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Activities of Peter KOFOD related to 2020/2255(INL)

Plenary speeches (1)

Legal migration policy and law (debate)
2021/11/23
Dossiers: 2020/2255(INL)

Amendments (9)

Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 39
— having regard to the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration of 19 December 2018,deleted
2021/09/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 44
— having regard to the study by the Center for Global Development of 15 July 2019, entitle ‘Maximizing the Shared Benefits of Legal Migration Pathways: Lessons from Germany’s Skills Partnerships’,deleted
2021/09/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that, in order to face demographic challenges, the Union needsMember States should mobilise theird-country worker citizens of all skill levels to increase its economic competitiveness and itswith regard to China, India and the US and should not keep on telling the fairy tale of global influence as the champion of democracy, inclusion, human rights, free trade in goods and services and the rule of law, and as the leader in the fight against climate change;
2021/09/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Requests that the Commission submit, by 31 January 2022respect their competence, on the basis of Article 79(2), in particular points (a) and (b5), of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, a proposal for an act that would serve as a package of proposals to facilitate and promote entry into and mobility within the Union for legally migratingwhich states that Member States are to "determine volumes of admission of third- country nationals applying for work and to reduce bureaucracy and promote equal treatment, following the recommendations set out in the Annex heretocoming from third countries to their territory in order to seek work, whether employed or self- employed";
2021/09/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that the creation of a Union-wide talent pool for third-country nationals who wish to apply for work with a view to migrating legally to a Member State, as well as for employers to search for potential employees in third countries, would be an essential tool for achievcounter-productive to tacklinge the purpose of the proposed act and calroblems of youth unemployment within the Union, running at record levels oin the Commission to include the creation of such a talent pool in its proposalsome Member States; furthermore considers such a brain-drain from developing nations a new iteration of colonialism, profiting the west at the expense of third countries;
2021/09/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
5. WelcomOpposes Directive (EU) 2021/...15 , butand considers it insufficient due to the fact that the labour markets of the Union are also in need of low- and medium- skilled workers; calls, therefore, on the Commission to include in its proposal an admission scheme for low- and medium- skilled third-country workers, including the creation of a framework for the validation and recognition of their skills and qualifications, based on objective and uniform criterias expansion in this proposal to include low- and medium- skilled workers, harmful to the labour markets of the Union; _________________ 15EUT number of 2016/0176 COD to be inserted.
2021/09/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Notes that many Member States which have received large numbers of migrants, especially since 2015, have experienced increases in crime, higher social costs, lack of social integration and not the optimistic view of integrated productive new Union citizens;
2021/09/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Is of the view that Directive 2003/109/EC should be amended to allow third-country nationals who have legally entered the Union and are long-term residents of a Member State to reside permanently within another Member State from the day their permit is issued on terms similar to the terms applicable to Union citizens and to reduce the number of years of residence required to acquire Union long-term residence status from five to three years; calls on the Commission to include those amendments in its proposal;
2021/09/10
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Is of the view that sufficient funding for the proposals set out in this report is required and considers that the financial implications of the requested proposal should be covered by the relevant Union budgetary allocation;deleted
2021/09/10
Committee: LIBE