Activities of Romeo FRANZ related to 2021/2057(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Role of culture, education, media and sport in the fight against racism (debate)
Amendments (20)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
— having regard to the Council Recommendation of 12 March 2021 on Roma equality, inclusion and participation (2021/C 93/01),
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)
Citation 14 a (new)
— having regard to the European Parliament Resolution on the implementation of National Roma Integration Strategies, aimed at combating negative attitudes towards people with Romani background (2020/2011(INI)1a _________________ 1a OJ C 385, 22.9.2021, p.104.
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 b (new)
Citation 14 b (new)
— having regard to the Parliament Resolution on children’s rights in view of the EU Strategy on the rights of the child 2021/2523(RSP)1b _________________ 1b OJ C 474, 24.11.2021, p.146.
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)
Citation 15 a (new)
— having regard to the infringement proceedings titled Non-conformity with Directive2000/43/EC on Racial Equality - Discrimination of Roma children in education(infringement numbers 20142174, 20152025 and 20152206),
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas different groups, communities and individuals are subject to racism, xenophobia and discrimination, including antigypsyism, afrophobia, islamophobia, arabophobia, anti- semitism, racism against migrants and other forms of racism. Whereas each specific form of racism has distinctive features and some forms are more prominent in some Member States than in others.
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas according to the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights, racial discrimination and harassment remain commonplace throughout the European Union; whereas racial and ethnic minorities are subjected to harassment, violence and hate speech, both online and offline; whereas racial and ethnic minorities face structural discrimination in the EU in all areas, including housing, healthcare, employment and educat, education and judicial systems; whereas Romani people represent Europe’s largest ethnic minority and are subject to persistent antigypsyism - a specific form of racism - leading to the highest rates of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas racist and xenophobic attitudes are embraced by certain opinion leaders and politicians across the EU, fomenting a social climate that provides fertile ground for racism, discrimination and hate crimes; whereas this environment is further fuelled by extremist movements which seek to divide our societies; whereas these acts run counter to the common European values which all the Member States have undertaken to uphold; whereas hate-motivated harassment and hate crimes significantly increased during the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and often Romani people were seen as scapegoats in the media and public debates; whereas the majority of hate- motivated racist and xenophobic incidents are not reported;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas many minority groups suffer police violence, including collective punishment and racial profiling; whereas specific measures are needed in order to combat this phenomenon; whereas deficiencies in the rule of law, in the field of criminal justice lead to insufficient level of protection and access to justice for victims of police violence, and victims are often persecuted by the state authorities; whereas racism against ethnic and racial minorities has led to violence and killing;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas access to education and educational attainment is an issue for racialised communities throughout Europe; whereas segregation in education remains an issue in certain Member States; whereas placing children in segregated schools and the discriminatory practice of placing children of ethnic and racial minorities in schools for children with mental disabilities, persist in some Member States;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Calls on the Commission to submit a legislative proposal for the equality, inclusion, participation of Romani people and combating antigypsyism;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the publication and implementation of specific EU guidelines on the collection of equality data based on racial or ethnic origin as defined by the EU Racial Equality Directive that is voluntary, anonymous and ensures the protection of personal data, self- identification and consultation with relevant communities, in order to obtain reliable, comparable data in accordance with the relevant national legal frameworks and EU data protection legislation to support evidence based policies, to improve the effectiveness of strategies and measures taken and to identify structural problems; calls on the Member States to adapt national statistics and to remove barriers in order to facilitate the systematic collection of quality data on equalityrobust ethnic and gender disaggregated quality data on equality to inform needs and context analysis, help in setting targets and impact indicators in order to ensure the best outcome in terms of matching needs with planning and budgeting, both at national and EU level; calls on the Commission and the Member States to use this data to develop policies to attain racial justice;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the commitment to diversity and inclusion within Erasmus+, Creative Europe, the European Solidarity Corps, and the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme; calls on the Commission to ensure that the recently published inclusion strategies are mainstreamed across all educational, cultural, media and sporting initiatives; calls on the Commission and Member States to make the programmes accessible for the most disadvantaged youth from poor environments;
Amendment 151 #
8. Calls for the Commission and the Member States to foster a more diverse cultural sector by removing barriers to participation in culture for ethnic and racialised communities through funding from all the relevant programmes; encourages the creation of support networks and outreach activities, especially for those in rural and outermost regions;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to improve monitoring and evaluation, exchange of best -practise, including by testing and sharing participatory tools, which can demonstrate the effects of promoting inclusion and non- discrimination and combating racism through culture and help to create more inclusive policies;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the Member States to promote minorities language, culture and history, in school curricula, museums and other forms of cultural and historical expression, and recognize the contribution of their culture as part of the European Heritage; calls on the Member States to develop coherent and consistent measures, with appropriate budgets to stimulate, support and promote the arts and culture of racialized and ethnic groups, to research and conserve the material and intangible heritage of the traditional communities culture;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the lasting negative impact of European colonialism, holocaust, slavery and genocide on today’s society, including in the development of educational curricula;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the history of all racial and ethnic communities living in Europe to be included in all history curricula in order to encourage a broader perspective on European and world history centred on the interactions between different continents before and after European colonisation;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Deplores the practice of segregation in schools; calls on all Member States to introduce policies to prevent children from minority groups from being placed in separate schools or classes, whether intentionally or not ;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Calls on the Member States to strengthen anti-racism awareness raising for public civil servants and employees of educational institutions, municipalities, the judiciary and state police forces and urges for mandatory anti-discrimination trainings: calls in the context of prevention of structural racism, such as racially motivated police violence, to anchor into the national educational programs and curricula of future teachers, police officers and civil servants, knowledge about racism and its historical background, such as colonialism, the holocaust and slavery;