2. The European Interest: succeeding in the age of globalisation (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: The European Interest: succeeding in the age of globalisation

Manuel Lobo Antunes (President-in-Office of the Council) and José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the PSE Group, Graham Watson, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Mirosław Mariusz Piotrowski, on behalf of the UEN Group, Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jiří Maštálka, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Godfrey Bloom, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Dimitar Stoyanov, on behalf of the ITS Group, Jana Bobošíková, Non-attached Member, Timothy Kirkhope, Robert Goebbels, Margarita Starkevičiūtė, Seán Ó Neachtain, Pierre Jonckheer, Sahra Wagenknecht, Witold Tomczak, Jean-Claude Martinez, Jim Allister, Werner Langen, Anne Van Lancker, Bernard Lehideux, Wojciech Roszkowski and Jill Evans.

IN THE CHAIR: Rodi KRATSA-TSAGAROPOULOU
Vice-President

The following spoke: Ilda Figueiredo, Patrick Louis, Udo Bullmann, Marco Cappato, Ryszard Czarnecki, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Daniel Caspary, Edite Estrela, Sarah Ludford, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Georgios Toussas, Robert Sturdy, Pervenche Berès, Wolf Klinz, Ewa Tomaszewska, Piia-Noora Kauppi, Jan Andersson, Samuli Pohjamo, Corien Wortmann-Kool, Katerina Batzeli, Sharon Bowles, Cristobal Montoro Romero, Enrique Barón Crespo, Jerzy Buzek, Gary Titley, Alexander Radwan, Magda Kósáné Kovács, Georgios Papastamkos, Stephen Hughes, Philip Bushill-Matthews, Miroslav Mikolášik, Tokia Saïfi, Eija-Riitta Korhola, Panayiotis Demetriou, Marianne Thyssen, Zuzana Roithová, Hans-Peter Martin, Manuel Lobo Antunes and Günter Verheugen (Vice-President of the Commission).

Motions for a resolution to wind up the debate tabled pursuant to Rule 103(2):

- Anne Van Lancker and Jan Andersson, on behalf of the EMPL Committee, Margarita Starkevičiūtė and Pervenche Berès, on behalf of the ECON Committee, on the European interest: succeeding in the age of globalisation (B6-0433/2007)

- Cristiana Muscardini, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the European interest: succeeding in the age of globalisation (B6-0435/2007)

- Joseph Daul, Daniel Caspary, Marianne Thyssen, Malcolm Harbour, Giles Chichester, Cristobal Montoro Romero and Csaba Őry, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, on the European interest: succeeding in the age of globalisation (B6-0441/2007)

- Harlem Désir, Robert Goebbels, Pervenche Berès, Jan Andersson, Anne Van Lancker and Udo Bullmann, on behalf of the PSE, on the European interest: succeeding in the age of globalisation (B6-0442/2007)

- Elisabeth Schroedter, Heide Rühle and Alain Lipietz, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on The European Interest: succeeding in the age of globalisation (B6-0444/2007)

- Jiří Maštálka, Sahra Wagenknecht and Helmuth Markov, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the European Interest: succeeding in the age of globalisation (B6-0445/2007)

- Graham Watson, Margarita Starkevičiūtė, Lena Ek and Bernard Lehideux, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on The European Interest: succeeding in the age of globalisation (B6-0447/2007)

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 15.11.2007, Item 5.5.