IN THE CHAIR: Rodi KRATSA-TSAGAROPOULOU
Vice-President

11. Lisbon Strategy - Broad Economic Policy Guidelines for 2008-2010 (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Lisbon Strategy

Report on the Integrated Guidelines for Growth and Jobs (Part: broad guidelines for the economic policies of the Member States and the Community): launching the new cycle (2008-2010). [2007/2275(INI)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Margarita Starkevičiūtė (A6-0029/2008)

Žiga Turk (President-in-Office of the Council), Günter Verheugen (Vice-President of the Commission) and Joaquín Almunia (Member of the Commission) made the statements.

IN THE CHAIR: Luisa MORGANTINI
Vice-President

Margarita Starkevičiūtė introduced the report.

The following spoke: Marianne Thyssen, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Robert Goebbels, on behalf of the PSE Group, Bilyana Ilieva Raeva, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Guntars Krasts, on behalf of the UEN Group, Rebecca Harms, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ilda Figueiredo, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Johannes Blokland, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Sergej Kozlík, Non-attached Member, Klaus-Heiner Lehne, Udo Bullmann, Wolf Klinz, Eoin Ryan, Mikel Irujo Amezaga, Helmuth Markov, John Whittaker, Frank Vanhecke, Cristobal Montoro Romero, Edit Herczog, Lena Ek, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Sahra Wagenknecht, Patrick Louis, Malcolm Harbour and Anne Van Lancker.

IN THE CHAIR: Edward McMILLAN-SCOTT
Vice-President

The following spoke: Adina-Ioana Vălean, Andrzej Tomasz Zapałowski, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Kathy Sinnott, José Albino Silva Peneda, Jan Andersson, Olle Schmidt, Wojciech Roszkowski, Lambert van Nistelrooij, Elisa Ferreira, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Ryszard Czarnecki, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Pervenche Berès, Charlotte Cederschiöld, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Françoise Grossetête, Donata Gottardi, Gay Mitchell, Dariusz Rosati, Philip Bushill-Matthews, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Karsten Friedrich Hoppenstedt, Margaritis Schinas, Zsolt László Becsey, Jacques Toubon, Bogusław Sonik and Reinhard Rack.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Jerzy Buzek, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Inés Ayala Sender and Emanuel Jardim Fernandes.

The following spoke: Žiga Turk, Günter Verheugen, Joaquín Almunia and Margarita Starkevičiūtė.

Motions for a resolution to wind up the debate tabled pursuant to Rule 103(2):

- Francis Wurtz, Ilda Figueiredo, Helmuth Markov, Gabriele Zimmer, Eva-Britt Svensson, Esko Seppänen and Roberto Musacchio, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the input to the Spring 2008 European Council in relation to the Lisbon Strategy (B6-0073/2008);

- Joseph Daul, Marianne Thyssen and Klaus-Heiner Lehne, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martin Schulz, Udo Bullmann and Edit Herczog, on behalf of the PSE Group, Bilyana Ilieva Raeva, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Monica Frassoni and Rebecca Harms, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Brian Crowley, on behalf of the UEN Group, on input for the 2008 Spring Council as regards the Lisbon Strategy (B6-0076/2008).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 20.02.2008, item 4.3 and minutes of 20.02.2008, item 4.4.

(The sitting was suspended at 20.00 and resumed at 21.00.)