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Establishment of a Framework to Facilitate Sustainable Investment Establishment of a framework to facilitate sustainable investment Provisional agreement resulting from interinstitutional negotiations: co-rapporteurs: Bas Eickhout (Verts/ALE) & Sirpa Pietikäinen (PPE) 52 + ALDE Fredrick Federley, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Wolf Klinz, Caroline Nagtegaal, Nils Torvalds, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Lieve Wierinck ECR David Campbell Bannerman, Jørn Dohrmann, Ashley Fox, Syed Kamall, Bernd Lucke, Ralph Packet, Kay Swinburne EFDD Bernard Monot ENF Barbara Kappel PPE Ivo Belet, Birgit Collin-Langen, Angélique Delahaye, Markus Ferber, Christofer Fjellner, Michael Gahler, Francesc Gambús, Elisabetta Gardini, Jens Gieseke, Françoise Grossetête, Gunnar Hökmark, Danuta Maria Hübner, Teresa Jiménez-Becerril Barrio, Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz, Alain Lamassoure, Esther de Lange, Werner Langen, Giovanni La Via, Peter Liese, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Ivana Maletić, Gabriel Mato, Miroslav Mikolášik, Francisco José Millán Mon, Luděk Niedermayer, Dennis Radtke, Dariusz Rosati, Paul Rübig, Anne Sander, Annie Schreijer-Pierik, Andreas Schwab, Anders Sellström, Renate Sommer, Theodor Dumitru Stolojan, Adina-Ioana Vălean, Jarosław Wałęsa 45 - ECR Czesław Hoc, Stanisław Ożóg, Bolesław G. Piecha, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Kosma Złotowski EFDD Julia Reid GUE/NGL Lynn Boylan, Stefan Eck, Anja Hazekamp, Jaromír Kohlíček, Kateřina Konečná, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Martin Schirdewan PPE Stefan Gehrold, Julie Girling S&D Pervenche Berès, Simona Bonafè, Biljana Borzan, Soledad Cabezón Ruiz, Nessa Childers, Silvia Costa, Miriam Dalli, Seb Dance, Jonás Fernández, Neena Gill, Roberto Gualtieri, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Sylvia-Yvonne Kaufmann, Arndt Kohn, Dietmar Köster, Olle Ludvigsson, Alex Mayer, Susanne Melior, Clare Moody, Luigi Morgano, Rory Palmer, Massimo Paolucci, Pavel Poc, Christine Revault d'Allonnes Bonnefoy, Pedro Silva Pereira, Peter Simon, Paul Tang, Babette Winter, Tiemo Wölken, Damiano Zoffoli 19 0 ALDE Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Sophia in 't Veld, Carolina Punset, Frédérique Ries EFDD Rosa D'Amato, Eleonora Evi, Piernicola Pedicini PPE Lukas Mandl, Sirpa Pietikäinen VERTS/ALE Marco Affronte, Margrete Auken, Bas Eickhout, Linnéa Engström, Ana Miranda, Michel Reimon, Molly Scott Cato, Bart Staes, Ernest Urtasun, Thomas Waitz Key to symbols: + : in favour - : against 0 : abstention.
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