IN THE CHAIR: Diana WALLIS
Vice-President

12. Question Time (Council)

Verbatim reports

Parliament considered a number of questions to the Council (B6-0484/2008).

Question 1 (Bernd Posselt): Christians in Turkey: Mor Gabriel monastery.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet (President-in-Office of the Council) answered the question and supplementaries by Bernd Posselt, Reinhard Rack and Jim Allister.

Question 2 (Manuel Medina Ortega): New migratory pressures on Europe.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and supplementaries by Manuel Medina Ortega and Bernd Posselt.

Question 3 (Luis Yañez-Barnuevo García): Opening of dialogue in Cuba.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and supplementaries by Antonio Masip Hidalgo (deputising for the author), Zita Pleštinská and Bogusław Sonik.

Question 4 (Robert Evans): Lessons from the financial crisis.

Question 5 (Mairead McGuinness): Member States' responses to international financial crisis.

Question 6 (Gay Mitchell): EU response to the financial crisis.

Question 7 (Dimitrios Papadimoulis): Financial crisis and the Stability Pact.

Question 8 (Laima Liucija Andrikienė): Eastern Europe's situation and prospects in the context of the financial crisis.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the questions and supplementaries by Peter Skinner (deputising for Robert Evans), Mairead McGuinness, Gay Mitchell, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Laima Liucija Andrikienė, Josu Ortuondo Larrea and Avril Doyle.

Question 9 was not taken as its subject had been covered by a question put to the Council during the October II part-session (minutes of 21.10.2008, item 14).

Question 10 (Hélène Goudin): Political responsibility for abuses that occur during EU military operations.

Question 11 (Hanne Dahl): Political responsibility for abuses that occur during EU military operations.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the questions and supplementaries by Hélène Goudin, Hanne Dahl, Paul Rübig and Mairead McGuinness.

Question 12 (Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou): Coordination of national social security systems.

Jean-Pierre Jouyet answered the question and supplementaries by Marie Panayotopoulos-Cassiotou, Paul Rübig and Avril Doyle.

Questions 13 to 15 and 17 to 32 would receive written answers (see annex to the Verbatim Report of Proceedings).

Council Question Time closed.