6. Negotiations with the United Kingdom following its notification that it intends to withdraw from the European Union (debate)

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Negotiations with the United Kingdom following its notification that it intends to withdraw from the European Union (2017/2593(RSP))

The President made a brief introductory speech.

The following spoke: Manfred Weber, on behalf of the PPE Group, Gianni Pittella, on behalf of the S&D Group, Helga Stevens, on behalf of the ECR Group, Guy Verhofstadt, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Gabriele Zimmer, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Philippe Lamberts, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Nigel Farage, on behalf of the EFDD Group (the President called the speaker to order for comments deemed injurious to the dignity of Parliament), Marcel de Graaff, on behalf of the ENF Group, Steven Woolfe, non-attached Member.

The following spoke: Ian Borg (President-in-Office of the Council), Jean-Claude Juncker (President of the Commission) and Michel Barnier (chief negotiator).

The following spoke: Esteban González Pons, Roberto Gualtieri, Ashley Fox and Catherine Bearder.

IN THE CHAIR: Mairead McGUINNESS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Martina Anderson, Josep-Maria Terricabras, Paul Nuttall, Janice Atkinson, Diane Dodds, Elmar Brok, Ramón Jáuregui Atondo, Anders Primdahl Vistisen, Marian Harkin, Barbara Spinelli, Molly Scott Cato, Gerolf Annemans, Diane James, Danuta Maria Hübner, Sergei Stanishev, Angel Dzhambazki, Jill Evans, Nicolas Bay, Seán Kelly, Glenis Willmott, Zdzisław Krasnodębski, Alyn Smith, Herbert Reul, Jens Geier, James Nicholson, Janusz Lewandowski, Christine Revault d'Allonnes Bonnefoy, Franck Proust, Nicola Danti, Lorenzo Cesa, Birgit Sippel, Adina-Ioana Vălean, Josef Weidenholzer, György Schöpflin, Isabelle Thomas, Paulo Rangel, David Martin, Mariya Gabriel, David-Maria Sassoli, Luděk Niedermayer, Bogusław Liberadzki, Othmar Karas, Pedro Silva Pereira, Esther de Lange, Jeppe Kofod, Viviane Reding, Vladimír Maňka, David Casa and Victor Boştinaru.

IN THE CHAIR: Antonio TAJANI
President

The following spoke: Harald Vilimsky, Nigel Farage, Philippe Lamberts, Gabriele Zimmer, Guy Verhofstadt, Roberts Zīle, Gianni Pittella and Manfred Weber.

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

—   Guy Verhofstadt, Coordinator and Chair of the ALDE Group, Manfred Weber, Chair of the PPE Group, Gianni Pittella, Chair of the S&D Group, Philippe Lamberts and Ska Keller, Co-Chairs of the Verts/ALE Group, and Danuta Maria Hübner, Chair of the Committee on Constitutional Affairs, on negotiations with the United Kingdom following its notification that it intends to withdraw from the European Union (2017/2593(RSP)) (B8-0237/2017);

—   Gabriele Zimmer, Martina Anderson, Barbara Spinelli, Lynn Boylan, Matt Carthy, Liadh Ní Riada, Kateřina Konečná, Marina Albiol Guzmán, Paloma López Bermejo, Rina Ronja Kari, Patrick Le Hyaric, Martina Michels, Cornelia Ernst, Marie-Christine Vergiat, Marisa Matias, Eleonora Forenza, Maria Lidia Senra Rodríguez, Lola Sánchez Caldentey, Tania González Peñas, Estefanía Torres Martínez, Xabier Benito Ziluaga and Miguel Urbán Crespo, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on negotiations with the United Kingdom following its notification that it intends to withdraw from the European Union (2017/2593(RSP)) (B8-0241/2017);

—   Syed Kamall, on behalf of the ECR Group, on negotiations with the United Kingdom following its notification that it intends to withdraw from the European Union (2017/2593(RSP)) (B8-0242/2017)

—   David Coburn and Beatrix von Storch, on behalf of the EFDD Group, on negotiations with the United Kingdom following its notification that it intends to withdraw from the European Union (2017/2593(RSP)) (B8-0243/2017).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 5.4.2017, item 7.1.

The following spoke: Vicky Ford on comments made by some UK Members during the debate, and James Carver.