5 Amendments of Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ related to 2017/2131(INL)
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets deeply that the Commission’s attempts to settle the legal dispute with thelegal dispute between the Commission and Hungarian Government have noconcerning the Act amet with success so far and that the Commission was forced to initiate proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union, since the Act amending the National Higher Education Act runsnding the National Higher Education Act have not been settled so far, leading to initiation by the Commission of proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union; Hungary has the right to have her own education laws but those must not counter to internal market freedoms, notably the freedom to provide services and the freedom of establishment, and to the right to academic freedom, the right to education and the freedom to conduct business, enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that in respect of the rule of law and appropriate procedures, it is advisable to await the CJEU decision on the Higher Education Act and then accordingly urge the Hungarian Government to find a legislative solution compatible with the EU Internal Market freedoms; notwithstanding the CJEU decision, calls the Hungarian Government to unblock and pursue the conclusion of agreement with the New York State on the Central European University;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Draws attention to the fact that the segregation of Roma children in education in some European countries, including Hungary, remains a widespreadstructural and deep- rooted phenomenon which contributes to the social exclusion of Roma, reducing their chances of integration in the labour market and in society; recalls that this problem has been subject of a number of recommendations from the European Commission to the countries concerned and encourages those countries to follow the recommendations in order to deal with this issue effectively;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses, with reference to the ‘Democracy Index 2017’ published recently by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), that media freedom in Hungary has been considerably restricted in the past year as a result of State intervention and increased State control; deplores, in this connection, the closure and subsequ and to the 2017 World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders, that media freedom in Hungary has beent salource of Népszabadság, one of the oldest and most prestigious newspapers in Hungary, once again revealingmajor concern in the past years; urges the Hungarian Ggovernment’s intolerance vis- à-vis a critical press to guarantee media freedom and pluralism as a key value of the European Union;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the pro-government news website 888.hu recently published a black list of journalists working for foreign media, who are described as foreign propagandists for Soros, and that this clearly runs counter to the principle of media freedomWelcomes the fact that the Hungarian government decided in 2017 to end the highly criticized poster campaign depicting the U.S. financier George Soros with the caption “Don’t let Soros have the last laugh”, which was considered as anti- Semitist encouragement too;