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Activities of Mario BORGHEZIO related to 2015/2063(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

Prevention of radicalisation and recruitment of European citizens by terrorist organisations (A8-0316/2015 - Rachida Dati) IT
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2063(INI)

Amendments (12)

Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Notes that the fight against terrorism, and therefore also against radicalisation and recruitment, is a priority objective for the European Union;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Notes that, under the Stockholm Programme for the period 2010-2014, the European Council confirmed its counterterrorism strategy, which comprises four main strands – prevent, protect, pursue, respond – and calls for prevention to be enhanced;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Notes that the Stockholm Programme 2010-2014 stresses the importance of action to counter violent extremism, proselytising on the internet and the funding of terrorism, and calls on the Member States to strengthen the operational capacity of the relevant competent authorities and cooperation at local level between public institutions and civil society;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considering that estimates suggest that more than 4 000 western Europeans have already gone to fight in the Middle East;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Notes the creation of the EU Radicalisation Awareness Network to raise awareness of the problem of radicalisation and to share experiences, knowledge and good practices in order to increase awareness of the problem of radicalisation and improve communication methods to counter terrorist discourse;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considering that the European Union has been unable to stem the flow of European recruits to radical Islamic groups in Syria and Iraq, as revealed by the European Union’s head of counterterrorism;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Notes that the number of Europeans ready to join Islamic State militia and other similar extremist organisations has ‘stabilised’ in some EU countries, such as Belgium and the UK, but that the departure of jihadist militants from other Member States, including France and Germany, is continuing unstemmed;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Notes that some foreign fighters are now being approached in prison, while others are being recruited through more elusive channels and using ‘less traditional’ means of identification;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission to take action to prevent recruitment and the proselytising of terrorism in prisons because, as the European counterterrorism coordinator has pointed out, putting thousands of fighters returning from Syria in prison would encourage their radicalisation;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Encourages the EU and its institutions to monitor and use all available means to prevent the risk of an action or operation being intercepted by terrorist groups and therefore being connected with money- laundering and/or the funding of terrorism;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Notes that terrorist organisations and individual terrorists are not only making use of the internet for various purposes, either to damage or compromise the IT systems of a particular country or to conduct all the activities involved in the management and continuing existence of terrorist organisations, such as propaganda, fund-raising, communication, organisation and the recruitment of new members, but also, through the action of hackers, for counter-information, destabilisation and/or espionage;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Deplores the fact that, despite having adopted a strategy on cyber-security and proposed a directive on intelligence services to enhance security in 2013, the European Union has failed to fast-track implementation, even though there is evidence that various internet sites have been hacked;
2015/07/01
Committee: AFET