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European Council

Secondary information

Type

Parliamentary proceeding

Reference

530 c615-33 

Session

2010-12

Department

Prime Minister

Chamber / Committee

House of Commons chamber

Proceeding contributions

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c620 (Link to this contribution) Of course the Greeks have a debt and solvency problem as well as a liquidity problem, but they have ...

Lord Lilley | 530 c621 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the worst outcome for the British economy from the Greek crisis...

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Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c621 (Link to this contribution) As on many previous occasions, I had a very interesting meeting with President Klaus in Prague, at w...

Chris Bryant | 530 c621 (Link to this contribution) Many of us worry about not only the direct consequences for Britain, but the possible indirect conse...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c621 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman makes the good point that disorder in the eurozone will have knock-on consequence...

Douglas Carswell | 530 c621 (Link to this contribution) I am delighted that the Government seem to be listening to this House and seeking to minimise eurozo...

David Winnick | 530 c622 (Link to this contribution) Are not Italy and the Arab League now putting far more emphasis on trying to bring about a genuine c...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c621-2 (Link to this contribution) The first part of my hon. Friend's question was a slight dig at the mandarins, but it is important t...

Simon Hughes | 530 c622 (Link to this contribution) May I join the expressions of condolence to the Prime Minister and the family and friends of Mr Shal...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c622 (Link to this contribution) On the hon. Gentleman's final point, our approach to Gaddafi and Libya is clear. The Government have...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c615-7 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on last week's European Council. The ...

Ed Miliband | 530 c617-8 (Link to this contribution) I start by expressing sympathy with the Prime Minister for the sense of shock and loss he must feel ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c620 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's support, and for his question. I have got us out of the mechanism...

William Cash | 530 c620 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister be good enough to put on record his appreciation of the support and encourag...

Speaker | 530 c620 (Link to this contribution) Order. There is extensive interest in this statement, but there is another statement to follow, and ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c619-20 (Link to this contribution) Let me first thank the right hon. Gentleman for what he said about my constituency chairman, Christo...

David Miliband | 530 c620 (Link to this contribution) I have two brief questions. The Prime Minister mentioned Sir Mervyn King's remarks of last week. Doe...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c623 (Link to this contribution) As I described in my statement, the consequences would be twofold. First, British banks, like banks ...

Ben Bradshaw | 530 c623 (Link to this contribution) What are the dramatic consequences, as the Prime Minister just called them, on Britain and the rest ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c623 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid that I cannot give my hon. Friend much satisfaction because the fact that the European P...

Conor Burns | 530 c623 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister will have spoken for the overwhelming majority in this country when he expressed ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c623 (Link to this contribution) The right hon. Gentleman is entirely right that we should support Frontex in its work and that we sh...

Keith Vaz | 530 c622-3 (Link to this contribution) May I suggest that the next EU summit takes place on Filakio on the Greek-Turkish border, where memb...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c622 (Link to this contribution) First, I thank the right hon. Gentleman for what he said about my constituency chairman, Christopher...

Denis MacShane | 530 c624 (Link to this contribution) Did the Prime Minister have a chance, in the many bilateral conversations he will have had at the Eu...

Tony Baldry | 530 c624 (Link to this contribution) Further to the question of the Chairman of the Select Committee on Home Affairs, the right hon. Memb...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c624 (Link to this contribution) I think that my hon. Friend is entirely right. The Dublin regulation has been effective at allowing ...

Mark Reckless | 530 c631 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Prime Minister on his very significant success in largely keeping Britain out...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c630 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is absolutely right. That is why the Dublin regulation is so important, because it en...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c631 (Link to this contribution) I think that what changed was that because we were not involved in the first Greek bail-out, we were...

Baroness Coffey | 530 c631 (Link to this contribution) I want to add my congratulations to the Prime Minister on standing up for Britain and British intere...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c631 (Link to this contribution) I can certainly give that assurance. We have actually managed to write into Council conclusions that...

George Eustice | 530 c632 (Link to this contribution) Further to the Prime Minister's answer to my hon. Friend the Member for Skipton and Ripon (Julian Sm...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c631 (Link to this contribution) Frontex has an important role to play and it must be invested in for the reasons that my hon. Friend...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c632 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes the good point that getting these things to appear once in a set of European Co...

Stephen Hammond | 530 c632 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister's statement rightly said that the transitional national council is the only credi...

Peter Bone | 530 c632-3 (Link to this contribution) Yesterday, I had a meeting with a constituent who I know can be very difficult at times. She was exc...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c632 (Link to this contribution) We are very hopeful that it would not have an impact. That has been one of our negotiating stances w...

David Nuttall | 530 c632 (Link to this contribution) I thank my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister for his statement. Would the accession of Croatia be...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c632 (Link to this contribution) Cathy Ashton, the EU High Representative, has been to Benghazi, which I think was extremely worth wh...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c633 (Link to this contribution) I feel that a very big part of my life is spent trying to give pleasure to Mrs Bone. On this occasio...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c628 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful to my hon. Friend, although I would not put my efforts in the same class as the f...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c629 (Link to this contribution) First, as I said earlier, the IMF cannot lend money unless it believes that a country can undertake ...

