IN THE CHAIR: David Maria SASSOLI
President

22. Preparation of the European Council meeting of 19 June 2020 - Recommendations on the negotiations for a new partnership with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Preparation of the European Council meeting of 19 June 2020 (2020/2656(RSP))

Report on the European Parliament recommendation on the negotiations for a new partnership with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland [2020/2023(INI)] - Committee on Foreign Affairs - Committee on International Trade. Rapporteurs: Kati Piri and Christophe Hansen (A9-0117/2020)

Nikolina Brnjac (President-in-Office of the Council) and Ursula von der Leyen (President of the Commission) made the statements.

Kati Piri and Christophe Hansen introduced the report.

The following spoke: Nicolae Ştefănuță (rapporteur for the opinion of the BUDG Committee), Pedro Silva Pereira (rapporteur for the opinion of the ECON Committee), Kris Peeters (rapporteur for the opinion of the IMCO Committee), Johan Danielsson (rapporteur for the opinion of the TRAN Committee), Pascal Arimont (rapporteur for the opinion of the REGI Committee), François-Xavier Bellamy (rapporteur for the opinion of the PECH Committee), Loránt Vincze (rapporteur for the opinion of the LIBE Committee), Danuta Maria Hübner (rapporteur for the opinion of the AFCO Committee), Gheorghe Falcă (rapporteur for the opinion of the PETI Committee), David McAllister, on behalf of the PPE Group, Iratxe García Pérez, on behalf of the S&D Group, and Marco Zanni, on behalf of the ID Group.

IN THE CHAIR: Mairead McGUINNESS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Ska Keller, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Derk Jan Eppink, on behalf of the ECR Group, Martin Schirdewan, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Dacian Cioloş, on behalf of the Renew Group, Tiziana Beghin, non-attached Member, Dolors Montserrat, Simona Bonafè, Nathalie Loiseau, Laura Huhtasaari, Heidi Hautala, Zbigniew Kuźmiuk, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Dorien Rookmaker, Jeroen Lenaers, Bernd Lange, Jérôme Rivière, Sergey Lagodinsky, Carlo Fidanza, Helmut Scholz, Clara Ponsatí Obiols, Paulo Rangel, Javier Moreno Sánchez, Jessica Stegrud, Traian Băsescu, Margarida Marques, Tomas Tobé, Petar Vitanov, Radosław Sikorski, José Manuel García-Margallo y Marfil, Lefteris Christoforou, Jörgen Warborn, Peter van Dalen and Maria Spyraki.

The following spoke: Kati Piri, Christophe Hansen, Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission), Michel Barnier (Head of the Task-Force for Relations with the United Kingdom) and Nikolina Brnjac.

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 17.6.2020, item 27 (amendments - A9-0117/2020); minutes of 18.6.2020, item 8 (final vote - A9-0117/2020).

(The sitting was suspended at 18.40.)