Parliament adopted its assessment of Moldova's progress toward EU membership by 505 votes to 115 , with 45 abstentions, endorsing the country's accession path against a series of amendments that sought to stop it. The EPP, S&D, Renew, the Greens/EFA and ECR carried the final text; the PfE and ESN groups voted against, while The Left largely abstained. As a non-legislative own-initiative report, the resolution has no direct legal force, but it sets out Parliament's formal political position on Moldova's candidacy and is intended to keep pressure on the Commission and Council to advance the process. The four amendments voted separately would each have reversed that direction, and all four were rejected by wide margins. The dividing line was clear and consistent. A group of amendments — to end the accession process outright, to replace it with alternative partnership frameworks, to halt EU financial transfers under the Reform and Growth Facility, and to frame the Transnistrian conflict as grounds against membership — drew support almost entirely from the PfE, ESN and parts of the NI, with a handful of ECR votes. The EPP, S&D, Renew, the Greens/EFA and The Left voted these down together, producing lopsided tallies of 500-plus against on every one.
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