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Ministerial statement on Monday, 5 March 2012, in the House of Commons, led by Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton.

European Council

Statement on the European Council held on 1-2 March 2012.

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541 c567-86 
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2010-12
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Prime Minister
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House of Commons chamber
Proceeding contributions
Ed Miliband | 541 c570-1 (Link to this contribution) Yes, he is Elvis. I do not think that the spokesman's comment is very reassuring. It is a matter of...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c571-2 (Link to this contribution) First, let me thank the right hon. Gentleman for what he said about Syria and answer his questions s...
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Ed Miliband | 541 c569-70 (Link to this contribution) May I thank the Prime Minister for his statement and associate myself with his words on Somalia and ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c567-9 (Link to this contribution) With permission, Mr Speaker, I would like to make a statement on last week's European Council. The C...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c574-5 (Link to this contribution) One advantage of having forums in which the EU meets the Chinese leadership is that the EU can speak...
Jane Ellison | 541 c575 (Link to this contribution) Many UK citizens, especially in London, are world leaders in the provision of services such as legal...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c575 (Link to this contribution) The roadblocks come in two forms. First, there is the fact that the services directive has not been ...
Chris Bryant | 541 c575 (Link to this contribution) Was there any discussion of the European arrest warrant? I ask because the Prime Minister will know ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c575 (Link to this contribution) This was a European Council devoted to discussion of the economy and foreign affairs, so there was n...
Tony Lloyd | 541 c574 (Link to this contribution) Everybody knows that without growth, it is virtually impossible for Greece's problems to be reconcil...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c574 (Link to this contribution) I am afraid I do not agree with the hon. Gentleman. Britain has leading industries in services, ener...
Lord Soames of Fletching | 541 c574 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that ambitious companies looking for growth in Mid Sussex will be ex...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c574 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. Friend is correct about this. Of course, Europe has on many previous occasions signed ...
Baroness Hoey | 541 c574 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister believe that the European Council will ever publicly criticise China, not ju...
Denis MacShane | 541 c573 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister for highlighting the role of Boris Tadic and of Hashim Thaci, the Prime M...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c573 (Link to this contribution) I know that the right hon. Gentleman has considerable expertise in this area, and I thank him for we...
Lord Campbell of Pittenweem | 541 c573 (Link to this contribution) Does my right hon. Friend agree that the responsibility for the appalling treatment being handed out...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c573 (Link to this contribution) I do agree with that. I believe that, as the Foreign Secretary has said, it is now a criminal regime...
William Cash | 541 c573 (Link to this contribution) In congratulating the Prime Minister on his veto—[Interruption.] It would have been an EU treaty had...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c573-4 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's support. He is absolutely right that that treaty places no obliga...
David Miliband | 541 c572 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome what the Prime Minister said about the developments in the western Balkans? However, I...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c572 (Link to this contribution) I am not at all surprised by what the Spanish Prime Minister did. After all, he is stuck inside a fi...
Malcolm Rifkind | 541 c572 (Link to this contribution) May I welcome the European Council's decision to prepare further targeted sanctions against Syria? I...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c572 (Link to this contribution) My right hon. and learned Friend, with all his experience, makes an intriguing suggestion for furthe...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c578 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. We have a blocking minority on extending the working time d...
Baroness Berger | 541 c578 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister confirm that the UK will not be represented at meetings of the 25 countries?...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c578 (Link to this contribution) We are not signatories to the agreement, so we will not be represented at the meetings. What was int...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c577-8 (Link to this contribution) Let me try to shed some more light on that. The position is this. I think there are some major legal...
Kelvin Hopkins | 541 c578 (Link to this contribution) There are newspaper reports that the Prime Minister is one of a group of four Conservative EU leader...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c578 (Link to this contribution) I can confirm that I am not part of any secret pact. I basically take a pretty straightforward appro...
Conor Burns | 541 c578 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on pursuing a growth and deregulation agenda at the EU Council. ...
