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Proceeding contribution from Michael Connarty (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 9 December 2008. It occurred during Debate on European Affairs.

European Affairs

I am sorry, I do not have time to take interventions. I do apologise, but that is what happens when debates are arranged in the way that this one has been. It is important that people realise that the European Union is the platform and the context in which we must deal with these matters. There is no other way out of it. [Interruption.] I see the Opposition Whip chortling and laughing. I do think that it is quite wrong, if we thought we had an arrangement, to find that we do not have one. To say that I, as a Chairman of a Select Committee, should wait until the end beggars belief.

Secondary information

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
485 c497 
Session
2008-09
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Subjects
Armed conflict Banks Coal Climate change Competition Development aid Cyprus Carbon capture and storage Africa EU countries Finance Human rights Energy EU enlargement European Union Industry EU internal trade International cooperation Fiscal policy Government assistance Economic situation Germany EU external trade Economic and monetary union EU economic policy EU emissions trading scheme National security Motor vehicles Public expenditure Peacekeeping operations Politics and government Piracy Poland Overseas trade Standards Terrorism Rule of law Balkans Russia Israel Turkey Kosovo Common agricultural policy Foreign investment in UK Zimbabwe Middle East Bosnia and Herzegovina EU external relations EU aid EU defence policy Georgia Somalia Treaty of Lisbon Kurds South Ossetia Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
Link
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