3. Preparation of the European Council (19-20 March 2008) - European Economic Recovery Plan - Guidelines for the Member States' employment policies * - Cohesion Policy: investing in the real economy (debate)

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Council and Commission statements: Preparation of the European Council (19-20 March 2008)

Report: on the European Economic Recovery Plan [2008/2334(INI)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: Elisa Ferreira (A6-0063/2009)

Report: on the proposal for a Council Decision on guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States [COM(2008)0869 - C6-0050/2009 - 2008/0252(CNS)] - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Rapporteur: Jan Andersson (A6-0052/2009)

Report: on Cohesion Policy: Investing in the real economy [2009/2009(INI)] - Committee on Regional Development. Rapporteur: Evgeni Kirilov (A6-0075/2009)

Alexandr Vondra (President-in-Office of the Council) and José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission) made the statements.

Elisa Ferreira, Jan Andersson and Evgeni Kirilov introduced the reports.

The following spoke: Salvador Garriga Polledo (rapporteur for the opinion of the BUDG Committee), Elisabeth Morin (rapporteur for the opinion of the EMPL Committee), Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the PSE Group, Graham Watson, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Cristiana Muscardini, on behalf of the UEN Group, Rebecca Harms, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jiří Maštálka, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nigel Farage, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Jana Bobošíková, Non-attached Member, Klaus-Heiner Lehne, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Jules Maaten, Mirosław Mariusz Piotrowski, Claude Turmes, Sahra Wagenknecht, Nils Lundgren, Bruno Gollnisch, Lambert van Nistelrooij, Edit Herczog, Ona Juknevičienė, Guntars Krasts, Elisabeth Schroedter, Ilda Figueiredo, Johannes Blokland, Sergej Kozlík, Gunnar Hökmark, Guido Sacconi, Sophia in 't Veld, Dariusz Maciej Grabowski and Csaba Őry.

IN THE CHAIR: Rodi KRATSA-TSAGAROPOULOU
Vice-President

The following spoke: Pervenche Berès, Filiz Hakaeva Hyusmenova, Rolf Berend, Enrique Barón Crespo, Chris Davies, Costas Botopoulos, Jean-Paul Gauzès, Brian Simpson, Péter Olajos, Gianni Pittella, Avril Doyle, Harlem Désir, Cornelis Visser and Libor Rouček.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Rumiana Jeleva, Atanas Paparizov, Danutė Budreikaitė, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, Emmanouil Angelakas, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Martin Schulz and Klaus-Heiner Lehne, the last-named on the remarks by Martin Schulz.

The following spoke: Alexandr Vondra, Günter Verheugen (Vice-President of the Commission), Elisa Ferreira, Jan Andersson and Evgeni Kirilov.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 103(2):

- Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Monica Frassoni, Rebecca Harms, Gisela Kallenbach and Claude Turmes, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the input to the Spring 2009 European Council in relation to the Lisbon Strategy (B6-0107/2009),

- Francis Wurtz, Ilda Figueiredo, Helmuth Markov and Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the input to the Spring 2009 European Council in relation to the Lisbon Strategy (B6-0108/2009),

- Joseph Daul and Klaus-Heiner Lehne, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martin Schulz, Edit Herczog and Udo Bullmann, on behalf of the PSE Group, Graham Watson and Jules Maaten, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Cristiana Muscardini, Guntars Krasts and Adam Bielan, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the input to the Spring 2009 European Council in relation to the Lisbon Strategy (B6-0109/2009),

- Jan Andersson, on behalf of the EMPL Committee, on implementation of the guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States 2008-2010 (B6-0133/2009),

- Miroslav Ouzký, on behalf of the ENVI Committee, on an EU strategy for a comprehensive climate change agreement in Copenhagen and the adequate provision of financing for climate change policy (B6-0134/2009).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 11.03.2009, item 5.20, minutes of 11.03.2009, item 5.21, minutes of 11.03.2009, item 5.22, minutes of 11.03.2009, item 5.15 and minutes of 11.03.2009, item 5.24.

(The sitting was suspended at 12.05 pending voting time and resumed at 12.10.)