Activities of João PIMENTA LOPES related to 2022/2051(INL)
Plenary speeches (1)
Proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties (debate)
Amendments (31)
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the current version of the Treaties entered into force on 1 December 2009 and since then the European Union has faced unprecedented challenges and multiple crises, in particular Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the ‘Convention on the Future of Europe’ (2002), an initiative that attempted to impose a so-called Constitution for Europe, was defeated by the will of the people expressed in referendums in a number of countries – a rejection that the EU would fail to respect with the imposition the Treaty of Lisbon (2007), in a display of contempt for the will expressed by people;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas defending democracy involves rejecting the staged ‘Conference on the Future of Europe’ (2022) and rejecting the centralisation of power in the hands of supranational institutions, dominated as they are by the major powers and the interests of economic and financial groups;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas defending democracy involves respect for national sovereignty and independence and cooperation on the basis of equal rights;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas amending the Treaties is necessary, not as an end in itself, but in the interest of all Union citizens, as these amendments aim to reshape the Union in a way that will enhance its capacity to act, as well asfor a Europe of effective cooperation among sovereign Member States that enjoy equal rights, social progress and peace, and not an EU that is increasingly neoliberal, militaristic and where power its democratic legitimacy and accountabilityconcentrated in the hands of supranational institutions dominated by the major powers;
Amendment 280 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates its call for the amendment of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU); calls on the Council to immediately and without deliberation submit the proposals set out in this resolution and reflected in the Annex hereto to the European Council; calls on the European Council to convene a Convention in accordance with the ordinary revision procedure provided for in Article 48(2) to (5) TEU as soon as possiblMaintains that agreements and treaties governing current EU integration should be reversible, commencing with the Lisbon Treaty and including the ‘Fiscal Compact’, rejects the neoliberal, federalist and militarist matrix and concentration of power in supranational bodies dominated by the major powers that are enshrined in the current Treaties, and advocates a process of genuine cooperation among sovereign states that enjoy equal rights, social progress and peace;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for the progressive adjustment of the status of each country according to the will of its people and its actual situation and needs, while safeguarding its specificities and permitting the necessary derogations and exception clauses;
Amendment 286 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 293 #
Paragraph 4
4. Demafends the strengthening of the Union’s capacity to act by considerably increasing the number of areas where actions are decided by qualified majority voting (QMV) and through the ordinprinciple of sovereignty, independence and equal rights among Member States; warns of the power imbalance between the Member States, enshrined in the Lisbon Treaty, with regard to decision-making in the EU institutions, including the Council; points out that the principle of unanimity – in the few, albeit significant areas in which it still applies – places all Member States on an equal footing in the decision- making process, guaranteeing that no decision will be imposed against the interests of a Member State or group of Member States, thereby playing a valuable part in upholding the interests of those that carry legislative procedure (OLP)ss weight in the current decision-making process;
Amendment 298 #
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for Parliament to gain the right of initiative for legislation, in particular the right to introduce, amend, or repeal Union law, and to become a co- legislator for the adoption of the multiannual financial frameworkDefends drawing on the role, where EU policies as a whole are concerned, of the institutions of national sovereignty, including national parliaments;
Amendment 300 #
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Warns that granting more competences to the European Parliament, particularly in relation to the right of initiative, at a time when the competences of Member States – and therefore national parliaments – are being encroached upon, means, in practice, that the major powers are given an even larger role in the EU decision-making process; notes that five of the 27 Member States (France, Italy, Germany, Poland and Spain) have 362 seats, which is more than half of the European Parliament’s current 705 seats, and that situation will not change in 2024, when they will hold 367 of 720 seats;
Amendment 301 #
Paragraph 6
Amendment 312 #
Paragraph 9
9. Proposes that the composition of the European Parliament become Parliament’s exclusive competenceMaintains that the European Parliament should use the maximum number of Members (751) to create more favourable conditions to ensure more proper balance in the distribution of seats among the Member States and to reflect the representational plurality of each Member State, thereby ensuring a truer expression of the will of the people; calls, moreover, for a redistribution of seats to primarily compensate the Member States that lost the most Members in relative terms following the enlargements; regrets, therefore, the proposed composition of the 2024 European Parliament submitted by the Council and approved by the European Parliament;
