31 Amendments of Miriam LEXMANN related to 2019/2202(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5 a (new)
Citation 5 a (new)
— having regard to Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 listing the third countries whose nationals must be in possession of visas when crossing the external borders and those whose nationals are exempt from their requirement,
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
— having regard to the final report of the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) Election Observation Mission of 21 July 2019 on the early parliamentary elections in Ukraine,
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
— having regard to the UN Declarations on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities, adopted on 18 December 1992,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 b (new)
Citation 13 b (new)
— having regard to the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, adopted on 5 November 1992,
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 c (new)
Citation 13 c (new)
— having regard to the opinion on the Law on Supporting the Functioning of the Ukrainian Language as the State Language, adopted by Venice Commission - CDL-AD(2019)032-e and the opinion on the provisions of the Law on Education of 5 September 2017, which concern the use of the State Language and Minority and other Languages in Education, adopted by the Venice Commission - CDL-AD (2017) 030-e,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 d (new)
Citation 13 d (new)
— having regard to the Joint Statement of the NATO-Ukraine Commission on 31 October 2019,
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas the Joint Statement of the NATO-Ukraine Commission on 31 October 2019, calls on Ukraine to comply with international obligations and commitments, to respect for human and minority rights and to fully implement the recommendations and conclusions of the Venice Commission on the Law on Education;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas, despite notable progress, widespread corruption continues to hamper Ukraine's reform process
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the EU stood with the people of Ukraine from the on-set of the COVID-19 pandemic, providing financial and material support through bilateral and regional programmes;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine is still being undermined by the unresolved conflict in the east of the country and the ongoing Russian occupation of large portions of Donbas and the whole of Crimea as well as targeted disinformation campaigns, cyber-attacks and other hybrid threats;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls on the Ukrainian Government to ensure free and fair electoral campaigns, without improper campaign financing methods, in which there is no room for hate speech and vote buying; stresses that the electoral process and the voting process on the election day should be held with higher safety standards and to take special safety measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Acknowledges the importance of cross-border mobility in strengthening people-to-people contact;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Reiterates the need to address brain-drain in Ukraine by promoting quality and inclusive education, formation and training programmes, and creating job opportunities in view of providing socio-economic perspectives to young people and families in their local communities;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to build campaigns informing citizens about the opportunities stemming from the Eastern Partnership initiative and AA/DCFTA implementation, raising awareness about the benefits of closer association and linking them to the positive development on labour markets in Ukraine and the other associated countries;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the decentralisation reform initiated in 2018 and urges Ukraine to complete it; Underlines in this respect, that amendments to the constitution should be prepared in a wide and open discussion in particular with local self- governments and their associations and changes of the territorial-administrative structures should be based on principles of trust and partnership between local self-governments and central government as outlined in the European Charter of Local Self-Government. Recalls that it is important to take into account the preferences of local residents, as envisaged under the existing relevant legislation about the voluntary amalgamation of territorial communities, including persons belonging to national minorities;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. UrEncourages Ukraine to ratify the International Criminal Court’s Rome Statute and the Istanbul Convention onake actions to preventing and combating violence against women, children and domestic violence;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses the importance of pro- democratic reforms and trust in institutions as the most efficient security mechanism;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Acknowledges Ukraine's contribution to the common security and defence policy (CSDP);
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Calls on the EU and Ukraine to boost cooperation in security and defence and devoting particular attention to the conflict in eastern Ukraine and Russia's attempts to subvert Ukraine's territorial integrity, by means of reconciliation, cooperation in the sphere of cyber security and countering disinformation, as well as working to strengthen the resilience of families, communities and state institutions;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Supports freedom of belief, opinion and expression and stresses the importance to grant equal access of all national, ethnic and linguistic minorities to information as critical ingredients of any democracy; condemns hate speech and discrimination based on ethnicity or language and fake news and misinformation, targeting national, ethnic and linguistic minorities;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Takes note of the law on supporting the functioning of the Ukrainian language as the state language and asks the Ukrainian authorities to implementUnderlines the need to ensure the respect for rights already exercised of persons belonging to national minorities as enshrined in UN and Council of Europe conventions and related protocols, non-discrimination of persons belonging to national minorities and respect for diversity, on the basis of a substantive dialogue with representatives of persons belonging to national minorities. Takes note of steps taken by Ukraine to implement the recommendations of the Venice Commission on the law ion accordance witheducation, underlines the need to fully implement these recommendations contained in opinion No. 960/2019. As regards to the Law on State Language, urges Ukraine to implement the recommendations of the Venice Commission;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Encourages the work of European political foundations in fostering the next generation of political leaders in Ukraine;
Amendment 315 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Encourages a strengthened dialogue and cooperation with Churches and religious communities and organisations in areas such as peace- building and reconciliation, thus strengthening trust in just and free society, as well as education, healthcare and basic social services;
Amendment 317 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17b. Strongly condemns the incidents of discrimination, racially motivated violence and the manifestation of intolerance targeting individuals belonging to minority groups, such as Roma people living in Ukraine;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Urges to address the rural-urban divide in Ukraine through effective financial and technical incentives to micro-, small-, medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs), small-scale farmers and family enterprises in rural and suburban areas, and through the improvement of human connectivity and infrastructure between cities and countryside in order to foster social cohesion;
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Stresses that the Nord Stream 2 project will have adverse impact not only on Ukraine's revenues, but also its energy security; urges Member States to abandon the Nord Stream 2 project;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Commends the adoption by the Ukrainian Government in February 2019 of the strategy for the state environmental policy up to 2030 and the national waste management plan; urges Ukraine to take action to put an end to the environmental damage caused by the illegal and unsustainable exploitation of natural resources, such as illegal logging in the primeval Carpathian forests, as it is the main reason of the floods in the region; calls on the EU to contribute to preventing illegal logging in Carpathian Mountains, especially in connection with the unlawful Svydovets ski resort project; encourages Ukraine to invest in ecologically and environmentally safe and sustainable touristic infrastructure;
Amendment 438 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Acknowledges the associated partnership status of Ukraine and the other signatories of AAs and DCFTAs, and calls for an enhanced political dialogue with them in order to advance further economic integration and legislative harmonisation; for example, as in the case of the EEA/EFTA countries, include Ukraine and the other associated countries as observers in the proceedings of the Committees established pursuant to Article 291 TFEU and Regulation (EU) No. 182/2011, as well as in the meetings of the European Council working groups and committees, to show the EU's commitments to further integration and to strengthen the countries' reform orientation and administrative know-how;
Amendment 439 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Welcomes the visa-free regime between the EU and Ukraine, which has allowed Ukrainian citizens to make more than 40 million trips to the EU countries since June 2017;
Amendment 444 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 b (new)
Paragraph 27 b (new)
27b. Notes that the increased number of visits by Ukrainian citizens to Schengen countries has challenged EU-Ukrainian border crossing points, which are congested and neither their infrastructure nor their capacity is adequate to provide condign human conditions for people crossing the border; Notes that one of the most acute problems on the EU-Ukraine border, especially on the Hungarian- Ukrainian and Polish-Ukrainian section, has been long waiting times to cross the border;
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 c (new)
Paragraph 27 c (new)
27c. Encourages the EU to support the establishment of new border crossing points and expansion of existing on the EU-Ukraine border through strict monitoring of funding to eliminate past abuses;