Parliament adopted the trilogue-agreed Return Regulation by 418 votes to 218 , with 30 abstentions. The winning coalition was built by EPP, ECR, ESN, PfE, and a portion of Renew, while S&D, Greens/EFA, and The Left voted against; most of Renew split, with a minority backing the text and a larger share opposing or abstaining. Before the final vote, two procedural motions were defeated. A motion to reject the Commission proposal outright — put forward by S&D, Greens/EFA, and The Left — was turned down by 453 votes to 198 , as EPP, ECR, ESN, and PfE held together against it. A separate procedural request to proceed to a vote on individual amendments was also rejected, by 394 to 258 , with the right and most of Renew again voting it down; this cleared the path for the single bloc vote on the trilogue text. The file is a legislative act under the ordinary legislative procedure at first reading, meaning the text Parliament has now endorsed — agreed in trilogue with the Council — is on the path to becoming binding EU law. Although this vote is Parliament's formal first-reading position, the prior trilogue agreement means the Council is expected to adopt it without further amendment, giving the vote direct legal consequence. Noteworthy deviations in the final vote came from within S&D, where the Romanian, Swedish, Maltese, and Danish delegations broke with their group to vote in favour of the text, and from within Renew, where several French and Dutch delegations voted against their group's minority-for position.
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