The European Parliament adopted its 2025 own-initiative report on Bosnia and Herzegovina by 478 votes to 116 , with 54 abstentions. The resolution was carried by a broad mainstream coalition — EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA, and most of ECR voted in favour; PfE and ESN voted against, while most of The Left abstained. As a non-legislative own-initiative report, the resolution carries no direct legal force, but it constitutes Parliament's formal political position on BiH's EU accession progress and is intended to press the Commission to act on rule-of-law, governance and security concerns, shaping the EU's enlargement agenda toward the Western Balkans. One substantive amendment came to a vote. The rejected amendment — proposed by PfE, ESN and parts of ECR — sought to add an explicit paragraph indicting BiH as a transit and production country for drug and human trafficking, and citing Islamist influence from Gulf countries, as grounds for tougher EU security cooperation. The mainstream (EPP, S&D, Renew and the Greens/EFA) voted it down by a wide margin of 279 votes, keeping that language out of the final text. The episode illustrated a difference in degree rather than direction: the mainstream wrote substantial security and rule-of-law criticisms into the report, while the right sought to extend those criticisms further — on trafficking and foreign influence — and was rejected.
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