Parliament considered a number of questions to the Council (B7-0017/2010).
Question 1 (Georgios Papanikolaou): Cooperation between the EU and Turkey over illegal immigration.
Diego López Garrido (President-in-Office of the Council) answered the question and supplementaries by Georgios Papanikolaou, Nikolaos Chountis and Roger Helmer.
Question 2 (Marian Harkin): Domestic violence.
Diego López Garrido answered the question and supplementaries by Marian Harkin, David Martin and Andreas Mölzer.
Question 3 (Bernd Posselt): Danube strategy.
Diego López Garrido answered the question and supplementaries by Bernd Posselt, Paul Rübig and Silvia-Adriana Ţicău.
Question 4 (Konstantinos Poupakis): The European Social Model and combating poverty. Question 5 (Liam Aylward): European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion.
Diego López Garrido answered the questions and supplementaries by Konstantinos Poupakis, Liam Aylward, Vicky Ford, Ádám Kósa, Robert Atkins and Daniel Hannan.
Question 6 had been withdrawn.
Question 7 (Justas Vincas Paleckis): EU-Russia visa regime. Question 8 (Laima Liucija Andrikienė): EU-Russia relations: Spanish Presidency agenda.
Diego López Garrido answered the questions and supplementaries by Bernd Posselt, Bogusław Sonik and Janusz Władysław Zemke.
Questions which had not been answered for lack of time would receive written answers (see annex to the Verbatim Report of Proceedings).