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21 Amendments of Jaak MADISON related to 2022/2005(INI)

Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the EU Action Plan is the first EU policy instrument to recognise the alleged structural dimension of racism, which has historical roots dating back to colonialism and slavery;
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas according to the FRA, racial discrimination and harassment remain normalised throughout the EU10; whereas racism and extreme right-wing, extreme left-wing, extreme right-wing, antisemitic and Islamist sentiments and ideology continue to pose serious challenges in our Union, but are by no means prevalent; whereas, in spite of these problems, the European Union is one of the most popular migration destinations for minority groups allegedly subject to structural discrimination; _________________ 10 https://fra.europa.eu/en/news/2019/rising- inequalities-and-harassment-fundamental- rights-protection-falters
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas structural and institutionalised racism iscan also be mirrored in socioeconomic inequality and poverty, and whereas these factors can interact and reinforce each other;
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas there are barriers to access justice forevery victims of racial discrimination; whereas equality bodies in the Member States lack the human and financial resources and/or political will and independence to bridge this gap has access to justice;
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas the EU Action Plan lacks follow-up mechanisms and measurable targets;deleted
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas the Racial Equality Directive has been insufficiently implemented by the Member States;deleted
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
H. whereas the EU institutions need to take concrete steps to ensure sustainable changes towards a fully inclusive and respectful workplace; whereas discrimination is often multidimensional and only an intersectional approach can pave the way to sustainable changesstop constantly constructing new victim groups and, building on those, new victim industries, especially as the EU is one of the most tolerant places in the world, as reflected, amongst other things, in the mass migration to Europe of minority groups allegedly facing structural discrimination;
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises the urgent needpossibility for the Union to develop a robust and comprehensive agenda for effectively combating racism and discrimination on all grounds and in all areas in the EU; insists that; calls on the Union and its institutions musto lead by example in the fight against structural and institutional racism and anti-discrimination;
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Council to set up a Council Gender Equality and Equality group in order to allow high-level discussions on these issues in a regular and permanent forum;deleted
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States to ensure the full implementation of the Racial Equality Directive; condemns the fact that racial, ethnic, linguistic and religious minorities face structural racism, discrimination, hate crime and hate speech, a lack of access to justice, and sustained socioeconomic inequalities in areas such as housing, healthcare, employment and education, which need to be acknowledged as major barriers to full enjoyment of fundamental rights and key barriers to inclusion and equality;deleted
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. RegretNotes that 14 years after the adoption of the Framework Decision on Racism and Xenophobia, several Member States have not yet fully and correctfully transposed its provisions into national law; calls on the Member States to put measures in place that encourage victims and witnesses to come forward and report hate crime, and strengthen the ability of national law enforcement systems to correctly identify and record it;
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. DemandConsiders that the Member States endshould be allowed to rely on racial or ethnic profiling in allvarious forms, encompassing artificial intelligence (AI) tools and including in criminal law enforcement, counter-terrorism measures and immigration controls, and to officially recognise and combat practices of unlawful discrimination and violence through anti-racism and anti-bias training for the authorities;
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to monitor racial bias, including in AI datasets, in criminal justice, education systems and social services, and to take proactive steps to ensure equal justice in order to improve relations between authorities and minority communities; calls, furthermore, for the creation of independent complaint mechanisms for all administrative, judiciary and executive branches of the state, in particular law enforcement;deleted
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Urges the EU institutions to address intersectional forms of discrimination in EU anti-discrimination legislation and policies and to promote an EU framework on intersectional discrimination with cross-cutting objectives and measures;deleted
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Emphasises the need to ensure meaningful participation of all groups affected by intersectional discrimination in policymaking at EU, national and local levels, especially racialised groups;deleted
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on all Member States to adopt national action plans against racism and discrimination by the end of 2022, as provided for in the EU Anti- racism Action Plan; highlights the need to continue this EU Action Plan beyond 2025 and encourages the Commission to begin this work before the end of its current mandate;deleted
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the importance of representation and diversity as a tool for the development of inclusive societies; recalls that the media have a responsibility to reflect societies in all their diversity, and regrets the current lack of diversity at all levelsrecalls that diversity diktats imposed on the media by the European Union are incompatible with the principles of a free media landscape; calls on the European Union, in the interests of media freedom and media pluralism, to refrain from interfering in the work of the media and from subjecting them to any kind of constraints as regards diversity; notes that the world was much more colourful when it did not have to be diverse;
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission not to adopt concreteany legislative measures to strengthen the role and independence of equality bodies in Member States, as equality should be rejected in favour of equal rights;
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for structural and institutionalised racism, discrimination and the underrepresentation of minoritiesStresses that, with regard to the selection of personnel within the structures of the European institutions, to be addressed and for the adoption of a workforce diversity and inclusion strategyhe principle of meritocratic appointment should apply and that this can lead to the overrepresentation or underrepresentation of certain social groups, without this being attributable to structural and institutionalised racism or discrimination;
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 306 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the continuous re- appointment since 2015 of the coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life, especially as, since 2015, antisemitism has been on the rise again within the European Union due to mass immigration from the Islamic world, making the aforementioned re- appointment all the more important; deplores the Commission’s 15. appointment of the first anti-racism coordinator in 2021, ands supposed ‘anti-racism’ is not, as may be assumed, the coantinuous re- appointment since 2015 of the coordinator on combating antisemitism and fostering Jewish life; but deploresthesis of racism, but in fact a separate ideology with its own demands that implies that many white Europeans are racist and that there is structural racism everywhere to the detriment of minority groups, attributed to the fact that these minority groups are living in systems created by white Europeans; notes that this is a simplistic line of thought that is disproved, for example, by the fact that certain Asian minority groups achieve significantly higher incomes and black minority groups achieve above-average results in the fields of sport or music, even though these minority groups are acting within structures created by white people; welcomes the fact that the position of anti- Muslim hatred coordinator has been left vacant since July 2021; 2021 and calls for it to be abolished entirely;
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the systematic integration of issues related to anti-racism, discrimination and intersectionality into its annual reports on fundamental rights and the rule of law; calls for this dimension to be fully integrated and reflected in the final report of the panel of independent experts to be set up through the public procurement procedure requested by Parliament’s Bureau as part of the rule of law report;deleted
2022/06/03
Committee: LIBE