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· 8mo ago

Last weekend, we were at #FOSDEM and presented HowTheyVote.eu as part of the "Open Source & EU Policy" devroom.

📺 You can watch the recording here: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/39YMYR-how-they-vote/

We showed some features (including new things you might have missed!), what's hard about working with data from the European Parliament, and what the future might bring - all in just 9 minutes! 😉

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· 7mo ago

RE: @bendrath@eupolicy.social

Relevant roll-call votes from today’s Plenary session just went up: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/186972

#chatcontrol #Chatkontrolle

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· 6mo ago

Detailed vote results for today’s vote on chatcontrol 1.0 are up now. No majority found - this happens extremely rarely.

Parliament still opposes untargeted mass-surveillance.

https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/189270

#chatcontrol #Chatkontrolle

Vote results: Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application

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Vote results: Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application

Find out how the Members of the European Parliament voted.

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· 7mo ago

Parliament will meet in Strasbourg starting tomorrow.

First voting session will be held on Tuesday, as usual.

❗ On Wednesday, #chatcontrol 1.0 is on the voting list! 🗳️

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· 5mo ago

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Plenary rejected the commission proposal to extend a derogation from the ePrivacy directive which allowed scanning electronic communication with the aim of "combating CSAM" (also known as chatcontrol 1.0). While this sounds great - the proposed solution is deeply flawed. This derogation now expired on the third of April. For more substantive background information and technical explanations, @echo_pbreyer and his website are great resources. https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/189270 #chatcontrol

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Vote results: Proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1232 as regards the extension of its period of application

Find out how the Members of the European Parliament voted.

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· 5mo ago

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(The public record on the exact mechanism with which this happened is very thin. If anyone can explain to us the formal mechanism behind this - please reach out! ✉️)

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· 5mo ago

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💡The general take-away: Deducing political reasoning from plenary votes alone is highly complex (and not always possible). Especially the reasons for voting against something can vary widely. Amendments are *the* important factor when trying to understand these decisions.

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· 5mo ago

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This vote drew a lot of attention, as many people are concerned about the privacy implications of (the multiple) chatcontrol proposals. Hence, many people wondering "who protected our privacy?" "which MEPs were in favor of #chatcontrol" and - "wasn't there a vote on this last plenary"?

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· 7mo ago

Wow, we had a vote with **zero** votes against today.

https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/184110

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HowTheyVote.eu @HowTheyVoteEU@eupolicy.social

· 7mo ago

‪Ever wondered when exactly new votes are up on https://HowThyVote.eu? ⌛

Just subscribe to our newly released feed in your favorite RSS/Atom-Reader and get notified instantly! 🎉

Subscribe to https://howtheyvote.eu or use the direct link of the feed: https://howtheyvote.eu/api/votes/feed.xml

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· 7mo ago

On a more light-hearted note: 96% of MEPs voted for more support of the wine industry and rules for "alcohol free/reduced" labels. 🍷

With one exception: Only 24% support among Swedish 🇸🇪 MEPs - can anyone explain this to us? Very curious!

https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/184120

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· 5mo ago

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1) Wasn't there a vote on this last plenary already? Yes. And this is also the most ominous part of the whole process. Super brief version of how an EU law is made: The commission proposes something (here: extending the derogation). Parliament discusses this in a committee and proposes an opinion.

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· 5mo ago

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❗While this is not the first time the EPP & the far-right form a majority together, building a majority against S&D/Greens, this case is special: Journalist prev. reported on a chat-group in which EPP and far-right MEPs discussed this file. Plausible deniability for cooperation no longer applies.

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HowTheyVote.eu @HowTheyVoteEU@eupolicy.social

· 7mo ago

🇺🇦 Today marks four years since Russia's full invasion of Ukraine. On this occasion, we had a single vote in Brussels today.

MEPs called for security guarantees for Ukraine, energy decoupling from Russia and further sanctions.
Those are currently blocked by Hungary in the Council.

https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/185885

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· 7mo ago

Today, the European Parliament adopted an agreement reached with the Council on a list of "safe third countries" and its application for asylum seekers.

❗The votes were carried by a right-wing majority of EPP, ECR and PfE.

What that means and a flash-analysis 🧵

https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/184172

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· 6mo ago

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We'll try to let you know as fast as possible, once the votes are up - alternatively, you can subscribe to https://howtheyvote.eu in your favorite feed-reader and be informed immediately once results are available!

Find out how Members of the European Parliament vote

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Find out how Members of the European Parliament vote

Find out how Members of the European Parliament vote.

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· 6mo ago

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Recommended reading in this regard: This edition of the Secrecy Tracker by @euobserver @FTM_eu and Investigate Europe https://euobserver.com/201072/secrecy-tracker-transparency-battles-shaping-the-eu-in-2026/

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HowTheyVote.eu @HowTheyVoteEU@eupolicy.social

· 7mo ago

This week, the European Parliament held its monthly plenary session in Strasbourg:

Let's take a look at some selected things that happened! 👀

As usual, all roll-call votes at https://howtheyvote.eu! 🗳️

By the way - there you can also read the full adopted text by via the link under "More information".

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Find out how Members of the European Parliament vote

Find out how Members of the European Parliament vote.