Baroness Stuart of Edgbaston | 541 c577 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister takes great pride in having achieved a deeper and greater commitment to completin...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c577 (Link to this contribution) We are making quite good progress on the financial services dossiers. We are having to deal with the...
Jacob Rees-Mogg | 541 c577 (Link to this contribution) Will my right hon. Friend elaborate on what he means by ““reserving our position”” in relation to th...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c577 (Link to this contribution) I did not quite say what my hon. Friend said. Spain is forecast to have a decline in its GDP this ye...
Simon Hughes | 541 c576 (Link to this contribution) Given that the evidence from last week's summit is that full participation in the EU is the best new...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c576 (Link to this contribution) We believe in dealing with tax fraud and tax evasion. That is vital. On the jobs effect of completin...
Stuart Bell | 541 c575-6 (Link to this contribution) Is not the great challenge facing the European democracies the need to marry deficit reduction with ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c576 (Link to this contribution) I agree with the hon. Gentleman on this point: 40% of our exports go to eurozone countries and we wa...
George Eustice | 541 c575 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the consistency with which the Prime Minister has argued for the development of the single...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c575 (Link to this contribution) On the agency workers directive, it is difficult, because it has already effectively been implemente...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c585-6 (Link to this contribution) The two elements of the moratorium are to try to stop things getting worse for the smallest business...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c586 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful for my hon. Friend's question. It was an interesting Council in that regard, because a...
Jeremy Lefroy | 541 c586 (Link to this contribution) I welcome my right hon. Friend's clear statement on deepening the single market in services, a cause...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c586 (Link to this contribution) Of course that should happen now under the procurement directives that have already been signed. We ...
Speaker | 541 c586 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister and colleagues for their succinctness, which enabled 44 Back Benchers to ...
Mark Lazarowicz | 541 c581 (Link to this contribution) It was obviously right for the Council to concentrate as a priority on the bloodshed and murderous a...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c581 (Link to this contribution) There is a sense of urgency, which is why the June Council will be dedicated to this issue. There ar...
Lord Johnson of Marylebone | 541 c581 (Link to this contribution) The Commission estimates that concluding all trade deals currently on the table would add about €60 ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c580 (Link to this contribution) I agree that what happened in Libya with the desecration of those graves is completely unacceptable....
William Bain | 541 c581-2 (Link to this contribution) Last week it was revealed that youth unemployment in the EU had risen to 5.5 million—an increase of ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c581 (Link to this contribution) I certainly agree with that, but let me make this point to the hon. Gentleman. Those who say that th...
David Nuttall | 541 c581 (Link to this contribution) I thank the Prime Minister for his statement and warmly congratulate him on not signing the fiscal c...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c581 (Link to this contribution) What the European Union has been doing—I think it is right—is to rewrite its neighbourhood agreement...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c582 (Link to this contribution) The hon. Gentleman is absolutely right. The levels of youth unemployment in many countries in Europe...
Speaker | 541 c582 (Link to this contribution) Order. A good many Members are still seeking to catch my eye. I remind the House that today is also ...
Geoffrey Clifton-Brown | 541 c582 (Link to this contribution) The failure of the Assad regime to allow humanitarian assistance into Syria is utterly despicable. W...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c579 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. This treaty does not have the force of EU law, either on us...
James Clappison | 541 c578-9 (Link to this contribution) I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's statement. Among the dubious legal matters contained in the ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c579 (Link to this contribution) I think that one might have been better if it had stayed in the stalls; it was never going to make i...
Nick Smith | 541 c579 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister's officials were reported to have told the Press Association during the summit th...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c579 (Link to this contribution) Fortunately, at this European Council, the dinner only went on until about 11 o'clock at night, so i...
Harriett Baldwin | 541 c579 (Link to this contribution) Will the Prime Minister confirm that, at this meeting and other European meetings, political leaders...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c580 (Link to this contribution) On trade justice with the poorest countries in the world, the EU has quite a good record on giving t...
