Ursula von der Leyen (candidate for President of the Commission) made the statement.
The following spoke: Manfred Weber, on behalf of the PPE Group, Iratxe García Pérez, on behalf of the S&D Group, Jordan Bardella, on behalf of the PfE Group, Nicola Procaccini, on behalf of the ECR Group, Valérie Hayer, on behalf of the Renew Group (during whose speech the President asked that Diana Iovanovici Şoşoacă be escorted from the Chamber under Rule 182), Terry Reintke, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group, Manon Aubry, on behalf of The Left Group, and Ewa Zajączkowska-Hernik, on behalf of the ESN Group.
The following spoke: Ursula von der Leyen.
The following spoke: Jeroen Lenaers, Camilla Laureti, Kinga Gál, Joachim Stanisław Brudziński, Gerben-Jan Gerbrandy, Li Andersson, Sarah Knafo, Judita Laššáková, Dolors Montserrat, René Repasi, Klara Dostalova, Charlie Weimers, João Cotrim De Figueiredo, Lynn Boylan, Christine Anderson, Andrzej Halicki, Raphaël Glucksmann, Harald Vilimsky, Assita Kanko, Tomas Tobé, Victor Negrescu, Jorge Buxadé Villalba, Siegfried Mureşan, Heléne Fritzon, Paolo Borchia, Lídia Pereira and Marta Temido.
The following spoke under the catch-the-eye procedure: Łukasz Kohut, Matjaž Nemec, Silvia Sardone, Anna Zalewska and Yvan Verougstraete.