4. State of the Union (debate)

Verbatim reports

Statement by the President of the Commission: State of the Union

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, who – after the President had announced that the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany had rejected the appeal against the European Stability Mechanism – also answered a blue-card question from Philippe Lamberts, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by William (The Earl of) Dartmouth, who then responded to Daniel Cohn-Bendit's reply, Martin Callanan, on behalf of the ECR Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Marina Yannakoudakis, Nigel Farage, on behalf of the EFD Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Jörg Leichtfried, and Gabriele Zimmer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Gianni PITTELLA
Vice-President

The following spoke: Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member.

The following spoke: Andreas Mavroyiannis (President-in-Office of the Council).

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Mario Mauro, Zita Gurmai, Marianne Thyssen, Graham Watson, John Bufton, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Danuta Maria Hübner, Ana Gomes, Francesco Enrico Speroni, Anni Podimata, Andrew Duff, Rui Tavares, Jean-Pierre Audy, Nikolaos Salavrakos, Marisa Matias, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Herbert Reul, Catherine Trautmann, Daniel Hannan, Philippe Lamberts, Othmar Karas and Krisztina Morvai.

IN THE CHAIR: Martin SCHULZ
President

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Glenis Willmott, Andrey Kovatchev, Angelika Werthmann, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Seán Kelly, Csaba Sándor Tabajdi, Ana Miranda, Diogo Feio, Jörg Leichtfried, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, Silvia-Adriana Ţicău, Kristiina Ojuland, Sergio Gaetano Cofferati, Tunne Kelam and Edite Estrela.

The following spoke: José Manuel Barroso.

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, Daniel Cohn-Bendit, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Martin Callanan, on behalf of the ECR Group, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Gay Mitchell and Jacek Protasiewicz, Nigel Farage, on behalf of the EFD Group, Gabriele Zimmer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Elmar Brok, to put a blue-card question to Nigel Farage, who answered, Hans-Peter Martin, Non-attached Member, and Nigel Farage to make reminder of the Rules, to which the President replied.

The following spoke: José Manuel Barroso.

The debate closed.