Preparatory debate. Four years after a first fruitless attempt, the European Commission has relaunched the debate on an EU legal immigration strategy (see our bulletin of 11 January, p.12). It didn't present any proposals; past experience having taught caution, it decided instead to submit to the Member States, other institutions and civil society a Green Paper, which was in no way a programme but which “pinpoints the stakes” and reviews “the possible options”. Interested parties are...