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Ministerial statement on Monday, 25 June 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Tony Blair.

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Statement on the European Council held in Brussels on 21-22 June 2007.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
462 c21-40 
Session
2006-07
Department
Prime Minister
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Tony Blair | 462 c21-3 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr. Speaker, I shall make a statement about the outcome of the European Council in ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 462 c23-4 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the new leader and deputy leader of the Labour party. Both of them were elected—one h...
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Speaker | 462 c24 (Link to this contribution) Order. Mr. Bryant, you must be quiet.
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 462 c24-5 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is much better on the internet. Was not the author of the constitution himself, ...
Ian Taylor | 462 c36 (Link to this contribution) I happen to be old-fashioned and believe that matters such as this should enhance parliamentary demo...
Tony Blair | 462 c36 (Link to this contribution) With one exception, I agree entirely with what my hon. Friend says. In any event, it is important to...
Tony Wright | 462 c36 (Link to this contribution) It is difficult to take entirely seriously the demand for a referendum from people who made the dema...
Tony Blair | 462 c35-6 (Link to this contribution) First of all, Germany is a parliamentary democracy—I mean, come off it. I have not come across those...
Gwyn Prosser | 462 c35 (Link to this contribution) No group of people knows more about the effectiveness of the Government’s immigration and asylum mea...
Tony Blair | 462 c35 (Link to this contribution) The premise of the right hon. Gentleman’s question—that new powers are given to Europe as a result o...
Richard Shepherd | 462 c35 (Link to this contribution) Between 1994 and 1999, the German federal authorities noted that 84 per cent. of their laws were pas...
Tony Blair | 462 c35 (Link to this contribution) Exactly. It was a pick-and-choose method, which is absolutely the right thing to have on that. [Inte...
Tony Blair | 462 c35 (Link to this contribution) On the judicial and home affairs power, it is important to recognise that we previously negotiated a...
Tony Blair | 462 c34 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that there will be every possibility of discussing that in the joint ministerial committee...
Elfyn Llwyd | 462 c33-4 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister will know that much of the proposed reform treaty, and therefore the work before ...
Tony Blair | 462 c34 (Link to this contribution) I was in favour of the constitutional treaty, and said at the time that I did not believe that it in...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 462 c34 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether the Prime Minister can help me, as I am having trouble understanding something. Bac...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 462 c34 (Link to this contribution) (Wells) (Con): Under these proposals, the existing European community of member states is formally r...
Tony Blair | 462 c32-3 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it is essential that the Lisbon agenda is maintained. Although the new words from the constitut...
Tony Blair | 462 c33 (Link to this contribution) Of course, the reinforced co-operation provisions give countries a chance to decide whether to integ...
Malcolm Rifkind | 462 c33 (Link to this contribution) During his 10 years in office, and despite his undoubted instincts, the Prime Minister has been forc...
Tony Blair | 462 c33 (Link to this contribution) I entirely agree with my right hon. Friend. We still have some time in which to make sure that the W...
Lord McFall of Alcluith | 462 c33 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the legal position regarding free and undistorted competition m...
Keith Vaz | 462 c32 (Link to this contribution) May I join the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke) and others in congratulatin...
Tony Blair | 462 c32 (Link to this contribution) I know that the hon. Gentleman would never say anything so extreme, but we need a realistic debate. ...
Tony Blair | 462 c32 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is simply wrong about the common foreign and security policy. It remains intergov...
William Cash | 462 c31-2 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister knows that we have heard all this before. The last time, on the constitutional tr...
Tony Blair | 462 c31 (Link to this contribution) There will of course be ample opportunity, through the ratification process, to have a full debate o...
Austin Mitchell | 462 c31 (Link to this contribution) I wonder whether my right hon. Friend can help me. Surely we are talking not about a treaty but abou...
Tony Blair | 462 c31 (Link to this contribution) On the right hon. and learned Gentleman’s first point: yes, and we lost, too—so that rather makes my...
Tony Blair | 462 c30-1 (Link to this contribution) The provisions for the enlargement criteria are more about making it clear that the existing criteri...
Ann Clwyd | 462 c30 (Link to this contribution) On the subject of further enlargement, can my right hon. Friend tell us about the new tougher criter...
Marquess of Lothian | 462 c31 (Link to this contribution) Whenever the Prime Minister tries disingenuously to point out our positions in the past, I remind hi...
Tony Blair | 462 c30 (Link to this contribution) Obviously, I cannot agree with my right hon. Friend on that. We have never, on conventional amending...
Lord Field of Birkenhead | 462 c29-30 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister think that his successor will be able to maintain his line against a referen...
Tony Blair | 462 c30 (Link to this contribution) First, let me return that compliment to the right hon. Gentleman, with whom I always had a very cour...
