Procedures
178 votesFlagship European defence projects of common interest
Fund joint military procurement by earmarking national budgets to develop European air, space, and drone defence systems in coordination with NATO.
Tackling barriers to the single market for defence
Require member states to aggregate defence demand through common procurement and simplify regulations to reduce reliance on non-EU countries.
EU enlargement strategy
Condition EU accession on strict rule-of-law reforms and align candidate countries with the common foreign policy to counter Russian and Chinese interference.
European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social priorities – annual report 2026
Integrate social rights, child poverty funding, and affordable housing targets into the European Semester to reduce unemployment and social exclusion.
European Semester for economic policy coordination 2026
Demand prudent fiscal policies from Member States to preserve public debt sustainability, considering excessive deficit procedures.
Written Explanations
Written explanations of vote submitted after plenary sessions.
Protection of minors online
Social media has many problems which affect young people in negative ways. While I theoretically agree that there should be some age limit, it is very difficult to enforce it in practice. If providing age is purely declarative, then children will simply lie about their age, which is the situation today when platforms’ terms of service impose an age limit. Using eID means to prove your age to a social media platform is disproportionate. eID means are intended mainly for proving your identity for serious tasks such as e-government services and private services which require a high degree of security, such as banking. It is theoretically possible under eIDAS to prove your age without revealing your identity, but there are no guarantees that social media will implement this and refrain from asking for more than they need. Many citizens will not understand these intricacies, they will believe that using the eID always equates to proving your identity and they do not want this for social media. This will reduce trust in eID and will hamper its uptake, which harms our digitalisation efforts. This is why I voted against this report. All measures to tackle this problem need to be proportional.
No written explanations available.