IN THE CHAIR: Rainer WIELAND
Vice-President

15. Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June – Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (debate)

Verbatim reports

Council and Commission statements: Preparation of the European Council meeting of 23-24 June 2022, including the meeting with Western Balkan leaders on 23 June (2022/2660(RSP))

Council and Commission statements: Candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (2022/2716(RSP))

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

The following spoke: Rasa Juknevičienė, on behalf of the PPE Group, Iratxe García Pérez, on behalf of the S&D Group, Stéphane Séjourné, on behalf of the Renew Group, Ska Keller, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Marco Zanni, on behalf of the ID Group, Raffaele Fitto, on behalf of the ECR Group, Manon Aubry, on behalf of The Left Group, Mario Furore, non-attached Member, Siegfried Mureşan and Simona Bonafè.

IN THE CHAIR: Othmar KARAS
Vice-President

The following spoke: Petras Auštrevičius, Viola von Cramon-Taubadel, Jaak Madison, Beata Szydło, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Kinga Gál, Antonio Tajani, Tonino Picula, Dragoş Tudorache, Tineke Strik, Harald Vilimsky, Anna Fotyga, Francesca Donato, François-Xavier Bellamy, Rovana Plumb, who also responded to a blue-card speech by Eugen Tomac, Ilhan Kyuchyuk, Reinhard Bütikofer, Bernhard Zimniok, Ladislav Ilčić, Vangelis Meimarakis, Gabriele Bischoff, Tom Vandendriessche, Paulo Rangel, Isabel Santos, who also responded to a blue-card speech by Paulo Rangel, Seán Kelly and Sven Mikser.

The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Andrius Kubilius, Maria Grapini, Miriam Lexmann, Juozas Olekas and Maria Spyraki.

The following spoke: Clément Beaune and Maroš Šefčovič (Vice-President of the Commission).

Motions for resolutions to wind up the debate tabled under Rule 132(2):

- Petras Auštrevičius, Dragoş Tudorache, Vlad Gheorghe, Bernard Guetta, Urmas Paet, Frédérique Ries, Michal Šimečka, Ramona Strugariu, Nathalie Loiseau and José Ramón Bauzá Díaz, on behalf of the Renew Group, on the EU candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (2022/2716(RSP)) (B9-0331/2022);

- Viola Von Cramon-Taubadel, Reinhard Bütikofer, Thomas Waitz, Bronis Ropė, Ernest Urtasun, Hannah Neumann, Anna Cavazzini, Francisco Guerreiro, Michael Bloss, Terry Reintke, Markéta Gregorová, Jakop G. Dalunde, Alice Kuhnke, Pär Holmgren, Sergey Lagodinsky, Katrin Langensiepen and Heidi Hautala, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, on the candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (2022/2716(RSP)) (B9-0332/2022);

- Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, on behalf of The Left Group, on the candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (2022/2716(RSP)) (B9-0333/2022);

- Manfred Weber, Michael Gahler, Andrzej Halicki, Miriam Lexmann, Rasa Juknevičienė, David McAllister, Željana Zovko, Siegfried Mureşan, Paulo Rangel, Andrius Kubilius, Jerzy Buzek, Traian Băsescu, Vladimír Bilčík, Vasile Blaga, Ioan-Rareş Bogdan, Daniel Buda, Cristian-Silviu Buşoi, Gheorghe Falcă, Tomasz Frankowski, Sunčana Glavak, Mircea-Gheorghe Hava, Sandra Kalniete, Arba Kokalari, Andrey Kovatchev, David Lega, Antonio López-Istúriz White, Elżbieta Katarzyna Łukacijewska, Aušra Maldeikienė, Lukas Mandl, Marian-Jean Marinescu, Gabriel Mato, Liudas Mažylis, Dan-Ştefan Motreanu, Gheorghe-Vlad Nistor, Janina Ochojska, Radosław Sikorski, Michaela Šojdrová, Eugen Tomac, Inese Vaidere, Loránt Vincze, Iuliu Winkler, Isabel Wiseler-Lima, Alexander Alexandrov Yordanov and Milan Zver, on behalf of the PPE Group, on the candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (2022/2716(RSP)) (B9-0334/2022);

- Pedro Marques and Tonino Picula, on behalf of the S&D Group, on the candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (2022/2716(RSP)) (B9-0335/2022);

- Raffaele Fitto, Ryszard Antoni Legutko, Anna Fotyga, Beata Kempa, Bogdan Rzońca, Elżbieta Rafalska, Jadwiga Wiśniewska, Ryszard Czarnecki, Patryk Jaki, Alexandr Vondra, Anna Zalewska, Beata Mazurek, Beata Szydło, Dominik Tarczyński, Elżbieta Kruk, Eugen Jurzyca, Grzegorz Tobiszowski, Joanna Kopcińska, Kosma Złotowski, Raffaele Stancanelli, Roberts Zīle, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Valdemar Tomaševski, Veronika Vrecionová, Witold Jan Waszczykowski, Zbigniew Kuźmiuk and Zdzisław Krasnodębski, on behalf of the ECR Group, on the candidate status of Ukraine, the Republic of Moldova and Georgia (2022/2716(RSP)) (B9-0336/2022).

The debate closed.

Vote: minutes of 23.6.2022, item 8.1.