11/07/23 (Agence Europe) – On Tuesday 11 July, the European Parliament adopted the draft ‘Pisapia’ report, which advocates the use of the ‘passerelle clauses’ in the current European Treaty to authorise the Council of the European Union to make decisions on certain issues by a qualified majority of Member States (347 votes in favour, 241 against, 46 abstentions). This would be the case for sanctioning third-country governments for human rights violations or for setting up EU civilian ‘CSDP’ missions. Although the MEPs rejected all the amendments from the ECR, Identity and Democracy and The Left groups, which were opposed to the end of unanimity in the Council, they narrowly rejected the provisions of the report advocating the end of unanimity in the field of taxation and for the adoption of the Multiannual Financial Framework. See the ‘Pisapia’ report: https://aeur.eu/f/80b (MB)