20 Amendments of Jacek SARYUSZ-WOLSKI related to 2023/2017(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas we urgently need to reformthe existing Treaties should be complied with as regards parliamentarism, European citizenship and participatory elements ofion in European democracy;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas Article 15 TEU specifies that the European Council must not exercise legislative nor executive functions; whereas Parliament’s lack of a direct right of initiative prevents it from representing the voice of citizens properly;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the conclusions of the CoFE call for more democracy and for representative democracy to be enhanCoFE was in fact a coordinated socio-technical undertaking by a federalist group in the European Parliament and its allies in centralist European NGOs, which sought to forced through greater citizen participationa centralist agenda, blatantly disregarding the plurality of opinions of citizens and political spheres in the EU and violating fundamental democratic principles;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Strongly believes that Parliament, as the only directly electednd all other EU institution,s should be granted the general direct right of legislative initiative and full authority over the budget and that it should be enabled to lay down the strategic priorities of the European legislative agendacomply with the existing Treaties and not seek to broaden their competences, as that would upset the delicate institutional balance;
Amendment 41 #
2. Considers that the European Council’s practice of ‘tasking the Council and the Commission’ goes beyond the role of strategic guidance assigned to it by the Treaties, and is therefore contrary to both the word and spirit of the Treaties; considers it necessaryit possible to improve the working relationship between the European Council and Parliament;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that in no case should the Council should switch from unanimity to qualified majority voting (QMV) wherever this is possible under the Treaties in the short term, and permanently by means of Treaty changes, in order to make EU decision- making more efficient and democratic;
Amendment 52 #
5. Considers it necessarypossible for Parliament to strengthen its functions of political scrutiny over the Commission, including introducing the possibility of triggering motions of censure against individual commissioners;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the creation of an EU Statute of Citizenship, that will clarify and consolidate citizenship-specific rights and freedoms; calls on the Council and Commission to take concrete steps towards the expansion of citizenship-specific rights and freedoms following the procedure under Article 25 TFEU; stresses the exclusive competence of the Member States in the area of national citizenship;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Highlights that effective citizens’ dialogues and active citizens’ participation are strongly linked to the European dimension of citizenship education, which should be enhanced; stresses the competence of the Member States in the area of education and calls for any attempts to harmonise education to be abandoned;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to better inform non- national Union citizens (i.e. Union citizens who reside in a Member State of which they are not nationals) about their right to vote in or run for office in municipal and European elections; stresses that such ‘mobile’ EU citizens’ right to vote and stand should be expanded to regional and national elections in Member States;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls that a single harmonised age for voting and for standing as a candidate should be introduced across the EU; is of the opinion that the minimum age for voting should be set at 16the Member States have exclusive competence to decide, in accordance with their traditions and constitutional order, the applicable age for voting and for standing as a candidate; is of the opinion that the Union has no competence to harmonise this age;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Is highly concerned byNotes the practice of certain Member States of depriving their citizens of the right to vote in national parliamentary elections when they live abroad; urgesstresses that these Member States to end this form of disenfranchisementhave exclusive competence in this regard;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. StressNotes the need topossibility of createing a comprehensive participation infrastructure in the EU, with better connection and integration of existing participatory instruments through a one-stop shop for all European participatory instruments aund new avenues for permanent participer the existing Treationes;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Reiterates its long-standing call to amend the EU Treaties to allow for EU- wide referendums on matters relevant to the Union’s actions and policiesCalls for compliance with the existing EU Treaties, in particular by the European Commission and the Court of Justice of the EU;