8 Amendments of Martina ANDERSON related to 2014/2254(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the EU’s accession to the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) helps significantly to safeguard the human rights and fundamental freedoms of EU citizens and Member States; takes note of Opinion 2/13 of the Court of Justice of the European Union in which the Court concluded that the draft agreement on the accession of the EU to the ECHR was not compatible with EU law; calls on the Commission and the Council to address the concerns raised by the Court as quickly as possible in order to meet fully the obligation enshrined in Article 6(2) of the EU Treaty without weakening the ECHR;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Draws attention to the fact that all legislative proposals and policies should be scrutinised to ensure that they comply with the Charter of Fundamental Rights, including Article 52 (1); emphasises a role for the Parliament as the only directly elected institution in scrutinising legislative proposals and policy to ensure it complies with the Charter; calls on the Member States to ensure that all EU legislation, including the economic and financial adjustment programmes, keeping in mind the austerity policies effect on the most vulnerable groups in society, is implemented in accordance with the Charter of Fundamental Rights and the European Social Charter;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the external dimension of the Union's policies should comply with the Charter of Fundamental Rights as well as the ECHR, including association agreements, international trade agreements such as TTIP, the neighbourhood policy, the CSDP and CFSP;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance of ensuring, in all Member States, effective and coherent protection of the rule of law and prevention of infringements of fundamental rights; recalls that Article 7 of the EU Treaty contains a mechanism for responding to any serious, persistent breach of the fundamental rights by a Member State; highlights that Article 7 shall be applied uniformly to all Member States to ensure equality of treatment;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the importance of cooperation between EU institutions and national parliaments, as well as between such bodies and the Council of Europe and other organisations; recall Article 21 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights and stresses that the protection of minority rights is a basic principle of democracy and deplores all forms of discrimination against minority communities and marginalised people, including cross- border communities, rural communities, migrants, immigrants, asylum seekers, cultural and linguistic minorities, minority languages, religious communities, unemployed and underemployed people, homeless people, economically disadvantaged areas, LGBTI, people with disabilities, older people;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need to strengthen institutional transparency, democratic accountability and openness in the EU and urges the EU and the Member States to:
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – Indent 2
Paragraph 6 – Indent 2
– bring forward a revision of the European Citizens’' Initiative Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 211/2011) in order to improve its functioning and stop certain groups of citizens, such as those who are blind or living abroad, from being prevented from exercising their right to support citizens’' initiatives, as such exclusion limits equality among citizens; further believes that non- EU residents residing in a Member State should be allowed to support citizens' initiatives and that the obligation of the Commission to provide a reasoned response to a citizens' initiative, which is rejected, should be reinforced; believes that the failure of the current citizens' initiative to be an effective tool for participatory and direct democracy is widening the gap between the EU institutions and the citizens which the European Citizens' Initiative was created to address;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 – Indent 3 a (new)
Paragraph 6 – Indent 3 a (new)
- initiate the Union's accession to the Charter of Social Rights;