Parliament adopted its annual competition policy report by 501 votes to 61 , with 95 abstentions, carried by the EPP, S&D, Renew and the Greens/EFA, joined by most of the ECR; the ESN opposed it and the PfE largely abstained. As a non-legislative own-initiative report, it creates no law on its own, but it sets out Parliament's formal position on how EU competition and state-aid rules should evolve and is intended to press the Commission toward its priorities. The final tally was comfortable, but the run of amendment votes revealed differences over how much competition policy should serve broader social and industrial goals. A cluster of amendments from The Left and the Greens/EFA — permitting a public-investment-driven industrial strategy, enabling public ownership of strategic firms, adding windfall taxes and price controls against "greedflation", and imposing strict social and environmental conditions on state aid — were all rejected, most heavily. On these, the EPP, Renew and much of the S&D voted against, leaving the proposals well short. A separate axis emerged on amendments backed by the ECR and PfE: reserving public procurement for European companies (Am 10) and a critical stance on Clean Industrial Deal and Green Deal aid frameworks (Am 12), both of which drew strong support from the ECR, ESN and PfE but were rejected by the EPP, S&D, Renew and Greens/EFA. The one paragraph put to a stand-alone vote — on using state aid to reduce regional disparities and adding flexibility for islands and vulnerable regions — passed overwhelmingly, 600 to 27 , drawing support across almost every group.
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