Council and Commission statements: Danish Presidency Programme
José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission) made the statement.
The following spoke: Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE Group, Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the S&D Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group.
IN THE CHAIR: Gianni PITTELLA Vice-President
The following spoke: Rebecca Harms, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Krisztina Morvai, Martin Callanan, on behalf of the ECR Group, Søren Bo Søndergaard, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Morten Messerschmidt, on behalf of the EFD Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Nicole Sinclaire, Barry Madlener, Non-attached Member, Bendt Bendtsen, Dan Jørgensen, who also replied to a blue-card question by William (The Earl of) Dartmouth, Jens Rohde, Emilie Turunen, Anna Rosbach, Paul Murphy, Niki Tzavela, Philip Claeys, Werner Langen, Claude Moraes who also replied to a blue-card question by Krisztina Morvai, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Claude Turmes and Mara Bizzotto.
IN THE CHAIR: Martin SCHULZ President
The following spoke: Nicole Sinclaire, Mario Mauro, Edite Estrela, Ewald Stadler, Jean-Pierre Audy, Cătălin Sorin Ivan, Pablo Zalba Bidegain, Liisa Jaakonsaari, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Zita Gurmai, Othmar Karas, Gunnar Hökmark and Krišjānis Kariņš.
The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Giuseppe Gargani, Ana Gomes, Sarah Ludford, Mirosław Piotrowski, Nikolaos Salavrakos, Margrete Auken, Sophie Auconie and Frédéric Daerden.
The following spoke: José Manuel Barroso and Helle Thorning-Schmidt (President-in-Office of the Council).