10 Amendments of Pier Antonio PANZERI related to 2015/2095(INI)
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that, in order to seriously address the root causes of the current refugee crisis, the European Union must be at the forefront of a serious and credible diplomatic and political international initiative on both Libya and Syria, which should engage all the main interlocutors and stakeholders involved, in cooperation with and in support of the UN and, in particular, with its Envoys Bernardino Leon and Staffan De Mistura;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls for the HR/VP and the External Action Service to be given the necessary tools and mandate to deploy the political and diplomatic action needed in the region within the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy, in coordination with the Member States;
Amendment 150 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers that migrant children are particularly vulnerable, especially when they are unaccompanied; recalls that unaccompanied children are above all children and that child protection, rather than immigration policies, must be the leading principle when dealing with them, thus respecting the core principle of the best interests of the child;
Amendment 157 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Encourages the VP/HR and the EEAS to continue to support the process of ratification of the UN Convention against Transnational Organised Crime, the Protocol thereto to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, the Protocol against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air and the Protocol against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking in Firearms, their Parts and Components and Ammunition;
Amendment 161 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Condemns the increasing criminalisation of irregular migration within the EU at the expense of the human rights of the people concerned; urges that provision be made without delay for the establishment of the necessary human rights safeguards, accountability and enforcement mechanisms;
Amendment 163 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6d. Requests that the Commission and the EEAS participate actively in the debate on the term ‘climate refugee', including its possible legal definition in international law or in any legally binding international agreement;
Amendment 165 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Recognises statelessness as a significant human rights challenge; asks the Commission and the EEAS to fight statelessness in all EU external action, in particular by addressing discrimination in nationality laws on the basis of gender, religion or a minority status, by promoting children's right to a nationality and by supporting the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) campaign aimed at ending statelessness by 2024;
Amendment 168 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6f. The EU should have a centralised European asylum system, organized by the European Commission to deal with these requests and therefore facilitate and speed up the fairly shared distribution of refugees needed among all EU countries. The current situation in Hungary with regard to Austria and Germany shows the embarrassing lack of any coordination and coherent action among EU countries, increasing the chaos and worsening this critical situation. Since it is a huge and complex crisis the EU and its Member States should give a better response to the crisis;
Amendment 169 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 g (new)
Paragraph 6 g (new)
6g. Considers that international cooperation to Development needs to be reinforced taking into consideration the phenomenon of migration. the real development of third countries shall be the way to tackle the root causes of the refugee crisis;
Amendment 700 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)
Paragraph 44 a (new)
44 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to examine the possibility of establishing 'education corridors' to ensure that students from countries in conflict, in particular Syria, Iraq and Eritrea, can have access to those European universities, which make available places and scholarships also through agreement among Member States, the European Commission and UNIMED;