8. Preparation of the European Council meeting of 14 and 15 December 2017 - State of play of negotiations with the United Kingdom (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Preparation of the European Council meeting of 14 and 15 December 2017 (2017/2858(RSP))

Council and Commission statements: State of play of negotiations with the United Kingdom (2017/2964(RSP))

The President made a brief introductory statement.

Matti Maasikas (President-in-Office of the Council) and Frans Timmermans (First Vice-President of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Michel Barnier (chief negotiator).

The following spoke: Manfred Weber, on behalf of the PPE Group, Gianni Pittella, on behalf of the S&D Group, Syed Kamall, on behalf of the ECR Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Gabriele Zimmer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Ska Keller, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Nigel Farage, on behalf of the EFDD Group, Marcel de Graaff, on behalf of the ENF Group, and Diane Dodds, non-attached Member.

IN THE CHAIR: Sylvie GUILLAUME
Vice-President

The following spoke: Elmar Brok, Roberto Gualtieri, Hans-Olaf Henkel, Sophia in 't Veld, David Coburn, on the conduct of the sitting, Martina Anderson, Jill Evans, Rolandas Paksas, Janice Atkinson, Alyn Smith, to protest at the remarks by the previous speaker, Diane James, Daniel Caspary, Richard Corbett, Roberts Zīle, Catherine Bearder, Barbara Spinelli, Molly Scott Cato, Gerard Batten, Gerolf Annemans, Steven Woolfe, Danuta Maria Hübner, Maria João Rodrigues, Peter van Dalen, Marian Harkin, João Ferreira, Alyn Smith, David Coburn, on the remarks by the preceding speaker, Patrick O'Flynn, Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, Janusz Lewandowski, Josef Weidenholzer, James Nicholson, Franck Proust, Elena Valenciano, Esteban González Pons, Mercedes Bresso, Seán Kelly, Jens Geier, Paulo Rangel, Seb Dance, György Schöpflin, Tonino Picula, Michaela Šojdrová, Pervenche Berès, Esther de Lange, Pier Antonio Panzeri, Gunnar Hökmark, Petra Kammerevert, Viviane Reding, Silvia Costa and Tanja Fajon.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Mairead McGuinness, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Notis Marias, Pavel Telička, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Georgios Epitideios, Milan Zver, Jean-Paul Denanot, Marek Jurek, Luke Ming Flanagan, Brian Hayes, Nicola Caputo, Maria Grapini and Costas Mavrides.

The following spoke: Michel Barnier and Matti Maasikas.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 123(2):

—   Tim Aker, on behalf of the EFDD Group, on the state of play of negotiations with the United Kingdom (2017/2964(RSP)) (B8-0676/2017);

—   Guy Verhofstadt, Coordinator and Chair of the ALDE Group, Manfred Weber, Chair of the PPE Group, Gianni Pittella, Chair of the S&D Group, Gabriele Zimmer, Chair of the GUE/NGL Group, Philippe Lamberts, Ska Keller, Chairs of the Verts/ALE Group, Danuta Maria Hübner, Chair of the AFET Committee, on the state of play of negotiations with the United Kingdom (2017/2964(RSP)) (B8-0677/2017).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 13.12.2017, item 13.1.

(The sitting was suspended for a short time, pending the start of the award ceremony for the Sakharov Prize)