Council and Commission statements: Recent human smuggling incidents in the Mediterranean (2015/2507(RSP))
Zanda Kalniņa-Lukaševica (President-in-Office of the Council) and Dimitris Avramopoulos (Member of the Commission) made the statements.
The following spoke: Monika Hohlmeier, on behalf of the PPE Group, Gianni Pittella, on behalf of the S&D Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Steven Woolfe, Timothy Kirkhope, on behalf of the ECR Group, Cecilia Wikström, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Cornelia Ernst, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Ska Keller, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Gerard Batten, on behalf of the EFDD Group, Georgios Epitideios, Non-attached Member, Roberta Metsola, Birgit Sippel, Jussi Halla-aho, Nathalie Griesbeck, Barbara Spinelli, Bodil Ceballos, Laura Ferrara, Gilles Lebreton, Barbara Kudrycka, Sylvie Guillaume, Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Georg Mayer, Carlos Coelho, Tanja Fajon, Marina Albiol Guzmán, Olaf Stuger, Anna Maria Corazza Bildt, Iliana Iotova, Bruno Gollnisch, Soraya Post, Marie-Christine Arnautu, Agustín Díaz de Mera García Consuegra, Kashetu Kyenge, Peter Jahr, Lorenzo Fontana, Salvatore Domenico Pogliese, Elena Valenciano, Constance Le Grip and Marijana Petir.
The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Therese Comodini Cachia, Bruno Gollnisch and Diane James, both on the catch-the-eye procedure (the President explained the rules), Ruža Tomašić, Ivan Jakovčić, Ignazio Corrao, Franz Obermayr and, on the speaking time, Tomáš Zdechovský.