President. − The next item is questions to the Council (B6-0382/2007).

The following questions were presented.

Question No 1 by Manuel Medina Ortega (H-0777/07)

Subject: ‘Revolving door’ immigration policy

Some political figures and specialists have raised the possibility of achieving an agreement between the Member States which would combine the monitoring of the Union’s external borders with a new ‘revolving door’ immigration policy to allow legally established immigrants in the Union to return to their countries of origin without fear of encountering a closed door when returning to the EU.

Does the Council consider this approach feasible, and would it be possible to set up this policy using straightforward intergovernmental cooperation, or would it be necessary to establish new institutional mechanisms to achieve this end?