Parliament adopted its own-initiative resolution on transnational water governance by 431 votes to 111 , with 103 abstentions. The winning coalition was built by EPP, S&D, Renew and Greens/EFA voting in favour; PfE voted against, ESN largely against, and ECR mostly abstained. As a non-legislative own-initiative resolution, the text carries no direct legal force, but it constitutes Parliament's formal political position and is intended to press the Commission and Council to act — shaping EU diplomatic and policy priorities on transnational water governance, conflict prevention, and accountability for the use of water as a weapon of war. All six amendments put to a separate vote were rejected. The centre — EPP, S&D, Renew, and in most cases Greens/EFA — agreed on the core text but declined to go further on the most contested dimensions. The rejected amendments would have tied the EU-Israel Association Agreement to a suspension mechanism linked to water-rights violations in Gaza (Am. 4), replaced the report's neutral conflict framing with an explicit genocide characterisation (Am. 3), called on the EU to endorse a critical reappraisal of joint Israeli-Palestinian water committees citing World Bank findings (Am. 2), added ecocide as a prosecutable offence in two distinct contexts — Russia's destruction of water infrastructure (Am. 5) and deliberate targeting of water supplies more broadly (Am. 7) — and required Sahrawi consent for EU-Morocco agreements affecting Western Sahara water resources (Am. 1). Each of these fell, opposed by EPP and PfE together with ECR and ESN, while S&D and The Left backed most of them and Renew was divided. The consistent cleavage was between, on one side, S&D, The Left and Greens/EFA — which favoured extending the resolution's accountability provisions and political conditionality — and, on the other, EPP, PfE, ECR and ESN, which voted against those extensions. The adopted text retains the condemnation of Russia's destruction of water infrastructure and calls for rehabilitation of water systems in Gaza, but without the contested additions.
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