Verbatim report of proceedings

Thursday, 6 April 2006 - Strasbourg

6.9. Ukraine (vote)

– Before the vote on paragraph 8:

  Charles Tannock (PPE-DE). – There was an agreement on Tuesday night by all the political groups to change one word in paragraph 8 from ‘integration’ to ‘perspective’, which brings it into line with the ENP Report, for which I was the rapporteur, and with Mr Brok’s report on enlargement. Mysteriously, the sessional services, not realising perhaps the sensitivity of this, decided of their own volition to put the word ‘aspirations’ instead, without any consultation with the political groups. Can we amend the joint text to the agreed word ‘perspective’?

(Applause)

(The oral amendment was adopted)

– After the final vote:

  Bruno Gollnisch (NI). – (FR) Mr President, I will be very brief. We have just adopted resolutions on the elections in Belarus and Ukraine. I think that our Parliament should include on its agenda a resolution on the presidential election in France, because the last election in 2002 led to pressure on public opinion and to violent demonstrations.

(The President cut off the speaker)