Amendment 313 #
Paragraph 10
10. Proposes to strengthen the role of social partnenational parliaments, workers’ organisations, other social organisations and economic and cultural operators in the preparation of any initiatives in the areas of social, employment and economic policy;
Amendment 318 #
Paragraph 11
11a. Considers that the current nomenclature of EU Institutions and bodies should remain unaltered;
Amendment 320 #
Paragraph 12
Amendment 326 #
Paragraph 13
Amendment 336 #
Paragraph 17
Amendment 339 #
Paragraph 18
Amendment 341 #
Paragraph 19
Amendment 344 #
Paragraph 20
Amendment 350 #
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for the establishment of a defence union including permanently stationed European military units, a permanent rapid deployment capacity, under the operational command of the Union; proposes that joint procurement and the development of armaments be financed by the Union through a dedicated budget under parliamentary co- decision and scrutiny and proposes that the competences of the European Defence Agency be adjusted accordingly; notes that Rejects the use of EU resources for militarism and defends the need to deploy those resources to encourage sustainable development, with a view to providing full employment with rights, public services, eradication of poverty and social exclauses with regard to national traditions of neutrality and NATO membership would not be affected by these changion and improved social and economic cohesion among Member States;
Amendment 360 #
Paragraph 23
23. Calls for measures to ensure that Member States invest in achieving the European economic, social, and environmental and security objectives; proposes for Article 122 TFEU to be deleted and replaced by a reworded emergency clause that provides for full parliamentary scrutiny in Article 222 TFEU;
Amendment 362 #
Paragraph 24
Amendment 367 #
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for the Union to develop common objectives and standards for an education that promotes democratic values and the rule of law, as well as digital and economic literacy; calls further for the Union to promote cooperation and coherencean increase to and deployment of resources in the European Union budget to defend, develop and promote public education that is free, of good quality and adequate for the situation and needs of each Member State; calls further for the promotion of cooperation between educational establishments systems while guaranteeing the cultural traditions and regional diversity;
Amendment 370 #
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for the Union to develop common standards on vocational training to increase the mobility of workers; proposes that the Union aimMaintains that vocational training should adequately contribute to workers’ professional development and meet the needs established by each country’s development strategy; maintains, furthermore, the need to put an end to precarious working conditions, improve salaries and fight labour deregulation; defends the objective to protect and promote access to free and universal schooling, institutional and individual academic freedom, and human rights, as defined in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;.
Amendment 374 #
Paragraph 28
28. Suggests that the promotion of democratic values, good governance, human rights and sustainability as well as foreign investment, investment protection and economic security be included in the scope of the common commercial policy; proposes that the European Parliament and the Council, upon a recommendation from the Commission, open trade negotiations; proposes to establish a permanent mechanism for the screening of foreign direct investmentAdvocates the establishment of bilateral trade relations among Member States, increasing and diversifying relations, as part of a policy of mutually beneficial cooperation based on respect for sovereignty and independence and on the right to development, solidarity, friendship and peace;
Amendment 382 #
Paragraph 32
32. Calls for the creation of an integrated European energy union; suggests that the Union’s energy system must be affordable and based on energy efficiency, renewable energies and in conformity with international agreemRejects the path of liberalisation and privatisation of the energy sector promoted by the European Union; considers energy to be a strategic sector that is vital for national independence and sovereignty and essential for economic development based on scientific knowledge, technological progress and environmental sustainability; defends energy as a public asset and the supply of and access to energy as an essential public service; defentds to mitigate climate changepublic control over the energy sector, under democratic scrutiny and oversight;
Amendment 383 #
Paragraph 33
Amendment 394 #
Paragraph 36
36. Suggests that the Union setcooperation among Member States in order to identify common indicators for healthcare systems; pProposes, in that the Union takeregard, the identification of measures for the early notification, monitoring and control of serious cross- border threats to health, in particular in the event of pandemics without preventingjudice to Member States from’ maintaining or adopting reinforced protective measures where these are imperative;