BETA

20 Amendments of Nicolas BAY related to 2019/2210(INI)

Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas enlargement has been one of the EU’s most successful policies and the most effective foreign policy instrument contributing to extending the area of democracy, peace and prosperity across Europe;deleted
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas it is time to put a permanent end to any plans to enlarge the European Union;
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the enlargement process is an integral part of European integration;deleted
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the prospect of EU membership has been a fundamental incentive for reforms in the Western Balkan countries;deleted
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas the European Parliament is committed to intensifying its democracy support activities in the region and assisting the Western Balkan countries in the process of EU accession;deleted
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Council to put an end to the process initiated in 2003 at the Thessaloniki summit and to scrap any accession processes for the ‘Western Balkan’ countries;
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) to enhance the conditionality mechanism and strengthen the reversibility of the accession process by applying objective criteria when deciding whether negotiations should be put on hold or; to suspended; to ensure that the Commission initiates these procedures after thorough evaluation and in response to a proposal from the Member States or the European Parliament negotiations and the associated benefits, in particular financial benefits, at the request of the Member States or the European Parliament, and/or in the event of failure to meet one of these objective criteria;
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) to consider introducing qualified majority voting on EU accession issues and maintaining the unanimity rule enshrine the rule of unanimity in the Council for all matters relating the Council only foro EU accession, from the opening anduntil the closing of accession negotiations;.
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) to insist on the alignment of accession countries with the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy;deleted
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n a (new)
(na) to prevent the opening of new accession negotiations while Europe’s peoples are opposed to them.
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o a (new)
(oa) to tighten the visa regime for Kosovo and to investigate irregularities in Kosovo.
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point r
(r) to faciliundertatke efforts in all Western Balkan countries to overcome political polarisation and protracted parliamentary boycotts, and to strengthen parliamentary oversight;to respect the democratic processes provided for in the constitutions of the candidate countries
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point s
(s) to foster electoral reforms that ensure free, fair and transparent elections, in line with international standards; to contribute to the European Parliament’s democracy support programmes in the region; to encourage religion;us freedom wherever it is under threat.
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point x
(x) to increase EUthe EU candidate countries’ engagement in solving outstanding bilateral issues and to urge the Western Balkan countries to commit to reconciliation and peaceful solutions to longstanding disputes;
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point y
(y) to urge the Western Balkan countries to increase their efforts in the prosecution of war crimes and the resolution of missing persons cases;, particularly with regard to the links between the UÇK, its former leaders and mass crimes.
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point z
(z) to promote and actively support the implementation of anti-discriminencourage, in accordance with the values of European civilisation, implementation of policies and to insist on the prosprotecting the weakest, while respecution of hate crimes; to encourage swifter progress towards gender equality, and in tackling discrimination and ensuring social inclusion of ethnic and religious minorities, people with disabilities, Roma and LGBTQI+ people by establishing inclusive policies to protect the fundamental rights of citizens;ng the wishes of countries to promote the societal models chosen by democratically elected leaders.
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a k
(ak) to acknowledge the difficulties Western Balkan countries face in managing migration and refugee flows and the substcall for illegal immigration from the Western Balkans, whether direct or indirect, to be combated; to send a warning to the Government of the Republic of Albantial efforts the region has made to provide shelter and humanitarian supplies, primarily with the support of the EU; to implement the agreements between Western Balkan countries and the European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), which sends tens of thousands of its nationals to the countries of the European Union as so-called ‘refugees’, and therefore consistently represents one of the main countries of origin for asylum-seekers in France;
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 348 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a n
(an) to avoid cuts in IPA funding which could slow down EU-related reforms and undermine the Union’s strategic influence in the region;calls for an end to the system of pre-accession payments set out in the IPA III instrument
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a q
(aq) to ensure thatcalls for the 2020 EU- Western Balkans Summit will evaluate, reassess and inject new dynamism into the enlargement process and provide a new impetus for the transformation of accto put an end to the accession process or accession prospects of the countries in quesstion countries;
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point aq a (new)
(aqa) to ensure that the 2020 EU- Western Balkans Summit will evaluate and reassess the enlargement process, while respecting the Member States’ sovereignty and views on the subject;
2020/03/02
Committee: AFET