4 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2015/2095(INI)
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
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2. Stresses that the persistent instability and conflicts in the EU’s neighbourhood have a serious impact on the mass influx of migrants; believes that a genuine response to the migration crisis in the Mediterranean will come only from tackling the root causes, namely poverty, instability, wars, persecution, violations of human rights, climate change and natural disasters;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Advocates broader and intensified EU cooperation with those third countries of origin and transit that fully uphold fundamental human rights, through bilateral agreements, in order to clamp down on smuggling and trafficking networks, to ensure capacity building in the fields of asylum systems and border control, to provide protection for people in need, to develop frameworks for regular migration and mobility, and to put into force a humane and effective return policy for irregular migrantsof persons requiring international protection and to establish formal mechanisms and transparent procedures including a system of humanitarian visas that may be obtained in EU embassies in countries of origin and transit;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4
4. Calls on key origin and transit countries for irregular migration to the EU to implement the existing bilateral readmission agreements fully and effectively; hHighlights, furthermore, the need to improve cross-border cooperation with neighbouring EU Member States in this respect, including through enhanced operational and technical cooperation with FRONTEX; believes, at the same time, that the EU should establish a binding permanent resettlement programme with yearly quotas and a permanent mandatory and automatically triggered relocation system across the EUthat would be triggered automatically on the basis of clearly defined criteria, with yearly quotas that would be binding on Member States, each of which would be obliged to take a fair share of the financial burden and of asylum seekers;
Amendment 107 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the launch of the EUNAVFOR Med operation against smugglers and traffickers in the Mediterranean and supports the reinforcement of the management of the Union’s external borders; insists, however,Insists on the need for sustained, coordinated search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean to save lives and for an EU policy on asylum, subsidiary protection and temporary protection which fully comply with binding obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights and respect the non-refoulement principle;