Von der Leyen's EU Commission survives Parliament confidence vote

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Von der Leyen's EU Commission survives Parliament confidence vote  A motion of censure against President Ursula von der Leyen and her Commission failed to pass in the EU Parliament in Strasbourg on Thursday.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/07/10/von-der-leyens-eu-commission-faces-judgement-in-strasbourg-parliament  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00The European Commission survived the no-confidence vote that has just been voted here in the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

00:08175 members of the Parliament voted in favour of the motion of censure, while 360 voted against and 18 abstained.

00:19The motion of censure was well below the votes needed, the threshold needed to be successful,

00:26which was two-thirds of the votes cast, representing at least the majority of the total number of the MEPs.

00:36So, 360 votes were needed to topple the Commission, but most of the political groups of the European Parliament

00:45backed the Commission by rejecting this motion of censure.

00:49Of course, the European People's Party voted unanimously against, but also the Socialists and Democrats renewed Europe,

00:57and the Greens voted against, even with some abstentions.

01:02The far-right groups, Patriots for Europe and the Europe of Sovereign Nations,

01:07as well as a large part of the European Conservatives and Reformists and some delegations of the left,

01:13voted against the Commission, so in favour of the motion of censure.

01:17So, for the moment, Ursula von der Leyen, which was not present in the hemicycle during the vote, is safe,

01:24but the vote and the debate previous to the vote has left some doubts about the support for her agenda here in the Parliament.

01:33Vincenzo Genovese, Euronews, Strasbourg.

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