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7 Resolutions & reports ·decision 7 of 8 on Wednesday, 12 March 2025

The need for EU support towards a just transition and reconstruction in Syria

Motion for a resolution · voted 13:18–13:26

Non-binding texts in which Parliament states its position on a topic. They carry political weight but do not create law.

Adopted by a large majority 462 for · 76 against · 106 abstained (72 % in favour) Foreign affairsMiddle EastDevelopment & humanitarian aid
The vote✦ In shortFull textProcedure

What Parliament decided

Adopted Adopted by a large majority

Parliament adopted the text as its official position.

For 462 Against 76 Abstained 106

Final vote — text as a whole at 13:26 · 72% of votes cast in favour · every MEP’s position →

Who backed it
  • The Left ✓
  • Verts/ALE ✓
  • S&D ✓
  • Renew ✓
  • PPE ✓
  • ECR ~
  • PfE –
  • ESN ✗
  • NI ✓

Backed by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; opposed by ESN; PfE mostly abstained; ECR split.

✦ What this vote decides · AI summary, based on the text voted on

Parliament adopted a resolution on EU support for a just transition and reconstruction in Syria, covering humanitarian aid, state-building, and political transition. The text calls on the EU to increase aid, support reconstruction in key sectors, and cooperate with Syria's interim authorities. It stresses the need for a pluralistic transition, transitional justice, and monitoring of authorities' actions.

How the vote unfolded · 63 ballots

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 28 amendments (1 adopted, 27 rejected) and 26 parts of the text voted on separately (18 adopted, 7 rejected, 1 lapsed). 8 alternative motions lapsed once the text was adopted.

Roll calls requested by The Left, Renew, ECR, PfE, ESN · split votes by ECR (2), PfE (5) · separate votes by PfE.

