4 Amendments of Sophie WILMÈS related to 2024/2019(DEC)
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
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3. Notes with concern that the number of migrants arriving irregularly in the Union increased again in 2023 as compared to previous years; furtherTakes note of the Commission effort to strenghten and developp all aspects of the common European asylum system, including its external dimension; acknowledges the Commision's role in supporting legal migration to the Members States including by contributing to the integration of third countries nationals; notes the Commission’s ongoing efforts to assist Member States in addressing irregular arrivals and in successfully integrating legally residing third-country nationals; notes that the number of migrants arriving irregularly in the Union increased in 2023 as compared to previous years; recalls that, while the Commission should continue to take action on migration and asylum within the framework of external action, the functioning of the ‘Team Europe’ approach must be clarified while safeguarding the role of Parliament; calls on the Commission to increase the transparency and accountability of the programming and implementation of the Union home affairs funds in third countries; welcomes the Commission's effort to enhance solidarity and responsability sharing between Member States, in particular towards those most affected by migration and asylum challenges; renews its call on the Commission to support the Union agencies and the Member States in coordinating effective search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean, ensuring that such actions are carried out in accordance with international and Union law;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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3. Notes with concern that the number of migrants arriving irregularly in the Union increased again in 2023 as compared to previous years; further notes the Commission’s ongoing efforts to assist Member States in addressing irregular arrivals and legal pathways and in successfully integrating legally residing third-country nationals; recalls that, while the Commission should continue to take action on migration and asylum within the framework of external action, the functioning of the ‘Team Europe’ approach must be clarified while safeguarding the role of Parliamentrole of Parliament in any partnership agreements with third countries must be ensured as set out by the Treaties and the 2010 framework agreement on relations between Parliament and Commission; calls on the Commission to increase the transparency and accountability of the programming and implementation of the Union home affairs funds in third countries; renews its call on the Commission to support the Union agencies and the Member States in coordinating effective search-and-rescue operations in the Mediterranean, ensuring that such actions are carried out in accordance with international and Union law;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
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4. Acknowledges the Commission’s continuous monitoring of rule of law benchmarks through the rule of law toolbox, including the annual rule of law report, while remaining concerned that, by adopting an overly diplomatic approach and, failing to distinguish between individual and systemic issues and not basing its analysis on specific indicators, the annual rule of law report risks trivialising some of the most serious and/or persistent breaches of the rule of law; supports the link established between the release of funds under the European recovery plan and the achievement of super milestones, and calls on the Commission to apply more generally this link between financial instruments and respect for the rule of law; reiterates its regret and serious concern with respect to the lawfulness of the Commission’s decision concluding that, in Hungary, the horizontal enabling condition of the Charter had been fulfilled in relation to judicial independence which decision enabled the Hungarian authorities to start claiming reimbursements of up to approximately EUR 10,2 billion from Union funds; calls on the Commission to take steps towards the full implementationdevelop a more systematic, predictable and reasoned approach to the objective reasons for freezing or unfreezing funds; calls on the Commission to take steps towards the full implementation – taking into account developments that have taken place in the meantime – of Parliament’s recommendations on the establishment of an EU mechanism for democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, contained in its resolution of 25 October 20161, and to ensure that assessments of rule of law benchmarks are more precise and qualitative than is presently the case, relying not only on legislative changes, but also on precise indicators and on real and independent evidence of their implementation in practice; _________________ 1 European Parliament resolution of 25 October 2016 with recommendations to the Commission on the establishment of an EU mechanism on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights (2015/2254(INL)) (OJ C 215, 19.6.2018, p. 162).
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
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4. AcknowledgWelcomes the Commission’s continuous monitoring of rule of law benchmarks through the rule of law toolbox, including the annual rule of law report, whilose remaining concerned that, by adopting an overly diplomatic approach and failing to distinguish between individual and systemic issues, the annual rule of law report risks triviigourous chapters detail individual and systemic issues regarding the rule of law in the different Member States and allow for a comprehensive analiysing somes of the most serious breaches of the rule of lawsituation and its evolution in each Member State; reiterates its regret and serious concern with respect to the lawfulness of the Commission’s decision concluding that, in Hungary, the horizontal enabling condition of the Charter had been fulfilled in relation to judicial independence which decision enabled the Hungarian authorities to start claiming reimbursements of up to approximately EUR 10,2 billion from Union funds; calls on the Commission to take steps towards the full implementation of Parliament’s recommendations on the establishment of an EU mechanism for democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights, contained in its resolution of 25 October 20161 , and to ensure that assessments of rule of law benchmarks are more precise and qualitative than is presently the case, relying not only on legislative changes, but also on real and independent evidence of their implementation in practice; _________________ 1 European Parliament resolution of 25 October 2016 with recommendations to the Commission on the establishment of an EU mechanism on democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights (2015/2254(INL)) (OJ C 215, 19.6.2018, p. 162).