Alec Shelbrooke | 530 c629 (Link to this contribution) With the Greece situation showing what happens if a country does not control its deficit, does my ri...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c628 (Link to this contribution) I think my hon. Friend is entirely right. The Governor of the Bank of England spoke powerfully about...

Wayne David | 530 c628 (Link to this contribution) I welcome what the Prime Minister said about Croatia coming closer to the European union, but was th...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c628 (Link to this contribution) In terms of future membership of the EU, I think I am right in saying that the conclusions referred ...

Jacob Rees-Mogg | 530 c628 (Link to this contribution) May I congratulate the Prime Minister on the most successful defence of British interests at a Europ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c627 (Link to this contribution) There was a very lengthy discussion on the Schengen issues, and clearly there is some unhappiness am...

Greg Hands | 530 c627-8 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister agree that in the event of any breakdown in the eurozone, in assessing the p...

Lord Barwell | 530 c630 (Link to this contribution) My constituents will warmly welcome what the Prime Minister said about asylum, given that anyone who...

Rehman Chishti | 530 c630 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Prime Minister's statement. On Libya, did the European Council discuss the position of...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c630 (Link to this contribution) We did not discuss that specific issue at the European Council, but I speak regularly to the leaders...

Bill Esterson | 530 c630 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister said that the IMF would not have made the loan to Greece if it did not think it c...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c630 (Link to this contribution) The point I made is that Britain's share of the IMF is a little over 4%. It is a broad requirement o...

Julian Brazier | 530 c629-30 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend rightly acknowledges the tension between, on the one hand, the need to rebuild ...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c630 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a very important point. Of course, if we are asking banks to rebuild their bala...

William Bain | 530 c629 (Link to this contribution) The Bank for International Settlements, in its annual report published yesterday, identifies two sol...

Speaker | 530 c629 (Link to this contribution) Order. I have explained the point on innumerable occasions to Members that questions are to be about...

Edward Leigh | 530 c625 (Link to this contribution) Following the Prime Minister's interesting and welcome answer to the hon. Member for Walsall North (...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c625 (Link to this contribution) Yes, it is in the interests of the United Kingdom. Fifty per cent. of our exports go to the EU and 4...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c624 (Link to this contribution) That is absolutely the Government's view. I had very good meetings with Premier Wen this morning and...

Oliver Heald | 530 c624 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the Prime Minister for standing up for the important principle concerning the Dublin pro...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c624 (Link to this contribution) There were long discussions about this issue because the Mediterranean countries in particular feel ...

Mark Durkan | 530 c624-5 (Link to this contribution) In the midst of all the other pressing issues on which the Prime Minister has reported from the Euro...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c625 (Link to this contribution) The issues of Sudan were not discussed at the European Council itself, but they will be discussed at...

Julian Smith | 530 c625 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the commitment to exclude micro-businesses from EU regulations and urge the Prime Mini...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c625 (Link to this contribution) I thank my hon. Friend for his question. As I said in my statement, so often at European Councils th...

Stuart Bell | 530 c625 (Link to this contribution) May I draw the Prime Minister's attention to the conclusions of the European Council that there is r...

Kelvin Hopkins | 530 c627 (Link to this contribution) Recent press reports indicate that 15 member states are questioning the wisdom of Schengen. Indeed, ...

Bob Stewart | 530 c626 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend tell the House, in view of the increasing number of European summits, whet...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c626 (Link to this contribution) As I am sure my hon. Friend knows, I use a variety of transport means. On this occasion, I flew by a...

Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 530 c626 (Link to this contribution) Given the significance of the European Council, it is a great shame that the Leader of the House sti...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c626 (Link to this contribution) On the extent of parliamentary debate, we have one of these statements every time there is a Europea...

Jo Swinson | 530 c627 (Link to this contribution) Seventy-two top businesses, including Google, Centrica and Unilever, have made a joint declaration s...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c627 (Link to this contribution) We do agree with those companies and want Europe to move to that target. We have supported that and ...

Barry Gardiner | 530 c627 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister tell the House the amount of British taxpayers' money being made available t...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c627 (Link to this contribution) Let me make two points to the hon. Gentleman. First, our share of the IMF is a little over 4%, so th...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c626 (Link to this contribution) Britain's role is clearly set out in UN resolution 1973, which is to work with others to stop the at...

Andrew Stephenson | 530 c631 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Prime Minister's statement. With an estimated cost to UK taxpayers of £25 million for ...

Speaker | 530 c633 (Link to this contribution) We note the admirable self-restraint that the Prime Minister has demonstrated and we are grateful fo...

Graham Stringer | 530 c628-9 (Link to this contribution) What is causing disorder and instability in Europe is the fact that Greece is bankrupt. The whole wo...

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 530 c629 (Link to this contribution) Of course, everyone is free to speculate about the different paths that Greece might take or might l...

Subjects

Armed conflict Banks EU enlargement Economic and monetary union EU economic policy EU grants and loans Greece Politics and government Public sector debt Small businesses Regulation Croatia European Council Syria Middle East EU immigration Libya European financial stabilisation mechanism

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