Parliament adopted the resolution authorising mobilisation of the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) for displaced workers in Belgium (EGF/2025/009 BE/Soliver) by 602 votes in favour, 47 against and 11 abstentions — a margin of 555 votes. EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA, The Left, and the large majority of ECR and PfE supported the measure; ESN provided the bulk of the opposition, with scattered dissent from within PfE and ECR. As a budgetary decision, the resolution directly authorises the release of EGF resources to co-finance active labour-market measures — such as retraining, job-search assistance and mobility allowances — for workers made redundant following the closure of Soliver in Belgium. It has immediate budgetary effect once adopted. The vote was broadly consensual across the political centre and much of the right. The main dissent came from ESN, where 19 of 23 members voted against, and from portions of PfE — notably the Partij voor de Vrijheid (Netherlands) and Konfederacja Wolność i Niepodległość (Poland), whose delegations broke from their group's majority to vote against. Within Renew, Freie Wähler (Germany) also voted against the group line. Within ECR, Občanská demokratická strana (Czechia) and Sverigedemokraterna (Sweden) voted against their group's majority, which otherwise supported the resolution.
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