Paragraph 258 — part 1

Implementation of the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement

A10-0226/2025 – Thijs Reuten, Nina Carberry – § 258/1

Adopted

For: 504
Against: 72
Abstained: 28

roll-call vote at 12:15 · 83% of votes cast in favour

Roll call requested by The Left · split vote by Patriots

The part voted on: ‘Underlines that the UK is a leading European defence actor with distinct expertise and advanced strategic capabilities; recognises the strength of its defence industrial base, particularly in the areas identified by the EU’s Readiness 2030 initiative and the European Defence Industrial Strategy as critical capability gaps, including integrated, multilayered air and missile defence, advanced artillery, long-range missile systems, and unmanned systems; acknowledges the deep links, complementarities and synergies between the European defence technological and industrial base and the UK’s defence technological and industrial base in pursuing shared security objectives by developing new collaborative arrangements in areas such as ballistic and hypersonic missile defence, space-based sensor systems, and early warning networks; calls for the EU, its Member States and the UK to make additional efforts to deepen cooperation between these industrial sectors and to strengthen the geographical coherence of a common European defence industrial base,’