6. Guidelines for Member States' employment policies * - (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the proposal for a Council decision on guidelines for the Employment Policies of the Member States [COM(2006)0032 - C6-0047/2006 - 2006/0010(CNS)] - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Rapporteur: Magda Kósáné Kovács (A6-0086/2006)

Report on the situation of the European economy: preparatory report on the broad economic policy guidelines for 2006 [2006/2047(INI)] - Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs. Rapporteur: José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil (A6-0077/2006)

The following spoke: Günter Verheugen (Vice-President of the Commission), Joaquín Almunia (Member of the Commission) and Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission).

IN THE CHAIR: Janusz ONYSZKIEWICZ
Vice-President

Magda Kósáné Kovács introduced the report.

José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil introduced the report.

The following spoke: Ana Mato Adrover, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Udo Bullmann, on behalf of the PSE Group, Margarita Starkevičiūtė, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Elisabeth Schroedter, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Ilda Figueiredo, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Eoin Ryan, on behalf of the UEN Group, Derek Roland Clark, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Jana Bobošíková, Non-attached Member, José Albino Silva Peneda, Jan Andersson, Wolf Klinz, Jiří Maštálka, Guntars Krasts, Johannes Blokland, Hans-Peter Martin, Othmar Karas, Pervenche Berès, Danutė Budreikaitė, Konrad Szymański, Georgios Karatzaferis, Sergej Kozlík, Ján Hudacký, Zita Gurmai, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Leopold Józef Rutowicz, Gunnar Hökmark, Dariusz Rosati, Andreas Schwab, Alejandro Cercas, Manuel António dos Santos and Günter Verheugen.

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 04.04.2006, Item 8.4 and Minutes of 04.04.2006, Item 8.9.