Procedures
282 votesReinforcing development cooperation to address irregular population movements and their root causes in partner countries
Condition development aid on poverty reduction, natural resource management, and anti-smuggling cooperation to address the root causes of irregular migration in partner countries.
Role of trade in strengthening the EU's economic security
Impose higher anti-dumping duties and restrict EU-funded programmes to domestic investments to reduce strategic dependencies on China and secure critical raw material supply chains.
Countering transnational repression – towards an EU strategy to protect Europe’s sovereignty and democratic values
Protect dissidents and journalists by establishing a common EU definition, monitoring mechanism, and sanctions to counter foreign authoritarian regimes' transnational repression.
European political parties and foundations – 2026 report on the application of Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 2025/2445 and on the activities funded
Demand the Commission revise funding rules to increase EU budget grants for European political foundations to 100% of eligible costs to prevent foreign interference.
Resolution on supporting democratic resilience in Armenia
Fund democratic resilience, cybersecurity, and electoral integrity in Armenia to counter foreign interference and support its European Union accession process.
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.