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Debate on Thursday, 3 June 2010, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Hague of Richmond. The answering member was David Miliband.

European Affairs

Debate on a motion that this House has considered the matter of European affairs.

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Type
Parliamentary proceeding
Reference
510 c600-87 
Session
2010-12
Department
Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Mark Garnier | 510 c628-31 (Link to this contribution) I thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to make my maiden speech as the new MP for Wyr...
Mike Weatherley | 510 c657-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to deliver my maiden speech to the Hous...
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Gareth Johnson | 510 c667-9 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for allowing me to make my maiden speech to the House. I commend the s...
Lilian Greenwood | 510 c650-2 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for calling me to deliver my maiden speech during today's debate on E...
Julian Sturdy | 510 c637-40 (Link to this contribution) I start by paying tribute to the hon. Member for Wirral South (Alison McGovern) for her excellent co...
Charlie Elphicke | 510 c672-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for the opportunity to make my maiden speech, and to speak up for the...
Brandon Lewis | 510 c674-6 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my maiden speech as the new Memb...
Simon Kirby | 510 c634-5 (Link to this contribution) I shall be brief, in the hope that I might catch your eye again in the near future, Mr. Deputy Speak...
Alison McGovern | 510 c635-7 (Link to this contribution) May I first offer my thanks to you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for this opportunity to make my first contri...
Baroness Elliott of Whitburn Bay | 510 c645-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for allowing me the time to make my maiden speech. I, too, congratulat...
Catherine McKinnell | 510 c640-2 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the opportunity to make my maiden speech in the debate on Europe. Our membership o...
Bill Esterson | 510 c655-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for inviting me to make my maiden speech today. First, I congratulate...
Grahame Morris | 510 c664-7 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for the honour and the opportunity to make my first contribution to this House and I c...
Daniel Byles | 510 c647-50 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me the opportunity to make my maiden speech toda...
Andrew Bridgen | 510 c653-5 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker, for giving me this opportunity to give my maiden speech. In this debat...
Speaker | 510 c613 (Link to this contribution) Before I call the shadow Foreign Secretary, I say to the House that there has been some comings and ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c601 (Link to this contribution) I do congratulate the previous Prime Minister. I am not in the habit of doing that, but on this subj...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c601 (Link to this contribution) I give way to a former Minister for Europe.
Keith Vaz | 510 c601 (Link to this contribution) I am most grateful to the Foreign Secretary; I am actually going to be very nice to him. I congratul...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c601 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention. The role that we played together on ...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 510 c601-2 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Foreign Secretary to his post and remind him that I still owe him the proceeds of a wa...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c602 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Lady for reminding me of our wager. Without giving too much away, I should...
William Cash | 510 c603 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is making an incredibly important point about the eurozone and our trade with i...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c603 (Link to this contribution) There are several parts to my hon. Friend's question about the reasons for low economic growth in th...
Simon Hughes | 510 c602 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome the Foreign Secretary to his new job, and I am encouraged by what he has said about...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c602-3 (Link to this contribution) I very much take that point. The hon. Gentleman can see how seriously we take the matter from the fa...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c604 (Link to this contribution) A lot of hon. Members want to intervene, so I will try to fit them in. We will go to Glasgow first, ...
Ian Davidson | 510 c604 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Foreign Secretary on his new appointment. There is undoubtedly a crisis within th...
Kelvin Hopkins | 510 c603 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary speaks warmly—as so many Europe Ministers and Foreign Secretaries have—about o...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c604 (Link to this contribution) It is in the nature of trade that we all benefit from each other. The hon. Gentleman is right: if 49...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c604 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is right about that. I am about to come to that point in my speech, so I will add...
Lord Dodds of Duncairn | 510 c604 (Link to this contribution) I too welcome the Foreign Secretary to his post. He has a reputation for blunt speaking, so will he ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c606 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has a long-standing campaign for such a measure. We are examining the case for a sove...
William Cash | 510 c605-6 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend accept that the objectives that he would try to achieve by negotiation, in...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c605 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that that is the danger that we face. Deficits unaddressed or regulation that prices ...
