Where the law stands, Dossier 2025/2165(INI)
Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 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 21 January 2026. This is its final position on the matter.
- Referred to committee(done) 11 September 2025
- Committee work(done) Report adopted 3 December 2025
- Tabled for plenary(done) 12 December 2025
- Plenary vote(done) Adopted 21 January 2026
- Parliament’s position(done) Final
Decided in plenary
21 January 2026 · decision 6
Foreign affairs, Resolution
Implementation of the common security and defence policy – annual report 2025
Adopted 395 for · 197 against · 70 abstained by a clear majority
AI summary:The report calls for strengthening the European defence industry, enhancing military capabilities, and improving cooperation among member states.
What changed
Latest Tabled for plenary → Adopted by Parliament
AI summary:Adds strong criticism of US policy under Trump, including on Greenland, Venezuela, and the National Security Strategy, and calls for European strategic autonomy. Updates positions on Ukraine, adding welcomes for EU financial aid, asset immobilisation, and the reassurance force, and regrets on energy imports and Nord Stream. Revises Middle East and neighbourhood sections, adding details on Gaza ceasefire, Lebanon, and Southern Mediterranean cooperation, and removes old paragraphs. Adds new paragraphs on Finland, China's Taiwan exercise, and Greenland satellite coverage, and updates China and Russia-China cooperation paragraphs. Other changes are formal or wording: renumbering, decimal separators, and a typo fix.
Committee draft → Tabled for plenary
AI summary:The report significantly expands, adding detailed threat assessments and calls for countering hybrid warfare, especially from Russia. It strengthens support for Ukraine, including security guarantees, military aid, and condemnation of Hungarian obstruction. It addresses capability gaps, defence spending, and financing, calling for a genuine single market and European Defence Union. It updates regional sections on the Middle East, Africa, Indo-Pacific, and partnerships, with new paragraphs on space and intelligence. The other changes are formal: updated recipients list.
Who works on it
- Lead committee
- Security and Defence
- The MEP who drafts the report and negotiates it on behalf of the committee.
- Thijs Reuten (S&D)
- An MEP who follows a report on behalf of their own group when another group holds the rapporteur.
- Wouter Beke (EPP), Pierre-Romain Thionnet (Patriots), Cristian Terheş (ECR), Nathalie Loiseau (Renew), Mārtiņš Staķis (Greens), Özlem Demirel (The Left)
The text, version by version
Newest first.
Adopted by Parliament· 21 Jan 2026
AI summary:Parliament's annual report on the common security and defence policy (CSDP) for 2025 addresses Russia's threat, hybrid warfare, defence capability gaps, and the need for a European Defence Union.
Tabled for plenary· 12 Dec 2025
AI summary:This resolution on the implementation of the common security and defence policy (CSDP) addresses the deteriorating security environment, Russia's aggression, hybrid threats, and the need to strengthen European defence capabilities, industrial base, and strategic autonomy.
Committee draft· 26 Sept 2025
AI summary:This draft report on the implementation of the common security and defence policy (CSDP) for 2025 assesses the deteriorating security environment and calls for urgent action to strengthen European defence.
Timeline
Newest first.
Plenary stage 4 steps
21 January 2026
Plenary vote
Sitting of 21 Jan 2026 Report A10-0265/2025Adopted text TA10-0013/2026
20 January 2026
Debated in plenary
MEPs debated the text in the chamber ahead of the vote.
Sitting of 20 Jan 2026 Report A10-0253/2025Report A10-0265/2025
13 January – 14 January 2026
48 amendments tabled for the plenary vote
Groups propose changes to the tabled text; each is voted on before the final vote.
Amendments 1–4Amendments 5–14Amendments 15–24Amendment 25Amendments 26–28Amendment 29Amendments 30–39Amendments 40–48
12 December 2025
Report tabled for plenary
This is the text all MEPs vote on. Political groups can still table amendments to it.
Committee stage 4 steps
3 December 2025
Committee vote: report adopted
SEDE (Security and Defence) voted on the amendments and adopted the report that goes to plenary.
24 October 2025
Amendments tabled in committee (2 batches)
Members of SEDE (Security and Defence) proposed changes to the draft.
Amendments in committee (SEDE)Amendments in committee (SEDE)
26 September 2025
Draft report published
The rapporteur’s first text in SEDE (Security and Defence). Members can table amendments before the committee votes.
11 September 2025
Referred to the SEDE (Security and Defence) committee
The lead committee prepares Parliament’s report.
Official record: Legislative Observatory, 2025/2165(INI)