Pursuant to Rule 144, the following Members who wished to draw the attention of Parliament to matters of political importance spoke for one minute:
Vytautas Landsbergis, Maria Badia I Cutchet, Eugenijus Gentvilas, Milan Horáček, Bairbre de Brún, Georgios Karatzaferis, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Ryszard Czarnecki, Mairead McGuinness, Katerina Batzeli, Diana Wallis, Erik Meijer, Urszula Krupa, Carlos José Iturgaiz Angulo, Magda Kósáné Kovács, Martine Roure, Brian Crowley, Pedro Guerreiro, Thomas Wise, Alexander Stubb, Antolín Sánchez Presedo, Arūnas Degutis, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Karin Scheele, Hélène Flautre, James Nicholson, Jörg Leichtfried, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Ana Maria Gomes and Margrietus van den Berg.