Plenary sitting, Wednesday, 8 October 2025
10 decisions: 10 adopted. 119 ballots in all, 57 by A vote in which every MEP’s individual position is recorded and published., between 13:40 and 14:03.
Tightest result: EU political strategy on Latin America — adopted 354 to 195.
Parliament adopted positions on farm policy and employment guidelines, consented to a fisheries deal with Côte d'Ivoire, and blocked genetically modified maize.
New EU laws · 3
Parliament’s position on proposed laws. It usually needs to agree with the Council before a law is final.
Decision 1:Amending certain CAP regulations as regards the conditionality system, types of intervention in the form of direct payment, types of intervention in certain sectors and rural development and annual performance reports, data and interoperability governance, suspensions of payments annual performance clearance and controls and penalties
Committee report by André Rodrigues · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 28 ballots, incl. 9 amendments
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The changes aim to simplify the common agricultural policy and make data sharing and payment suspensions more efficient.
Adopted by a large majority 492 for · 111 against · 39 abstainedBacked by S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN; opposed by The Left and Verts/ALE.
Decision 2:Strengthening of the position of farmers in the food supply chain
Committee report by Céline Imart · Parliament’s first vote on a proposed EU law. It sets Parliament’s position for negotiations with the Council. · 45 ballots, incl. 19 amendments
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The law amends EU regulations to improve farmers' bargaining power, for example by clarifying terms like 'fair' and 'equitable' and defining 'short supply chain'.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 532 for · 78 against · 25 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN.
Decision 3:Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States
Committee report by Li Andersson · Parliament gives its opinion on a proposal. The Council decides, but must wait for Parliament’s opinion. · 14 ballots
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. Parliament asks the Council to notify it if the Council intends to depart from the text Parliament approved, and to consult Parliament again if it intends to substantially amend that text.
Adopted by a large majority 412 for · 129 against · 98 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; opposed by The Left, PfE and ESN; ECR mostly abstained.
International agreements & consent · 2
Treaties and agreements Parliament can only approve or refuse as a whole — no amendments are possible.
Decision 4:EC-Côte d’Ivoire Fisheries Partnership Agreement – Protocol on the implementation of the Agreement for 2025-2029
Committee report by Ton Diepeveen · Parliament can approve or reject the text, for example an international agreement, but cannot amend it.
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The Protocol sets an annual EU contribution of €740,000, with €305,000 for access rights and €435,000 for sectoral support, and authorizes 25 tuna purse seiners and 7 surface longliners to fish in Côte d’Ivoire’s waters.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 520 for · 97 against · 12 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by The Left and ESN.
Decision 5:Withdrawal of the European Union from the International Rubber Study Group (IRSG)
Committee report by Bernd Lange · Parliament can approve or reject the text, for example an international agreement, but cannot amend it.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 594 for · 38 against · 2 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR, PfE and ESN; opposed by The Left.
Budget & emergency funds · 3
Budget decisions: the annual budget, amending budgets, solidarity and adjustment funds, and discharge (approving how a budget was spent).
Decision 6:Draft amending budget No 2/2025: update of revenue (own resources) and adjustments to expenditure
Committee report by Victor Negrescu · 12 ballots, incl. 5 amendments
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The draft amending budget No 2/2025 updates the revenue side of the EU budget, including own resources, and adjusts expenditure for certain items.
Adopted by a large majority 479 for · 82 against · 77 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE and ECR; opposed by ESN; PfE mostly abstained.
Decision 7:Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2025/002 DE/Goodyear 2 – Germany
Committee report by Olivier Chastel · 6 ballots, incl. 2 amendments
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The money covers personalised services like retraining, career advice, job-search help and start-up grants for 915 targeted workers made redundant in the rubber and plastics sector.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 577 for · 47 against · 15 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by ESN.
Decision 8:Mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund: application EGF/2025/001 BE/BelGaN – Belgium
Committee report by Bogdan Rzońca · 5 ballots, incl. 2 amendments
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The decision releases EU funding for personalised measures such as training, job-search assistance and outplacement for the 417 displaced workers.
Adopted by an overwhelming majority 578 for · 47 against · 16 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, PPE, ECR and PfE; opposed by ESN.
Objections to Commission measures · 1
Parliament can object to technical rules the Commission adopts on its own. Against a delegated act an adopted objection is a veto; against most implementing measures (such as GMO authorisations) it is a call on the Commission to withdraw the measure, which is not legally binding.
Objection under Rule 115(2) and (3) · implementing measure
Decision 9:Genetically modified maize DP51291
Motion for a resolution · 2 ballots
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. Parliament objected to a Commission draft decision that would have authorised selling food and feed made from genetically modified maize DP51291 in the EU.
Adopted by a large majority 433 for · 166 against · 9 abstainedBacked by The Left, Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew, ECR, PfE and ESN; opposed by PPE.
Resolutions & reports · 1
Non-binding texts in which Parliament states its position on a topic. They carry political weight but do not create law.
Decision 10:EU political strategy on Latin America
Committee report by Davor Ivo Stier · 5 ballots, incl. 2 amendments
Written by an AI from the text voted on. The outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. The text calls for stronger diplomatic, economic and security ties, and highlights the Global Gateway initiative and the EU-Mercosur Agreement.
Adopted by a clear majority 354 for · 195 against · 77 abstainedBacked by Verts/ALE, S&D, Renew and PPE; opposed by The Left, PfE and ESN; ECR mostly abstained.
✦ AI: one-sentence summaries written by an AI from the text voted on; the outcome and the numbers come from Parliament’s official record. Each decision’s page shows every ballot, the full text and the procedure.
New here? How plenary voting works
- A sitting
- One day of voting in plenary. Each subject is a report, resolution, agreement or objection; they are grouped by kind of decision, and each group says what “adopted” means there.
- The ballots
- Members vote on amendments and on parts of the text first, then on the text as a whole. That final, decisive vote is the result shown at the top of each subject.
- Who voted how
- Only roll-call votes record each Member’s vote — open one for every name and the breakdown by group. A show of hands records the outcome only.
- Document & procedure
- Each subject rests on a document (a committee report, a motion, a Council or Commission text) and belongs to a procedure, the whole file that can span years.
- Group badges
- How most of a group voted: ✓ For · ✗ Against · – Abstained · ~ Split (no majority).