Tytti Tuppurainen (President-in-Office of the Council) and Christos Stylianides (Member of the Commission) made the statements.
The following spoke: Peter Liese, on behalf of the PPE Group, Christel Schaldemose, on behalf of the S&D Group, Caroline Voaden, on behalf of the Renew Group, Karima Delli, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Sylvia Limmer, on behalf of the ID Group, Jorge Buxadé Villalba, on behalf of the ECR Group, Younous Omarjee, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, and Eleonora Evi, non-attached Member.
IN THE CHAIR: Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS Vice-President
The following spoke: Dolors Montserrat, César Luena, Izaskun Bilbao Barandica, Ernest Urtasun, Joëlle Mélin, Anna Zalewska, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Bartosz Arłukowicz, Rory Palmer, Claudia Gamon, Michèle Rivasi, Joanna Kopcińska, João Ferreira, Nathalie Colin-Oesterlé, Javi López, who also replied to a blue-card question by Pablo Arias Echeverría, Clotilde Armand, Gina Dowding, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Alexander Bernhuber, Monika Beňová, Karen Melchior, Michael Bloss, Stanislav Polčák, Francisco Guerreiro, Ljudmila Novak, Pär Holmgren, Adam Jarubas, Maria Spyraki, Radan Kanev, Lídia Pereira, Christophe Hansen, Gheorghe Falcă, Barbara Thaler, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska and Andrey Novakov.
The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Magdalena Adamowicz, Eric Andrieu, Judith Bunting, Angel Dzhambazki and Kostas Papadakis.
The following spoke: Christos Stylianides and Tytti Tuppurainen.