2. The Rule of law in Malta, after the recent revelations around the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia (debate)

Verbatim reports

Commission statement: The Rule of Law in Malta, after the recent revelations around the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia (2019/2954(RSP))

Věra Jourová (Vice-President of the Commission) made the statement.

The following spoke Esteban González Pons, on behalf of the PPE Group, Birgit Sippel, on behalf of the S&D Group, Sophia in 't Veld, on behalf of the Renew Group, Sven Giegold, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Marco Dreosto, on behalf of the ID Group, Assita Kanko, on behalf of the ECR Group, Stelios Kouloglou, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, John David Edward Tennant, non-attached Member, Roberta Metsola, Miriam Dalli, who also replied to a blue-card question by Javier Zarzalejos, Michal Šimečka, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, Jérôme Rivière, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Marisa Matias, Ignazio Corrao, Antonio Tajani, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, who also replied to a blue-card question by Manfred Weber, Ramona Strugariu, Tineke Strik, Isabella Tovaglieri, Dace Melbārde, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Vladimír Bilčík, Alex Agius Saliba, who also replied to a blue-card question by Lefteris Christoforou, Anna Júlia Donáth, Alice Kuhnke, Jordan Bardella, Peter Lundgren, Anne-Sophie Pelletier, David Casa and Evin Incir.

IN THE CHAIR: Mairead McGUINNESS
Vice-President

The following spoke Fabienne Keller, Molly Scott Cato, Ruža Tomašić, Pernando Barrena Arza, who also replied to a blue-card question by Javier Zarzalejos, Andrzej Halicki, Tudor Ciuhodaru, Antony Hook, Daniel Freund, Jeroen Lenaers, Josianne Cutajar, Hilde Vautmans, Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi, Elena Yoncheva, Caroline Voaden, Karoline Edtstadler, Katarina Barley, Radka Maxová, Paulo Rangel, Alfred Sant, Moritz Körner, Angelika Niebler, Peter Pollák, Balázs Hidvéghi, who also replied to a blue-card question by Alex Agius Saliba, Ralf Seekatz and François-Xavier Bellamy.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Loucas Fourlas, Julie Ward, Michaela Šojdrová, Robert Hajšel and Maria Grapini.

The following spoke: Didier Reynders (Member of the Commission).

Motion for a resolution to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 132(2):

—   Roberta Metsola and Antonio Tajani, on behalf of the PPE Group, Claude Moraes, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Birgit Sippel, Katarina Barley and Sylwia Spurek on behalf of the S&D Group, Sophia in ’t Veld, Dragoş Tudorache, Ramona Strugariu, Michal Šimečka, Anna Júlia Donáth, Maite Pagazaurtundúa, Moritz Körner, Antony Hook, Fabienne Keller, Abir Al-Sahlani, Olivier Chastel and Karen Melchior on behalf of the Renew Group, Sven Giegold, Daniel Freund, Terry Reintke, Alice Kuhnke, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, Bronis Ropė, Henrike Hahn, Tineke Strik, Saskia Bricmont, Viola Von Cramon-Taubadel, Erik Marquardt and Diana Riba i Giner on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Assita Kanko, Nicola Procaccini, Zdzisław Krasnodębski, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Dace Melbārde and Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová on behalf of the ECR Group, Stelios Kouloglou, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Marisa Matias, José Gusmão, Manuel Bompard, Pernando Barrena Arza, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, Anne-Sophie Pelletier, Manon Aubry, Petros Kokkalis and Niyazi Kizilyürek on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Ignazio Corrao, Eleonora Evi, Piernicola Pedicini, Tiziana Beghin, Mario Furore, Fabio Massimo Castaldo, Dino Giarrusso, Rosa D’Amato and Sabrina Pignedoli, on the rule of law in Malta following the recent revelations surrounding the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia (2019/2954(RSP)) (B9-0240/2019).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 18.12.2019, Item 13.8.

The President paid tribute to the courage of Daphne Caruana Galizia's family.

(The sitting was suspended at 11.35.)