The European Parliament adopted the resolution by 426 votes in favour, 140 against and 107 abstentions. EPP, S&D, Renew and Greens/EFA voted solidly for the text; PfE and ESN voted against; ECR split, with the large majority abstaining; The Left was divided, most abstaining. The core of the adopted text commits Parliament to increasing EU funding for European political foundations under the 2028–2034 multiannual financial framework and calls on the Commission to bring forward a recast legislative proposal raising the EU budget co-financing cap to 100 % of eligible costs and lifting the donations ceiling. Both paragraphs passed with broad support from the political centre — EPP, S&D, Renew and Greens/EFA — against the opposition of PfE, ESN and parts of ECR. A consistent cleavage ran through all twelve substantive votes: PfE and ECR tabled amendments that would have added explicit TEU-neutrality and political non-discrimination safeguards to the funding and oversight framework, reframed the rationale for EU-level party financing in terms of citizen will and pluralism rather than democratic resilience, and blocked any increase in EU funding for foundations. Every one of those amendments was rejected, each by margins exceeding 259 votes. The mainstream — EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA — held together to defeat them in each instance. One amendment from The Left, which would have tied registration and funding explicitly to Article 2 values and enabled sanctions against ESN, also fell, rejected by an even wider coalition including EPP, S&D, PfE and Renew. As a non-legislative own-initiative report, the resolution carries no direct legal force, but it constitutes Parliament's formal political position and is intended to press the Commission to bring forward the recast legislative proposal on foundation funding rules it explicitly calls for, while also signalling Parliament's priorities for the 2028–2034 MFF negotiations.
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