14. Progress report on the accession of Bulgaria and Romania (debate)

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Commission statement: Progress report on the accession of Bulgaria and Romania

José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission) and Olli Rehn (Member of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke: Hans-Gert Poettering, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the PSE Group, Graham Watson, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Daniel Marc Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jaromír Kohlíček, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Brian Crowley, on behalf of the UEN Group, Andreas Mölzer, Non-attached Member, Elmar Brok, Pierre Moscovici, Nicholson of Winterbourne, Joost Lagendijk and Erik Meijer.

IN THE CHAIR: Gérard ONESTA
Vice-President

The following spoke: Nils Lundgren, Konrad Szymański, Ryszard Czarnecki, Geoffrey Van Orden, Jan Marinus Wiersma, Alexander Lambsdorff, Milan Horáček, Vladimír Remek, Nigel Farage, Hans-Peter Martin, Francisco José Millán Mon, Alexandra Dobolyi, Cecilia Malmström, Elly de Groen-Kouwenhoven, Jean-Claude Martinez, Guido Podestà, Hannes Swoboda, Bronisław Geremek, Hartmut Nassauer, Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Sophia in 't Veld, Kinga Gál and Helmut Kuhne.

IN THE CHAIR: Manuel António dos SANTOS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Viktória Mohácsi, Camiel Eurlings, Miguel Angel Martínez Martínez, Charles Tannock, Catherine Guy-Quint, David Casa, Józef Pinior, Zbigniew Zaleski, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Fernand Le Rachinel, Anna Ibrisagic, Arlene McCarthy, Olli Rehn, Árpád Duka-Zólyomi, Mia De Vits, Georgios Papastamkos, Panagiotis Beglitis, Ari Vatanen, Pia Elda Locatelli, Jacek Protasiewicz, Mairead McGuinness and Panayiotis Demetriou.

The debate closed.