Activities of Jasenko SELIMOVIC related to 2018/2093(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Differentiated integration (A8-0402/2018 - Pascal Durand)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on differentiated integration PDF (403 KB) DOC (69 KB)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas differentiated integration also refers to very different mechanisms that can have very different impacts on European integration; whereas one can distinguish between time differentiation, or multispeed Europe, where the goals are the same but the speeds to reach them are different, manners differentiation, or Europe à la carte, and space differentiation, often referred to as variable geometry;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas differentiation has been a stable feature of European integration and has occurred simultaneously with the deepening and widening of the EU ; whereas, as a consequence, one cannot oppose differentiation and integration nor present differentiation as an innovative path for the future of the Union;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the Treaties foresee the possibilities for Member States to take different paths of integration, namely via enhanced cooperation (Article 20 TEU) and Permanent structured cooperation (Article 46 TEU), those should only be applied to a limited number of policies while being inclusive in order to allow all Member States to participate;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas, however, differentiated integration may not undermine the process of creating an ever closer Union as prescribed in Article 2 TEU;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Insists that the debate should not be about pro-differentiation versus anti- differentiation but about the best ways to operationalise differentiated integration - which is already a political reality - inside the EU institutional framework in the best interest of the Union and its citizens;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers therefore that the European Council should take the time needed to shape the European agenda by demonstrating the benefit of common actions and attempting to convince all member states to participate in such actions, highlights that any eventual differentiated integration agreed upon is therefore a secondbest option, and not a strategic priority;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that differentiated integration should always take place within the Treaty provisions, maintain the unity of EU institutions and should not lead to the creation of parallel institutional arrangements; reminds that flexibility and adaptation to national, regional or local specificities can and should also be ensured via provisions in secondary law;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Insists that differentiation should not be permissible when it comes to the respect of existing fundamental rights and values and in policy areas where non- participating Member States could create negative externalities, such as economic and social dumping; Dunderlines in that matter that respect for and the safeguarding of the EU’s fundamental values are the cornerstone of the European Union as a community based on values and that they bind the Member States together; demands that any potential centrifugal effects, including in the long run, are carefully examined by the Commission when it submits a proposal for enhanced cooperation;
Amendment 76 #
14. Underlines that flexibility and differentiation should go hand in hand with a reinforcement of common rules in core areas in order to ensure that differentiation does not lead to political fragmentation; Therefore, considers necessary the existence, in a future European institutional framework, of European Pillars of Political, Economic, Social and Environmental rights that would not be possible to evade;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Suggests, when competences attribution allows it, permitting regions to participate in cases of enhanced cooperation; also proposes considering to opening enhanced cooperation to the participation of candidate countries on a case-by-case basis;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Recalls that the EMU is established by the Union, whose citizens are directly represented at Union level by Parliament, which has to find and be able to implement ways to guarantee the parliamentary democratic accountability of euro area-specific decisions, while preserving the independence of the ECB;