And here’s the roll call.

Striking are the 🇮🇪 breaking ranks. Ciaran Mullooly the sole Renew group member to vote to bring down von der Leyen.

Two big names abstaining. Development committee chair Barry Andrews, and the only Irish socialist Aodhán Ó Ríordáin.

Both are fierce VdL critics on Gaza.

Meanwhile, top UK and EU officials met in Brussels for a Specialised Committee on citizens' rights - their twice-yearly check in and the first post-'reset' summit.

Brexit citizens' rights: UK tweaked the immigration rules in a few areas yesterday – incl. the maximum allowable absences for Europeans with pre-settled status

Can now be absent for 2.5 years in a 5 year period and remain eligible for full settled status (which they'll be automatically upgraded to)

Wake up, babe, the EU's new untintelligible competitiveness 'compass' just dropped!

Out: Pillars (which compasses famously have in abundance)

In: Whatever this is

Looks like the homepage editors at @businessinsider.com are having some fun with the fact 21% of the newsroom have been laid off amid Springer's pivot towards AI...

Starmer just left the Commons after debate on the EU deal. Seemed assured vs Brexiteer anger.

But there’s ignorance on all sides. Lib Dem Richard Foord fails to understand why UK access to SAFE wasn’t part of security pact.

Starmer replies: because SAFE itself hasn’t yet been agreed by the EU!

Brexiteers and Remainers both out in force today. At Downing St, a group from @grassrootsforeurope.org - who campaign for UK to rejoin the EU ASAP.

Their thoughts on the reset? A positive step, but ‘better to rejoin’.

The deal gets back ‘a tiny slice of the 4% GDP’ they say was lost since Brexit.

Pointed questions to Keir Starmer on fish and rule taking at the ‘reset’ presser.

I asked if the Commission’s legal action over divorce deal - and UK’s settlement scheme for EU citizens - is now off the table.

VdL said EU wants ‘legal clarity’.

So, the two still due in EU court despite reset.

And fun fact: I was today years old when I learned that St Pierre and Miquelon - tonight’s ‘loser’ on raw numbers - is a French overseas territory (part of the Eurozone!), and not the full name of the insufferable influencer character in Netflix’s latest whodunnit ‘The Residence’

Worth pointing out that businesses investing in Northern Ireland now not only benefit from dual EU-GB market access, but also an effective discount on US exports (UK hit with 10% tariffs, EU 20%)

Please tell me the reclusive Chris Morris‘s next project is guest editing politics newsletters

Brexit news via @politico.eu – Sweden's EU minister says security pact talks with UK are not decoupled from divorce/TCA issues, citing fish as main sticking point.

But two further, just as complex deals to be struck by May summit: ending the 4-year-long negotiations on Gibraltar, and youth mobility

Now includes full draft! 👇

Will be a long night given the discrepancies between the ARD/ZDF exit polls, and the liberal FDP and the BSW both hovering around the magic 5% mark to enter the Bundestag.

But here's how the various coalitions that have been floated would look based on ZDF poll (in colourblind friendly format!)

Here’s today’s press release announcing the case’s referral to the CJEU - something the Commission does all the time to EU countries who don’t act on the stern letters it first has to send.

You see what happened in July 2024? The EU essentially re-opened this whole proceeding after almost 4 years…