6. Strengthening the fight against racism, xenophobia and hate crime (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Strengthening the fight against racism, xenophobia and hate crime (2013/2543(RSP))

Lucinda Creighton (President-in-Office of the Council), and Viviane Reding (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Véronique Mathieu Houillon, on behalf of the PPE Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Georgios PAPASTAMKOS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Marie-Christine Vergiat, to put a blue-card question to Véronique Mathieu Houillon, who replied, Kinga Göncz, on behalf of the S&D Group, Renate Weber, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Andrew Henry William Brons, Ulrike Lunacek, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Timothy Kirkhope, on behalf of the ECR Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Ulrike Lunacek, Frank Vanhecke, on behalf of the EFD Group, Marie-Christine Vergiat, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Philip Claeys, Non-attached Member, Carlos Coelho, Sylvie Guillaume, Lajos Bokros, Mario Borghezio, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Claude Moraes, Zbigniew Ziobro to put a blue-card question (the President said this was not a blue-card question), Jacek Protasiewicz, Michael Cashman, Lívia Járóka, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Salvatore Iacolino and Georgios Papanikolaou.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Kinga Gál, Zita Gurmai, Graham Watson, Tatjana Ždanoka, Jaroslav Paška, Franz Obermayr, László Tőkés, Seán Kelly, Dimitrios Droutsas, Jorgo Chatzimarkakis and Csaba Sándor Tabajdi.

The following spoke: Viviane Reding and Lucinda Creighton.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 110(2):

- Manfred Weber, Véronique Mathieu Houillon, Salvatore Iacolino and Roberta Angelilli, on behalf of the PPE Group, on strengthening the fight against racism and xenophobia (2013/2543(RSP)) (B7-0121/2013);

- Henri Weber, Sonia Alfano, Cecilia Wikström, Louis Michel, Sarah Ludford, Nathalie Griesbeck, Sophia in 't Veld, Leonidas Donskis, Ramon Tremosa i Balcells, Frédérique Ries and Marielle de Sarnez, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on strengthening the fight against racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Gypsyism, homophobia, transphobia and all other forms of bias violence (2013/2543(RSP)) (B7-0122/2013);

- Kinga Göncz, Sylvie Guillaume, Claude Moraes, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Michael Cashman, Monika Flašíková Beňová and Ioan Enciu, on behalf of the S&D Group, on strengthening the fight against racism, xenophobia and hate crime (2013/2543(RSP)) (B7-0123/2013);

- Marie-Christine Vergiat, Cornelia Ernst, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Cornelis de Jong, Martina Anderson, Nikolaos Chountis and Takis Hadjigeorgiou, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on strengthening the fight against racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, anti-Roma (Sinti, Travellers) homophobia, transphobia and all other forms of discrimination (2013/2543(RSP)) (B7-0124/2013);

- Ulrike Lunacek, Nikos Chrysogelos, Carl Schlyter, Catherine Grèze, Jan Philipp Albrecht, Elisabeth Schroedter, Barbara Lochbihler, Franziska Keller, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Sandrine Bélier, Jean Lambert, Jean-Jacob Bicep and Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on strengthening the fight against racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, anti-Gypsyism, homophobia, transphobia and all other forms of hate crime and hate speech (B7-0125/2013).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 14.3.2013, item 8.3.

IN THE CHAIR: Roberta ANGELILLI
Vice-President