Committee on Foreign Affairs Joint meeting Committee on Development Extraordinary meeting Vote
19 October 2026
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AFET, DEVE European Parliament
00:05 - 01:44
Speaker 2
So, dear colleagues, May I kindly ask you to now be seated. I would like to welcome to this next item, the Chairman of the DEVE Committee, Barry Andrews, and all DEVE members, like I have already welcomed all AFET members a few minutes ago. I would like to thank the DEVE colleagues for the excellent cooperation between both our committees on this joint report establishing Global Europe. I know that the rapporteurs and the shadow rapporteurs have worked very hard on this proposal and in a true spirit of compromise.
We will now proceed to vote on the joint AFET-DEVE draft report on the Commission proposal for a regulation establishing Global Europe. In case the draft report is adopted, we will then vote on the decision to enter into inter-institutional negotiations in line with Rule 72 of our Rules of Procedure. We need to take this decision by an absolute majority, so calculating from a total of 79 AFET members and 25 DEVE members, this brings us to 53 members who will need to vote in favor of entering into inter-institutional negotiations. I was informed that both the Patriots for Europe group and the ESN group wish to express a minority position on the report. The floor will be given to them after the vote.
01:44 - 02:22
Speaker 3
Before we proceed to the vote, let me give the floor to the co-rapporteurs, Michael Gahler for AFET and Robert Biedroń for DEVE, in case they would like to say a few words. Michael.
Yeah, just in line with the previous rapporteurs who made it very short, I would like to thank very much not only my co-rapporteur, but all the colleagues and especially our excellent staff, both in the committee secretariats and in the political groups and in our offices, personally in my office as well. It was really an excellent job to deliver on hard issues, but we found compromises that are viable, and I thank to all who contributed. Thank you.
02:22 - 02:49
Speaker 1
Thank you, Michael. Robert.
Well, in the spirit of compromise, let me join these thankful words for my dear friend Michael Gahler, with whom I had honor and pleasure to work on that. All the shadow rapporteurs from whole spectrum, political spectrum, you were very devoted for this report and worked hard. And of course, the secret- both secretariats, the staff who worked with us. Thank you very much. And let's vote.
Thank you.
02:49 - 03:14
Thank you, Robert. So, dear colleagues, please get your voting cards ready. We will first do once again a test vote to check if no group is overrepresented. The test vote is a simple yes, no, or abstention. The vote is open now.
03:14 - 03:56
Speaker 2
So, we have one colleague from the ESN too many. Somebody will have to pull out. So, then we have 98 colleagues present and 95 have participated. We can now proceed to vote on the draft report first and subsequently on the decision to enter into inter-institutional agreement. So, we first vote on compromise amendment block.
Who's in favor? Who's against? Abstentions? Adopted. Compromise amendment 12 in favor, against, abstentions, adopted.