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

All 63 ballots in voting order
1. Amendment 8, adding text before paragraph 1 13:18 RC–B10–0157/2025 – Before § 1 – Am 8 requested by The Left
Rejected
2. Amendment 26, adding text after paragraph 1 13:18 RC–B10–0157/2025 – After § 1 – Am 26 requested by PfE
Rejected
3. Amendment 27, adding text after paragraph 1 13:18 RC–B10–0157/2025 – After § 1 – Am 27 requested by PfE
Rejected
4. Amendment 28, adding text after paragraph 1 13:19 RC–B10–0157/2025 – After § 1 – Am 28 requested by PfE
Rejected
5. Amendment 9, adding text after paragraph 4 13:19 RC–B10–0157/2025 – After § 4 – Am 9 requested by The Left
Rejected
6. Amendment 10, adding text after paragraph 4 13:19 RC–B10–0157/2025 – After § 4 – Am 10 requested by The Left
Rejected
7. Amendment 29 to paragraph 5 13:19 RC–B10–0157/2025 – § 5 – Am 29 requested by PfE
Rejected
8. Amendment 11, adding text after paragraph 5 13:19 RC–B10–0157/2025 – After § 5 – Am 11 requested by The Left
Rejected
9. Vote on text inserted after paragraph 5
— no individual positions recorded
Rejected
10. Amendment 15, adding text after paragraph 6 13:19 RC–B10–0157/2025 – After § 6 – Am 15 requested by ESN
Rejected
11. Amendment 31 to paragraph 7 13:20 RC–B10–0157/2025 – § 7 – Am 31 requested by PfE, Renew
Rejected
12. Amendment 30, adding text after paragraph 7 13:20 RC–B10–0157/2025 – After § 7 – Am 30 requested by PfE
Rejected
13. Paragraph 9 — part 1 of 2 Part 1: “Text as a whole without the words: ‘funding and’” requested by PfE
— no individual positions recorded
Adopted
14. Paragraph 9 — part 2 of 2 Part 2: “those words” requested by PfE
— no individual positions recorded
Adopted
15. Paragraph 11 — part 1 of 2 Part 1: ‘Calls on the interim authorities to fully cooperate with competent international bodies, including UN mechanisms established specifically for investigating serious crimes in Syria, such as the UN International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism, the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria, the UN Independent Institution on Missing Persons, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, and facilitate their on-site operations; encourages Syria to ratify the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and align national Syrian legislation accordingly, as well as give the ICC retroactive jurisdiction through a declaration; recognises the irreplaceable contribution of Fareed al-Madhhan (‘Caesar’) to documenting regime crimes, as well as the Syrian Network of Human Rights’ work in tracking disappearances; stresses the importance of these processes now being completed; calls for the EU to support the renewal of the mandate of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria’ requested by PfE
— no individual positions recorded
Adopted
16. Paragraph 11 — part 2 of 2 Part 2: ‘and increase funding for all relevant mechanisms notably in light of US disinvestment;’ requested by PfE
— no individual positions recorded
Adopted
17. Amendment 16, adding text after paragraph 13 13:20 RC–B10–0157/2025 – After § 13 – Am 16 requested by ESN
Rejected
18. Paragraph 20 — part 1 of 2 Part 1: ‘Welcomes the announcement by the Commission to allocate EUR 235 million in new humanitarian support to Syrians and calls for the EU and its Member States to sustain humanitarian and development aid efforts and to maintain financial support for neighbouring countries hosting Syrian refugees; invites the EU to explore pathways to use frozen assets of the Assad regime for a trust fund for Syrian reconstruction, rehabilitation and compensation of victims;’ requested by PfE
— no individual positions recorded
Adopted
19. Paragraph 20 — part 2 of 2 Part 2: ‘is extremely concerned by the suspension of all USAID funding related to Syria or Syrian refugees and by the anticipated non-participation of the US in the next Brussels conference;’ requested by PfE
— no individual positions recorded
Adopted
20. Vote on text inserted after paragraph 21
— no individual positions recorded
Rejected
21. Amendment 17, adding text after paragraph 22 13:21 RC–B10–0157/2025 – After § 22 – Am 17 requested by ESN
Rejected
22. Separate vote on paragraph 23 requested by PfE
— no individual positions recorded
Rejected
23. Amendment 18 to paragraph 23 13:21 RC–B10–0157/2025 – § 23 – Am 18 requested by ESN
Rejected
24. Separate vote on paragraph 23 requested by PfE
— no individual positions recorded
Adopted
25. Amendment 4 to paragraph 25 13:21 RC–B10–0157/2025 – § 25 – Am 4 requested by The Left
Rejected
26. Separate vote on paragraph 25 requested by PfE requested by The Left
electronic vote (totals only) — no individual positions recorded
Adopted
27. Separate vote on paragraph 25 requested by PfE requested by The Left
