3. Negotiations between the European Union and the United States with regard to visa exemptions (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Negotiations between the European Union and the United States with regard to visa exemptions

Dragutin Mate (President-in-Office of the Council) and Jacques Barrot (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Urszula Gacek, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Claudio Fava, on behalf of the PSE Group, Sophia in 't Veld, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Konrad Szymański, on behalf of the UEN Group, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Jana Bobošíková, Non-attached Member, Carlos Coelho, Martine Roure, Gérard Deprez, Guntars Krasts, Vladimír Remek, Philip Claeys, Simon Busuttil, Stavros Lambrinidis, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, Marek Aleksander Czarnecki, Ioannis Varvitsiotis, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Adina-Ioana Vălean, Józef Pinior and Libor Rouček.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Jan Zahradil, Genowefa Grabowska, Sarah Ludford, Monica Maria Iacob-Ridzi, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Ewa Tomaszewska, Monika Beňová and Titus Corlăţean.

The following spoke: Dragutin Mate and Jacques Barrot.

As the motions for a resolution tabled were not yet available, they would be announced in the House at a later time.

The debate closed.

Vote: May II part-session.