Kelvin Hopkins | 510 c605 (Link to this contribution) I will try to make this the last intervention, but it is on an important point. Squeezing deficits a...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c605 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman wants to intervene for a third time. I will let him do so once again.
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c604-5 (Link to this contribution) I do not have proposals at this moment to address that, but the hon. Gentleman raises a legitimate p...
Lord Mann | 510 c604 (Link to this contribution) I was listening carefully to the Foreign Secretary's comments on labour market flexibility. May I gi...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c604 (Link to this contribution) I shall also deal with referendums later in my speech. I explained yesterday that the edge is taken ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c608-9 (Link to this contribution) I have not, but I will be visiting my Italian counterpart on Monday in Rome. While I am having an ot...
Mike Gapes | 510 c608 (Link to this contribution) Has the Foreign Secretary had any recent discussions with his Italian counterpart on the deplorable ...
Emma Reynolds | 510 c609 (Link to this contribution) I note the Foreign Secretary's renewed enthusiasm for referendums. The Maastricht treaty is second o...
Ian Davidson | 510 c607 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c607 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has returned. I will give way to him so that he can nip out again while I answer ...
Ian Davidson | 510 c607 (Link to this contribution) In my defence, I came back. I had to leave because I had visitors—I apologise to the right hon. Gent...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c607 (Link to this contribution) There may well be inconsistency. The hon. Gentleman knows that I cannot give him such a guarantee, w...
Philip Davies | 510 c607 (Link to this contribution) Following the very good point made by the hon. Member for Glasgow South West (Mr Davidson), who aske...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c607-8 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very powerful point. Like him, I have often complained vociferously about our...
David Miliband | 510 c615 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman says, from a sedentary position, that we should reduce them, but he will know tha...
John Stanley | 510 c612 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that continuing peace and stability in the western Balkans cannot be...
David Miliband | 510 c614 (Link to this contribution) The rebate, which now applies to four countries, not just to the United Kingdom, is there because of...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c612 (Link to this contribution) I very much agree. It cannot be taken for granted that the problems have been solved. The 5+2 condit...
Michael Connarty | 510 c612 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary give way?
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c612-3 (Link to this contribution) I have given way for the last time: I owe it to the House to allow the shadow Foreign Secretary and ...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c611-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. Bosnia is one of the major issues that I will discuss with th...
Tobias Ellwood | 510 c611 (Link to this contribution) I understand that my right hon. Friend has recently visited Bosnia, a part of Europe that is often o...
Simon Hughes | 510 c610 (Link to this contribution) It is important that what the Foreign Secretary has just said is given maximum publicity. One of the...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c610-1 (Link to this contribution) That is further evidence—to the deep disappointment of Opposition Members—of how well coalition gove...
Michael Connarty | 510 c610 (Link to this contribution) I may be anticipating what the Foreign Secretary will say, but at the moment, many items are availab...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c610 (Link to this contribution) They will certainly demand a lot of examination in the House. In the coalition agreement, we have co...
William Cash | 510 c609 (Link to this contribution) I am listening with great interest to my right hon. Friend on this hugely important matter. He refer...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c609 (Link to this contribution) I was just coming to that point. The Bill will ensure that primary legislation will be required befo...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c609 (Link to this contribution) There is nothing "renewed" about my enthusiasm for referendums—I am simply setting out exactly what ...
Simon Hughes | 510 c643-5 (Link to this contribution) That opens some big questions. I do not oppose the considering the repatriation of some powers—it de...
Speaker | 510 c637 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure for me now to call Julian Sturdy.
Michael Connarty | 510 c632 (Link to this contribution) I hope that my hon. Friend does not mind me intervening, but it seems that, having put down a set of...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 510 c632-3 (Link to this contribution) That is a perfectly fair point, but there are two problems. The first goes back to the claim that we...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 510 c633-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you. The second solution is a massive devaluation of the euro—a devaluation that some people ...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 510 c631-2 (Link to this contribution) It is a great pleasure to follow the maiden speech of the hon. Member for Wyre Forest (Mark Garnier)...
William Cash | 510 c643 (Link to this contribution) I am greatly encouraged by the line that the hon. Gentleman is taking on this issue. In the spirit o...
