45 Amendments of Dobromir SOŚNIERZ
Amendment 149 #
2018/2155(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 47 #
2018/2149(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 130 #
2018/2149(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the enforcement of the human rights framework to be prioritised, and backed by sufficient coordination and funding, especially in the field of gender equality, child and labour protection, social exclusion and discrimination against persons with disabilities and minorities, including LGBTI people; underlines the need to reinforce the Agency for Gender Equality and the National Coordinator for the Protection from Domestic Violence and to strengthen prevention;
Amendment 133 #
2018/2149(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the enforcement of the human rights framework to be prioritised, and backed by sufficient coordination and funding, especially in the field of gender equality, child and labour protection, social exclusfreedom of expression, respect for the rights of national and religious minorities, child protection and discrimination against persons with disabilities and other minorities, including LGBTI people; underlines the need to reinforce the Agency for Gender Equality and the National Coordinator for the Protection from Domestic Violence and to strengthen prevention;
Amendment 187 #
2018/2149(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls on the Kosovo authorities to hold a referendum in all municipalities with a substantial Serbian minority on the question of their nationality as a prerequisite for achieving a lasting settlement with Serbia;
Amendment 204 #
2018/2149(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 211 #
2018/2149(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
Amendment 214 #
2018/2149(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the Commission to develop a regionalfull labour market liberalisation strategy to address the persistent youth unemployment and brain drain by tackling the skills mismatch between the education system and the labour market, improving the quality of teaching, and ensuring adequate funding for active labour market measures and vocational training schemes, along with adequate childcare and pre-school education facilities;
Amendment 227 #
2018/2149(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
Amendment 82 #
2018/2147(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the additional steps taken to reinforce the protection of human rights, minority rights and anti- discrimination policies; insists that measures be taken to further improve the education, employment rates and living conditions for Roma, Egyptians and other ethnic minorities;
Amendment 100 #
2018/2147(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Commends the climate of tolerance and cooperation among the country’s religious communities; calls on the Albanian authorities to effectively combat hate speech and the exclusion and discrimination of minorities, including LGBTI persons;
Amendment 114 #
2018/2147(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Reiterates the critical importance of professional and independent private and public service media; notes the partial progress made in increasing the independence of the country’s audio-visual media authority and public broadcaster; calls for measures to improve the financial transparency of state advertising in the media; calls as well for measures to strengthen the protection of the labour and social rights of journalists; welcomes the setting-up of the Albanian Media Council, and underlines its role in establishing ethical and professional standards for the media;
Amendment 123 #
2018/2147(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Fears possible negative impacts on employment and social policy-making followingWelcomes the dismantling of Albania’s Labour Ministry as a result of governmental restructuring; encourages the Albanian authorities to foster cooperation withrestrict the rights of trade unions; calls on them to take effective measures to address the high unemployment rate, especially among young people, and to further improve the quality of education;
Amendment 135 #
2018/2147(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Expresses concern over economic activity that has led to environmental damage in protected areaApproves the use of renewable energy sources, such as the hydropower plants along the Vjosa river; urges the authorities to step up environmental impact assessments and public consultations on such projects;
Amendment 140 #
2018/2146(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines that the legislative and institutional framework for upholding human rights is in place; stresses that consistent and efficient implementation across the whole country is needed; notes that further sustained efforts are necessary to improve the situation of persons belonging to vulnerable groups, including children, persons with disabilities, persons with HIV/AIDS, and LGBTI persons; calls on Serbia to actively pursue investigations, prosecutions and convictions of hate- motivated crimes;
Amendment 173 #
2018/2146(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the adoption of an action plan for the realisation of the rights of national minorities, and the adoption of a decree establishing a fund for national minorities; calls for the full implementation of the action plan and for improved coordination and inclusion of stakeholders; notes that the fund for national minorities is functioning and that its funding has been increased; reiterates its call on Serbia to ensure consistent implementation of legislation on the protection of minorities, including in relation to education, the use of languages, representation in public administration and access to media and religious services in minority languages;
Amendment 192 #
2018/2146(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 220 #
2018/2146(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Welcomes Serbia’s continued engagement in the normalisation process with Kosovo, and its commitment to the implementation of the agreements reached in the EU- facilitated dialogue; welcomes that President Vučić has launched an internal dialogue on Kosovo; reiterates its call to move forward with the full implementation, in good faith and in a timely manner, of all the agreements already reached including the ones on energy and to determinedly continue the normalisation process; highlights the importance of creating an association / community of Serb majority municipalities; stresses that the work on a new phase of the dialogue with a view to a comprehensive normalisation of relations between Serbia and Kosovo, to be defined in a legally binding agreement, needs to be accelerated; reiterates its call on the EEAS to carry out an evaluation of the performance of the sides in fulfilling their obligations;
Amendment 78 #
2018/2144(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Urges improvement in the enforcement and monitoring mechanisms for human rights protection, including by tackling violence against women and children;
Amendment 84 #
2018/2144(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 126 #
2018/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that the capabilities for the Union`s security and defence could be improved by making better use of the existing frameworks of defence and military cooperation such as the European multinational high readiness corps HQs and the EU battlegroups; believes that this will contribute to the continuous transformation of national armed forces, towards the goal of being more interoperable, more sustainable, more flexible and more deployable; invites the Council to investigate, for example, the feasibility of potentially setting-up a permanent Spearhead Europe Force, which could be drawing on the European multinational high readiness corps HQ in Strasbourg, Szczecin and Münster; considers that the EU battle groups should grow into full-scale brigades and should be assigned to the corps HQ on a permanent basis;