28. Vote on text inserted after paragraph 25
— no individual positions recorded
Rejected
29. Separate vote on paragraph 26
— no individual positions recorded
Rejected
30. Amendment 7, adding text after paragraph 26 13:22 RC–B10–0157/2025 – After § 26 – Am 7 requested by The Left
Adopted
31. Amendment 32 to paragraph 27 13:22 RC–B10–0157/2025 – § 27 – Am 32 requested by PfE
Rejected
32. Amendment 19 to paragraph 27 13:22 RC–B10–0157/2025 – § 27 – Am 19 requested by ESN
Rejected
33. Separate vote on paragraph 28 requested by PfE
— no individual positions recorded
Adopted
34. Paragraph 28 — part 2 13:23 RC–B10–0157/2025 – § 28/2 Part 2: “those words” requested by PfE requested by PfE
Adopted
35. Amendment 33 to paragraph 31 13:23 RC–B10–0157/2025 – § 31 – Am 33 requested by PfE, Renew
Rejected
36. Separate vote on paragraph 31 requested by ECR requested by PfE
— no individual positions recorded
Adopted
37. Paragraph 31 — part 2 13:23 RC–B10–0157/2025 – § 31/2 Part 2: ‘expresses deep concern regarding the recent invitation by Parliament’s Intergroup on Christians in the Middle East of organisations closely linked to EU-sanctioned Assadists;’ requested by ECR requested by PfE requested by ECR
Adopted
38. Amendment 20, adding text after paragraph 31 13:23 RC–B10–0157/2025 – After § 31 – Am 20 requested by ESN
Rejected
39. Paragraph 32 — part 1 of 2 Part 1: ‘Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the relevant EU institutions, the governments and parliaments of the Member States and the interim Syrian government,’ requested by PfE
— no individual positions recorded
Adopted
40. Paragraph 32 — part 2 of 2 Part 2: ‘and to have it translated and published in Arabic.’ requested by PfE
— no individual positions recorded
Adopted
41. Vote on text inserted after recital B
— no individual positions recorded
Rejected
42. Amendment 21 to recital D 13:24 RC–B10–0157/2025 – recital D – Am 21 requested by PfE
Rejected
43. Amendment 38 to recital D 13:24 RC–B10–0157/2025 – recital D – Am 38 requested by ECR
Rejected
44. Separate vote on recital F
— no individual positions recorded
Adopted
45. Amendment 39 to recital F 13:24 RC–B10–0157/2025 – recital F – Am 39 requested by ECR
Rejected
46. Recital H — part 1 13:24 RC–B10–0157/2025 – recital H/1 Part 1: ‘whereas Israel has occupied a part of the Syrian territory in the Golan Heights since 1967; whereas following the overthrow of the Assad regime, Israel has further seized the UN-patrolled demilitarised zone beyond the Golan Heights and repeatedly carried out strikes on military targets in Syria;’ requested by ECR requested by PfE
Adopted
47. Recital H — part 2 13:24 RC–B10–0157/2025 – recital H/2 Part 2: ‘whereas the Israeli Minister of Defence has declared that ‘the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] will remain at the summit of Mount Hermon and the security zone indefinitely’;’ requested by ECR requested by PfE
Adopted
48. Separate vote on recital J requested by PfE
— no individual positions recorded
Adopted
49. Amendment 22 to recital K 13:25 RC–B10–0157/2025 – recital K – Am 22 requested by PfE
Rejected
50. Separate vote on recital L
— no individual positions recorded
Rejected
51. Amendment 23 to recital M 13:25 RC–B10–0157/2025 – recital M – Am 23 requested by PfE
Rejected
52. Amendment 24 to recital N 13:25 RC–B10–0157/2025 – recital N – Am 24 requested by PfE
Rejected
53. Amendment 25 to recital P 13:25 RC–B10–0157/2025 – recital P – Am 25 requested by PfE
Rejected
54. Amendment 14, adding text after recital P 13:26 RC–B10–0157/2025 – After recital P – Am 14 requested by ESN
Rejected
55. Final vote — text as a whole 13:26 RC–B10–0157/2025 – Motion for a resolution (as a whole) requested by Renew
Adopted
56. Alternative motion for a resolution B10-0154/2025
— no individual positions recorded
57. Alternative motion for a resolution B10-0155/2025
— no individual positions recorded
58. Alternative motion for a resolution B10-0157/2025
— no individual positions recorded
59. Alternative motion for a resolution B10-0160/2025
— no individual positions recorded
60. Alternative motion for a resolution B10-0162/2025
— no individual positions recorded
61. Alternative motion for a resolution B10-0164/2025
— no individual positions recorded
62. Alternative motion for a resolution B10-0167/2025
— no individual positions recorded
63. Alternative motion for a resolution B10-0169/2025
— no individual positions recorded

Part of the sitting of Wednesday, 12 March 2025. The vote was taken on Motion B-10-2025-0164 in procedure 2025/2569.

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  • § 5 — paragraph 5
  • § 5/2, part 2 — a , taken in parts
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