Verbatim report of proceedings

Thursday, 18 July 2019 - Strasbourg

7.2. Situation at the USA-Mexican border (RC-B9-0014/2019, B9-0014/2019, B9-0024/2019, B9-0026/2019, B9-0027/2019, B9-0028/2019, B9-0029/2019, B9-0030/2019)

– Before the vote on paragraph 19:

  Martin Horwood (Renew). – Madam President, on a point of order: we have some 500 new Members of the European Parliament for whom this is a new procedure and you are going much too fast. It’s almost too fast to press the buttons so we just need to pace it a little.

(Applause)

  President. – Mr Horwood is absolutely correct. I have been known to be quite fast on the button here, so you are absolutely right to stop me in my tracks. Out of respect for the new Members, I will now go at a more reasonable pace, and apologies if I caused any distress.