6. European Parliament's position on the Conference on the Future of Europe (debate)

Verbatim reports

European Parliament's position on the Conference on the Future of Europe (2019/2990(RSP))

Nikolina Brnjac (President-in-Office of the Council) and Dubravka Šuica (Vice-President of the Commission) made statements.

The President made a short speech to introduce the debate.

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, Daniel Freund, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Marco Zanni, on behalf of the ID Group, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, on behalf of the ECR Group, Manon Aubry, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Fabio Massimo Castaldo, non-attached Member, and Paulo Rangel.

IN THE CHAIR: Mairead McGUINNESS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Gabriele Bischoff, Guy Verhofstadt, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Robert Rowland and Niklas Nienaß, Christian Allard, Gunnar Beck, Zdzisław Krasnodębski, Helmut Scholz, Kostas Papadakis, Esteban González Pons, who also replied to a blue-card question by Patrick Breyer, Domènec Ruiz Devesa, who also replied to two blue-card questions by Bogdan Rzońca and Lara Wolters, Pascal Durand, who also replied to a blue-card question by Fabio Massimo Castaldo, Gwendoline Delbos-Corfield, Gerolf Annemans, Geert Bourgeois, João Ferreira, Carles Puigdemont i Casamajó, who also replied to a blue-card question by Dolors Montserrat, Antonio Tajani, Pedro Silva Pereira, Svenja Hahn, Damian Boeselager, who also replied to a blue-card question by Katalin Cseh, Harald Vilimsky, who also replied to a blue-card question by Claudia Gamon, Jorge Buxadé Villalba, who also replied to a blue-card question by Sven Simon, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Ivan Vilibor Sinčić, Danuta Maria Hübner, who also declined to take a blue-card question, Maria Grapini, Charles Goerens, Patrick Breyer, Jordan Bardella, who also replied to a blue-card question by Ben Habib, Roberts Zīle, Nikolaj Villumsen, Richard Tice, Othmar Karas, Giuliano Pisapia, Dita Charanzová, who also replied to a blue-card question by Damian Boeselager, Scott Ainslie, Niklas Nienaß on the conduct of the debate (the President gave explanations), Laura Huhtasaari, Derk Jan Eppink, Claire Fox, Vladimír Bilčík, Simona Bonafè, Claudia Gamon, Niklas Nienaß, Mara Bizzotto, June Alison Mummery, Elissavet Vozemberg-Vrionidi, Katarina Barley, Caroline Voaden, Anna Deparnay-Grunenberg, Ann Widdecombe, Angelika Niebler, Klára Dobrev, Cristian Ghinea, Tomas Tobé, Javier Moreno Sánchez, Maite Pagazaurtundúa, Sven Simon, Brando Benifei, Gilles Boyer, Karlo Ressler, Heléne Fritzon, László Trócsányi, Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz, Eva Maydell, Raphaël Glucksmann, Daniel Buda, Miapetra Kumpula-Natri and Geoffroy Didier.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Radan Kanev, Juan Fernando López Aguilar, Valter Flego, Joachim Stanisław Brudziński and Marc Botenga.

The following spoke: Dubravka Šuica and Nikolina Brnjac.

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

—   Dacian Cioloş, Guy Verhofstadt and Pascal Durand, on behalf of the Renew Group, Manfred Weber, Paulo Rangel, Antonio Tajani and Danuta Maria Hübner, on behalf of the PPE Group, Iratxe García Pérez, Gabriele Bischoff and Domènec Ruiz Devesa, on behalf of the S&D Group, Ska Keller, Philippe Lamberts and Daniel Freund, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Martin Schirdewan and Helmut Scholz, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, on the European Parliament’s position on the Conference on the Future of Europe (2019/2990(RSP)) (B9-0036/2020);

—   Gunnar Beck, Marco Zanni, Nicolas Bay, Gerolf Annemans, Peter Kofod and Gilles Lebreton, on behalf of the ID Group, on the European Parliament’s position on the Conference on the Future of Europe (2019/2990(RSP)) (B9-0037/2020);

—   Zdzisław Krasnodębski, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the Conference on the Future of Europe (2019/2990(RSP)) (B9-0038/2020).

The debate closed.

Vote: Minutes of 15.1.2020, Item 10.10.

(The sitting was suspended at 11.58.)