Parliamentary search - European Union (Amendment) Bill

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2007-08

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European Union (Amendment) Bill. Brought from the Commons. Explanatory Notes HL Bill 40-EN also published.
Wednesday, 12 March 2008
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Deposited Paper DEP2008-1401
Friday, 30 May 2008
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Proceeding contributions

Baroness Ludford | 701 c1098 (Link to this contribution) I was about to go on to say that there is no third way. You are either in the European Union or you ...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1103-4 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 128: 128: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause— ““Deployment of Eur...

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Lord Roper | 701 c1100 (Link to this contribution) Can the noble Lord tell us which parts of foreign policy are being moved into the First Pillar?

Lord Howell of Guildford | 701 c1100-1 (Link to this contribution) In an earlier debate, I read out 11 areas where CFSP is affected by veto changes. I will supply thos...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 701 c1098-9 (Link to this contribution) Could I just clear up one point? Again, I think it is important to be clear about it. Ever since the...

Lord Howell of Guildford | 701 c1099-100 (Link to this contribution) That is another legal gem to add to our wisdom this evening. I am very grateful to all those who hav...

Lord Haskel | 701 c1103 (Link to this contribution) I cannot call Amendment No. 124 as it is an amendment to Amendment No. 123. [Amendment No. 125 not ...

Lord Haskel | 701 c1103 (Link to this contribution) I cannot call Amendment No. 126 as it is an amendment to Amendment No. 125. [Amendment No. 127 not ...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 701 c1101-3 (Link to this contribution) Let me begin by reiterating what I said to the noble Lord, Lord Neill of Bladen, for whom I have the...

Lord Waddington | 701 c1103 (Link to this contribution) This has been an interesting debate—I do not think that anybody can deny that—and I am very grateful...

Baroness Ludford | 701 c1097-8 (Link to this contribution) That still leaves me with the question of what is meant by having a mandate to renegotiate, and I sh...

Lord Waddington | 701 c1098 (Link to this contribution) The noble Baroness completely misses the point. The point is whether the European Communities Act co...

Lord Neill of Bladen | 701 c1093-5 (Link to this contribution) I have now insulted the noble Baroness. I am sorry. I will keep going. We all greatly admire the nob...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 701 c1095 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord was kind enough to refer to me at one point in his speech. I was once criticised by t...

Lord Neill of Bladen | 701 c1095 (Link to this contribution) If the noble Lord is patient enough to listen, he will see when we come to consider some of the prov...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 701 c1095-6 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps I might intervene. In the last debate we discussed in great detail the Charter of Fundamenta...

Lord Neill of Bladen | 701 c1096-7 (Link to this contribution) It is a difficult judgement as to whether one should intervene in someone else’s amendment on which ...

Baroness Ludford | 701 c1097 (Link to this contribution) I want to return to remarks made by the noble Lord, Lord Waddington, in moving the amendment. He sai...

Lord Waddington | 701 c1097 (Link to this contribution) Is the noble Baroness asking me a question? If she is, I can answer it briefly. This debate will go ...

Lord Roper | 701 c1106 (Link to this contribution) Can the noble Lord tell me where in any EU document the words ““crisis management”” are ever used fo...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1106 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is very generous, but can he tell me where in the arrangements of the EGF it is not a...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 701 c1105 (Link to this contribution) The hour is late, and I hesitate to suggest that the noble Lord is wasting police time, but that is ...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1107 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord does not have to strain very hard because, if Europhile noble Lords will permit, I am...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1106 (Link to this contribution) I have no intention of doing that because Europhile noble Lords, as usual, are saying that this EU i...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1106 (Link to this contribution) Noble and Europhile Lords must tell me why these operations could not be internal to the European Un...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 701 c1106 (Link to this contribution) That is a ““when did you stop beating your wife?”” argument. Can we please not have that sort of arg...

Lord Bach | 701 c1105 (Link to this contribution) In what possible way is this equivalent to what the noble Lord knows as the Farnborough agreement, w...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1105 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is being unusually obtuse. The Farnborough agreement is made up of five or six EU nat...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1105 (Link to this contribution) I would not mind if decent Turkish citizens became British bobbies on the beat here. I would be some...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1104 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps that was not surprising, so, on 4 February this year I tabled another Question, because a ru...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1104-5 (Link to this contribution) Well, one point about the European Union is that whenever we hear of a plan that it appears to be ha...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1091 (Link to this contribution) But before—

Lord Kerr of Kinlochard | 701 c1091 (Link to this contribution) That does not seem to be the issue that arises in the amendment, which appears to envisage a process...

