In order to ensure greater transparency regarding the entire electricity transmission network in the Community, the ENTSO for Electricity should draw up, publish and regularly update a non-binding Community-wide ten-year network development plan (Community-wide network development plan).

Would the Commission consider seeking the agreement of all Member States to designating one specific day as a public holiday, either Robert Schuman day or some agreed alternative, throughout the European Union whereby the citizens of the EU would collectively celebrate their common European identity and unity, similar to the way Independence Day in the United States is celebrated, with the common theme that there is unity in diversity and through which we citizens could express our support for the European project?

Would the Commission consider seeking the agreement of all Member States to designating one specific day as a public holiday, either Robert Schuman day or some agreed alternative, throughout the European Union whereby the citizens of the EU would collectively celebrate their common European identity and unity, similar to the way Independence Day in the United States is celebrated, with the common theme that there is unity in diversity and through which we citizens could express our support for the European project?

A floor of five business days for netting sets consisting only of repo-style transactions subject to daily remargining and daily mark-to-market, and ten business days for all other netting sets is imposed on the margin period of risk used for this purpose; or

– (ES) Madam President, I would like to point out that I have the right to speak, for my esteemed fellow Member Mr Poettering did not only talk about the Fiori report: he spoke about the whole of Wednesday’s agenda, and as proposer, I feel that I have the right to speak, because it was my group that put forward the proposal to once again include in the agenda for Wednesday morning the oral questions that were initially put to the Council on a subject that is so important, especially if we consider the free time that we – according to what we are led to believe – have available.

– (PT) Firstly, Mr Rübig, I would like to say that I share the concern you have just expressed about whether the European Institutions as a whole, are able to draft a policy on information and communication which will enable us to provide all European citizens with not just the contents of our debates but also with the added value that the decisions of Parliament, the Commission and the Council itself have for their daily life.