Activities of Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN related to 2018/2036(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on minimum standards for minorities in the EU PDF (448 KB) DOC (77 KB)
Amendments (20)
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. J. whereas the rise of xenophobic violence and hate speech in the European Union, often promoted by far-right forces, affects and specifically targets people belonging to minorities;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H c (new)
Recital H c (new)
Hc. K. whereas a gender perspective is fundamental to develop and implement any policy relating to the rights of minorities as acknowledged in the mandate of the UN Special rapporteur on minority issues;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – introductory part
Paragraph 1 – introductory part
1. Recalls that while protection of minorities is a part of the Copenhagen criteria, both for the candidate countries and for the Member States, there is no guarantee that candidate states stick to the commitments undertaken under the Copenhagen criteria once they became Member States; recalls that there is no standard for minority rights in Union policy nor a common understanding of who can be considered a member of a minority; notes that there is no definition of minorities in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, nor in the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities (FCNM); recommends that, with respect to the principles of subsidiarity, proportionality and non-discrimination, such a definition should be based on the definition, laid down in Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly Recommendation 1201(1993) for an additional protocol on the rights of minorities to the European Convention on Human Rights, of a ‘national minority’ as a group of persons in a state who
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 1
Paragraph 1 – indent 1
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 2
Paragraph 1 – indent 2
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 3
Paragraph 1 – indent 3
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 4
Paragraph 1 – indent 4
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 5
Paragraph 1 – indent 5
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. 10. Calls on the Commission create a European framework and on Member States to draw up specific national plans to tackle xenophobic violence and hate speech against people belonging to minorities or perceived as such; calls for this form of violence to be included in other campaigns and legislation created to fight discrimination and hate crimes in their different forms;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. 11. Recalls that self-government is a democratic right of all peoples and therefore calls on full recognition of the right to self-determination;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure that the media can operate independently and free from discrimination in minority languages, to take into account national minorities when licensing or privatising media services, including assigning TV and radio broadcasters, to provide appropriate funds for self- governance to organisations representing minorities, with a view to fostering their sense of belonging to, and identification with, their respective minority groups, and to bring their identities, languages, histories and cultures to the attention of the majority; recalls the fundamental role of the public media in promoting these contents, particularly under democratic scrutiny of local or regional authorities;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. 17. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure by appropriate means that audiovisual media services do not contain any incitement to violence or hatred directed against people belonging to minorities;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to refrain from political and legal acts and policies that aim to prescribe restrictive measures, such as subtitling and/or translation obligations and mandatory quotas for programmes in official languages; calls on the Members States and the Commission to allow and promote the presence of regional or, minority or lesser- used-language media, also on online interfaces; calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure appropriate funding or grants for organisations and media representing national minorities, in view of their regional specificities and needs;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. 18. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to support the establishment of public media in regional, minority or lesser-used languages, as well as promoting the inclusion of content in minority languages within public media;
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure that persons belonging to national minorities have rights and adequate opportunities to receive education in a minority language and for instruction in their mother tongue in both public and privatepublic educational institutions; calls on the Member States to formulate appropriate education policies, bearing in mind the right for education in a minority language and the needs of national minorities; calls on the Members States and the Commission to incorporate the best practices in teaching foreign languages into the methodology of teaching official languages when it comes to curricula for schools which provide education in a minority language; notes that the Member States should ensure that both the regional or minority language and the official language are taught using appropriate methods;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Recalls the fundamental role of public education in guaranteeing equal opportunities to all, including people belonging to minorities; recalls that the privatization of education will particularly affect the most vulnerable parts of society, including people belonging to minorities;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Recalls that education in a minority language or belonging to any particular minority cannot be used as an excuse to segregate children based on ethnic, national, religious, or any other criteria;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)
Paragraph 23 c (new)
23c. Calls on Member States to ensure that non-discrimination, as well as the history and rights of people belonging to minorities, are mainstreamed as contents of the national education system; recalls that the promoting the knowledge of minority languages by people who are not members of the minority is a way to foster mutual understanding and recognition;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Calls on the European Parliament, the Council of the EU and the European Commission to recognise as official languages those included in the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages which are spoken on EU territory, translating all official documents and information into these languages and making communication between the institutions and citizens available in these languages;