Activities of Viola VON CRAMON-TAUBADEL related to 2019/2210(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Western Balkans, following the 2020 summit
Amendments (27)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
– having regard to the conclusions of the General Affairs Council of 29/30 April 1997 on the application of conditionality with a view to developing a coherent EU strategy for relations with the countries in the region,
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 b (new)
Citation 11 b (new)
– having regard to the Berlin Process, launched on 28 August 2014, in particular the declaration of the Western Balkans Foreign Ministers on regional cooperation and bilateral disputes of 27 August 2015 and the establishment of the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO),
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 c (new)
Citation 11 c (new)
– having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 9 July 2015 on the Srebrenica Commemoration (2015/2747(RSP)),
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 d (new)
Citation 11 d (new)
– having regard to the European Parliament resolution of 2 April 2009 on European conscience and totalitarianism,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas enlargement has been one of the EU’s most successful policies and the most effective foreign policy instrument contributing to extending the area of democracy, peace and prosperity across Europe, including the Union’s founding values of respect for human dignity, freedom, equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to enhance the accession process by ensuring that it strengthens fundamental values and brings sustainable democratic, economic and economiclogical transformation and social convergence, and by making sure that the internal reform of the EU and its enlargement run in parallelenlargement of the Union continues independently from the internal reform of the EU;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point a a (new)
(aa) to increase efforts to build political will among the Member States in progressing with the enlargement to the Western Balkans instead of letting internal EU processes stand in the way, as well as improve the EU’s political and strategic guidance of overall policy in the region;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) to ensure that the enhanced methodology sustains fully-fledged EU membership as the final goal and that the EU sets clear and predictable rules and criteria and applies them consistently, thus restoring its credibility, and as a consequence endorse the revised methodology and the decision to open accession negotiations with both Albania and North Macedonia as a package at the 2020 Western Balkans Summit;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point d a (new)
(da) to add to the accountability and predictability of the enlargement process for the Western Balkan countries by anchoring the Commission’s new methodology as a long-term policy adjustment and refraining from continuing to introduce changes to the process and parameters of accession;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(ha) to strengthen the accession process in view of deepening the solidarity between the peoples of the Western Balkans countries and of the Member States, while respecting their respective history, culture and traditions;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point k a (new)
(ka) to defend the interest of the Union by mitigating the negative effect of free- trade agreements with the Eurasian Economic Union signed by countries which have applied for membership in the European Union and who have been granted the opportunity of a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with the European Union, including by reviewing the level of assistance provided to such countries;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) to engage the representatives of accessioWestern Balkan countries in the Conference on the Future of Europe;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m
Paragraph 1 – point m
(m) to recognise the negative effects of the European Council’s failure to open accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedonia in June 2018, June 2019 and October 2019 and to acknowledge that opening accession talks would restore credibility to the accession process, as recommended by the European Parliament and the European Commission;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o
Paragraph 1 – point o
(o) to grant visa liberalisation to Kosovo as soon as possible, as the benchmarks have been fulfilled since July 2018;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point p
Paragraph 1 – point p
(p) to bring the primacy of human and fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law back to the very centre of the enlargement process by opening first and closing last the chapters related to the judiciary, corruption and organised crime, as well as those related to respect for human rights and media freedom;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q
Paragraph 1 – point q
(q) to increase the involvement of rule of law experts from the Member States, civil society and human rights defenders on the ground and to improve the measuring of progress in this areadevelopments in this area, in particularly drawing upon the monitoring reports and recommendations of the Council of Europe and other standard setting bodies, while strengthening the role of the European Commission in line with the letter and spirit of the Treaties, while continuing to adhere to current, long-standing objective standards and not overly politicising this technical stage of the enlargement process;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point q a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point q a (new)
(qa) to similarly involve standing rapporteurs for the Western Balkans countries of the European Parliament in the process and on the ground;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point w
Paragraph 1 – point w
(w) to insist on the full implementation of court rulings, including all rulings of the European Court of Human Rights and constitutional courts, as well as the recommendations of the Council of Europe monitoring bodies, including the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI);
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point x
Paragraph 1 – point x
(x) to increase EU engagement in solving outstanding bilateral issues and to urge the Western Balkan countries to commit to reconciliation and peaceful solutions to longstanding disputes; on the basis of international law, human rights standards, including the Framework Convention of National Minorities, the European Charter of Regional and Minority Language sand the European Charter of Local Self-Government;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point y
Paragraph 1 – point y
(y) to urge the Western Balkan countries to increase their effortcomply with their international obligations in the prosecution of war crimes and the resolution of missing persons casesdetermination of the fate of missing persons, including full cooperation with the United Nations Residual Mechanisms for Criminal Tribunals, the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and Specialist Prosecutor and the explicit upholding of the work and the findings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia(ICTY), as well as the promotion and dissemination of the work and legacy of the ICTY to their citizens and within their judicial system and training;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a a
Paragraph 1 – point a a
(aa) to call for a stronger legal framework to prevent and actively to fight femicide and violence against women, including by recalling the obligations of the Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence to the Western Balkans countries and by undertaking the necessary steps for the EU’s ratification of said Convention;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a b
Paragraph 1 – point a b
(ab) to put in place a strategic economic and investment plan with a view to improving competitiveness and sustainable development in the accession countrieswhole Western Balkans region, in line with the commitments made under the Paris Agreement and the strategic objective of reaching carbon neutrality by 2050 as part of the European Green Deal;
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a d
Paragraph 1 – point a d
(ad) to tackle the brain drain with concrete measures such as promoting quality and inclusive educational reforms and the creation of job opportunities for young people in particular, as well as other age groups prone to emigration;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a e
Paragraph 1 – point a e
(ae) to intensify assistance to the Western Balkan countries with a view to improving their environmental and climate laws and ensuring that they have the capacity to implement them in line with EU standards, including by honouring their obligations under the Energy Community Treaty with regard to the full alignment and implementation of the Energy acquis of the Union;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a g
Paragraph 1 – point a g
(ag) to include the accessionWestern Balkans countries in the European Green Deal and Just Transition Fund processes;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point ag a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point ag a (new)
(aga) to support the necessary energy transition in the Western Balkan countries, with regard to energy production from coal and lignite for domestic electricity and heat as well as for electricity imports to the EU, causing serious social and health consequences in our neighbourhood as well as in our Member States;
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point ap a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point ap a (new)
(apa) to reinforce and, where possible, increase the EU’s and Western Balkan countries’ common efforts on people-to- people contacts and exchanges in order to build mutually positive images of each other among the population;