12. Conclusions of the informal European Council meeting of 30 January 2012 (debate)

Verbatim reports

European Council and Commission statements: Conclusions of the informal European Council meeting of 30 January 2012

Herman Van Rompuy (President of the European Council) and José Manuel Barroso (President of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Joseph Daul, on behalf of the PPE Group, Hannes Swoboda, on behalf of the S&D Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Rebecca Harms, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Martin Callanan, on behalf of the ECR Group, Lothar Bisky, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Nigel Farage, on behalf of the EFD Group, Andrew Henry William Brons, Non-attached Member, Reinhard Bütikofer to put a blue-card question to Nigel Farage, who replied to it, Elmar Brok, who also replied to a blue-card question by Barry Madlener, Stephen Hughes, Sharon Bowles, Derk Jan Eppink, Søren Bo Søndergaard, Niki Tzavela, Barry Madlener, Herbert Reul, who also replied to a blue-card question by Rebecca Harms, Catherine Trautmann, Mario Mauro, Roberto Gualtieri, Constance Le Grip, Udo Bullmann, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Elisa Ferreira, Marietta Giannakou and Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Petru Constantin Luhan, Anni Podimata, Gay Mitchell, Zita Gurmai, Marisa Matias, Jacek Protasiewicz and Juan Fernando López Aguilar.

The following spoke: Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission) and Herman Van Rompuy.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 110(2):

- Jürgen Klute, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Miguel Portas, Nikolaos Chountis, Willy Meyer, Paul Murphy and Marisa Matias, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the Conclusions of the European Council meeting (30 January 2012) on an international agreement on a Fiscal Stability Union (B7-0043/2012);

- Elmar Brok, on behalf of the PPE Group, Roberto Gualtieri, on behalf of the S&D Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, and Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the European Council of 30 January 2012 (B7-0044/2012).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 2.2.2012, item 12.7.