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Ministerial statement on Monday, 23 July 2007, in the House of Commons, led by Jim Murphy.

Intergovernmental Conference

Statement on the approach to the Intergovernmental Conference 2007.

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Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
463 c595-607 
Session
2006-07
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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Proceeding contributions
Jim Murphy | 463 c601 (Link to this contribution) In response to the pretty fair point that the hon. Gentleman makes, the fact is that the treaty envi...
Michael Moore | 463 c601 (Link to this contribution) We wholeheartedly agree with the Minister’s statement that the European Union brings real gains in t...
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Jim Murphy | 463 c600-1 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind half sentence at the beginning of his comments. He asked 13 ...
Mark Francois | 463 c599-600 (Link to this contribution) You were 30 seconds ahead of me, Madam Deputy Speaker. Almost every MP in the House stood on a mani...
Speaker | 463 c599 (Link to this contribution) Order. As we have limited time for this statement, will the hon. Gentleman please draw his remarks t...
Mark Francois | 463 c597-9 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Minister for advance sight of his statement. This White Paper is long overdue. We have b...
Jim Murphy | 463 c595-7 (Link to this contribution) I would like to make a statement on the Foreign and Commonwealth Office White Paper on the United Ki...
Jim Murphy | 463 c602 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his question. I can think of no better way of spending the parliamentary ...
Speaker | 463 c602 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind right hon. and hon. Members of the importance of asking single supplementary questio...
Mike Gapes | 463 c602 (Link to this contribution) The Minister has confirmed that the constitutional concept has been abandoned, and I welcome that. H...
Jim Murphy | 463 c603 (Link to this contribution) As I said at the outset, the constitutional concept has been abandoned. There is a radical differenc...
James Clappison | 463 c603 (Link to this contribution) The Minister honourably maintains that the treaty is completely different from the constitutional tr...
Jim Murphy | 463 c603 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend raises important points, and I look forward to discussing them with her, if she so wi...
Gwyneth Dunwoody | 463 c603 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend will know that because of a number of imposed majority votes within the Community and...
Jim Murphy | 463 c602 (Link to this contribution) We do not intend to table substantive changes to the IGC treaty agreement. I have already made it cl...
David Heathcoat-Amory | 463 c602 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister comment on the notorious new division of competences, or powers, in the draft cons...
Jim Murphy | 463 c603 (Link to this contribution) It was remiss of me not to pay a warm tribute to my right hon. Friend the Member for Ashfield (Mr. H...
Keith Vaz | 463 c602 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the statement and thank the Minister and his predecessor, my right hon. Friend the ...
William Cash | 463 c603-4 (Link to this contribution) Does the Minister accept that he has a fight on his hands, and that this dishonest treaty is one of ...
Jim Murphy | 463 c604 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his kind and gallant comments, which are never knowingly understated....
Gregory Campbell | 463 c604 (Link to this contribution) The Minister cannot but be aware of the growing disenchantment that exists regarding the ever-expand...
Speaker | 463 c604 (Link to this contribution) Order. Far too many individual conversations are taking place.
Jim Murphy | 463 c604 (Link to this contribution) Again, I pay tribute to the work of my right hon. Friend as a former Minister for Europe. He is corr...
Philip Hollobone | 463 c605 (Link to this contribution) Do Her Majesty’s Government support the inclusion in the reform treaty of a new mechanism for withdr...
Jim Murphy | 463 c605 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. That is why we are not reopening the issues of great substance in conversat...
Stuart Bell | 463 c605 (Link to this contribution) Will the Minister eschew the seductive suggestion of the hon. Member for Rayleigh (Mr. Francois) to ...
Jim Murphy | 463 c604 (Link to this contribution) Europe plays an enormous role in supporting the economy of Northern Ireland. Although the issue of c...
Denis MacShane | 463 c604 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Conservatives’ approach, because their obsessive Europhobia is a guarantee of t...
Jim Murphy | 463 c605 (Link to this contribution) We support the inclusion of that specific clause in the treaty. The way to bring about that outcome ...
Jim Murphy | 463 c605-6 (Link to this contribution) We live in hope that the endless cycle of conversation about continuous structural change can come t...
Sandra Osborne | 463 c605 (Link to this contribution) How confident is the Minister that a line can be drawn under constant institutional change once the ...
Jim Murphy | 463 c606 (Link to this contribution) Although I rarely agree with the noble Baroness Thatcher, I nevertheless agree with the right hon. G...
Lord Deben | 463 c606 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that hon. Members on both sides of the House welcome the Minister’s support for the extens...
Jim Murphy | 463 c606 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the hon. Gentleman has raised that point, because, as he knows, we have signed a...
Angus Robertson | 463 c606 (Link to this contribution) In welcoming the White Paper, which has much to commend it, I am intrigued by the four UK Government...
Jim Murphy | 463 c606 (Link to this contribution) I could not hear every detail of my hon. Friend’s comments, such is the attraction of our conversati...
Kelvin Hopkins | 463 c606 (Link to this contribution) I shall be campaigning strongly for a referendum and believe that my view is shared by millions of L...
Jim Murphy | 463 c605 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is correct. Europe is an enormous influence for good in the United Kingdom....
Charles Kennedy | 463 c605 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the general direction outlined by the Minister and hope that the IGC meets with success. D...
Jim Murphy | 463 c607 (Link to this contribution) There is a straightforward answer to that. It is called the IGC mandate, article 1 of which states:"...
Lord Redwood | 463 c607 (Link to this contribution) Given the importance of the red lines to the whole country, will this different Government go to the...
Jim Murphy | 463 c607 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, we will not accept any important transfer of sovereignty away from the United Kingdo...
Greg Hands | 463 c607 (Link to this contribution) May I ask the Minister again about the charter of fundamental rights? Ten days ago, Margot Wallström...
Subjects
Constitutions EU enlargement European Union EU institutions Powers Parliamentary scrutiny Voting methods Sovereignty Treaties Reform Subsidiarity EU presidency Intergovernmental Conference 2007
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