Recommendation on EU-China political relations

Procedure 2025/2117(INI) (own-initiative procedure) concerns “Recommendation on EU-China political relations”; the committee responsible is AFET (Foreign Affairs). Concluded in Parliament: Last voted on 7 Oct 2026: adopted. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 7 Oct 2026 (final vote): adopted with 454 votes in favour, 86 against and 110 abstentions.

Reference

2025/2117(INI)

Type

Own-initiative procedure

Official title

Recommendation for the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on EU-China political relations

Status

Concluded in Parliament

Lead

AFET Foreign Affairs

Rapporteur

Hilde Vautmans (Renew, Belgium)

Shadow rapporteurs

Danilo Della Valle (The Left, Italy), Ville Niinistö (Greens/EFA, Finland), Lucia Annunziata (S&D, Italy), Nicolás Pascual de la Parte (EPP, Spain), Sebastian Tynkkynen (ECR, Finland), Hermann Tertsch (PfE, Spain)

Roll-call votes in Parliament

• Recommendation on EU-China political relations (A10-0237/2026), 7 Oct 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0237/2026 – Hilde Vautmans – Motion for a resolution (as a whole), adopted, 454 for, 86 against, 110 abstentions; plus 42 more roll-call votes

Timeline

1. 9 Apr 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur
2. 19 Jun 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
3. 22 Oct 2025: Parliamentary committee tabling report
4. 10 Sep 2026: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
5. 16 Sep 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
6. 6 Oct 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)

• All procedures

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)