A roll-call vote on the estimates for the 2026 budget on Thursday gave a foretaste of how the European Parliament, which has moved significantly to the right, could deal with the planned ethics body. A right-wing majority of 289 MEPs from the EPP, PfE, ECR and ESN groups allowed a motion to fall through against 283 votes from the S&D, Renew, Greens and Left. The content of the motion was to complain that the Committee on Budgets had previously refused to make EUR 100,000 available for 2025 as Parliament’s contribution to the costs of the ethics authority, which amounted to a total of EUR 300,000.