Activities of Andrzej HALICKI related to 2023/2122(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Transparency and accountability of non-governmental organisations funded from the EU budget (debate)
Amendments (8)
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises the crucial role played by civil society, grassroots and community organisations, trade unions, activist groups, human rights defenders and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) in promoting and upholding democracytic values, equality, the rule of law and fundamental rights and in ensuring accountability forcivic participation and accountability of governments, as well as state and private actionors;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that civil society is a broader category than that of NGOs; notes that while NGOs are, on the one hand, a favoucivil society organisations ared institutional form of the neoliberal state and therefore rarely truly oppositional, on the other hand many resist instrumentalisation and expose the excesses of state and private interests; stresses, therefore, that they must be protected, including through the provision of adequate funding, including foreignmportant component of democratic life in the EU and as such, they should be supported with necessary funding from the EU budget; notes that organisations often need to rely also on foreign funding and they should not be stigmatised for using such fundings; notes that it is short-sighted to treat NGOs as a singular bloc with a singular policy outlookNGOs work in diverse policy areas and they activities vary from one another, thus they should not be perceived as a singular sector;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Remains deeply concerned by threats to and attacks on NGOs in some Member States;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Welcomes the establishment of Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values (CERV) Programme for the period 2021- 2027, which provides a direct funding to civil society organisations from the EU budget; recalls European Parliament’s role in securing an increased budget for the programme in the MFF 2021-2027 negotiations with the Council of the EU and the European Commission; calls on the Commission and the Council to ensure that the budget for the programme is increased in the next Multiannual Financial Framework to account for inflation and the need to support civil society organisations in building a resilient and participatory democracy;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that transparency and accountability measures must only serve the purpose ofare important in ensuring legitimate public scrutiny; stresses that to this end reporting requirements for NGOs must remain strictly necessary and proportionate to the specific aims pursuedshould be strictly necessary and proportionate; calls for any new EU measures in this area to be led by those principles; reminds that imposing obligations of registration, declaration and publication on certain categories of civil society organisations directly or indirectly receiving support from abroad must be in line with principles of non- discrimination, the free movement of capital the right to respect for private and family life, the right to the protection of personal data and the right to freedom of association, as stated by the Court of Justice of the European Union in the in Case C-78/18 (Commission v Hungary);
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 119 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Warns emphatically against the weaponisation of the concept of ‘foreign interference’ and emphasises that this can be and is being used by governments to repress civil society and NGOs.Reiterates its call for a coordinated EU strategy to tackle foreign interference, including via funding of civil society organisations operating in the EU by hostile actors with an intention to undermine democratic processes in member states and at Union level, in line with the recommendations set out in the Parliament’s ‘Report on foreign interference in all democratic processes in the European Union, including disinformation’;