25. European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion ***I (continuation of debate)

Verbatim reports

Report: on the proposal for a decision of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion (2010) [COM(2007)0797 - C6-0469/2007 - 2007/0278(COD)] - Committee on Employment and Social Affairs. Rapporteur: Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou (A6-0173/2008)

The following spoke: Thomas Mann, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Richard Falbr, on behalf of the PSE Group, Sepp Kusstatscher, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, on behalf of the UEN Group, Gabriele Zimmer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Kathy Sinnott, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, José Albino Silva Peneda, Jan Andersson, Ewa Tomaszewska, Edit Bauer, Alejandro Cercas, Ryszard Czarnecki, Joel Hasse Ferreira, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Gabriela Creţu and Zdzisław Zbigniew Podkański.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Zbigniew Zaleski, Monica Maria Iacob-Ridzi, Anna Záborská, Vladimír Maňka, Danutė Budreikaitė, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Ilda Figueiredo and Juan Andrés Naranjo Escobar.

The following spoke: Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) and Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou (rapporteur).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 17.06.2008, item 7.24.