20. Defense of the principle of subsidiarity - Display of religious and cultural symbols in public places (debate)

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Oral question (O-0152/2009) by Mario Borghezio, on behalf of the EFD Group, to the Commission: Defence of the principle of subsidiarity (B7-0238/2009)

Oral question (O-0158/2009) by Antonio Cancian, Mario Mauro, Fiorello Provera, Elisabetta Gardini, Salvatore Iacolino, Crescenzio Rivellini, Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris, Aldo Patriciello, Paolo Bartolozzi, Cristiana Muscardini, Mara Bizzotto, Barbara Matera, Lara Comi, Antonello Antinoro, Lorenzo Fontana, Roberta Angelilli, Amalia Sartori, Iva Zanicchi, Licia Ronzulli, Giovanni Collino, Marco Scurria, Giancarlo Scotta', Potito Salatto, Pablo Arias Echeverría, Raffaele Baldassarre, Pilar Ayuso, Luis de Grandes Pascual, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Santiago Fisas Ayxela, Carmen Fraga Estévez, Salvador Garriga Polledo, Cristina Gutiérrez-Cortines, Esther Herranz García, Carlos José Iturgaiz Angulo, Veronica Lope Fontagné, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Gabriel Mato Adrover, Jaime Mayor Oreja, Pablo Zalba Bidegain, Salvatore Tatarella, Magdi Cristiano Allam, Mirosław Piotrowski and Konrad Szymański, to the Commission: Display of religious and cultural symbols in public places (B7-0239/2009)

Mario Borghezio and Antonio Cancian moved the oral questions.

Jacques Barrot (Vice-President of the Commission) answered the oral questions.

The following spoke: Mario Mauro, on behalf of the PPE Group, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, on behalf of the S&D Group, Sophia in 't Veld, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Mirosław Piotrowski, on behalf of the ECR Group, Manfred Weber, Joanna Senyszyn and Carlo Casini.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Miroslav Mikolášik, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Georgios Papanikolaou, Anna Záborská, Magdi Cristiano Allam, Csaba Sógor and Diane Dodds.

The following spoke: Jacques Barrot.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 115(5):

-Mario Mauro, Simon Busuttil and Manfred Weber, on behalf of the PPE Group,on defence of the principle of subsidiarity (B7-0273/2009),

- Mario Borghezio, on behalf of the EFD Group,on defence of the principle of subsidiarity (B7-0274/2009),

- Judith Sargentini, Raül Romeva i Rueda and Hélène Flautre, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group,on religious symbols and subsidiarity (B7-0275/2009),

- Sophia in 't Veld and Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on human rights, religious symbols and subsidiarity (B7-0276/2009),

- Rui Tavares, Cornelis de Jong and Nikolaos Chountis, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on defence of the principle of subsidiarity (B7-0277/2009),

- Monika Flašíková Beňová, Claude Moraes and David-Maria Sassoli, on behalf of the S&D Group,on defence of the principle of subsidiarity (B7-0278/2009).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 17.12.2009, item 7.3.