4. Social package (First part) (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Social package (First part)

Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) and Xavier Bertrand (President-in-Office of the Council) 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, Jan Tadeusz Masiel, on behalf of the UEN Group, Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Gabriele Zimmer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Derek Roland Clark, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Carl Lang, Non-attached Member, and Thomas Mann.

IN THE CHAIR: Manuel António dos SANTOS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Harlem Désir, Bernard Lehideux, Ryszard Czarnecki, Elisabeth Schroedter, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Hanne Dahl, Andreas Mölzer, Philip Bushill-Matthews, Magda Kósáné Kovács, Gérard Deprez, Wojciech Roszkowski, Tatjana Ždanoka, Jacky Hénin, Nils Lundgren, Jana Bobošíková, Juan Andrés Naranjo Escobar, Stephen Hughes, Ona Juknevičienė, Ewa Tomaszewska, Ilda Figueiredo, Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Alejandro Cercas, Sophia in 't Veld, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Anja Weisgerber, Anne Van Lancker, Elizabeth Lynne, Georgios Toussas, Manfred Weber and Andrzej Jan Szejna.

IN THE CHAIR: Gérard ONESTA
Vice-President

The following spoke: Jean Marie Beaupuy, Peter Liese, Evangelia Tzampazi, Viktória Mohácsi, Iva Zanicchi, Jan Cremers, Evelyne Gebhardt, Gabriela Creţu, Donata Gottardi, Richard Falbr and Karin Jöns.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Monica Maria Iacob-Ridzi, Proinsias De Rossa, Mieczysław Edmund Janowski, Maria Petre, Jan Andersson and Richard Corbett.

The following spoke: Xavier Bertrand and Vladimír Špidla.

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: next part-session.

(The sitting was suspended at 11.40 pending voting time and resumed at 12.00.)