Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025
2025/2166(INI) · Own-initiative procedure
Procedure 2025/2166(INI) (own-initiative procedure) concerns “Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025”; the committee responsible is AFET (Foreign Affairs). Concluded in Parliament: Last voted on 21 Jan 2026: adopted. Parliament held roll-call votes on one day, most recently on 21 Jan 2026 (final vote): adopted with 421 votes in favour, 120 against and 108 abstentions.
- Reference
- 2025/2166(INI)
- Type
- Own-initiative procedure
- Status
- Concluded in Parliament
- Lead
- AFET Foreign Affairs
- Opinion
- FEMM Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (opinion: Lina Gálvez (S&D, Spain))
- Rapporteur
- Francisco Assis (S&D, Portugal)
- Shadow rapporteurs
- Rima Hassan (The Left, France), Catarina Vieira (Greens/EFA, Netherlands), Bernard Guetta (Renew, France), Isabel Wiseler-Lima (EPP, Luxembourg), Tomasz Froelich (ESN, Germany)
- Opinions
- 5 shadow rapporteurs in the committees for opinion
Roll-call votes in Parliament
- Human rights and democracy in the world and the European Union’s policy on the matter – annual report 2025 (A10-0262/2025), 21 Jan 2026: final vote, main vote: A10-0262/2025 – Francisco Assis – Motion for a resolution (as a whole), adopted, 421 for, 120 against, 108 abstentions; plus 33 more roll-call votes
Timeline
- 9 Sep 2025: Appointment of a rapporteur; Parliamentary committee tabling report
- 11 Sep 2025: Proposal referred to plenary
- 17 Sep 2025: Committee tabling an opinion
- 5 Nov 2025: Parliamentary committee adopting an opinion
- 2 Dec 2025: Adoption of a report by the EP committee responsible
- 8 Jan 2026: Tabling of a document to European Parliament plenary sitting
- 20 Jan 2026: Debates in European Parliament plenary sitting (agenda)
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.