14. Israeli government's decision to expand settlements in the West Bank (debate)

Verbatim reports

Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: Israeli government's decision to expand settlements in the West Bank

Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis (President-in-Office of the Council) made the statement on behalf of the Vice-President of the Commission and High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

The following spoke: Michael Gahler, on behalf of the PPE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Paul Murphy, Ana Gomes, on behalf of the S&D Group, Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Franziska Katharina Brantner, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Charles Tannock, on behalf of the ECR Group, Fiorello Provera, on behalf of the EFD Group, Patrick Le Hyaric, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Hans-Gert Pöttering, Emer Costello, who also replied to a blue-card question by Nicole Sinclaire, Margrete Auken, Geoffrey Van Orden, who also replied to a blue-card question by Margrete Auken, Martina Anderson, Marek Siwiec, María Muñiz De Urquiza, Pino Arlacchi and Sergio Gaetano Cofferati.

The following spoke under the 'catch-the-eye' procedure: Ana Miranda, Charalampos Angourakis, Ivo Vajgl, Vytautas Landsbergis, Paul Murphy, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, Niki Tzavela, Marek Henryk Migalski, Elmar Brok and Georgios Toussas on what Elmar Brok had said.

The following spoke: Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis.

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

- Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Hélène Flautre, Nicole Kiil-Nielsen, Margrete Auken, Malika Benarab-Attou, Raül Romeva i Rueda, Judith Sargentini, Ulrike Lunacek, Bart Staes, François Alfonsi, Keith Taylor, Jean-Jacob Bicep and Rui Tavares, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the Israeli Government’s decision to expand settlements in the West Bank (B7-0561/2012);

- Fiorello Provera, Lorenzo Fontana, Mara Bizzotto and Oreste Rossi, on behalf of the EFD Group, on the Israeli Government’s decision to expand settlement in the West Bank (B7-0565/2012);

- Annemie Neyts-Uyttebroeck, Ivo Vajgl, Niccolò Rinaldi, Graham Watson, Marielle de Sarnez, Louis Michel, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Marietje Schaake and Alexandra Thein, on behalf of the ALDE Group, on the Israeli Government’s decision to expand settlements in the West Bank (B7-0566/2012);

- Patrick Le Hyaric, Kyriacos Triantaphyllides, Willy Meyer, Martina Anderson, Nikolaos Chountis, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Paul Murphy, Marisa Matias, Alda Sousa, Inês Cristina Zuber and Younous Omarjee, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the Israeli Government’s decision to expand settlements in the West Bank (B7-0567/2012);

- Charles Tannock, Geoffrey Van Orden, Ryszard Czarnecki and Adam Bielan, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the Israeli Government’s decision to expand settlements in the West Bank (B7-0568/2012);

- José Ignacio Salafranca Sánchez-Neyra, Ioannis Kasoulides, Elmar Brok, Roberta Angelilli, Tokia Saïfi, Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou and Dominique Vlasto, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the Israeli Government’s decision to expand settlements in the West Bank (B7-0569/2012);

- Véronique De Keyser, Ana Gomes, Emer Costello, Pino Arlacchi, Richard Howitt and María Muñiz De Urquiza, on behalf of the S&D Group, on the Israeli Government’s decision to expand settlements in the West Bank (B7-0571/2012).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 13.12.2012, item 11.6.