6 Amendments of Morten PETERSEN related to 2018/2111(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas European citizens are protected from discrimination by the Charter of Fundamental Rights that covers sex, race, colour, ethnicity, social origin, genetic features, language, religion, belief, opinion, membership of a minority, property, birth, disability, age and sexual orientation; whereas according to Article 18 TFUE any discrimination on grounds of nationality shall be prohibited;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas EU citizenship is gained through nationality of a Member State, and clearly supplements national citizenship in accordance with Article 9 of the TEU; whereas European citizenship does not, and cannot, supersed replace national citizenship;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the introduction of the European citizenship is an achievement of the European project which has still to develop its full potential; underlines that this is a unique construction, not seen anywhere else is the world;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with concern that there are Member States which do not extend voting rights in European Parliament elections to their nationals, who are European citizens; points out that this limits the diversity of views in the Parliament and mitigates the accountability of the European institutions to European citizene interpretation of the extent of the right enshrined in 20(2) TFEU is applied with a large margin of discretion; encourage the Member States to extend the voting franchise in the realm of their constitutional possibilities;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that almost 7 million EU citizens currently live in countries outside the EU, and that this number is expected to increase to at least 10 million by 2020; Emphasizes the need to support broad democratic participation in the perspective of the 2019 European elections;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Insists that the Member States recognise language discrimination as a violation of Article 2 of the TEU; cCalls on the Fundamental Rights Agency to start dealing with anti-regional or minority language discrimination at local, regional and national level in its work programme;