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Tuesday 4 May 2004 IN THE CHAIR: Renzo IMBENI Vice-President

11. Approval of Minutes of previous sitting

The Minutes of the previous sitting were approved.

12. One-minute speeches on matters of political importance

Pursuant to Rule 121a, the following Members who wished to draw the attention of Parliament to matters of political importance spoke for one minute:

Marie-Françoise Duthu, Monica Frassoni, Marios Matsakis, who spoke on the previous speaker's remarks.

13. General debate — The future of the enlarged Union (continuation of debate)

Poul Nielson (Member of the Commission) and Dick Roche (President-in-Office of the Council) made the statements on Enlarged Europe and its neighbours.

The following spoke: James E.M. Elles, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Gary Titley, on behalf of the PSE Group, Cecilia Malmström, on behalf of the ELDR Group, Eleni Mavrou, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Monica Frassoni, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Bastiaan Belder, on behalf of the EDD Group, Philip Claeys, Non-attached Member, Eiki Berg, Andrzej Karol Gawłowski, Marios Matsakis, , Juris Sokolovskis, Witold Tomczak who, on concluding his speech, carried two Christian crosses to the Presi- dential bench, and .

IN THE CHAIR: Charlotte CEDERSCHIÖLD Vice-President

The following spoke: Pervenche Berès, who protested at Witold Tomczak's gesture, Pasqualina Napoletano, Andrew Nicholas Duff, Arlette Laguiller, Joost Lagendijk, Wacław Klukowski, Per Stenmarck, Libor Rouček, Toomas Savi, Nikolaos Chountis, Antoni Macierewicz, Nelly Maes, József Ékes, Margrietus J. van den Berg, Inger Schörling, Arie M. Oostlander, George Varnava, , Lefteris Christoforou, Jacques F. Poos, Philippe Morillon, Birutė Vėsaitė, Aleksandrs Kiršteins, Ioannis Souladakis, Vilém Holėň and Toomas Hendrik Ilves.

IN THE CHAIR: Catherine LALUMIÈRE Vice-President

The following spoke: Ursula Stenzel, Mario de Marco and Poul Nielson.

Stavros Dimas (Member of the Commission) made the statement on the European economic and social model.

The following spoke: Françoise Grossetête, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Robert Goebbels, PSE Group, Anne Elisabet Jensen, on behalf of the ELDR Group, Sylviane H. Ainardi, on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group, Reinhold Messner, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Guntars Krasts, UEN Group, Johannes (Hans) Blok- land, on behalf of the EDD Group, Andrzej Zbigniew Lepper, Non-attached Member, and Mart Laar.

IN THE CHAIR: Vice-President

The following spoke: Grażyna Jolanta Ciemniak, Jacqueline Rousseaux, Camilo Nogueira Román, Adam Jerzy Bielan, Sergej Kozlík, Marianne L.P. Thyssen, Giorgos Katiforis, Janno Reiljan, Janez Podobnik, Zoltán Szabó, Marcin Libicki, Csaba Őry, Pervenche Berès, Czesław Adam Siekierski, Richard Falbr, Franco Marini, Riitta Myller, Josef Bonnici, George William Vella, Jenő Manninger, Jan Andersson and Inese Šlesere. C 85 E/20 Official Journal of the European Union EN 7.4.2005

Tuesday 4 May 2004 IN THE CHAIR: Alonso José PUERTA Vice-President

The following spoke: Róbert Fico, Sérgio Ribeiro, Georg Jarzembowski, Eugeniusz Kłopotek, Daniel Kroupa, Astrid Lulling and Stavros Dimas. António Vitorino (Member of the Commission) made the statement on freedom and security for Union citizens.

The following spoke: Jorge Salvador Hernández Mollar, on behalf of the PPE-DE Group, Robert J.E. Evans, on behalf of the PSE Group, István Szent-Iványi, on behalf of the ELDR Group, Enric Morera Català, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Jan Zahradil, Ágnes Vadai, Sarah Ludford, Patricia McKenna, Ian R.K. Paisley, Christian Ulrik von Boetticher, Anna Karamanou, Astrid Thors, Liene Liepiņa, Boriss Cilevičs, Bill Newton Dunn, Edmund Kazimierz Wittbrodt, Giacomo Santini, Carlos Coelho, Jacek Protasiewicz, Mihael Brejc and António Vitorino.

The debate closed.

14. Agenda for next sitting The President referred Members to the document ‘Agenda’ PE 344.780/OJME.

15. Closure of sitting The sitting closed at 20.30.

Julian Priestley Pat Cox Secretary-General President