Procedures
206 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.
Resolution on reinforcing EU’s unwavering support to Ukraine against Russia’s war of aggression and the increasing military cooperation between North Korea and Russia
The Bulgarian S&D delegation, while recognising the need of full support to Ukraine, still has serious concerns about some provisions in this resolution that, in our view, threaten the prospects for peace and risk further military escalation and destabilisation with global implications. The call to grant Ukraine permission to use long-range missiles against targets within Russia, as well as to provide such weapons would escalate the conflict and potentially expand the war. The resolution also calls for NATO allies to collectively and individually commit no less than 0.25 % of their GDP annually to military support for Ukraine. That is neither realistic nor sustainable and goes well beyond the EP responsibilities, interfering with the sovereign rights of Member States to define their financial, foreign and defence policy, especially on such sensitive issue. Those key votes for our delegation have been lost, so we could not support the proposed motion for a resolution and voted against it as a whole.
No written explanations available.