- 🗳️ The last plenary session of the year is happening this week! First day of substantive votes are in and available at howtheyvote.eu! As usual, here's a quick rundown of some things interesting 🧵Dec 16, 2025 22:38
- ⛓️ Parliament heavily weakened the Corporate sustainability reporting and due diligence requirements (EU-Lieferkettengesetz for the 🇩🇪 audience) with due diligence now only applying to large corporations. howtheyvote.eu/votes/182518
- While this vote was successful with a center-right majority, it's not exactly like the 🇻🇪-majority votes we observed last session - PfE and ESN voted in favor, but weren't needed for the majority, due to 14 S&D MEPs also voting in favor.
- Also interesting: A prior, unsuccessful, motion to reject the proposal received also only 12 S&D votes in favor. Thus, we have S&D voting decidedly against both options... howtheyvote.eu/votes/182614
- 🌱 While we are at majorities with the far-right & this sparked some debate last session: Two more votes on GMO maize, both adopted against the majority of the EPP and with votes of the far-right - but once more, their votes weren't required for passing. howtheyvote.eu/182705 & howtheyvote.eu/182703
- 🌎 Parliament also voted on implementing additional safety mechanisms for European farmers in the Mercosur free-trade-agreement, which vdL wants to sign at the end of the week. Negotiations with the Council will begin tomorrow. howtheyvote.eu/votes/182460
- On that vote, there is quite an interesting split on the far-right side of Parliament: While the majority of PfE and ECR did not vote in favor of the text, a majority of ESN did. Rarely seen that ESN isn't the most contrarian of these three.
