14. Association Agreements / Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine (debate)

Verbatim reports

Statement by the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy: Association Agreements / Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine (2015/3032(RSP))

Johannes Hahn (Member of the Commission) made the statement on behalf of the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy.

The following spoke: Andrej Plenković, on behalf of the PPE Group, and Knut Fleckenstein, on behalf of the S&D Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Ildikó GÁLL-PELCZ
Vice-President

The following spoke: Barbara Spinelli, to put a blue-card question to Knut Fleckenstein, who replied, Anna Elżbieta Fotyga, on behalf of the ECR Group, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Tibor Szanyi and Tim Aker, Helmut Scholz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Maria Grapini, Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Bill Etheridge, Tiziana Beghin, on behalf of the EFDD Group, Laurenţiu Rebega, on behalf of the ENF Group, Michael Gahler, Victor Boştinaru, Sajjad Karim, Petras Auštrevičius, Jiří Maštálka, Igor Šoltes, Mike Hookem, Jean-Luc Schaffhauser, Jaromír Štětina, Richard Howitt, Monica Macovei, Javier Nart, Anja Hazekamp, Tatjana Ždanoka, Petr Mach, Olaf Stuger (the President criticised some of what he said), Sandra Kalniete, Tim Aker, to talk about the comments made by the President on what was said by Olaf Stuger (the President upheld her comments and called on Tim Aker to respect the dignity of the debates), David Martin, Ryszard Czarnecki, Marietje Schaake, Steeve Briois, Elmar Brok, Tonino Picula, Kosma Złotowski, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Daniel Caspary, Andrejs Mamikins, Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Cristian Dan Preda, Andi Cristea, Andrzej Grzyb, Joachim Schuster, Eduard Kukan, Kati Piri, Siegfried Mureşan, Clare Moody, Gunnar Hökmark, Pavel Svoboda and Adam Szejnfeld.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Andrea Bocskor, Doru-Claudian Frunzulică, Notis Marias, Ivan Jakovčić, Maria Lidia Senra Rodríguez, Bronis Ropė, Tim Aker and Georgios Epitideios.

The following spoke: Johannes Hahn.

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 123(2):

—   Rebecca Harms, Heidi Hautala, Tamás Meszerics, Ulrike Lunacek, Peter Eriksson and Igor Šoltes, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the implementation of the Association Agreements/DCFTAs with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine (2015/3032(RSP)) (B8-0068/2016);

—   Cristian Dan Preda, Elmar Brok, Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Andrej Plenković, Sandra Kalniete, Jerzy Buzek, David McAllister, Michael Gahler, Daniel Caspary, Iuliu Winkler, Andrzej Grzyb, Tunne Kelam, Jaromír Štětina, Alojz Peterle, Davor Ivo Stier, László Tőkés, Jarosław Wałęsa, Bogdan Andrzej Zdrojewski, Mariya Gabriel, Fernando Ruas, Siegfried Mureşan, Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz, Dariusz Rosati and Ramón Luis Valcárcel Siso, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the implementation of the Association Agreements / Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine (2015/3032(RSP)) (B8-0069/2016);

—   Petras Auštrevičius, Javier Nart, Marietje Schaake, Johannes Cornelis van Baalen, Dita Charanzová, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Louis Michel, Norica Nicolai, Urmas Paet, Jozo Radoš, Pavel Telička and Ivo Vajgl, on behalf of the ALDE Group, the implementation of the Association Agreements / Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine (2015/3032(RSP)) (B8-0077/2016);

—   Charles Tannock, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Anna Elżbieta Fotyga, Mark Demesmaeker, Ryszard Czarnecki, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Kosma Złotowski, Kazimierz Michał Ujazdowski, Raffaele Fitto, Zdzisław Krasnodębski, Angel Dzhambazki and Edward Czesak, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the Association Agreements / Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine (2015/3032(RSP)) (B8-0078/2016);

—   Knut Fleckenstein, Victor Boştinaru, Richard Howitt, David Martin, Nicola Caputo, Andi Cristea, Nicola Danti, Tanja Fajon, Doru-Claudian Frunzulică, Neena Gill, Iliana Iotova, Liisa Jaakonsaari, Afzal Khan, Arne Lietz, Andrejs Mamikins, Costas Mavrides, Marlene Mizzi, Sorin Moisă, Clare Moody, Victor Negrescu, Norbert Neuser, Pier Antonio Panzeri, Demetris Papadakis, Ioan Mircea Paşcu, Emilian Pavel, Tonino Picula, Kati Piri, Joachim Schuster, Tibor Szanyi and Boris Zala, on behalf of the S&D Group, on the Implementation of the Association Agreements / Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine (2015/3032(RSP)) (B8-0079/2016);

—   Helmut Scholz, Barbara Spinelli, Stelios Kouloglou, Kateřina Konečná and Jiří Maštálka, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine (2015/3032(RSP)) (B8-0080/2016).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 21.1.2016, item 8.3.