The following spoke to put open questions and supplementary questions to José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission), who replied to these: Paulo Rangel (Vice-Chair of the PPE Group), Stephen Hughes (Vice-Chair of the S Group), Guy Verhofstadt (Chair of the ALDE Group), Rebecca Harms (Co-Chair of the Verts/ALE Group), Michał Tomasz Kamiński (Chair of the ECR Group), Lothar Bisky (Chair of the GUE/NGL Group), Nigel Farage (Co-Chair of the EFD Group) and Krisztina Morvai, non-attached Member.
Consequences of the financial crisis on employment and social cohesion
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure to put questions to José Manuel Barroso, who replied: Corien Wortmann-Kool, Sylvana Rapti, Elizabeth Lynne, David Casa, Alejandro Cercas, Gerald Häfner, Veronica Lope Fontagné, Vicky Ford, Ádám Kósa, Pervenche Berès, Graham Watson, Emilie Turunen, Ilda Figueiredo, John Bufton, Zoltán Balczó and Seán Kelly.