4 Amendments of Edit BAUER related to 2007/2145(INI)
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Observes that the recent EU enlargements have added close to one hundred - mainly national- minority population groups to the fifty or so which existed when there were 15 EU countries, and stresses that because of the low percentage of resident immigrants, refugees and foreign nationals from third countries and the more visible presence of indigenous ‘traditional’ minorities in Central and Eastern European Member States, migration and integration policies have been hived off there from policies on minorities;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Stresses that, while protection of minorities is a part of the Copenhagen criteria, there is noeither common criterion nor minimum standards for national minorities’ rights in Community policy and that there is no common EU definition either of membership of a national minority; recommends that such a definition be laid down at European level on the basis of Council of Europe Recommendation 1201 (1998);3),
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 b (new)
Paragraph 38 b (new)
38b. Considers that the principles of subsidiarity and self-governance are the most effective ways of handling the problems of traditional national minority communities, following the best practices existing within the Union, encourages the use of appropriate types of self- governance solutions (personal-cultural, territorial, regional autonomies) based on the agreement of the majority and the minority community while fully respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Member States;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 c (new)
Paragraph 38 c (new)
38c. Stresses that the EU’s multilingualism policy shall protect and promote regional and minority languages by targeted funding and specific programmes next to the Life Long Learning Programme;