Mark Durkan | 541 c580 (Link to this contribution) The Prime Minister has mentioned a special focus on trade deals with fast-growing parts of the world...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c580 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes an important point. To be fair to the last Government, they spent quite a lot o...
Baroness Morgan of Cotes | 541 c580 (Link to this contribution) Does the Prime Minister agree that the lack of support shown by the Leader of the Opposition and Lab...
David Winnick | 541 c580 (Link to this contribution) While condemning totally and without reservation what has happened in Syria—the President should cer...
Lord Evans of Rainow | 541 c585 (Link to this contribution) The entire House will welcome the Government's prompt action on humanitarian aid, but will my right ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c584 (Link to this contribution) The moratorium does what it says on the tin: it is intended to stop the further flow of regulations....
Julian Smith | 541 c584 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the announcement on micro-exemptions, but will this focus on the existing stock of rules a...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c584 (Link to this contribution) I think it will: I think completing the energy single market is good for jobs and good for growth. I...
Christopher Pincher | 541 c584 (Link to this contribution) The Opposition have—entirely co-incidentally, I am sure—tabled a motion for debate in a few minutes'...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c584 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend makes a good point. The truth is that if we want to get anywhere in Europe, we have t...
Nadhim Zahawi | 541 c584 (Link to this contribution) Consistency delivers results, so whereas Opposition Members have been criticising the Prime Minister...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c585 (Link to this contribution) The key point was that in paragraph 15 we are setting dates for the completion of these markets, whi...
Andrew Bridgen | 541 c585 (Link to this contribution) The British Chambers of Commerce has calculated that the cost of EU regulations to British business ...
Andrew Jones | 541 c585 (Link to this contribution) What measures were agreed by the Council to make progress towards the completion of the single marke...
Rehman Chishti | 541 c583 (Link to this contribution) Did the European Council discuss the points made by the Saudi Foreign Minister, who said that Saudi ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c583 (Link to this contribution) I think that there is evidence that both China and Russia feel the pressure that their previous veto...
Karen Bradley | 541 c583 (Link to this contribution) What practical steps can be taken to ensure that the humanitarian aid to Syria reaches the people wh...
James Morris | 541 c582 (Link to this contribution) I welcome the Prime Minister's emphasis on the importance of creating a digital single market. Does ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c582 (Link to this contribution) I think that we must work not just to get them to abstain, but to try to get them to support a resol...
Sarah Wollaston | 541 c583 (Link to this contribution) The Assad regime is committing crimes against humanity in Syria. Are there any further practical mea...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c582 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend has made an important point. I believe that, for instance, not all the 27 members of ...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c583 (Link to this contribution) My hon. Friend is right: that is the key question. If the Syrian authorities will not allow that aid...
Charlie Elphicke | 541 c583-4 (Link to this contribution) May I, too, congratulate the Prime Minister on his statement? I am especially pleased with the measu...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c584 (Link to this contribution) I am grateful to my hon. Friend. Most of the measures in paragraph 15 were not in the original draft...
Peter Bone | 541 c577 (Link to this contribution) We are very lucky to have a British bulldog of a Prime Minister fighting for our interests in Europe...
Stewart Hosie | 541 c576 (Link to this contribution) The conclusions from the summit were clear:"““Innovation and research are at the heart of the Europe...
Julian Brazier | 541 c586 (Link to this contribution) I congratulate my right hon. Friend on the new coalition he has built for deregulation and growth in...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c585 (Link to this contribution) That is essential. Syria is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court, but that does not m...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c576-7 (Link to this contribution) There has been quite a breakthrough on the unified patent process, because the EU has been discussin...
Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton | 541 c583 (Link to this contribution) Clearly humanitarian aid on its own is not enough: it is not good enough if all we do is feed and cl...
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Digital technology Human rights Energy EU enlargement Humanitarian aid EU internal trade EU action EU external trade Economic and monetary union Economic growth Politics and government Regulation Violence Service industries Serbia Kosovo European Council Syria Somalia
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