Parliament adopted its annual assessment of Serbia by 468 votes to 116 , with 79 abstentions. The EPP, S&D, Renew and Greens/EFA carried the text almost unanimously; PfE and ESN voted against, the NI mostly opposed it, and The Left largely abstained while ECR split between support and abstention. As an own-initiative resolution, the report has no direct legal effect, but it is Parliament's formal political position on Serbia's EU path and is intended to press the Commission and the Council on the conditions attached to the accession process. The final text keeps its stated concern over what it calls the Commission's "appeasing approach" towards Serbia and the country's rollback of the rule of law, democracy and fundamental rights. Only one amendment was put to a separate vote, and it was rejected by a wide margin of 401 votes. The single division did not reflect a simple left-right line: support for the amendment came mainly from ECR and parts of The Left, PfE and the NI, while the EPP, S&D, Renew and Greens/EFA voted it down together, leaving the committee wording on paragraph 20 in place.
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