21 Amendments of Martina ANDERSON related to 2013/2007(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 3 a (new)
Citation 3 a (new)
– having regard to the UNESCO Convention of 20 October 2005 on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
– having regard to the Council of Europe’s European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, opened for signature on 5 November 1992,
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
Citation 16 a (new)
– having regard to its resolution of 25 September 2008 on community media in Europe,
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the 2005 UNESCO Convention on cultural diversity allows parties to take appropriate measures to protect cultural activities, goods, and services, including measures concerning the languages used for such activities, goods, and services, in order to foster diversity in terms of cultural expressions, both within the territory of parties to the Convention and under international agreements;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
Eb. whereas the Council of Europe’s European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, which has been ratified by 16 Union Member States, provides both a frame of reference for the protection of languages in danger of dying out and a means of protecting minorities, two points mentioned in the Copenhagen criteria, which countries must satisfy if they are to join the EU;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas non-profit-making community media broadcasting in minority languages are essential in order to protect and disseminate those languages, especially when they are endangered, and to respect and foster linguistic diversity and pluralism within society, since they enable speakers of the languages concerned to occupy a place within the public domain;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Kb. whereas protection and transmission of a language depend very often on informal and non-formal education and whereas it is important to recognise the role played in that context by voluntary organisations, the arts, and artists;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas, over the last two multiannual financial framework periods (2000-2007 and 2007-2013), European funding for these languages has been cut drastically, and whereas this has added to their problems; whereas this situation must not be allowed to continue into the next multiannual financial framework (2014-2020);
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L a (new)
Recital L a (new)
La. Whereas all processes of integration put pressure on diversity. Part of the current pressure on endangered language communities is due to the process of European integration. That gives the European Union a special responsibility to actually do something, proactively, to protect endangered languages;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the European Union and the Member States to pay more attention to the extreme danger that many European languages are in, and to commit wholeheartedly to a policy of protection and promotion that is up to the job of preserving the diversity of the Union’s linguistic and cultural heritage by supporting ambitious protection policies withinfor the language communities concerned;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to honour the commitments that they have entered into by acceding to the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, be it on their own territory or in connection with international agreements;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Takes the view that the European Union should support a language policy that enables children to acquire two mother tongues from the very earliest age; points out that such a programme would, as all linguists maintain, help children learn additional languages later on, and that it would offer speakers of traditionalendangered languages practical support in revitalising intergenerational language transmission in areas in which it is dwindling;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the Commission’s multilingualism programmes; takes the view that promoters of projects connected with minority languages must be able to take advantage of the opportunities they offer, and, given that language communitiegroups fighting for the survival of endangered languages often consist of small groups of people, urges the Commission not to deem programmes involving these communitiegroups ineligible for funding on the grounds of low levels of financial commitment;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the Commission's multilingualism programmes; takes the view that promoters of projects connected with minority and endangered languages must be able to take advantage of the opportunities they offer, and, given that language communities fighting for the survival of endangered languages often consist of small groups of people, urges the Commission not to deem programmes involving these communities ineligible for funding on the grounds of low levels of financial commitment;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission to work in conjunction with international organisations which have set up programmes and initiatives to protect and promote endangered languages, including for example UNESCO and the Council of Europe;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to provide constant support, via its various programmes, for transnational networks such as the European Language Equality Network (ELEN) and European-level initiatives and activities that are designed to promote endangered languages, and emphasises that active participation is needed in order to ensure that UNESCO's Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger remains a permanent fixture;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Draws attention to the usefulEurolang and ‘adum.info’ websites that provides information on EU programmes under which funding is available for projects that promote minority and endangered languages, and calls on the Commission to issue another call to update these website to include the new programmes for the period between 2014 and 2020, and to provide more information on this subject, especially for the attention of the language communities concerned;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Draws attention to the useful ‘adum.info’ website that provides information on EU programmes under which funding is available for projects that promote minority and endangered languages, and calls on the Commission to issue another call for a project to update the website to include the new programmes for the period between 2014 and 2020, and to provide more information on this subject, especially for the attention of the language communitiegroups concerned;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to start the process to establish an EU Directive for the protection of endangered languages;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to give more active support to non-profit-making community media, especially those broadcasting in endangered languages, bearing in mind that they are having to contend with a number of difficulties, including inadequate or non-existent national regulation and a shortage of financing;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to establish an endangered language observatory that monitors and collects data on: their sociolinguistic situation; existing educational provision; their extent of usage; and reports on any hindrances they face in terms of usage.