19. EU response to the migration flows in North Africa and the Southern Mediterranean, in particular in Lampedusa - Migration flows arising from instability: scope and role of EU foreign policy (debate)

Verbatim reports

Commission statement: EU response to the migration flows in North Africa and the Southern Mediterranean, in particular in Lampedusa

Report on migration flows arising from instability: scope and role of EU foreign policy [2010/2269(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs. Rapporteur: Fiorello Provera (A7-0075/2011)

Cecilia Malmström (Member of the Commission) made the statement.

Fiorello Provera introduced the report.

The following spoke: Corina Creţu (rapporteur for the opinion of the DEVE Committee), Franziska Keller (rapporteur for the opinion of the LIBE Committee), Mario Mauro, on behalf of the PPE Group, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, on behalf of the S&D Group, Cecilia Wikström, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Jean Lambert, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Rui Tavares, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Mara Bizzotto, on behalf of the EFD Group, Philip Claeys, Non-attached Member, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Ana Gomes, Sonia Alfano, Malika Benarab-Attou, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Mario Borghezio, Andreas Mölzer, Salvatore Iacolino, John Attard-Montalto, Sarah Ludford, Hélène Flautre, Willy Meyer, Gerard Batten, Daniël van der Stoep, who also replied to a blue-card question by Silvia Costa, Simon Busuttil, Claude Moraes, Cornelia Ernst, Constance Le Grip, David-Maria Sassoli, Carlos Coelho, Rosario Crocetta, Alfredo Pallone, Sylvie Guillaume, Cristian Dan Preda, Carlo Casini, Georgios Papanikolaou and Jacek Protasiewicz.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Giovanni La Via, Barbara Matera, Sergio Paolo Francesco Silvestris, Raffaele Baldassarre, Mario Pirillo, Ilda Figueiredo, Nikolaos Salavrakos, Corneliu Vadim Tudor, Marco Scurria, Elena Băsescu and Mairead McGuinness.

The following spoke: Cecilia Malmström, Mario Mauro, to put a question to the Commission, which Cecilia Malmström answered, and Fiorello Provera.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 5.4.2011, item 4.2.