3. Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec) (debate)

Verbatim reports

Commission statement: Energy security (Nabucco and Desertec)

Andris Piebalgs (Member of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke: Ioannis Kasoulides, on behalf of the PPE Group, Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the S-D Group, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Reinhard Bütikofer, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Geoffrey Van Orden, on behalf of the ECR Group, Helmut Scholz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Fiorello Provera, on behalf of the EFD Group, Zoltán Balczó, Non-attached Member, Elmar Brok, Teresa Riera Madurell, Graham Watson and Franziska Katharina Brantner.

IN THE CHAIR: Pál SCHMITT
Vice-President

The following spoke: Konrad Szymański, Jacky Hénin, Niki Tzavela, Martin Ehrenhauser, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Kristian Vigenin, Fiona Hall, Indrek Tarand, Sajjad Karim, Marisa Matias, Herbert Reul, Marita Ulvskog, Adina-Ioana Vălean, Paweł Robert Kowal, Gabriele Albertini, Anni Podimata, Toine Manders, Jean-Pierre Audy, Justas Vincas Paleckis, Arturs Krišjānis Kariņš, Edit Herczog, Mario Mauro, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Francisco José Millán Mon, Rachida Dati, Michael Gahler and Bastiaan Belder.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Lena Barbara Kolarska-Bobińska, Matthias Groote, Charles Tannock, Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Derek Vaughan, András Gyürk, Ivo Vajgl and Andrzej Grzyb.

The following spoke: Andris Piebalgs.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 110(2):

- Elmar Brok, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Tunne Kelam, Traian Ungureanu, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Michael Gahler, Herbert Reul, András Gyürk, Mário David, Jean-Pierre Audy, Lena Barbara Kolarska-Bobińska, Bogusław Sonik and Inese Vaidere, on behalf of the PPE Group, on external aspects of energy security (B7-0040/2009);

- Teresa Riera Madurell and Kristian Vigenin, on behalf of the S-D Group, on external energy security (B7-0043/2009);

- Rebecca Harms, Claude Turmes, Reinhard Bütikofer, Werner Schulz and Franziska Katharina Brantner, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on external aspects of energy security (B7-0045/2009);

- Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on energy security (B7-0046/2009);

- Michał Tomasz Kamiński, Charles Tannock, Roberts Zīle, Adam Bielan, Tomasz Piotr Poręba and Ryszard Antoni Legutko, on behalf of the ECR Group, on energy security (B7-0058/2009);

- Helmut Scholz and Marisa Matias, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on energy security (Nabucco, DESERTEC) (B7-0059/2009).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 17.9.2009, item 4.8.

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The following spoke: Mario Mauro, reporting that six Italian soldiers had been killed today in an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, and calling for a minute's silence out of respect for the victims.

The President endorsed these sentiments.

Parliament observed a minute's silence in memory of the victims.