Activities of Tomas TOBÉ related to 2020/2255(INL)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Legal migration policy and law
Amendments (7)
Amendment 6 #
1. Notes that the 'New Pact on Migration and Asylum' is a holistic attempt to address Europe's migration challenges; stresses however that many of these challenges originate outside Europe and urges that the root causes and drivers of migration be effectively addressed in the country of origin or transit;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls Member States’ right to determine their own migration policies; underlines that facilitating labour migration at Union level undermines Member States’ unique and diverse labour market policiesArticle 79(5) TFEU reserves the right for Member States to determine volumes of admission of third country nationals coming to their territory to seek work; considers that increasing regular migration channels will not automatically reduce illegal migration or human trafficking;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that external borders must be secured and that migrants who lack the right to stay or enter the Member States must be swiftly returned; supports proposals for an accelerated border procedure to apply to persons whose asylum applications have been rejected; underscores that reintegration shall be linked to longer-term development rationales therefore needing an approach based on cooperation with migration and return actors as well as on designing programmes from a needs-based, bottom- up perspective in line with national and local development plans;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines that emigration of highly qualified citizgenuine circular migration policy instruments deprivesmay support countries of origin of their human capital and an educated workforce (“brain drain”) and seriously hampers as regards their economic and social development, especially through remittances; calls for the future EU Talent Partnerships to address this issue and take on board lessons from the recent EU pilot projects on legal migration;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for strengthening international law enforcement efforts, in cooperation with local governments, to combat criminal networks of smugglers contributing to illegal migration; stresses the importance of ensuring the protection of fundamental rights to migrants living in third countries, including in transit countries;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the appropriate use of the NDICI-Global Europe to contribute to reducing migration flows by stimulating economic growth and sustainable development in third countries; recalls that the pandemic has profoundly affected the capacity of host developing countries to manage the presence of migrants and refugees; urges the Union to foresee alternative solution to support them such as by extending preferential trade arrangements for countries hosting large numbers of refugees;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Highlight that increases in GDP per capita in developing countries might in the short-term lead to an increase in migration; underlines therefore that the Union's migration approach needs to be based on a wide range of policy tools and joint objectives namely development cooperation, security, visa, trade, agriculture, investment and employment, energy, environment and climate change, and education which shall however not be dealt with in isolation by adopting therefore a Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development approach;