Dear EU follower,

Below you will find the latest intelligence report concerning the key votes in the latest plenary session of the European Parliament, which took place during the period 2025-05-05 to 2025-05-08.

In total, we have analysed 275 votes cast on content within 37 reports, and which addressed a total of 71 different topics / policy angles.

The number of roll-call votes is a strong indicator of the areas where there is strong political and policy competition.

The reports where we recorded the most intense competition are:

• 2023 discharge: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds (53)
• 2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye (30)
• Screening of foreign investments in the Union (25)
• CO2 emission performance standards for new passenger cars and new light commercial vehicles for 2025 to 2027 (22)
• The European Water Resilience Strategy (14)

Overall, the most addressed topics in the voting sessions are:

• EU-Turkey relations (27)
• Economic security (25)
• Road transport environmental policy (23)
• Asylum & border control (18)
• Accounting and auditing of EU budget (14)

Overview of political influence:

Here is the extent in which each political group has left its footprint on the texts, through their amendments or pulling their voting weight to pass other groups' proposals:

Passing their own amendments:

• EPP: 1 adopted out of 1 amendments (100%)
• S&D: 1 adopted out of 4 amendments (25%)
• PfE: 1 adopted out of 46 amendments (2%)
• ECR: 7 adopted out of 45 amendments (16%)
• Renew: 10 adopted out of 11 amendments (91%)
• Greens/EFA: 2 adopted out of 7 amendments (29%)
• The Left: 8 adopted out of 34 amendments (24%)
• ESN: 0 adopted out of 41 amendments (0%)
• ECR, PfE: 0 adopted out of 2 amendments (0%)
• ECR, The Left: 0 adopted out of 2 amendments (0%)
• Greens/EFA, The Left: 0 adopted out of 1 amendments (0%)
• Greens/EFA, The Left, Renew, EPP, ECR: 1 adopted out of 1 amendments (100%)
• committee: 10 adopted out of 10 amendments (100%)

Pulling their voting weight and winning the votes:

• EPP: 96.0% of votes on the winning side
• S&D: 87.3% of votes on the winning side
• PfE: 24.0% of votes on the winning side
• ECR: 31.3% of votes on the winning side
• Renew: 93.1% of votes on the winning side
• Greens/EFA: 81.1% of votes on the winning side
• The Left: 73.5% of votes on the winning side
• ESN: 23.3% of votes on the winning side
• NI: 26.2% of votes on the winning side

Here is the overall coalition behavior of the EPP (the current kingmaker):

In this plenary:

• EPP+S&D voted together against ECR in 85.0% of cases
• EPP+ECR voted together against S&D in 15.0% of cases

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