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Draft amending budget No 1/2025: entering the surplus of the financial year 2024
Passed by a large majority
The budget decision was approved.
- For
- 534
- Against
- 102
- Abstained
- 56
roll-call vote at 13:25 · 77% of votes cast in favour
Committee report by Victor Negrescu · Report A-10-2025-0116
AI:What this decision does
Parliament approved the Council position on Draft amending budget No 1/2025, which enters the 2024 surplus of EUR 1 345 million into the 2025 budget.§1: source passage in the text The spending was approved, meaning the surplus reduces member states' GNI-based contributions to the 2025 budget.§1: source passage in the text Parliament calls on the Commission to design a durable budget architecture and urges the Council to adopt new own resources proposals.§1: source passage in the text
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How the groups voted
For: The Left, Greens, S&D, Renew, EPP, ECR; Against: ESN; Divided: Patriots
- The Left For 39 for, 0 against, 4 abstainedof 47
- Greens For 51 for, 0 against, 0 abstainedof 54
- S&D For 124 for, 2 against, 3 abstainedof 137
- Renew For 57 for, 3 against, 14 abstainedof 76
- EPP For 172 for, 0 against, 7 abstainedof 193
- ECR For 62 for, 12 against, 3 abstainedof 79
- Patriots Divided 12 for, 53 against, 17 abstainedof 90
- ESN Against 0 for, 26 against, 1 abstainedof 27
- No group not a group 17 for, 6 against, 7 abstainedof 30
Groups from left to right · for–against–abstained, of the group’s MEPs
A group is shown as divided when no position has two thirds of its votes.
Did not vote with their group
49 MEPs voted differently from their group’s clear line (two thirds of its votes).
The Left voted for (39 of 43). Abstained: 4
Carola Rackete (Germany), Giorgos Georgiou (Cyprus), João Oliveira (Portugal), Özlem Demirel (Germany)
S&D voted for (124 of 129). Against: 2, Abstained: 3
Bruno Gonçalves (Portugal, against), Christel Schaldemose (Denmark, abstained), Lara Wolters (Netherlands, against), Marianne Vind (Denmark, abstained), Niels Fuglsang (Denmark, abstained)
Renew voted for (57 of 74). Against: 3, Abstained: 14
Abir Al-Sahlani (Sweden, abstained), Andreas Glück (Germany, abstained), Anna-Maja Henriksson (Finland, abstained), Anouk van Brug (Netherlands, abstained), Asger Christensen (Denmark, abstained)
12 more from Renew
Bart Groothuis (Netherlands, abstained), Christine Singer (Germany, against), Emma Wiesner (Sweden, abstained), Engin Eroglu (Germany, against), Jan-Christoph Oetjen (Germany, abstained), Jeannette Baljeu (Netherlands, abstained), Joachim Streit (Germany, against), Malik Azmani (Netherlands, abstained), Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (Germany, abstained), Moritz Körner (Germany, abstained), Morten Løkkegaard (Denmark, abstained), Svenja Hahn (Germany, abstained)
EPP voted for (172 of 179). Abstained: 7
Henrik Dahl (Denmark), Ingeborg ter Laak (Netherlands), Jeroen Lenaers (Netherlands), Jessika van Leeuwen (Netherlands), Niels Flemming Hansen (Denmark)
2 more from EPP
Sander Smit (Netherlands), Tom Berendsen (Netherlands)
ECR voted for (62 of 77). Against: 12, Abstained: 3
Beatrice Timgren (Sweden, against), Bert-Jan Ruissen (Netherlands, against), Charlie Weimers (Sweden, against), Dick Erixon (Sweden, against), Emmanouil Fragkos (Greece, against)
10 more from ECR
Galato Alexandraki (Greece, against), Guillaume Peltier (France, against), Jaak Madison (Estonia, abstained), Kristoffer Storm (Denmark, against), Laurence Trochu (France, against), Maciej Wąsik (Poland, abstained), Marion Maréchal (France, against), Nicolas Bay (France, against), Sebastian Tynkkynen (Finland, against), Waldemar Buda (Poland, abstained)
ESN voted against (26 of 27). Abstained: 1
Petras Gražulis (Lithuania)
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How it got here
Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 6 amendments (6 rejected) and 5 parts of the text voted on separately (5 adopted).