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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 discharge: EU general budget – Commission, executive agencies and European Development Funds

Topic: Asylum & border control

Policy choices: Open towards migrants/Restrictive towards migrants

Direction: Restrictive towards migrants

There were 7 votes on proposals for adjusting the text of the document in the direction of Restrictive towards migrants. Out of these 0 received majoritarian political support to be adopted.

Who authored these requests for adjustments: ESN (4), ECR (2), PfE

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

EPP: 253 For (21.4%), 905 Against (76.4%), 27 Abstain (2.3%)

S&D: 18 For (2.1%), 834 Against (96.8%), 10 Abstain (1.2%)

PfE: 575 For (100.0%), 0 Against (0.0%), 0 Abstain (0.0%)

ECR: 522 For (99.8%), 0 Against (0.0%), 1 Abstain (0.2%)

Renew: 33 For (6.9%), 444 Against (92.3%), 4 Abstain (0.8%)

Greens/EFA: 2 For (0.6%), 338 Against (99.4%), 0 Abstain (0.0%)

The Left: 0 For (0.0%), 285 Against (100.0%), 0 Abstain (0.0%)

ESN: 152 For (100.0%), 0 Against (0.0%), 0 Abstain (0.0%)

NI: 82 For (47.1%), 68 Against (39.1%), 24 Abstain (13.8%)

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

EPP – 92, S&D – 19, PfE – 0, ECR – 1, Renew – 13, Greens/EFA – 2, The Left – 0, ESN – 0

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Report: 2023 discharge: Agencies

Topic: Asylum & border control

Policy choices: Open towards migrants/Restrictive towards migrants

Direction: Restrictive towards migrants

There were 8 votes on proposals for adjusting the text of the document in the direction of Restrictive towards migrants. Out of these 1 received majoritarian political support to be adopted.

Who authored these requests for adjustments: PfE (2), ECR (6), Greens/ EFA, The Left, Renew, EPP

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

EPP: 246 For (18.2%), 1088 Against (80.5%), 17 Abstain (1.3%)

S&D: 126 For (12.8%), 853 Against (86.8%), 4 Abstain (0.4%)

PfE: 653 For (98.6%), 8 Against (1.2%), 1 Abstain (0.2%)

ECR: 599 For (99.7%), 1 Against (0.2%), 1 Abstain (0.2%)

Renew: 76 For (13.7%), 470 Against (84.7%), 9 Abstain (1.6%)

Greens/EFA: 49 For (12.6%), 337 Against (86.9%), 2 Abstain (0.5%)

The Left: 41 For (12.5%), 285 Against (87.2%), 1 Abstain (0.3%)

ESN: 151 For (86.3%), 2 Against (1.1%), 22 Abstain (12.6%)

NI: 74 For (40.2%), 91 Against (49.5%), 19 Abstain (10.3%)

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

EPP – 170, S&D – 125, PfE – 8, ECR – 2, Renew – 68, Greens/EFA – 49, The Left – 41, ESN – 20

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The analysis of individual MEPs votes on the text as a whole is also available in our detailed report.