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13 Amendments of Georgios EPITIDEIOS related to 2016/2240(INI)

Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Β
B. whereas culture has an intrinsic value, serves as a powerful bridge between people of different ethnic, religious and social backgrounds, reinforces intercultural and interreligious dialogue and mutual understanding, and should therefore be part ofand is strong provided that it constitutes a constant within EU foreign policy;
2017/04/04
Committee: AFETCULT
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas the EU and its Member States have common cultural roots and heritage and are untherefore, despited therefore in their diversityir ethnological differences, have common elements within their political and social values;
2017/04/04
Committee: AFETCULT
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas cooperation, training, mobility of artists and cultural professionals and of their works, including through European and international networks, and artist residencies are a key factor for the dissemination of European culture and arts and needit would be a good idea for them to be promoted and enhanced;
2017/04/04
Committee: AFETCULT
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges that the joint communication aims at fostering cultural cooperation between the EU and its partner countries and at promoting a global ordernew policy based on peacekeeping, intercultural and interreligious dialogue, conflict prevention with respect for the rule of law, freedom of expression, mutual understanding, human rights, cultural diversity and fundamental values;
2017/04/04
Committee: AFETCULT
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. Recognises that the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality should be respected in the field of culture too;
2017/04/04
Committee: AFETCULT
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for the allocation of appropriate human and financial resources in the EEAS for cultural international relations, empowering the EEAS with a catalytic leadership role within the different EU services dealing with the international cultural relations;deleted
2017/04/04
Committee: AFETCULT
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
23. Calls for the setting-up of an emergency response mechanism to the destruction of cultural heritage, building on the experience of the UN’s Blue Helmets for Culture task force initiative, in close and structured cooperation with UNESCO and with the technological support of Copernicus – the European Earth Observation Programme; in addition, calls for the enactment of international legislation providing for the prosecution of bodies and isolated individuals who intentionally destroy monuments of local or global cultural heritage, as well as providing for consequences for countries which, while in a position to prevent the above-mentioned destruction, choose not to do so.
2017/04/04
Committee: AFETCULT
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
25. Recognises young people, as future decision-makers, to be one of the main target groups for the EU’s cultural policy in the EU and partner countries, and acknowledges that music, film, literature, social media and digital trends in general are the best channels to reach them;
2017/04/04
Committee: AFETCULT
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Acknowledges that development strategies and programmes focus heavily on material and sociocultural deprivation; calls for better outreach to vulnerable communities, including in rural and remote areas, with a view to fostering social cohesion, while ensuring, however, that this does cause problems of a financial or other nature for other subsidised bodies or for necessary activities;
2017/04/04
Committee: AFETCULT
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Calls for a paradigm shift in media coveragemeaningful shift in coverage by the media of the EU’s cultural policy, with the launch of an EU cultural portal, the European Houses of Culture and festivals, including through engagement with local media24; __________________ 24 In cooperation with EURONEWS and EURANET, among others.
2017/04/04
Committee: AFETCULT
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
34. Underlines that Europe, whose foundations are based on peace, cooperation between states, solidarity between states, rule of law, freedom of expression, mutual understanding and respect for fundamental rights, should build on experience and lessons learnt when it comes to external policy, which should be reflected iin order to strengthen the development of relations with third countries through culture and cultural heritage;
2017/04/04
Committee: AFETCULT
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Calls for targeted cultural and educational policies that can support key EU foreign and security policy objectives and contribute to, among other things, reinforcing democracy, the rule of law and the protection of human rights;
2017/04/04
Committee: AFETCULT
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
36. Calls for strengthening international cultural relations in the discussions on migration and refugee policies; urges that the EU, whose strength is in being united in diversity, adopt a balanced approach that fully respects cultural differences, and in which diasporas will play a crucial role, at the same time respecting the culture and values of the countries which take them in; stresses that culture should be a bridge for mutual understanding with a view to living together in greater harmony;
2017/04/04
Committee: AFETCULT