Speaker | 510 c640 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the hon. Member for his kind remarks.
Ian Davidson | 510 c621 (Link to this contribution) Given that the role of an Opposition is to oppose, is it the intention of the comrade leader aspiran...
David Miliband | 510 c621 (Link to this contribution) It is important to point out that there is now a net outflow of European workers from the UK, accord...
Keith Vaz | 510 c621 (Link to this contribution) Please could the shadow Foreign Secretary explain to our comrade from Glasgow—this now seems to be t...
David Miliband | 510 c622 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. I want to refer back to the exchange between my hon. Friend...
Michael Connarty | 510 c621-2 (Link to this contribution) It is also worth putting on record that the Single European Act, signed by Margaret Thatcher, gave p...
David Miliband | 510 c622-3 (Link to this contribution) I want to put on record the fact that my hon. Friend did cover herself with glory in respect of the ...
Robert Walter | 510 c623-4 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Foreign Secretary and the Minister for Europe to the Front Bench. I think that I speak...
Speaker | 510 c623 (Link to this contribution) Order. I remind the House that the 10-minute limit on Back-Bench speeches will come into operation f...
David Miliband | 510 c623 (Link to this contribution) No, I have taken enough interventions. [Interruption.] The hon. Gentleman can make a speech later ra...
Michael Connarty | 510 c626-8 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for North Dorset (Mr Walter), and to make some comments that ...
Robert Walter | 510 c624-6 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for his intervention, and I shall come on to the role of European scrutin...
Michael Connarty | 510 c624 (Link to this contribution) I thought that the hon. Gentleman might move on to make the simple suggestion that the scrutiny proc...
David Miliband | 510 c615 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend speaks with all the authority of a former Chair of the European Scrutiny Committee. O...
Michael Connarty | 510 c615 (Link to this contribution) Is it not true that not only did it allow the accession of the A8 countries, plus Malta and Cyprus, ...
David Miliband | 510 c617 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman asked almost exactly the same question of the Foreign Secretary. Difficult as it ...
William Cash | 510 c616 (Link to this contribution) In the context of what the right hon. Gentleman has just said, will he concede what Lord Mandelson s...
David Miliband | 510 c617 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman was unable to listen properly to what his right hon. Friend the F...
David Miliband | 510 c615 (Link to this contribution) The Foreign Secretary and I jested earlier, when he said that my hon. Friend had always been a staun...
Ian Davidson | 510 c615 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to the shadow Foreign Secretary for giving way. However, does he not agree that Britai...
David Miliband | 510 c615-6 (Link to this contribution) No, I will make some progress, and if I may, I will come back to the hon. Gentleman later. He made a...
William Cash | 510 c615 (Link to this contribution) Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?
David Miliband | 510 c617 (Link to this contribution) I am sure that my hon. Friends will come to learn that the contributions—not sedentary, but standing...
Speaker | 510 c617 (Link to this contribution) Order. I am sorry to interrupt the shadow Foreign Secretary, but let me just say to the hon. Member ...
David Miliband | 510 c619-21 (Link to this contribution) I want to make some progress, but I will see whether I can squeeze the hon. Gentleman in a bit later...
David Miliband | 510 c619 (Link to this contribution) I fear that there is a rather more fundamental problem than the one that my right hon. Friend has ad...
Keith Vaz | 510 c618-9 (Link to this contribution) "Europe 2020" is the successor to the Lisbon agenda. What went wrong with the Lisbon agenda was that...
David Miliband | 510 c618 (Link to this contribution) I am sorry that the hon. Gentleman's intervention had so little to do with what I was talking about,...
Robert Walter | 510 c618 (Link to this contribution) I am pleased to hear what the shadow Foreign Secretary is saying, but could he explain to the House ...
David Miliband | 510 c617-8 (Link to this contribution) Indeed, as my right hon. Friend also says from a sedentary position. We look to the new Prime Minis...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 510 c684 (Link to this contribution) What is the British Government's position if the United Nations says that Cyprus is a European probl...
David Lidington | 510 c684-7 (Link to this contribution) With respect to the hon. Lady, we are not in that position yet. Talks have resumed between the Gover...
