Speeches

Thank you, Mr Tertsch. You have not the floor any more. Mr Tertsch, calm down. Mind your blood pressure. Colleague, you have not the floor any more, please sit down. Intervention for Rules of Procedure is one minute, you made your point, but it should not go into a political statement. So you made your point, thank you.

The next item on the agenda is the debate on the report by Sandro Gozi, on behalf of the Committee on Regional Development, on amending the proposed mechanism to overcome legal and administrative obstacles in a cross-border context (2022/2194(INL)) (A9-0252/2023).

The next item on the agenda is the debate on the report by Nacho Sánchez Amor, on behalf of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, on the 2022 report on Turkey (2022/2205(INI)) (A9-0247/2023).

I have seen that you have shown the blue card, but from colleagues from whom I have to take the floor because they spoke too long I do not accept blue-cards.

The next meeting will take place tomorrow, Tuesday 12 September 2023, at 8.30 a.m. The agenda has been published and is available on the European Parliament's website.

The next meeting will take place from 11 to 14 September 2023. We still have almost exactly one year to go today – in one year and three days, the new European Parliament will meet when we come back from the summer break. We already notice that not only outside, but also inside the house, the temperatures rise somewhat, as far as the hotties and excitement are concerned. When we come back from the summer break, most of us will set out to campaign, and we will see the pre-election period. I wish everyone a good rest until then. In particular, I would like to thank the services, for which all this naturally applies as well. Commissioner, your staff, the whole Commission, if you have a good summer, come home well this weekend.

The minutes of this meeting will be submitted to Parliament for approval at the beginning of the next meeting. If there are no objections, I will forward the resolutions adopted at today's sitting to the persons and bodies referred to in those resolutions.

The next item on the agenda is the debate on the Commission statement on the 10th anniversary of the EU Guidelines on the promotion and protection of freedom of religion or belief (2023/2783(RSP)).

The minutes of yesterday's meeting and the texts adopted are available. I see no objections. The minutes of yesterday's meeting were thus approved.

The next item on the agenda is the debate on the Council and Commission statements on the need for action at EU level in search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean (2023/2787(RSP)).

Mr Wallace, I always try to make this as fair as possible. You also know that I always enjoy your speeches with great sympathy, even if I do not share your opinion, but you always speak freely, and you also stick to speaking time. But being there all the time isn't the argument for everything. We have five minutes of speaking time here, five speakers, I have taken the political groups into account on a reciprocal basis. I have taken into account someone from your group who came forward very early, who came forward first. We can prove that, and I can't change that now that I've decided so. All in all, I don't think you can complain over the years. The debate is closed. Written declarations (Article 171)

Thank you very much, Mr Verhofstadt! So that's completely correct. This can indeed also be criticized, but you can also transport this postage-free with the party mail.

Let me just say briefly that the President of the Council is at the summit and cannot share. He has no deputy, and he would have liked it to be done at another time. The political groups did not follow suit. I would expect that at least the representatives in the round of political groups who ultimately decided to do so would at least stick to the fact that these facts are not being called into question here now.