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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 18 June 2025. This is its final position on the matter.

  1. ✓ Referred to committee 23 January 2025
  2. ✓ Committee work Report adopted 13 May 2025
  3. ✓ Tabled for plenary 20 May 2025
  4. ✓ Plenary vote Adopted 18 June 2025
  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
Marjan ŠAREC Renew
Shadow rapporteurs
Reinhold LOPATKA PPECostas MAVRIDES S&DJaroslav BŽOCH PfEŞerban Dimitrie STURDZA ECRVladimir PREBILIČ Verts/ALEGiorgos GEORGIOU The Left

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

Committee draft Draft report (AFET) 18 February 2025⇄ what changed Tabled for plenary Report A10-0093/2025 20 May 2025⇄ what changed Adopted by Parliament Adopted text TA10-0130/2025 18 June 2025

Open a version to read it in full. “What changed” shows the differences paragraph by paragraph.

Timeline

  1. Plenary stage
  2. 18 June 2025 Plenary vote
    Sitting of 18 June 2025 📄 Report A10-0093/2025📄 Adopted text TA10-0130/2025
    Adopted Adopted by a large majority
    For 470 Against 102 Abstained 77

    Final vote — text as a whole at 13:27 · 72% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

    How the vote unfolded · 9 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 9 ballots in voting order
    1. Amendment 5 13:25 A10-0093/2025 – Marjan Šarec – After § 1 – Am 5
    Rejected
    2. Amendment 6 13:25 A10-0093/2025 – Marjan Šarec – After § 2 – Am 6
    Rejected
    3. Amendment 7 13:26 A10-0093/2025 – Marjan Šarec – § 44 – Am 7
    Rejected
    4. Amendment 8 13:26 A10-0093/2025 – Marjan Šarec – After § 50 – Am 8
    Rejected
    5. Amendment 1 13:26 A10-0093/2025 – Marjan Šarec – After § 60 – Am 1
    Rejected
    6. Amendment 2 13:26 A10-0093/2025 – Marjan Šarec – After § 60 – Am 2
    Rejected
    7. Amendment 3 13:26 A10-0093/2025 – Marjan Šarec – recital A – Am 3
    Rejected
    8. Amendment 4 13:27 A10-0093/2025 – Marjan Šarec – recital B – Am 4
    Rejected
    9. Final vote — text as a whole 13:27 A10-0093/2025 – Marjan Šarec – Motion for a resolution (text as a whole)
    Adopted
  3. 17 June 2025 Debated in plenary

    MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.

    Sitting of 17 June 2025 📄 Report A10-0093/2025
  4. 10 June – 11 June 2025 8 amendments tabled for the plenary vote

    Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.

    📄 Amendments 1–2📄 Amendments 3–8
  5. 20 May 2025 Report tabled for plenary

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

    📄 Report A10-0093/2025
  6. Committee stage
  7. 13 May 2025 Committee vote: report adopted

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

  8. 19 March 2025 Amendments tabled in committee

    Members of AFET (Foreign Affairs) proposed changes to the draft.

    📄 Amendments in committee (AFET)
  9. 18 February 2025 Draft report published

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

    📄 Draft report (AFET)
  10. 23 January 2025 Referred to the AFET (Foreign Affairs) committee

    The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.