7. Preparation of the European Council meeting of 17 and 18 March 2016 and outcome of the EU-Turkey summit (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Preparation of the European Council meeting of 17 and 18 March 2016 and outcome of the EU-Turkey summit (2016/2502(RSP))

Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert (President-in-Office of the Council) and Valdis Dombrovskis (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statements.

The following spoke: Manfred Weber, on behalf of the PPE Group, Gianni Pittella, on behalf of the S&D Group, Syed Kamall, on behalf of the ECR Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Bill Etheridge, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Maria Grapini, Gabriele Zimmer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Philippe Lamberts, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, David Borrelli, on behalf of the EFDD Group, who also replied to a blue-card question by Gerolf Annemans, Marine Le Pen, on behalf of the ENF Group, and Krisztina Morvai, non-attached Member.

IN THE CHAIR: Rainer WIELAND
Vice-President

The following spoke: Angelika Niebler, Enrique Guerrero Salom, Anna Elżbieta Fotyga, Sophia in 't Veld, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Josep-Maria Terricabras, Nigel Farage, Marcel de Graaff, Diane Dodds, Andrzej Grzyb, Tanja Fajon, Notis Marias, who also replied to a blue-card question by Tibor Szanyi, Pavel Telička, Takis Hadjigeorgiou, Ska Keller, Peter Lundgren, Harald Vilimsky, Eleftherios Synadinos, Victor Boştinaru, Angel Dzhambazki, Reinhard Bütikofer, the last three Members on statements by Eleftherios Synadinos (the President replied that what the Member said would be checked), Françoise Grossetête, who also replied to a blue-card question by Gilles Lebreton, Victor Boştinaru, who also replied to a blue-card question by David Coburn, Timothy Kirkhope, who also replied to a blue-card question by Liisa Jaakonsaari, Marielle de Sarnez, who also replied to a blue-card question by Lampros Fountoulis, and Miguel Urbán Crespo.

IN THE CHAIR: Antonio TAJANI
Vice-President

The following spoke: Ulrike Lunacek, Rolandas Paksas, who also replied to a blue-card question by Edouard Ferrand, Mario Borghezio, Konstantinos Papadakis, Pilar del Castillo Vera, Maria João Rodrigues, Peter van Dalen, who also replied to a blue-card question by Gianluca Buonanno, Maite Pagazaurtundúa Ruiz, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Bodil Valero, Gerolf Annemans, Elisabetta Gardini, who also replied to a blue-card question by Georgios Epitideios, Josef Weidenholzer, Nikolay Barekov, Gérard Deprez, Barbara Spinelli, Judith Sargentini, Herbert Reul, who also replied to three blue-card questions by Doru-Claudian Frunzulică, Maria Grapini and Luke Ming Flanagan, Knut Fleckenstein, Bernd Kölmel, Nedzhmi Ali, João Ferreira, Reinhard Bütikofer, Ildikó Gáll-Pelcz, who also replied to a blue-card question by István Ujhelyi, Kati Piri, Mirosław Piotrowski, Ivo Vajgl, Marina Albiol Guzmán, Luděk Niedermayer, Sylvie Guillaume, Ulrike Trebesius, Jean Arthuis, Paulo Rangel, Patrizia Toia, Jan Zahradil, Renate Sommer, Birgit Sippel, Dubravka Šuica, Demetris Papadakis, Manolis Kefalogiannis, Iratxe García Pérez, Seán Kelly, Pervenche Berès, Lefteris Christoforou, Péter Niedermüller, Tunne Kelam, Iliana Iotova, Janusz Lewandowski, István Ujhelyi, Elena Valenciano, Carlos Zorrinho, Alfred Sant, Tonino Picula, Neena Gill, Giorgos Grammatikakis, Soraya Post and Nikos Androulakis.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Michaela Šojdrová, Ana Gomes, Ruža Tomašić, Ivan Jakovčić, Maria Lidia Senra Rodríguez and Ernest Maragall.

The following spoke: Johannes Hahn (Member of the Commission) and Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert.

The debate closed.