The European Parliament adopted its own-initiative resolution on countering transnational repression by 434 votes to 128 , with 104 abstentions. The broad winning coalition comprised EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA and most of The Left; PfE and ESN voted against, while ECR split heavily toward abstention and The Left's Finnish delegation also abstained. As a non-legislative own-initiative resolution, this text carries no direct legal force, but it constitutes Parliament's formal political position and is intended to press the Commission and Member States to develop a structured EU-level strategy — setting out common definitions, coordination mechanisms and protective measures — to respond to foreign governments' targeting of diaspora communities, exiled dissidents and activists on European soil. The two substantive amendment votes revealed a consistent divide between the political centre and the right on how far EU-level coordination should reach. Am 2, which sought to reframe paragraph 7 by emphasising national sovereignty over security and warning against EU overreach, was rejected by a wide margin — 462 against, 201 for — as EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA and The Left held together against it; PfE, ECR and ESN backed it. The family-reunification paragraph (paragraph 41) was retained by 48 votes, with the centre-left and Renew voting to keep it and EPP and PfE voting to delete it, illustrating internal differences on protective pathways even within the pro-resolution majority. The overall picture is one of broad mainstream consensus on the need for an EU-coordinated response to transnational repression, with the sharpest disagreement coming from PfE and ESN, who opposed the resolution outright, and from ECR, most of whose members ultimately abstained rather than take a clear position.
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