6 Amendments of Dominique BILDE related to 2016/2008(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that an increasing number of citizens use ICT tools and new media and technologies to, which in many cases serve to disseminate a wider variety of opinions than traditional information channels, thus enabling greater numbers of citizens to obtain information, exchange viewpoints, or make their voices heard, and in that way engage and participate in political life at both national and EU level and; points out that it is therefore crucial to increase digital inclusion and literacy, thus eradicating the existing digital divide;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Notes that many citizens of Member States remain cut off from these new means of communication, not least because they are geographically isolated from the main hubs or activity or else are victims of a generation gap; maintains, therefore, that it is essential to ensure that inhabitants of rural or mountain areas, as well as older people, are not marginalised in these new citizen participation processes;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that, in order to stimulate a proper and critical knowledge of the EU and its history, values and fundamental rights ICT tools and new media and technologies can be used to help disseminate more transparent information about the EU system, its functioning, and its structured decision- making processes, ICT tools and new media and technologies are crucial and will increasingly play a fundamental rolewhich continue to be impenetrable in the extreme; draws attention to the findings of the Eurobarometer 415 survey, published in 2014, which revealed that 59% of Europeans tend not to trust the EU and its institutions;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers it crucial that the EU should strategically launchthat it might be appropriate for the EU and its Member States to develop e-democracy tools able to provide decentralised sources of independent and pluralistic information and innovative models of learning, and to stimulate citizens’ active participation and political engagement through participatory and direct democracy mechanisms able to reinforce and complement, where possible, representative democracy;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out, however, that such tools cannot be effective if the EU persists in disparaging other tools of direct democracy such as referendums and accordingly expresses disquiet at the numerous utterances by the Commission President, who has regularly found fault with national referendums, not least those which have been held in Greece; maintains that if European leaders take attitudes of this kind, European peoples are likely to become increasingly distrustful of the EU;
Amendment 71 #
6. Calls on the Commission to develop and implement specific pilot projects, as provided for in the Digital Agenda, to promote and reinforce responsible and active European citizenship schemesschemes to encourage citizens of EU Member States to play a responsible and active part in decision-making, democracy being a social experience which needs to be experienced and learned about.