21 Amendments of Andrea BOCSKOR related to 2018/2036(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Regrets that the EU has no explicit competence regarding minority issues, but recalls that minority rights are guaranteed under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; recalls that the EU has a special duty to take care of the more than 50 million people belonging to national or regional minorities who live on its territory;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Is convinced that mother-tongue language is a central element of cultural and individual identity, but besides it, learning the state language(s) is an important aspect of integrating into society;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that greater efforts should be made to ensure access to education and training for pupils from national or regional minorities and to support regional educational institutions that provide services in their mother tongue; encourages the Member States to facilitate the development of teaching in the regions with national or regional minorities in the mother tongue of pupils and students;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. In the regions with national or regional minorities, Member States are invited to ensure that people living in widely scattered settlements receive appropriate education in the language of regional or national minority;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Encourages the Member States to ensure that those who speak a regional or minority language as their mother tongue have the opportunity to learn the official language sufficiently, by incorporating good practice from the teaching of foreign and second languages into the methodological approach adopted for teaching the official language of the State;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4d. Encourages the Member States to produce textbooks that meet the needs of the speakers of regional or minority languages, and -if that proves to be impossible- facilitate the use of textbooks from other countries published in those languages, in co-operation with educational regulation bodies of the countries where regional or minority languages are used;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the European Commission to strengthen the promotion of programmes focused on the exchange of experiences and best practices concerning education in regional and minority languages in Europe; calls on the European Union and Commission to put greater emphasis on regional and minority languages in the future generation of Erasmus+, Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens programmes under the new MFF;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Restates firmly that freedom of expression includes the ability of minorities to express themselves and communicate freely with members of their own communities and others in their own language through private and public sector broadcast, print and electronic media;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Encourages the Member States to promote the use of regional or minority languages at regional level by adopting legal and regulatory standards, as well as by means of appropriate incentives in their media policy;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the Member States and Commission to provide appropriate funding for the promotion of the identity, language, history and culture of national and regional minorities;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create the legal and regulatory conditions to ensure the freedom of service, passage and reception of audio-visual content in those regions where the minorities live in order to watch and listen content in their mother tongue, by, for example, encouraging the cross- border licensing for broadcasting;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Considers that in order to encourage and facilitate the effective participation of minorities in public life, the use of their languages in municipalities, electoral, administrative, consultative and other public participation processes should be encouraged, where practicable;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6f. Invites the Member States to promote and encourage the use of regional or minority languages at local and regional level; with this aim in mind, actively encourage municipal authorities to ensure the use of such languages in practice;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)
Paragraph 6 g (new)
6g. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure that place names and topographical designations are written in their correct form and available in the languages commonly used in a given region, including on signs indicating entry into or exit from urban areas, on all road signs providing information and also important instructions and public announcements;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create the legal and regulatory conditions which ensures the freedom of service, passage and reception of audio-visual content in those regions where the minorities live in order to watch and listen content in their mother tongue, which is broadcasted cross-border without being geoblocked.
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Encourages the Commission to set up a commission at EU level (either within existing structures or as a separate body) to maintain the aim of the minimum standards for minorities in the EU.
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Highlights the fact that media plays a central role with regard to cultural and linguistic rights; recalls that being able to have access, receive and publish information and content in a language one can fully understand and communicate in is a precondition for equal and effective participation in public, economic, social and cultural life; notes in this regard that special attention must be given to the needs of persons belonging to national minorities living in border, rural and remote areas;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure that the media can operate independently and free from discrimination in minority languages, to take into account national minorities when licensing or privatising media services, including assigning TV and radio broadcasters, to provide appropriate funds for self-governance to organisations representing minorities, with a view to fostering their sense of belonging to, and identification with, their respective minority groups, and to bring their identities, languages, histories and cultures to the attention of the majority; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to create the legal and regulatory conditions which ensures the freedom of service, passage and reception of audio-visual content in those regions where the minorities live in order to watch and listen content in their mother tongue, which is broadcasted cross-border without being geoblocked.
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Encourages the Member States to ensure that those who speak a regional or minority language as their mother tongue have the opportunity to learn the official language sufficiently, by incorporating good practice from the teaching of foreign and second languages into the methodological approach adopted for teaching the official language of the State.
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Encourages the Member States to produce textbooks that meet the requirements of the speakers of regional or minority languages, and – if that proves to be impossible - facilitate the use of textbooks from other countries published in those languages, in co- operation with educational regulation bodies of the countries where regional or minority languages are used.
Amendment 294 #
26a. Encourages the Member States to promote and encourage the use of regional or minority languages at local and regional level; with this aim in mind, actively encourage municipal authorities to ensure the use of such languages in practice.