Richard Corbett (S&D), Rapporteur. – Mr President, that was all very interesting, but not entirely relevant to the procedural point that was moved, which was to shift the debate, and presumably the vote, of course, on this report to a subsequent part-session on the grounds that there hasn’t been enough time to consider this report. I would remind the House that this report was drafted by a working group of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs (AFCO), a working group in which every Group was represented. It then went to the AFCO Committee as a whole. It has now come before Parliament. It is subject to amendments in the usual way, as with previous rules reports, as indeed with most of our reports, there are amendments that come up and new compromises that emerge at the plenary stage. It was already postponed from December to January I. It was postponed from January I to January II.

I wonder whether he’s taking a leaf out of the book of Mrs May about kicking the can down the road further and further and further until there is no time left to deal with it – maybe that is what is intended by the EFDD Group? In any case, I recommend that Parliament do not follow that.

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