Verbatim report of proceedings

Wednesday, 20 February 2008 - Strasbourg

4.4. (A6-0029/2008, Margarita Starkevičiūtė) Broad Economic Policy Guidelines for 2008-2010 (vote)

– Before the vote on Amendment 39

  Margarita Starkevičiūtė, rapporteur. − Mr President, we now have a text which says: ‘Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and the Commission’, and I would like to add the words ‘and the governments and parliaments of the Member States’.

(The oral amendment was accepted.)

– Before the vote on Amendment 6

  Margarita Starkevičiūtė, rapporteur. − Mr President, I would just like to clarify the issue. If those amendments are rejected, then we need to delete points 2 and 3 in guideline 7, which I repeated in guideline 15. This also applies to the PSE Group Amendment 13, and I would like to ask the groups to vote as I said, in order to avoid duplication of the text.

– After the vote on the motion for a resolution

  Pervenche Berès (PSE). – (FR) Mr President, we have just amended the economic policy guidelines by a very large majority.

Mr Almunia is not here, but I ask Mrs Wallström to give very strong support to the new proposals the European Parliament is making to improve the economic situation of all our citizens.

(Applause)