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17 Amendments of Elissavet VOZEMBERG-VRIONIDI related to 2018/2036(INI)

Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
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
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 1
– reside on the territory of that state,deleted
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 1
– reside on the territory of that state,deleted
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 2
– maintain longstanding, firm and lasting ties with that stadelete,d
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 2
– maintain longstanding, firm and lasting ties with that stadelete,d
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 3
– display distinctive ethnic, cultural, religious or linguistic characteristics,deleted
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 4
– are sufficiently representative, although smaller in number than the rest of the population of that state or of a region of that stadelete,d
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 4
– are sufficiently representative, although smaller in number than the rest of the population of that state or of a region of that stadelete,d
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – indent 5
– are motivated by a concern to preserve together that which constitutes their common identity, including their culture, their tradition, their religion or their language;deleted
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Expresses that there is a need for a legislative proposal on minimum standards of protection of minorities in the EU, for improving the situation of minorities in all the Member States and to avoid double standards, while respecting the principle of subsidiarity and proportionality, and after carrying out a proper impact assessment; calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that their legal systems guarantee that persons belonging to a minority are not discriminated against, and to take and implement targeted protection measures based on relevant international standards;
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States, while safeguarding the national citizenship, and calls on the Commission, while promoting the European identity and common values, to safeguard the right of national minorities to preserve, protect and develop their own identity, and to take the necessary steps to ensure the effective participation of national minorities in social, economic and cultural life and in public affairs;deleted
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to consider ratifying, and the European Union to consider accedeing to, the FCNM and the Language Charter and to respect the principles laid down in these documents; calls on the Member States and the Commission to refrain from acts that go against the principles laid down in these documents; notes that the Member States and the EU institutions shall refrain from adopting laws and administrative measures that weaken or derogate the rights of persons belonging to minorities;
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that national minorities are groups of persons belonging to minorities who have been living on the same territory and sharing a common identity, in some instances as a result of border changes, in others as a result of living a long time in an area, whereby they have managed to preserve their identity; calls on the Member States and the Commission to protect the cultural and linguistic identity of national minorities, and to create conditions for the promotion of that identity; points to the important role that regional and local authorities in the EU can play in protecting national minorities, and considers that administrative reorganisation and territorial districting must not have negative consequences for them;deleted
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to involve and support national minorities and their representatives in fostering knowledge and skills that are necessary in order to safeguard, sustainably manage and develop cultural heritage and that should be handed down to future generations; calls on the Member States and the Commission to establish and maintain concrete cultural funds for the representatives of regional and minority rights, both at horizontal and vertical levels;
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to promote and support the official use of languages spoken by national minorities in the territories where they live, at local or regional level, in conformity with the principles of the FCNM and the Language Charter, while taking into account that the protection and encouragement of the use of regional and minority languages should not be to the detriment of official languages and the obligation to learn them;deleted
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Conclusiondeleted
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 320 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission to draw up a roadmap towards establishing minimum standards for the protection of minorities; recommends that this roadmap should contain measurable milestones with regular reporting, and should consist, as a minimum of – reflecting good practices within the Member States, in cooperation with different stakeholders involved in minority rights protection, – taking into consideration existing national measures, subsidiarity and proportionality, – directive, based on the aforementioned points, on minimum standards for minorities in the EU;deleted the drafting of guidelines a Commission recommendation, a legislative proposal for a
2018/06/22
Committee: LIBE