Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statement.
The following spoke: Burkhard Balz, on behalf of the PPE Group, and Maria João Rodrigues, on behalf of the S&D Group.
IN THE CHAIR: Ramón Luis VALCÁRCEL SISO Vice-President
The following spoke: Stanisław Ożóg, on behalf of the ECR Group, Nils Torvalds, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Fabio De Masi, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Philippe Lamberts, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Marco Valli, on behalf of the EFDD Group, Barbara Kappel, on behalf of the ENF Group, Zoltán Balczó, non-attached Member, Paulo Rangel, who also replied to a blue-card question by Marisa Matias, Roberto Gualtieri, Anthea McIntyre, Cora van Nieuwenhuizen, Marisa Matias, Ernest Maragall, Patrick O'Flynn, Lorenzo Fontana, Konstantinos Papadakis, Markus Ferber, who also replied to a blue-card question by Bernd Lucke, Elisa Ferreira, who also replied to a blue-card question by Sofia Ribeiro, Bernd Lucke, Antanas Guoga, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, David Coburn, Gilles Lebreton, Eleftherios Synadinos, Pablo Zalba Bidegain, who also replied to a blue-card question by Paul Rübig, Pervenche Berès, Richard Sulík and Miguel Viegas.
IN THE CHAIR: David-Maria SASSOLI Vice-President
The following spoke: Dariusz Rosati, who also replied to a blue-card question by Doru-Claudian Frunzulică, Alfred Sant, Notis Marias, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Joachim Schuster, Matt Carthy, Esther de Lange, Anneliese Dodds, Gunnar Hökmark, Costas Mavrides, Ivana Maletić, Tibor Szanyi, Eva Paunova and Csaba Sógor.
The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Sofia Ribeiro, Ana Gomes, Danuta Jazłowiecka, Ruža Tomašić, Ivan Jakovčić, Neoklis Sylikiotis, Seán Kelly, Nicola Caputo, Paloma López Bermejo, Maria Spyraki, Doru-Claudian Frunzulică and Kostas Chrysogonos.