Activities of Íñigo MÉNDEZ DE VIGO related to 2008/2231(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The Barcelona Process: Union for the Mediterranean (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of maintaining coherent institutions and avoiding any duplication thereof, and stresses that the Barcelona Process: - Union for the Mediterranean (BP-UfM) should be included within the Union’s institutional framework; considers that setting up an autonomous institutional structure could only damage the effectiveness of the process;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Supports the principle of co-presidency and, on the assumption that the Treaty of Lisbon will enter into force, considers that it should be consistent with the resulting institutional framework; considers that the biannual summit, the Joint Permanent Committee and the meetings of senior officials are useful tools for injecting greater efficiency and transparency into the Process;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the need for the Euro- Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (EMPA) to be given an enhanced role in the process and supports the EMPA Bureau, which in a statement issued on 12 July 2008 called for that Assembly - as a legitimate parliamentary body - to become an integral part of the Barcelona Process: - Union for the Mediterranean (BP-UfM);
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Supports the demands made by the President of the European Parliament, who called in his speech to the Summit meeting in Paris on 13 July 2008 for the EMPA to be given the right to make proposals, to exercise democratic control and to monitor and regularly assess the progress of projects; also supports the proposal for a legal basis for the EMPA in the terms set out by the President of the European Parliament in his letter to the President of the Council of the Union, dated 2 September 2008;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the EMPA to be closely involved in preparations for the biannual summit meetings of Heads of State and the annual meetings of the Foreign Ministers of the countries which are members of the Barcelona Process: - Union for the Mediterranean (BP-UfM);
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – introductory part
Paragraph 7 – introductory part
7. Considers it essential for the EMPA to be strengthened as the parliamentary dimension of the Barcelona Process: - Union for the Mediterranean (BP-UfM); considers:
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 1
Paragraph 7 – indent 1
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 – indent 4
Paragraph 7 – indent 4
– that it should be mandatory for the EMPA to be consulted for its opinion on the main points and projects relating to the Barcelona Process: - Union for the Mediterranean (BP-UfM);
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that the secretariat of the Barcelona Process: - Union for the Mediterranean (BP-UfM) should be integrated into the departments of the Commission and that its seat must be selected by reference to the Barcelona Process acquis, to criteria based on operational effectiveness and to the host country’s compliance with democratic values and financial capacity, as well as to the political, financial and social support offered by the national, regional and local authorities concerned;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that the secretariat of the Barcelona Process: - Union for the Mediterranean (BP-UfM) must be tasked to draw up and manage projects as well as to coordinate the process;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for the drawing up of an institutional framework for the Barcelona Process: - Union for the Mediterranean (BP-UfM) to be the subject of extensive consultation and far-reaching discussion involving all the stake-holders involved in the process, in order to ensure that it is based on broad consensus and takes all sensitivities into account; advocates full and effective integration of civil society into that process.