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European Council

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

520 c1187-200 

Session

2010-12

Department

Prime Minister

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Mike Gapes | 520 c1197 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has not referred to one of the most important issues that is currently going on i...

Harriett Baldwin | 520 c1194-5 (Link to this contribution) As another happy Back Bencher, may I convey the thanks of the British taxpayer for the hundreds of m...

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Keith Vaz | 520 c1194 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister will recall that six months ago he and other EU leaders set out the Europe 2020 s...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1200 (Link to this contribution) I am glad that my hon. Friend asked that, because it is exactly the point that I made at the dinner ...

Grahame Morris | 520 c1199 (Link to this contribution) Bankers' bonus payments rankle with ordinary hard-working families. Did the Prime Minister discuss—f...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1199 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend; I am glad that Royal Mail is working effectively. [Interruption.] Opposition...

Neil Carmichael | 520 c1197 (Link to this contribution) In noting the Prime Minister's considerable achievements in the European Council, does he agree that...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1198 (Link to this contribution) I am very sorry—I will do my best. It is extremely difficult when there is a mechanism, a facility, ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1198 (Link to this contribution) This is an argument that we can win and have got to win in Europe. We now have like-minded Governmen...

Ed Miliband | 520 c1189-90 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister for his statement. I want to ask him about three issues: the agreement on...

Richard Ottaway | 520 c1191 (Link to this contribution) As a happy Back Bencher, I congratulate the Prime Minister on winning the budget battle with the Eur...

Kelvin Hopkins | 520 c1192 (Link to this contribution) It is clear that, despite everything the European Union has done, the euro is still in crisis—and th...

Denis MacShane | 520 c1192 (Link to this contribution) Before the Prime Minister boasts so much about freezing the budget, he might reflect on the fact tha...

Mark Pritchard | 520 c1192 (Link to this contribution) Whilst the new bail-out mechanism has thankfully comforted the markets, do not many of our EU partne...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1192 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that the only way we can make progress with helping partners in eastern Europe is by...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1195 (Link to this contribution) I know lots of people in Turkey I would willingly swap with the hon. Gentleman. Maybe we could have ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1195-6 (Link to this contribution) I think my hon. Friend asks absolutely the right question, because there is a history in Europe of s...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1196 (Link to this contribution) As I have said, the stabilisation mechanism is based on the difference between the European budget a...

Bernard Jenkin | 520 c1196 (Link to this contribution) May I say that I agree with the hon. Member for Birmingham, Edgbaston (Ms Stuart): it is extraordina...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1192-3 (Link to this contribution) We had a very good discussion at the dinner, which involved all EU members, not just eurozone member...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1193 (Link to this contribution) I thank you, Mr Speaker, for your leniency. No European statement would be complete without a questi...

Chris Bryant | 520 c1193-4 (Link to this contribution) Was there any discussion at the Council of the case of Sergei Magnitsky, who was working on behalf o...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1194 (Link to this contribution) The Government continue to raise all these cases and issues around them with the Russian authorities...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1200 (Link to this contribution) Yes—of course we had that conversation. We had a conversation about how we can create growth and job...

Peter Bone | 520 c1200 (Link to this contribution) I am the happiest of Back Benchers now that we have a Prime Minister who stands up for British inter...

Andrew Stephenson | 520 c1200 (Link to this contribution) The eurozone economy is vital to manufacturing and defence firms in Pendle, which export products ac...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1199 (Link to this contribution) I can absolutely give the hon. Gentleman that assurance. There has been no back-stairs deal between ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1198 (Link to this contribution) We did discuss the 2020 agenda. I think there is a feeling among a number of other Heads of Governme...

Julian Brazier | 520 c1199 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that what is best for the poorer countries of eastern Europe, which ...

Jeremy Lefroy | 520 c1198 (Link to this contribution) What progress did my right hon. Friend make in persuading other countries in the European Union of t...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1198 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is entirely right. We did discuss at the European Council the problems in Côte d'...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1197 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is entirely right, and this also relates to the previous question. Of course, everyon...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1197 (Link to this contribution) I would make two points to the hon. Gentleman. First, as I have described, there is the mechanism, w...

Andrew Love | 520 c1197 (Link to this contribution) The permanent mechanism will not be introduced until June 2013. Meanwhile, we are left with this tem...

Lord Brennan of Canton | 520 c1198 (Link to this contribution) Do I take it from the Prime Minister's statement and the facility that he has shown in his answers f...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1187-9 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I should like to make a statement on last week's European Council. Brit...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1190-1 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman talks about grandstanding, but for the past couple of years we were told en...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1192 (Link to this contribution) To be fair to other countries in Europe, the conversation around the Council table is very much abou...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1191-2 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right that we should push for progress with Turkish accession—and we are. I raised...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1195 (Link to this contribution) I am glad to hear that my hon. Friend is a happy Back Bencher. The answer to her question is that a ...

Dennis Skinner | 520 c1195 (Link to this contribution) Why is the Prime Minister so besotted with the idea that he wants Turkey in the European Union and, ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 520 c1195 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister clarify whether the minor treaty amendment will specifically exclude Britain...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1196 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Lady is so astute about this House she even knows when I am being whispered to while sittin...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 520 c1196 (Link to this contribution) This seems to have been a pretty significant Council, as a result of which we will have treaty chang...

Speaker | 520 c1193 (Link to this contribution) Order. Although it is not my normal practice to call a Member who was not present at the very start ...

William Cash | 520 c1193 (Link to this contribution) I am extremely grateful, Mr Speaker. I really only came here to wish the Prime Minister a happy Chri...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1194 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point, which goes to the point made by the former Europe Minister, the r...

Simon Hughes | 520 c1194 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate the Prime Minister on a robust performance in Brussels. Resisting the Parliament's de...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1194 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman makes a good point, which is that we should not amend those benchmarks, but...

Jeremy Corbyn | 520 c1200 (Link to this contribution) During the summit, did the Prime Minister talk to Government leaders about the growing levels of une...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1200 (Link to this contribution) The card is in the post. I want to make my hon. Friend not just happy, but ecstatic. He is right abo...

Jason McCartney | 520 c1199 (Link to this contribution) May I just put it on record that I am a very jolly Back Bencher, particularly as I received the Prim...

William Bain | 520 c1198-9 (Link to this contribution) In opposition, the Prime Minister spoke regularly about the need for radical reform of the common ag...

Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 520 c1198 (Link to this contribution) A structural lack of competitiveness is one of the fundamental problems underlying the current crisi...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1199-200 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right. Some Labour Members talk as if there were a choice between going for growth...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 520 c1199 (Link to this contribution) Normally, there are long discussions about banks and bonuses. We had a lot of discussion about the n...

Subjects

EU budget Economic and monetary union Euro Loans European Council Economic recession

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