3. Statement by the candidate Commission President (debate)

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Ursula von der Leyen (candidate Commission President) made the statement.

The following spoke Manfred Weber, on behalf of the PPE Group, Iratxe García Pérez, on behalf of the S&D Group, Dacian Cioloş, on behalf of the Renew Group, Philippe Lamberts, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jörg Meuthen, on behalf of the ID Group, Raffaele Fitto, on behalf of the ECR Group, Martin Schirdewan, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Nigel Farage, non-attached Member.

The following spoke: Ursula von der Leyen.

The following spoke Nico Semsrott on a point of order (The President cut off the speaker as what he was saying did not constitute a point of order), Daniel Caspary, Roberto Gualtieri, Stéphane Séjourné, Sven Giegold, Marco Zanni and Roberts Zīle.

IN THE CHAIR: Mairead McGUINNESS
Vice-President

The following spoke João Ferreira, Martin Sonneborn, Tamás Deutsch, Miriam Dalli, Caroline Voaden, Bas Eickhout, Nicolas Bay, Peter Lundgren, Marisa Matias, Tiziana Beghin, Esteban González Pons, Claude Moraes, Luis Garicano, Yannick Jadot, Jaak Madison, Derk Jan Eppink, Nikolaj Villumsen, Ivan Vilibor Sinčić, François-Xavier Bellamy, Kati Piri, Frédérique Ries, Heidi Hautala, Lars Patrick Berg, Assita Kanko, Manon Aubry, Lefteris Nikolaou-Alavanos, Antonio Tajani, Jens Geier, Katalin Cseh, Monika Vana, Nicolaus Fest, Hermann Tertsch, Márton Gyöngyösi, Paulo Rangel and Sylvie Guillaume.

IN THE CHAIR: David Maria SASSOLI
President

The following spoke Fredrick Federley, Molly Scott Cato, Christine Anderson, Geoffrey Van Orden, Mislav Kolakušić, Esther de Lange, Simona Bonafè, Dita Charanzová, Ernest Urtasun, Maximilian Krah, Ruža Tomašić, Dino Giarrusso, Tomas Tobé, Marina Kaljurand, Cristian Ghinea, Alyn Smith, Joachim Kuhs, Patryk Jaki, Dubravka Šuica, Javier Moreno Sánchez, Elsi Katainen, Marcel Kolaja, Gunnar Beck, Alexandr Vondra, Seán Kelly, Bogusław Liberadzki, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Andrius Kubilius, Dan Nica, Urmas Paet, Roberta Metsola, Pierre Larrouturou, Hilde Vautmans, Siegfried Mureşan, Carlos Zorrinho, Sophia in 't Veld, Karoline Edtstadler, Andreas Schieder, Charles Goerens, Eva Maydell, Christel Schaldemose, Claudia Gamon, Richard Corbett and Pedro Marques.

The following spoke: Ursula von der Leyen.

The debate closed.

(The sitting was suspended at 13.00.)