3 Amendments of Justas Vincas PALECKIS related to 2007/2271(INI)
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas these policies should encompass the variety of situations prevailing in our neighbourhood, notably in those countries which have candidate status and have started negotiations, those which have candidate status but have not yet started negotiations, those which have membership prospects, those which have a European integration goal and those which merely wish to have close neighbourly ties with the Union; whereas this approach should avoid any political practices that could result in the creation ( or recreation) of the dividing fault-lines in Europe,
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. In this light, strongly believes that each candidate country's progress towards EU membership should be considered on the basis of that country's own merits, that those merits could be categorised in three groups – political, administrative and judicial, that in the political domain, true pluralism and freedom of expression, together with regimes enhancing real political responsibility and accountability, should be encouraged, that this would make it possible to define public interests more effectively and thereby to minimise the costs of resolving contradictions and conflicts between public and private interests, which are so damaging in young, emerging democracies, and that the reform of the judiciary and of public administration should also be addressed at the early stages of the membership negotiations;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Furthermore, urges the Commission to come up with concrete proposals for a more diversified external relations policy towards our neighbours, along the lines outlined in the present resolution and drawing on the experience and success of EU Member States in central and eastern Europe, and to reconsider its own administrative structures in order to establish a structural link between the activities carried out by the Enlargement and the RELEX Directorates- General;