15. Order of business

Verbatim reports

The final draft agenda for the April and I 2017 sittings (PE 602.068/PDOJ) had been distributed and the following changes had been proposed (Rule 149a):

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In agreement with the political groups and in the wake of the refusal by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, President of the Eurogroup, to take part in the following day's (Tuesday's) debate on the state of play of the second review of the economic adjustment programme for Greece (item 88 of the final draft agenda), the President announced that the statement by the President of the Eurogroup would be replaced by statements by the Council and the Commission.

The following spoke: Manfred Weber, on behalf of the PPE Group, Gianni Pittella, on behalf of the S&D Group, Philippe Lamberts, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Gabriele Zimmer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Notis Marias, on behalf of the ECR Group, Marcel de Graaff, on behalf of the ENF Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Marco Valli, on behalf of the EFDD Group, Nikolaos Chountis, Alain Lamassoure, Reinhard Bütikofer and Pervenche Berès.

Since there was unanimity on this matter, the President announced that he would inform the President of the Eurogroup that Parliament regarded the latter's attitude as unacceptable.

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Monday

Request from Daniel Caspary and a sufficient number of Members to reach the lower limit for a debate on the Commission's replies to written questions to be added to the agenda as the second item, after the debate on the 'European Solidarity Corps' (item 77 of the final draft agenda).

Parliament approved the request.

Tuesday

Request from the ENF Group for a debate on the report by Richard Ashworth on 'Estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2018 – Section I – European Parliament', due to be adopted that day by the Committee on Budgets and included under voting time on Wednesday (item 69 of the final draft agenda), to be added to the agenda as the fifth item, after the joint discussion on the 'Multiannual financial framework revision' (items 65, 89 and 64 of the final draft agenda).

The following spoke: Marco Zanni, on behalf of the ENF Group, to make the request.

Parliament rejected the request by roll call vote (149 in favour, 160 against, 13 abstentions).

Wednesday

Joint request by the ALDE, S&D and PPE Groups for a debate on the situation in Venezuela to be added to the agenda.

The following spoke: João Pimenta Lopes, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, to oppose the request.

The following spoke: in favour of the request:

- Beatriz Becerra Basterrechea, on behalf of the ALDE Group, to ask for the debate to be added to the agenda as the sixth item in the afternoon.

- Cristian Dan Preda, on behalf of the PPE Group, to ask firstly for the debate to be added to the agenda as the fourth item in the afternoon and secondly for the debate to be wound up by the tabling of proposals for resolutions put to the vote during the April II mini-session, and

- Maria João Rodrigues, on behalf of the S&D Group, to ask for the debate to be added to the agenda as the fifth item in the afternoon, with no tabling of motions for resolutions.

Parliament approved the joint request. The item was therefore added to the agenda.

Parliament then voted on when the debate should take place.

- Parliament rejected the request by the ALDE Group.

- Parliament rejected the request by the S&D Group by EV (104 in favour, 147 against, 51 abstentions).

- Parliament approved the first request by the PPE Group. The debate was therefore added to the agenda as the fourth item in the afternoon.

Parliament approved the second request by the PPE Group by EV (187 in favour, 105 against, 25 abstentions). The debate would therefore be wound up by the tabling of motions for resolutions put to the vote during the April II mini-session.

The following spoke: Edouard Ferrand.

Thursday

No changes.

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The order of business was thus established.