Parliament adopted its annual assessment of the European Investment Bank Group by 316 votes to 281 , with 39 abstentions — a margin of just 35 votes. The final text was carried by the EPP (167 for, unanimously), Renew (70 for) and most of ECR (54 for), while S&D (120 against), the Greens/EFA and The Left opposed it and PfE largely abstained or voted against. As a budgetary own-initiative report, the resolution has no direct legal force, but it sets out Parliament's formal position on the EIB's lending priorities and is intended to steer the Bank and the Commission ahead of the next multiannual financial framework. Its influence lies in the political direction it signals rather than in binding instructions. The most consequential floor changes reoriented the Bank toward defence and a technology-neutral energy stance. A centre-right coalition of the EPP, ECR and PfE, joined on several votes by much of Renew, wrote into the text a call to include nuclear energy in low-carbon financing (adopted by 154 votes), an ESG-reporting proportionality review, a request to Member States to let the EIB finance weapons beyond dual-use technologies (adopted by 89 votes), and migration-management cooperation as a lending criterion for non-EU countries (adopted by 92 votes). S&D, the Greens/EFA and The Left opposed these throughout. Amendments pulling in other directions mostly fell. Proposals from The Left and parts of S&D to bar EIB funding for militarisation and refocus it on cohesion, housing and public services were rejected heavily, while a bloc of sovereignty-focused amendments backed by PfE and ECR — imposing last-resort guardrails, off-budget financing limits and national-procurement conditions on defence lending — was voted down by the EPP–S&D–Renew mainstream. The votes revealed differences over both the degree and the direction of the EIB's mandate.
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