4 Amendments of Manolis KEFALOGIANNIS related to 2018/2158(INI)
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas new areas of tension between the EU and Russia have arisen since 2015, including: Russian intervention in Syria; large-scale military exercises (Zapad 2017); russian interference aimed at influencing elections and stoking tensions in European societies; restrictions on fundamental freedoms and extensive human rights violations in Russia, including the systemic targeting of human rights defenders and civil society in Russia, discrimination against the Tatar minority in occupied Crimeanon-Russian speaking people, in illegally annexed Crimea, which disproportionately affect the Tatar minority, and the politically motivated persecution of Alexei Navalny and many others; cyber attacks and assassinations on European soil carried out by Russian intelligence agents using chemical weapons; the intimidation, arrest and imprisonment of foreign citizens in Russia in breach of international law, including Oleg Sentsov and many others; the organisation of illegal and illegitimate elections in the Donbas; flawed presidential elections lacking any real choice and with restrictions on fundamental freedoms; violations of arms control agreements;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes therefore that the EU- Russia relationship requires a new framework of cooperation only in thosein areas that are necessary and in a common interest, and with a view to guaranteeing security in the EU’s neighbourhood and a European peace order; is of the view that the PCA should be discontinued;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for more people-to-people contacts, for instance through common religious institutions, like the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, as well as regional and local level cooperation and student exchanges also in the Erasmus Mundus framework; notes that the EU provides the highest number of academic mobility opportunities to Russia in comparison with other international partner countries;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Believes that the EU should stand ready to consider adopting further sanctions, including targeted personal sanctions, in response to Russia’s continued actionsshould Russia fail to understand the need to act in line with the International Law;