13 Amendments of Kostas PAPADAKIS
Amendment 2 #
2020/2087(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
Amendment 8 #
2020/2087(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas, under Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 2012/2002 on establishing the European Union Solidarity Fund, as amended, financial assistance for emergency and recovery operations’ does not include compensation for individuals; whereas, under Article 3(2) losses exceeding 0.6 % of gross national income at national level (‘major natural disaster’) or 1.5 % of gross domestic product at regional level (‘regional natural disaster’) are necessary for deployment of the fund;
Amendment 9 #
2020/2087(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas this rules out immediate and total compensation for working-class households, small and medium-sized farms and small businesses affected by natural disasters that have already borne the brunt of austerity measures imposed on them by the EU and national governments to ensure the profitability of large conglomerates;
Amendment 28 #
2020/2087(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. noting the Commission acknowledgement that the EUSF is not a rapid reaction instrument and that its implementation and the relevant budgetary procedure may take several months to complete;
Amendment 96 #
2020/2087(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the Commission and the Member State governments to take immediate legislative action to remove the limits set out in Article 2 and amend the provisions of Article 3(2), so as to meet the urgent need for full, immediate and unconditional compensation for working- class households, small and medium-sized farms and owner-operators affected by natural disasters.
Amendment 45 #
2020/0006(COD)
Draft legislative resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Adopts its position at first reading hereinafter set outRejects the Commission proposal;
Amendment 55 #
2020/0006(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) The European Green Deal of the EU and national governments, whose first legislative initiative is the Just Transition Fund - as part of the ‘Just Transition Mechanism’ - is a strategic plan to strengthen the position of major EU monopolistic groups vis-à-vis their global competitors supposedly in order to address the destruction of the environment and ‘climate change’. It will exacerbate the problems facing ordinary working families and increase the main source of these problems, namely production based exclusively on the criterion of capitalist profitability. Employees will be required to foot the bill for corporate profits through soaring energy prices, thousands of redundancies, the desertification of entire regions and a deterioration of the situation of self-employed people. There is no way to benefit both employees and corporate groups at the same time. A solution and way out for ordinary working people with the potential to satisfy all their needs is for the energy sources and the means of production, transmission and distribution of energy to be state social property. Without entrepreneurial groups and the criterion of profit in production, it will be possible to boost energy efficiency and step up the production of lignite and hydroelectric power plants and to meet the energy needs of ordinary working class families, and measures can be taken to protect the environment and the health and safety of workers and residents and to increase the wages and rights of workers in the industry.
Amendment 446 #
2019/2975(RSP)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Calls on the Member States to grant voting rights to every disabled person regardless of intelligence impairments or their ability capacity and facilitate them in the voting process;
Amendment 15 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that there is a reason for growing wave of refugees and migrants, that is to say military incursions and imperialist conflicts instigated by the EU and the Member State governments, in alliance with NATO and the US, in countries such as Syria, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Mali and the Central African Republic, as well as their support for reactionary regimes, their willingness to supply funds and equipment to forces such as ISIS and their rapacity in plundering the wealth of the people; observes that the EU and Member State governments are guilty of hypocrisy since, on the one hand, they are responsible for people being uprooted from their homes as a result of their military incursions and, on the other, they are clamping down on migrants 'surplus' to capitalist requirements; stresses that the problem of incoming migrants and refugees can only be resolved by addressing the root causes thereof, that is to say the mechanisms of capitalist exploitation that are resulting in poverty and destitution. imperialist incursions and conflicts in areas riven by brutal competition between rival business interests for control of resources;
Amendment 48 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Condemns the EUNAVFOR MED military operation launched by the EU along the Mediterranean coast; points out that measures to clamp down on migrants and refugees are failing to deter people traffickers effectively and are, on the contrary, massively raising the stakes by prompting them charge more and select even more dangerous routes with further tragic consequences in terms of lives lost;
Amendment 77 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Condemns the stance adopted by the Commission and the statements issued by D. Avramopoulos, Commissioner for Migration and Home Affairs, calling for summary arrest and deportation procedures and the deportation of all migrants and refugees whose applications are rejected; points out that the EU and the Member State governments, through the creation of 'hot spots' and the inadmissible distinction being made 'legal' and 'illegal' entrants, are causing further hardship to refugees and migrants whom they have already made to suffer as a result of their imperialist wars and incursions by exploiting them as an extremely cheap source of labour for their own capitalist ends, while those surplus to immediate requirements are herded into detention camps and marked down for mass expulsion, endangering their lives, physical integrity and health, delivering them into the hands of the trafficking organisations that are growing and multiplying as a result of EU policy; notes that the stance adopted by the EU and the Member State governments is encouraging and legitimising the dangerous actions of fascist and racist organisations;
Amendment 97 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Notes that the migration problem is being considerably aggravated by the fundamentally repressive stance adopted by the EU and the Member State governments and that immediate measures should be taken alleviate the problem, including: - the creation of temporary public reception and accommodation facilities of an acceptable standard that are open to refugees and migrants and the immediate closure of all detention camps; the provision of all necessary medical care, with immediate measures to ensure that hospitals in host cities and islands are fully staffed and upgraded; the provision of free food, accommodation, interpreting facilities and legal aid; special care for underage, refugees and migrants, mothers and children, who are the victims of traffickers; - direct funding from the EU, the Member States and the UN for countries hosting refugees and migrants. - immediate processing to ensure the prompt granting of asylum or temporary humanitarian status for refugees and fugitives from countries affected by imperialist incursions and conflicts; direct issuing by the host countries of travel documents for migrants and refugees heading for other EU Member States; - immediate and comprehensive abolition of Dublin III Regulation , the Schengen Treaty; abolition of Directive 2008/115 allowing the detention of migrants for 18 months; - an end to the clampdown on migrants at borders and to the deployment of EU border surveillance bodies (Frontex, Europol, European Border Surveillance System), that have succeeded in turning the Mediterranean into a watery grave and whose operations should therefore be ended; - an end to EU imperialist operations and incursions in third countries;
Amendment 106 #
2015/2095(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5