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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.

We provide an overview of the directions in which the political groups and individual MEPs manifested interest in shaping the policy when voting on each item.

Analytical method: for each topic we display the two "policy dilemmas or choices" and we highlight which is the policy direction validated by each group and MEP with their votes. If you have your own suggestions of additional angles of analysis, feel free to reach out to us.

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Report: 2023 and 2024 reports on Türkiye

Topic: EU-Turkey relations

Policy choices: Conciliatory approach vis-vis Turkey/Assertive approach vis-à-vis Turkey

Direction: Assertive approach vis-à-vis Turkey

There were 25 votes on proposals for adjusting the text of the document in the direction of Assertive approach vis-à-vis Turkey. Out of these 13 received majoritarian political support to be adopted.

Who authored these requests for adjustments: PfE (4), ESN (7), Renew (8), The Left (3), ECR, original text

How did the political groups pull their weight when voting (across the totality of items that fulfil the criteria above):

EPP: 2063 For (50.4%), 1920 Against (46.9%), 109 Abstain (2.7%)

S&D: 1151 For (39.7%), 1741 Against (60.0%), 9 Abstain (0.3%)

PfE: 1266 For (63.4%), 391 Against (19.6%), 340 Abstain (17.0%)

ECR: 1002 For (57.0%), 423 Against (24.0%), 334 Abstain (19.0%)

Renew: 793 For (47.7%), 852 Against (51.3%), 16 Abstain (1.0%)

Greens/EFA: 591 For (48.9%), 576 Against (47.7%), 41 Abstain (3.4%)

The Left: 347 For (36.5%), 434 Against (45.7%), 169 Abstain (17.8%)

ESN: 303 For (57.2%), 132 Against (24.9%), 95 Abstain (17.9%)

NI: 202 For (43.2%), 110 Against (23.5%), 156 Abstain (33.3%)

Number of MEPs with individual positions (non-aligned to group) at least once:

EPP – 168, S&D – 119, PfE – 83, ECR – 73, Renew – 68, Greens/EFA – 49, The Left – 39, ESN – 22

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