5 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2017/2204(INI)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas Hong Kong offers high-level training provision and a high academic level, but academic freedom is in danger because of the repeated interferences by China’s central government, particularly as regards university council appointments;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M b (new)
Recital M b (new)
Mb. whereas recent studies have shown that 40% of the population of Hong Kong would like to emigrate, particularly young people between the ages of 18 and 30, and that among the main reasons for this are a sense of frustration and powerlessness regarding the future of the region, the continuous political disputes and the interferences of the Chinese central government;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to stress with the authorities of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the People’s Republic of China that fully respecting the ‘One country, two systems’ principle is of key importance for the development of present and future relations with the EU and that the increasing meddling in the internal affairs of Hong Kong has the potential to call this principle into question and should therefore be avoided;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) to find ways to support the consolidation of Hong Kong’s democracy and its multi- party system and to express concern at the increasing harassment of opposition political parties and the refusal of the Companies Registry to register a number of pro-democracy groups;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q
Paragraph 1 – point q
(q) to encourage Hong Kong’s academic institutions to maintain the high standards of their curricula and research and to preserve academic freedoms, but to express concern, in this respect, about the procedure for the appointment of university councils and the external interferences aimed at modifying school curricula, which could undermine the independence of higher education institutions;