Amendment 134 #
2018/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 145 #
2018/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Believes that EDIDP will help to foster the competitiveness, efficiency and innovation capacity of the EU's defence industry by eligible actions involving inter alia designing, prototyping, testing, qualification and certification of defence productsTakes the view that the Member States should remain fully autonomous in developing their own defence industry, and that all attempts at EU-level unification in this area could lead to as well as the development of technologies within a consortium including SMEs and middle capitalisation companies (mid-caps), research centres and universities, and collaboration between Member States, which contributes toakening of competitiveness and innovativeness, and also to bureaucratisation and corruption, which will in turn weaken the EU´'s strategic autonomydefence potential as a whole;
Amendment 150 #
2018/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 158 #
2018/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses that EU´s strategic security and defence objectives can only be achieved through the closest coordination of the needs and long-term capability building requirements of both the armed forces and defence industmost quickly if the Member States' full autonomy in the area of armaments is preserved, so as to maintain balance between them and promote technological and operational diversification; stresses that the EU is not a military pact and that the Member States should retain the full capacity to carry out independent military activities and defend their territories ofand the Member States; notesEU's outer borders; notes at the same time, however, that both the Capability Development Plan (CDP) and the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD) can make important contributions to the achievement of this goal;
Amendment 164 #
2018/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Emphasises again that the EDA should be the implementing agency for Union actions under the European Capabilities and Armaments policy, where foreseen by the Lisbon Treaty; stresses that the administrative and operational expenditure of the EDA should be funded from the Union budget; welcomes the minor adjustments of EDA's budget that have taken place but emphasises that EDA's increased responsibilities in the context of, among other things, PESCO and CARD require adequate funding;
Amendment 227 #
2018/2099(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
30a. Stresses that the EU is not trying to become a military pact to rival NATO, and that the Member States' commitments to NATO must always take precedence over military cooperation within the EU;
Amendment 149 #
2018/2040(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
Amendment 170 #
2018/2040(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
Amendment 180 #
2018/2040(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – point n
(n) to strengthen the operational side of EU and UN priorities for conflict prevention, including by ensuring the availability of experienced mediators and mediation advisers, including women envoys and senior officials;
Amendment 236 #
2018/2040(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point u
Paragraph 1 – point u
Amendment 281 #
2018/2040(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point y
Paragraph 1 – point y
Amendment 113 #
2018/0227(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 14
Recital 14
(14) The Programme's actions should be used to address market failures or sub- optimal investment situations, in a proportionate manner, without duplicating or crowding out private financing and have a clear European added value.
Amendment 46 #
2018/0110(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 5
Article 4 – paragraph 5
Amendment 61 #
2018/0110(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point i
Article 10 – paragraph 1 – point i
Amendment 65 #
2018/0110(COD)
Proposal for a regulation
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point e
Article 11 – paragraph 1 – point e
Amendment 39 #
2018/0058(COD)
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
1. A pre-condition for granting the Union’s macro-financial assistance shall be that Ukraine respects effective democratic mechanisms – including a multi-party parliamentary system – and the rule of law, and guarantees respect for human rights and rights of national minorities.
Amendment 110 #
2017/2283(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 158 #
2017/2282(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Georgian authorities to take further steps to uphold fundamental freedoms, notably for vulnerable groups, by fighting hate speech and discrimination, including on the labour market through an amended Labour Code, against LGBTQI people, disabled peopleunborn children, persons with a disability and minorities;
Amendment 174 #
2017/2282(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Georgian authorities to take further steps to protect women against all forms of violence and sexual harassment and to increase their participation in politics and the labour market;
Amendment 192 #
2017/2282(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Welcomes the emphasis put on job creation as well as labour rights notably through the adoption of the law on occupational safety; stresses the need to put in place a fully-fledged labour inspection system to improve safety at work and reduce undeclared work; takes note of the Georgian authorities’ ambition to do so by September 2019; is concerned by child labour and insufficient freedom of association for trade unions; recalls that occupational safety according to the requirements of the Association Agreement is of critical importancend calls for the liberalisation of labour law so that the barriers causing unemployment can be removed;
Amendment 221 #
2017/2282(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Recalls that environmental governance is a key feature of the Association Agreement requirements; welcomes the entry into force of a new Environmental Impact Assessment Code in line with EU legislation as well as the adoption of the roadmap for the Climate Action Plan; calls for further alignment of national environmental policies with EU targets to fight climate change, in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement and, in particular, the finalisation and adoption the Low Emission Development Strategy;
Amendment 41 #
2017/2281(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates its position that any decision on future MFA disbursement should only take place after the planned parliamentary elections and on condition that they are conducted in line with internationally recognised standards and assessed by specialised international bodies, and that the payment of all budget support programmes should remain on hold until meaningful progress in democratic standards takes place; calls, in the meantime, on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to continue reallocating funds to support civil society in Moldova, in particular to the free and independent media, as well as the private sector and local authorities, and to coordinate efforts with other organisations, such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to ensure greater coherence in terms of financial assistance conditionality;
Amendment 152 #
2017/2281(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. WelcomesNotes with concern the adoption of a new National Gender Equality Strategy in 2017, and calls on the authorities to ensure its full implementationabandon it;
Amendment 154 #
2017/2281(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the authorities to significantly step up efforts to uphold human rights and fundamental freedoms, notably for vulnerable groups, by fighting hate speech and discrimination against LGBTQI people, persons with disabilities, unborn children and minorities such as the Roma population;