Report on the Annual Report on Human Rights in the World and the European Union's policy on the matter, including implications for the EU's strategic human rights policy [2011/2185(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Richard Howitt (A7-0086/2012)
Richard Howitt introduced the report.
The following spoke: Cristian Dan Preda (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee).
IN THE CHAIR: Roberta ANGELILLI Vice-President
The following spoke: Catherine Ashton (Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy).
The following spoke: Andrzej Grzyb, on behalf of the PPE Group, Maria Eleni Koppa, on behalf of the S&D Group, Leonidas Donskis, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Rui Tavares, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Konrad Szymański, on behalf of the ECR Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EFD Group, Marie-Christine Vergiat, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Philip Claeys, Non-attached Member, José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Joanna Senyszyn, Sarah Ludford, Struan Stevenson, Frank Vanhecke, Andrew Henry William Brons, Elmar Brok, Ana Gomes, Paweł Robert Kowal, Fiorello Provera, Jarosław Leszek Wałęsa, Véronique De Keyser to put a blue-card question to Fiorello Provera, who replied to these, Véronique De Keyser, Bernd Posselt who also replied to a blue-card question by Ivo Vajgl, Emer Costello, Francisco José Millán Mon and Antigoni Papadopoulou who also replied to a blue-card question by Bernd Posselt.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Kinga Gál, Barbara Matera, Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris, Eduard Kukan, Elena Băsescu, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Monika Flašíková Beňová, Ivo Vajgl, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Barbara Lochbihler, Ulrike Lunacek, Ana Miranda and João Ferreira.
The following spoke: Catherine Ashton and Richard Howitt.