Lord Waddington | 701 c1091 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is entirely missing the point. I am not saying that a person is not entitled to take ...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 701 c1091 (Link to this contribution) I objected to the decision to have a referendum in 2004. I have objected to every single decision to...

Lord Waddington | 701 c1090-1 (Link to this contribution) I have three points to make. First, during all the great debates upon Maastricht I was not a Member ...

Lord Hannay of Chiswick | 701 c1090 (Link to this contribution) Perhaps the noble Lord can answer a question which I have asked in another context: why did the Gove...

Lord Waddington | 701 c1089-90 (Link to this contribution) If Lord Denning is looking down on us he would be very displeased to hear that his utterances were p...

Baroness Ashton of Upholland | 701 c1093 (Link to this contribution) Oh!

Lord Neill of Bladen | 701 c1092 (Link to this contribution) When I first came to this Chamber, experts such as the noble and learned Lord, Lord Slynn, on my lef...

Lord Waddington | 701 c1092 (Link to this contribution) I do not think that the noble Lord behind me can intervene on an intervention by the noble Lord oppo...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 701 c1088 (Link to this contribution) Is the problem not that we have incorporated European law into the domestic law of the United Kingdo...

Lord Waddington | 701 c1087-8 (Link to this contribution) moved Amendment No. 121: 121: After Clause 2, insert the following new Clause— ““Supremacy of Unit...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 701 c1088 (Link to this contribution) With the greatest respect, Lord Denning may have said that and, obviously, a future, inconsistent, A...

Lord Waddington | 701 c1088 (Link to this contribution) I am following the exact words used by Lord Denning, who said: "““If the time should come when our P...

Lord Lester of Herne Hill | 701 c1089 (Link to this contribution) I am very grateful. I am tempted to quote from ““A Midsummer Night’s Dream”” and say that the noble ...

Lord Waddington | 701 c1088-9 (Link to this contribution) I do not accept that for one moment. It is absolutely plain at the present time, although I would ad...

Lord Wallace of Saltaire | 701 c1107 (Link to this contribution) It is simply not feared widely in Brussels. I have read a great many documents on the EU gendarmerie...

Lord Willoughby de Broke | 701 c1107-8 (Link to this contribution) I support my noble friend Lord Pearson. I do not think that the strictures from the noble Lord, Lord...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1107 (Link to this contribution) I would have preferred to get that answer from Her Majesty’s Government. I beg to move.

Lord Willoughby de Broke | 701 c1108 (Link to this contribution) The noble Lord is right and after this debate I will give him a photograph of the EGF, if he would l...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1108 (Link to this contribution) Then why is it bedecked in the European flag?

Lord Bach | 701 c1108 (Link to this contribution) Amendment No. 128 would insert a new clause requiring UK parliamentary approval prior to the deploym...

Lord Bach | 701 c1108-9 (Link to this contribution) I have no idea, but it is nothing to do with the European Union. The question posed was whether Art...

Lord Bach | 701 c1109 (Link to this contribution) The issue does not arise.

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1109 (Link to this contribution) Why does he not just say yes?

Lord Stoddart of Swindon | 701 c1109 (Link to this contribution) Then why does not the Minister just say no?

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1110 (Link to this contribution) I would like to give that assurance but, as I have discovered in these proceedings, if one puts the ...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 701 c1110 (Link to this contribution) I would like to go on to ““Xenophobia”” but as tomorrow is Thursday the House needs to rise by 11 pm...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1110 (Link to this contribution) I do not know whether we are going home. I am ready to move on to ““Xenophobia””, which is even more...

Lord Bach | 701 c1110 (Link to this contribution) I think it is time for the noble Lord to withdraw his amendment so that we can either go home or mov...

Baroness Royall of Blaisdon | 701 c1110 (Link to this contribution) In that case, I beg to move that the House do now resume. Moved accordingly, and, on Question, Moti...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1109 (Link to this contribution) Is there, therefore, any reason why the noble Lord cannot accept the amendment? If he cannot accept ...

Lord Pearson of Rannoch | 701 c1106 (Link to this contribution) Not at all, absolutely not. If the noble Lord cares to read the House of Commons report on the use o...

Lord Roper | 701 c1107 (Link to this contribution) I have heard very clearly what the noble Lord has said. Civil contingencies are one thing. In any of...

Lord Thomas of Gresford | 701 c1105 (Link to this contribution) Having regard to the number of Turkish drug smugglers who are convicted in this country, would it no...

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