Parliament consented to the protocol integrating Croatia into the Euro-Mediterranean aviation agreement between the EU and Morocco by 625 votes to 16 , with 20 abstentions. The EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA, ECR, PfE and ESN all backed it unanimously or near-unanimously; the only meaningful dissent came from The Left, which split, and from a handful of non-attached Members. The vote is a consent procedure: it formally updates the existing agreement to reflect Croatia's 2013 EU membership, extending the accord's terms to the newest member state. As a technical instrument tied to enlargement, it drew broad support across the political spectrum. Consent decisions of this kind carry legal weight as the necessary parliamentary approval for the EU to conclude the protocol, but the substance here is largely administrative. The near-unanimous result reflects the uncontroversial nature of aligning the agreement's membership scope with the current composition of the Union.
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