Activities of Paavo VÄYRYNEN related to 2015/2342(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Addressing refugee and migrant movements: the role of EU External Action (debate) FI
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on addressing refugee and migrant movements: the role of EU External Action PDF (459 KB) DOC (107 KB)
Amendments (4)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas people should have the right to live their lives in their home country and in the region where they have been born and grown up and where they have their cultural and social roots;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that EU development cooperation should continue to address the root causes of forced displacement by promoting peace, democracy and security, reducing poverty and inequality, strengthening basic services, addressing state fragility and promoting human rights and good governance, in line with Sustainable Development Goal 16 in the new 2030 Agenda; calls therefor for the necessary analyses made per country of those root causes;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for the use of reception centres and refugee camps for avoiding illegal immigration and perilous journeys over the Mediterranean; calls for better resourcing of the existing refugee camps in order to offer their inhabitants decent life with proper housing, nutrition, health care and education; calls for the establishment of new high level reception centres and refugee camps in Northern Africa and the Middle East as well as in the Balkans in cooperation with the UNHCR and the other relevant UN bodies, regional organizations and the governments concerned; suggests that the right for asylum should be decided in these centres and camps; calls on all EU Member States to receive refugees from them in the framework of a national UNHCR quotas;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that EU external action should be forward-looking instead of mainly reactive with changing objectives in response to new crithe most important root causes for refugee and migration movements are military conflicts and other forms of violence; underlines that in the core of the activities of the EEAS should be to actively engage in conflict prevention, mediation and resolution in order to secure the right of people to stay in their home countries and regions and to advance SDG 16, indispensable to all development processes; recalls that the migration phenomenon also stems from a complex set of other causes, such as a growing population, poverty, insufficient job creation, political instability and climate change; underlines the essential need to reinforce policy coherence at two levels: between internal and external EU policies, and - within external action – between the enlargement, neighbourhood policies, relations with the EU strategic partners as well as development and trade policies;