Günter Gloser (President-in-Office of the Council) and Vladimír Špidla (Member of the Commission) made the statements.
The following spoke: Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Jan Marinus Wiersma, on behalf of the PSE Group, István Szent-Iványi, on behalf of the ALDE Group, Guntars Krasts, on behalf of the UEN Group, Rebecca Harms, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Helmuth Markov, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the IND/DEM Group, Charles Tannock, Adrian Severin, Grażyna Staniszewska, Jerzy Buzek and Günter Gloser.