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9 Amendments of Nicolas BAY related to 2020/2041(INI)

Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that the issue of migration must be prioritised, particularly in view of the latest figures published by FRONTEX2a which show a very slight drop in numbers of arrivals despite this being during a serious health crisis, leading logically to an expectation that migration flows will increase or even explode in the future; reiterates that in a context in which more than half of all asylum applications in the EU are rejected in a final court decision3; takes the view, therefore, that we must, we must therefore focus on making returns more effective by signing readmission agreements and issuing consular laissez- passers; _________________ 2ahttps://frontex.europa.eu/media- centre/news-release/situation-at-eu- external-borders-in-may-detections- rebound-from-record-lows-M5smNj 3 Source: EUROSTAT
2020/07/20
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out that 17% of the world's population, namely 1.3 billion people, live at present in Africa; notes that according to forecasts, the population of sub- Saharan Africa is projected to double by 2050 and that more than half of global population growth by 2050 is expected to occur in Africa3 a ; _________________ 3ahttps://www.un.org/en/sections/issues- depth/population/index.html
2020/07/20
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the EU and the Member States to take account of these demographic facts in policies in order to prepare for the unavoidable future migration crisis;
2020/07/20
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for the idea of mandatory solidarity in receiving and allocating migrants among Member States, due to figure in the next pact on migration and asylum, to be dropped and for the ban on the principle of mass regularisation by Member States to be included therein;
2020/07/20
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the EU and the Member States to make aid granted to African countries conditional upon agreements on the effective readmission of all illegal immigrants present in the EU who are eligible for return;
2020/07/20
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the security, European identity and interests of the European continent and its citizens to be taken into account.
2020/07/20
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for cooperation between the EU, the Member States and the African States to be developed even more and for a massive increase in resources for controlling the external and internal borders to stop the movement of populations towards Europe;
2020/07/20
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that the EU is among the first to bear the costs of all destructive policies employed against African nationsdevelopment aid to Africa whose long-term impact has been limited and even damaging, while other players, especially such as China and Russia, are focused onprimarily on their own benefits at the expense of African sovereignty and European securityinterests; urges the European Union and its Member States to change strategy and copy them;
2020/07/02
Committee: AFET
Amendment 146 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Shares the opinion that the matter of the security of Africa should eventually be transferred into the hands of Africans and that the EU should assist its African partners in the successful accomplishment of this ultimate goal.; notes that in order to achieve this goal a transitional phase is needed requiring increased investment by the African States themselves and greater support for states such as France that make a substantial contribution to African security and hence to the security of the EU and its Member States;
2020/07/02
Committee: AFET