Charles Kennedy | 462 c30 (Link to this contribution) In welcoming the good and, overall, constructive outcome to the summit, with a view to the future, a...
Tony Blair | 462 c29 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Incidentally, at the time that I concluded the St. Malo defence ...
Tony Blair | 462 c29 (Link to this contribution) Absolutely not. It is not merely the political declaration, which of course is binding on the IGC po...
John Stanley | 462 c29 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister recall that he gave a clear assurance in the House at the beginning of last ...
Tony Blair | 462 c40 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is shaking his head already. I was just about to explain what it does. It allows ...
Tony Blair | 462 c40 (Link to this contribution) No, I am afraid that I do not agree with that at all, and the reason why I think it is important tha...
Richard Younger-Ross | 462 c40 (Link to this contribution) Could the Prime Minister explain why, apart from the last seven days before the Council, Britain ent...
Tony Blair | 462 c39 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right, and it is one of the reasons why the deal that we have concluded...
Peter Tapsell | 462 c39 (Link to this contribution) Does the right hon. Gentleman deny that his opposition to a referendum on the treaty really stems fr...
Tony Blair | 462 c39 (Link to this contribution) I think I have explained already why I believe this to be completely different—because the constitut...
Chris Bryant | 462 c39 (Link to this contribution) Britain has been trying for many years to get a level playing field in energy policy, so that Britis...
Tony Blair | 462 c38-9 (Link to this contribution) The reason that I disagree with my hon. Friend is that it has changed fundamentally. First, it is no...
Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown | 462 c39 (Link to this contribution) If the Prime Minister is so sure that the treaty is good for the United Kingdom and has the support ...
Tony Blair | 462 c40 (Link to this contribution) What is he talking about? [Interruption.] We have been talking about this for two years.
Lord Lilley | 462 c37 (Link to this contribution) Is the Prime Minister not aware that the issue of the referendum is ultimately a question of integri...
Tony Blair | 462 c37-8 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I completely disagree with the right hon. Gentleman. It was interesting that he was...
Wayne David | 462 c38 (Link to this contribution) For some time, the debate about the future of Europe has been obsessed by rather esoteric institutio...
Tony Blair | 462 c38 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right. The agreement makes the changes that are necessary for the greater...
Tony Blair | 462 c36-7 (Link to this contribution) I hope that is correct. One of the reasons why we should get off the endless debate about institutio...
Andrew Miller | 462 c37 (Link to this contribution) In respect of organised crime, was there any particular discussion about people trafficking? Is it n...
Tony Blair | 462 c37 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is another area on which Europe should work more closely an...
David Curry | 462 c38 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister recall that when he reported on the G8 summit at the Dispatch Box just a few...
Tony Blair | 462 c38 (Link to this contribution) The words have changed, of course, because they were in the constitutional treaty. I am afraid that ...
Baroness Hoey | 462 c38 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister not understand that no matter what he or anyone else says, the vast majority...
Tony Blair | 462 c25-6 (Link to this contribution) Let me deal with each point in turn. First, I should point out that when the right hon. Gentleman qu...
Tony Blair | 462 c26 (Link to this contribution) The former Chancellor of the Exchequer, the right hon. and learned Member for Rushcliffe (Mr. Clarke...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 462 c26-7 (Link to this contribution) Are any of the issues contained in the mandate to the IGC capable of being reopened, or is the manda...
Tony Blair | 462 c27 (Link to this contribution) The detail of what was agreed obviously has to be negotiated at the intergovernmental conference, bu...
Mike Gapes | 462 c27 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister and all those involved in the process are to be congratulated on coming up with a...
Tony Blair | 462 c27-8 (Link to this contribution) Of course, all the usual legislative scrutiny will take place, as the proposals will require legisla...
Lord Clarke of Nottingham | 462 c28 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister agree that, following the successful enlargement of the Union, which was sup...
Tony Blair | 462 c28 (Link to this contribution) I agree entirely with what the right hon. and learned Gentleman says about the efficiency of the Eur...
Stuart Bell | 462 c28-9 (Link to this contribution) As the Prime Minister will recall, he went to St. Malo in 1998, met President Chirac and set down th...
William Cash | 462 c32 (Link to this contribution) He shakes his head, but the Chancellor and the Leader of the House, who are sitting next to him, kno...
Tony Blair | 462 c40 (Link to this contribution) Actually, I am afraid that I do know. The European institute of technology is a good idea, and we ha...
Boris Johnson | 462 c40 (Link to this contribution) Can the Prime Minister confirm that by handing over QMV in transport, energy and technology he has m...
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Asylum Competition Immigration European Union EU internal trade EU common foreign and security policy EU action EU reform National security Social security Treaties European Council EU external relations Qualified majority voting Charter of Fundamental Rights (EU) EU presidency
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