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· 5mo ago

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@bendrath That makes sense - thank you!

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· 5mo ago

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❗The EPP together with the far-right voted to enter negotiations with the Council on a text regarding the EUs "Return Regulation". Part of the bill would allow member states to build return hubs in third countries, based on bilateral agreements. https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/189597

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· 5mo ago

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The proposal - as changed by the committee - is voted on in Plenary, with other amendments possible. This is then discussed with the Council and if agreed upon, becomes EU law. If no agreement is reached, this process can repeat (multiple readings of a law).

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· 5mo ago

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2) Who was in favor of what? In plenary, MEPs can propose changes to the tabled texts (here: proposal by the commission), known as amendments. Obviously, those are voted on first. Then, when all amendments have been voted on, a vote on the final, resulting text is held.

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· 5mo ago

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This was more text than usual from us - but I hope at least somewhat illuminating. Corrections and additions are always welcome! 🙏 The next plenary meeting will happen in two weeks - until then 👀

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· 5mo ago

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(Finding the amendment texts starting from our site is not perfect right now: Each vote has a link "Report or Resolution", which will bring you to the EP website where you can find the text of all amendments via a drop-down using the amendment number. We are working on improving this.)

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· 5mo ago

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The following negotiations with the member states (Council) then failed. Somehow the initial commission proposal - without the privacy respecting amendments adopted in the previous plenary - came back on the agenda for last plenary, on demand of the EPP.

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HowTheyVote.eu @HowTheyVoteEU@eupolicy.social

· 7mo ago

There were some unusual delays in the publishing of today's roll-call votes on the official Parliament site.

Vote results for March 10 are now available on https://howtheyvote.eu

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Find out how Members of the European Parliament vote

Find out how Members of the European Parliament vote.

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· 7mo ago

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💌 As always: We are eager to hear your feedback! Are you missing a chart? Something not working as expected? Please reach out! And if you use this in any form of publication - please feel free to send it our way, too! We are always interested in seeing what cool things people do with the data! 👀

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· 5mo ago

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In this specific case - the most probable explanation is that the votes against are a mix: People who wanted a wider-ranging derogation extended (EPP) voted against bc of the amendments adopted & people who were against the extension on principle saw a chance of gaining a majority.

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· 6mo ago

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@vitor These are usually labelled "Proposition de la Commission" throughout the official documents, which is why we also display it as such on our site. Parliaments position can be summed up with: Extension, but in a modified form that protects encryption and most importantly prevents un-targeted mass-scanning.

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· 6mo ago

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@vitor Here's a good article that mentions the concrete amendments and processes - original in German, hope your favorite translating tool can take care of it - it's the best article I know of: https://netzpolitik.org/2026/nur-auf-verdacht-eu-parlament-stimmt-gegen-massenueberwachung-bei-freiwilliger-chatkontrolle/ This does not mean the current Parliament position becomes law automatically - next up (curr ongoing) there are negotiations with the Council (EU states). Hope this clarifies things :)

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· 5mo ago

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After this and other amendments were adopted, the resulting text failed to reach a majority in the plenary.

Both the amendments and the final vote have been widely shared on various platforms and people were at times surprised on who voted which way.

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· 5mo ago

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In this case: The responsible committee (LIBE) proposed a rejection of the proposal. Plenary chose to deviate from this recommendation and adopted a proposal for an extension incorporating privacy guardrails. This happened in the first March plenary & this was the final vote: https://howtheyvote.eu/186972

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· 5mo ago

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From the votes alone, the motivation for voting one way or another are never clear. With amendments, it's usually easier to deduct, as they are quite specific - but even then: A vote against something could always mean "I disapprove of this idea in general" or "I think this is the wrong implementation" or even "I think this is not strict enough". For the final texts - as sets of amendments - things become only more complicated.

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· 6mo ago

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@vitor So some MEPs wanted to reject the Commission proposal - ending the extension, but that did not get a majority. When a proposal isn't rejected, Parliament can amend it. They vote on changes (adding text, removing text, changing text) to the commission text. This is usually where the most important and "in-the-weeds" stuff happens - also true in this case. After the amendments, Parliament votes one last time on its newly formulated position in its entirety.

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· 5mo ago

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@IamPic It took a while, but we just posted a (quite long) thread attempting to explain what happened - hope it helps :) https://eupolicy.social/@HowTheyVoteEU/116394129449103938

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· 6mo ago

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@lumiukko Great question! It’s the official title of the legislative procedure the vote belongs to: https://oeil.europarl.europa.eu/oeil/en/procedure-file?reference=2025/0429(COD) We use that as a fall-back, until all data from Parliament has been uploaded. This is also why you might see this changing at some point. We don’t editorialize titles or hand-pick them.

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· 5mo ago

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In this final round of chatcontrol 1.0 votes, a key amendment containing privacy guardrails was adopted with only a single vote majority: https://howtheyvote.eu/votes/189574

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· 5mo ago

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(In the official Parliament records, those votes contain "Commission Proposal" as their subject, which is why this is also what we display on our site. This can be somewhat confusing, as the proposal might have been already amended. Amendments contain amendment numbers in their subject.)

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