(The sitting was suspended at 19.05 and resumed at 21.00.)

IN THE CHAIR: Marek SIWIEC
Vice-President

12. The demographic future of Europe (debate)

Verbatim reports

Report on the demographic future of Europe [2007/2156(INI)] - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Rapporteur: Françoise Castex (A6-0024/2008)

Françoise Castex introduced the report.

The following spoke: Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission).

The following spoke: Bilyana Ilieva Raeva (draftsman of the opinion of the ECON Committee), Elisabeth Schroedter (draftsman of the opinion of the REGI Committee), Magda Kósáné Kovács (draftsman of the opinion of the LIBE Committee), Karin Resetarits (draftsman of the opinion of the FEMM Committee), Carlo Fatuzzo, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Jan Andersson, on behalf of the PSE Group, Elizabeth Lynne, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, on behalf of the UEN Group, Ilda Figueiredo, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Kathy Sinnott, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Thomas Mann, Alejandro Cercas, Siiri Oviir, Ewa Tomaszewska, Bernard Wojciechowski, José Albino Silva Peneda, Harald Ettl, Jean Marie Beaupuy, Wojciech Roszkowski, Csaba Őry, Rovana Plumb, Marian Harkin, Ryszard Czarnecki, Miroslav Mikolášik, Joel Hasse Ferreira, Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański, Anna Záborská, Edite Estrela, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Corina Creţu, Rumiana Jeleva and Gabriela Creţu.

IN THE CHAIR: Alejo VIDAL-QUADRAS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Péter Olajos, Vladimír Maňka, Roberta Alma Anastase and Justas Vincas Paleckis.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Mairead McGuinness, Marusya Ivanova Lyubcheva, Avril Doyle, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk and Gerard Batten.

The following spoke: Vladimír Špidla and Françoise Castex.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 21.02.2008, item 4.7.