Activities of Luke Ming FLANAGAN related to 2020/2222(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the evaluation of preventive measures for avoiding corruption, irregular spending and misuse of EU and national funds in case of emergency funds and crisis-related spending areas
Amendments (5)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
Citation 20 a (new)
— having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 29 April 2021 on the assassination of Daphne Caruana Galizia and the rule of law in Malta
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas corruption is a major threat in the private and public sphere and has a disproportionate impact on the poor and most vulnerable, increasing costs and reducing access to services;it is essential to better understand the causes of corruption and the motivations of the actors who lend themselves to such acts, in order to be able to fight effectively against this phenomenon
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the Lisbon Treaty tookfight against corruption is essential for the dirprotection of reinforcing the role of the European Parliament, to bring about more coherence and democratic accountabilitythe financial interests of the EU as well as for the maintenance of citizens' confidence in the European institutions, calls for a reinforcement of the means, in particular human, of the institutions responsible for preventing and combating corruption;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Bbelieves that it is important to keep citizens engaged in the fight against corruption and fully protected from negative personal consequences; insists on the need to effectively and sustainably protect whistleblowers, as well as investigative journalists, who play an essential role in denouncing the corruption, calls on the Commission to provide the right platforms for engagement;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for increased effective international cooperation on taking of evidence, mutual recognition, service of documents, and confiscation and freezing of assets, with a view to giving the competent authorities the means to trace, freeze, manage and confiscate the proceeds of crime;regrets that too many investigations carried out by OLAF, for fraud to the detriment of the EU, are dismissed because of the limitation period has passed or that the cases are too old, calls for greater cooperation between the representatives of national authorities and OLAF in order to avoid dismissal for such reasons.