5. Preparations for the European Council meeting (16-17 December 2010) - Establishing a permanent crisis mechanism to safeguard the financial stability of the euro area (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Preparations for the European Council meeting (16-17 December 2010)

Oral question (O-199/2010) by Sharon Bowles, on behalf of the ECON Committee, to the Commission: Establishing a permanent crisis mechanism to safeguard the financial stability of the euro area (B7-0659/2010).

Olivier Chastel (President-in-Office of the Council) and José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE Group, Martin Schulz, on behalf of the S&D Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Timothy Kirkhope, on behalf of the ECR Group, Lothar Bisky, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Nigel Farage, on behalf of the EFD Group.

Sharon Bowles moved the oral question.

Olli Rehn (Member of the Commission) answered the oral question.

The following spoke: Werner Langen.

IN THE CHAIR: Libor ROUČEK
Vice-President

The following spoke: Martin Schulz and Victor Boştinaru, to ask Werner Langen blue card questions, which he answered.

The following spoke: Stephen Hughes, Sylvie Goulard, Philippe Lamberts, Martin Callanan, Nikolaos Chountis, Timo Soini, Hans-Peter Martin, Corien Wortmann-Kool, Udo Bullmann, Carl Haglund, Derk Jan Eppink, Mario Borghezio, Alfredo Pallone, Elisa Ferreira and Wolf Klinz.

IN THE CHAIR: Dagmar ROTH-BEHRENDT
Vice-President

The following spoke: Vicky Ford, Alain Lamassoure, Zoran Thaler, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, Catherine Trautmann, Paulo Rangel, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Othmar Karas, Anni Podimata, Gunnar Hökmark, who also answered five blue card questions asked by Martin Schulz, Liisa Jaakonsaari, Philippe Lamberts, Werner Langen and Anni Podimata respectively.

The following spoke: Ioannis Kasoulides, Gay Mitchell, Tunne Kelam and Jean-Paul Gauzès.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Seán Kelly, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Proinsias De Rossa, Ilda Figueiredo, Jaroslav Paška, Andrew Henry William Brons, Czesław Adam Siekierski, George Sabin Cutaş, Diogo Feio, Zigmantas Balčytis, João Ferreira, Angelika Werthmann, Jean-Pierre Audy, Edite Estrela and Bogusław Liberadzki.

The following spoke: Olli Rehn, Hannes Swoboda and Proinsias De Rossa, the latter two on the conduct of the debate, and Olivier Chastel.

IN THE CHAIR: Diana WALLIS
Vice-President

Motion for resolution tabled in accordance with Rule 115(5) to wind up the debate.

- Sharon Bowles, on behalf of the ECON Committee, on establishing a permanent crisis mechanism to safeguard the financial stability of the euro area (B7-0733/2010).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 16.12.2010, item 6.6.