4. Social package (Second part: Cross-border healthcare) (debate)

Verbatim reports

La première partie du débat a eu lieu le 2 septembre 2008 (minutes of 02.09.2008, item 4).

Council and Commission statements: Social package (Second part: Cross-border healthcare)

Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin (President-in-Office of the Council) and Androula Vassiliou (Member of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: John Bowis, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Dagmar Roth-Behrendt, on behalf of the PSE Group, Jules Maaten, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the UEN Group, Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Roberto Musacchio, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Derek Roland Clark, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Luca Romagnoli, Non-attached Member, Charlotte Cederschiöld, Bernadette Vergnaud, Elizabeth Lynne, Ewa Tomaszewska, Eva-Britt Svensson, Hanne Dahl, Irena Belohorská, Ria Oomen-Ruijten, Anne Van Lancker and Marian Harkin.

IN THE CHAIR: Gérard ONESTA
Vice-President

The following spoke: Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk, Jiří Maštálka, Kathy Sinnott, Gunnar Hökmark, Jan Andersson, Anneli Jäätteenmäki, Søren Bo Søndergaard, Alojz Peterle, Evelyne Gebhardt, Othmar Karas, Mia De Vits, Milan Gaľa, Pier Antonio Panzeri, Roberta Alma Anastase, Daciana Octavia Sârbu and Dariusz Rosati.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Zita Pleštinská, Arlene McCarthy, Marios Matsakis, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Christel Schaldemose, Colm Burke, Proinsias De Rossa, Petru Filip, Monica Maria Iacob-Ridzi, Elisabeth Morin and Panayiotis Demetriou.

The following spoke: Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin and Androula Vassiliou.

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

- Jan Tadeusz Masiel, Ewa Tomaszewska, Zbigniew Krzysztof Kuźmiuk and Ryszard Czarnecki, on behalf of the UEN Group, on the Social Package (B6-0378/2008)

- Francis Wurtz, Gabriele Zimmer, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Eva-Britt Svensson, Roberto Musacchio and Umberto Guidoni, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the Social Package (B6-0379/2008)

- Graham Watson, Bernard Lehideux, Gérard Deprez, Hannu Takkula, Jean Marie Beaupuy, Luigi Cocilovo, Marian Harkin, Sophia in 't Veld, Ona Juknevičienė, Elizabeth Lynne, Jules Maaten and Viktória Mohácsi, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the Social Package (B6-0427/2008)

- Jean Lambert, Elisabeth Schroedter, Sepp Kusstatscher, Kathalijne Maria Buitenweg and Bart Staes, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the Social Package (B6-0429/2008)

- Martin Schulz, Harlem Désir and Stephen Hughes, on behalf of the PSE Group, on the Social Package (B6-0433/2008)

- Francis Wurtz, Gabriele Zimmer, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Eva-Britt Svensson, Roberto Musacchio, Umberto Guidoni, Ilda Figueiredo and Mary Lou McDonald, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the Social Package (B6-0434/2008)

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 25.09.2008, item 7.9.

IN THE CHAIR: Hans-Gert PÖTTERING