Where the law stands, Dossier 2024/2125(INI)
Gender Equality Strategy 2025
Own-initiative report (INI): Parliament’s own position on a topic. It is not binding. · First reading
Parliament sets out its own position on a topic. The resolution is not binding but signals what Parliament wants.
Where it stands
Parliament’s position
Parliament adopted the text on 13 November 2025. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 23 January 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 13 October 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 24 October 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 13 November 2025
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
13 November 2025 · decision 22
Jobs, social affairs & equality, Resolution
Gender Equality Strategy 2025
Adopted 310 for · 222 against · 68 abstained by a small majority
AI summary:The text calls for action on gender-based violence, sexual and reproductive health rights, and equal pay, among other areas.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:The adopted text removes several substantive provisions: references to labour market segregation, targets for EU-wide employment monitoring, calls for structural reforms, and paragraphs on gender mainstreaming and budgeting. It also drops provisions on political participation quotas, feminist foreign policy, SRHR in external action, and trans inclusion, replacing them with new text on foreign policy and security. Changes to care and care deal paragraphs shift focus from quantitative targets to implementation of existing directives. Other substantive edits remove mentions of migration status, free menstrual products, and specific ODA percentages. The remaining changes are formal: renumbering, footnote removal, decimal comma corrections, and directive reference updates.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Women’s Rights and Gender Equality
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Marko Vešligaj (S&D)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Paulo Do Nascimento Cabral (EPP), Mathilde Androuët (Patriots), Laurence Trochu (ECR), Lucia Yar (Renew), Benedetta Scuderi (Greens), Carolina Morace (The Left), Irmhild Bossdorf (ESN)
- Committees giving an opinion
- Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs· rapporteurMarina Kaljurand (S&D)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 13 Nov 2025
AI summary:Parliament calls on the Commission to present an ambitious Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030 with concrete measures, covering gender-based violence, healthcare, work, poverty, education, care, climate, and civil society.
Tabled for plenary· 24 Oct 2025
AI summary:This resolution calls on the Commission to present an ambitious Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030 with concrete measures. It demands action on gender-based violence, healthcare, work, poverty, education, care, representation, climate, foreign policy, and civil society.
Committee draft· 24 Mar 2025
AI summary:This draft report calls on the Commission to present an ambitious Gender Equality Strategy 2026-2030 with concrete measures in key areas, including combating gender-based violence, ensuring healthcare access, and promoting equality in work, education, and decision-making.
Committee opinions: Opinion (LIBE), Draft opinion (LIBE)
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 4 steps
13 November 2025
Plenary vote
Sitting of 13 Nov 2025 Report A10-0210/2025Adopted text TA10-0278/2025
12 November 2025
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
5 November 2025
4 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
24 October 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 6 steps
13 October 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
24 June 2025
LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) adopted its opinion
The opinion is attached to the report for the lead committee to consider.
30 April 2025
Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)
Members of FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality) proposed changes to the draft.
Amendments in committee (FEMM)Amendments in committee (FEMM)
10 April 2025
Draft opinion from LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs)
An associated committee gives its view to the lead committee.
24 March 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
23 January 2025
Referred to the FEMM (Women’s Rights and Gender Equality) committee
The lead committee prepares the report; LIBE (Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs) gives an opinion.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2024/2125(INI)