (Foreign Affairs). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.

    📄 Draft report (AFET)
  7. 12 July 2023 Referred to the AFET (Foreign Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.