Chris Bryant | 510 c683-4 (Link to this contribution) No, of course my hon. Friend cannot! He knows perfectly well he cannot––he is a mischievous lad. The...
David Lidington | 510 c684 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Member for Rhondda (Chris Bryant) for his welcome to me on my first appearance in m...
Ian Davidson | 510 c683 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to Private Pike for giving way. Can I take it from his criticisms of the Government Fr...
Chris Bryant | 510 c683 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes a point to which I hope the Minister will be able to reply.
William Cash | 510 c683 (Link to this contribution) As I am sure the right hon. Gentleman knows, the problem specifically arises in relation to Croatian...
Chris Bryant | 510 c680-3 (Link to this contribution) Far be it from me to take any mantles upon myself at all, although I thought that I might be Warden ...
William Cash | 510 c680 (Link to this contribution) I cannot resist it. Does the hon. Gentleman take upon himself the mantle of Godfrey?
Chris Bryant | 510 c680 (Link to this contribution) Ah! Captain Mainwaring himself.
Chris Bryant | 510 c679 (Link to this contribution) It is an enormous pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Daventry (Chris Heaton-Harris), who referre...
Chris Bryant | 510 c679-80 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that my hon. Friend is piping up, because we always have Private Frazer, "We're doomed, Ca...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 510 c680 (Link to this contribution) I was just wondering: is there any room for women in "Dad's Army"?
Chris Bryant | 510 c680 (Link to this contribution) I was about to make exactly that point. It is so rare for my hon. Friend to help me in any debates o...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 510 c678 (Link to this contribution) I thank the hon. Gentleman for asking me a question way above the pay grade of such a cub Member; I ...
Lord Mann | 510 c678 (Link to this contribution) Can the hon. Gentleman explain why the new coalition Government will potentially have referendums on...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 510 c678 (Link to this contribution) There are many other examples, from debates held over the years in all institutions in Europe—and fr...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 510 c671 (Link to this contribution) During their 13 years in office, how did the last Labour Government manage to address the problem th...
Lord Mann | 510 c671-2 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman has not had the privilege and joy of listening to my speeches about the issue in ...
Lord Mann | 510 c669-71 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the hon. Member for Dartford (Gareth Johnson) on his excellent maiden speech, and all...
Chris Heaton-Harris | 510 c676-7 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr. Deputy Speaker, for giving me my second opportunity to speak in what is only my third...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 510 c678 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is a former Member of the European Parliament and before he gets too sanctimoniou...
William Cash | 510 c663-4 (Link to this contribution) I certainly do, and I say without any sense of self-congratulation that when we said such things in ...
Kelvin Hopkins | 510 c663 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman may know that Lord Hurd, a euro enthusiast, said last week that it would now be d...
William Cash | 510 c662-3 (Link to this contribution) I had the pleasure of being able to refer to some of the matters I wish to mention in the Queen's Sp...
Kelvin Hopkins | 510 c659-62 (Link to this contribution) Let me first say what a splendid speech we have just heard from the hon. Member for Hove (Mike Weath...
Lord Hague of Richmond | 510 c600 (Link to this contribution) I beg to move,"That this House has considered the matter of European affairs." It is a great pleasu...
Kelvin Hopkins | 510 c600 (Link to this contribution) Will the Foreign Secretary, here and now, congratulate the previous Prime Minister on his great wisd...
David Miliband | 510 c613-4 (Link to this contribution) Thank you, Mr Deputy Speaker. It is unusual in the House for the Foreign Secretary—at least it was u...
David Miliband | 510 c621 (Link to this contribution) First, we will attack the Government for being insufficiently pro-British, and not for being insuffi...
Kelvin Hopkins | 510 c614 (Link to this contribution) If all budget contributions by nations were proportionate to their living standards, it would be fai...
Simon Hughes | 510 c642-3 (Link to this contribution) It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Newcastle upon Tyne North (Catherine McKinnell), who ...
David Miliband | 510 c622 (Link to this contribution) My comrade friend from Birmingham, Edgbaston is always too tempting for me not to give way to her.
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 510 c622 (Link to this contribution) Although this grieves me, let me put on the record that when it comes to referendums, all three part...
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