Impact of social media and the online environment on young people
2025/2081(INI) · Own-initiative procedure
Procedure 2025/2081(INI) (own-initiative procedure) concerns “Impact of social media and the online environment on young people”; the committee responsible is CULT (Culture and Education). Concluded in Parliament: Last voted on 17 Sep 2026: adopted. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 17 Sep 2026 (final vote): adopted with 395 votes in favour, 136 against and 80 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2025/2081(INI)
- Type
- Own-initiative procedure
- Status
- Concluded in Parliament
- Lead
- CULT Culture and Education
- Opinion
- FEMM Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (opinion: Anna Strolenberg (Greens/EFA, Netherlands))
IMCO Internal Market and Consumer Protection (opinion: Laura Ballarín Cereza (S&D, Spain))
LIBE Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (opinion: Katarina Barley (S&D, Germany)) - Rapporteur
- Sandro Ruotolo (S&D, Italy)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Carolina Morace (The Left, Italy), Diana Riba i Giner (Greens/EFA, Spain), Hristo Petrov (Renew, Bulgaria), Sunčana Glavak (EPP, Croatia), Lara Magoni (ECR, Italy), Annamária Vicsek (PfE, Hungary), Zsuzsanna Borvendég (ESN, Hungary)
- Opinions
- 19 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Impact of social media and the online environment on young people (A10-0220/2026), 17 Sep 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0220/2026 – Sandro Ruotolo – Motion for a resolution (as a whole), adopted, 395 for, 136 against, 80 abstentions; plus 5 more roll-call votes
Timeline
- 14 Apr 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
- 8 May 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
- 10 Sep 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
- 26 Feb 2026: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 2 Mar 2026: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 14 Jul 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 28 Aug 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0, prepared by OpenRCV. Procedure file in the Legislative Observatory (OEIL)
Source: European Parliament, Open Data Portal (procedures, agendas, roll-call votes), CC BY 4.0. Names of steps, roles and procedure types from the European Parliament’s vocabulary.