European Defence Readiness 2030: assessment of needs

Adopted by a large majority

Parliament adopted the text as its official position.

For: 425
Against: 120
Abstained: 96

roll-call vote at 12:30 · 66% of votes cast in favour

Committee report by Christophe Gomart · Report A-10-2025-0243

AI:What this decision does

Parliament adopted a resolution assessing the EU's defence needs up to 2030, focusing on financing and industrial readiness.§1: source passage in the text The text calls for closing the defence investment gap and improving access to capital for defence companies, including small firms.§1: source passage in the text §2: source passage in the text It asks the Commission and member states to address obstacles such as procurement delays and restrictive investment rules.§1: source passage in the text §2: source passage in the text

Written by AI from the text voted on · counts are the official record · Read the text · Report a problem

How the groups voted

For: Greens, S&D, Renew, EPP; Against: The Left, ESN; Abstained: ECR; Divided: Patriots

The Left Against 1 for, 36 against, 3 abstainedof 46
Greens For 35 for, 10 against, 2 abstainedof 54
S&D For 113 for, 6 against, 0 abstainedof 137
Renew For 58 for, 0 against, 8 abstainedof 75
EPP For 167 for, 0 against, 4 abstainedof 193
ECR Abstained 16 for, 0 against, 57 abstainedof 79
Patriots Divided 30 for, 25 against, 22 abstainedof 87
ESN Against 2 for, 21 against, 0 abstainedof 27
No group not a group 3 for, 22 against, 0 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

52 MEPs voted differently from their group’s clear line (two thirds of its votes).

The Left voted against (36 of 40). For: 1, Abstained: 3

Jussi Saramo (Finland, abstained), Li Andersson (Finland, abstained), Merja Kyllönen (Finland, for), Sebastian Everding (Germany, abstained)
Greens voted for (35 of 47). Against: 10, Abstained: 2

Ana Miranda Paz (Spain, against), Benedetta Scuderi (Italy, against), Cristina Guarda (Italy, against), David Cormand (France, against), Diana Riba I Giner (Spain, against)

7 more from Greens

Gordan Bosanac (Croatia, abstained), Ignazio Roberto Marino (Italy, against), Leoluca Orlando (Italy, against), Marie Toussaint (France, against), Mounir Satouri (France, against), Saskia Bricmont (Belgium, against), Tilly Metz (Luxembourg, abstained)
S&D voted for (113 of 119). Against: 6

Alex Agius Saliba (Malta), Cecilia Strada (Italy), Daniel Attard (Malta), Marco Tarquinio (Italy), Sandro Ruotolo (Italy)

1 more from S&D

Thomas Bajada (Malta)
Renew voted for (58 of 66). Abstained: 8

Benoit Cassart (Belgium), Christine Singer (Germany), Ciaran Mullooly (Ireland), Engin Eroglu (Germany), Joachim Streit (Germany)

3 more from Renew

Michael Mcnamara (Ireland), Olivier Chastel (Belgium), Sophie Wilmès (Belgium)
EPP voted for (167 of 171). Abstained: 4

Jessika van Leeuwen (Netherlands), Loucas Fourlas (Cyprus), Michalis Hadjipantela (Cyprus), Sander Smit (Netherlands)
ECR abstained (57 of 73). For: 16

Aurelijus Veryga (Lithuania), Beatrice Timgren (Sweden), Charlie Weimers (Sweden), Claudiu-Richard Târziu (Romania), Cristian Terheş (Romania)

11 more from ECR

Dick Erixon (Sweden), Geadis Geadi (Cyprus), Georgiana Teodorescu (Romania), Guillaume Peltier (France), Jaak Madison (Estonia), Kristoffer Storm (Denmark), Laurence Trochu (France), Marion Maréchal (France), Nicolas Bay (France), Sebastian Tynkkynen (Finland), Şerban Dimitrie Sturdza (Romania)
ESN voted against (21 of 23). For: 2

Petras Gražulis (Lithuania), Sarah Knafo (France)

Groups as they are now; members who changed group are compared with their current one.

Find an MEP

Opens the list of MEPs on the vote page, filtered to the country you pick.

How each of the 641 MEPs voted →

How it got here

Before the final vote, MEPs decided on 2 parts of the text voted on separately (2 adopted).

All 3 votes on this decision →