Parliament adopted its assessment of the Commission's 2025 report on Ukraine by 460 votes to 136 , with 59 abstentions. The final text was carried by the EPP, S&D, Renew and the Greens/EFA and most of ECR; the PfE and ESN voted overwhelmingly against, the NI mostly against, and The Left was divided, splitting its votes between for, against and abstention. As a non-binding own-initiative resolution, the report has no direct legal effect, but it sets out Parliament's formal political position on Ukraine's EU accession — reaffirming that Ukraine's future lies within the Union and treating its integration as a strategic priority — and is intended to press the Commission and Member States to keep the process on track. The amendment votes divided opinion along a consistent line. A large group of amendments tabled by ECR, PfE, ESN and NI members sought to attach economic and budgetary conditions to accession — warning of disruption to EU agriculture, downward pressure on farm prices, and effects on the common agricultural policy and cohesion funds — and to require impact assessments before further progress. These were rejected in turn by the EPP, S&D, Renew, the Greens/EFA and The Left, each falling by margins above 200 votes. A second set of amendments raised contested historical questions, including the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA), the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) and the Volhynia massacre. Most were rejected, but one — Amendment 35, which recorded regret over the renaming of a military unit after UPA figures and referenced the Volhynia massacre — passed 379 to 229 as parts of the EPP joined ECR, PfE, ESN, NI and The Left in support.
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