Activities of Pier Antonio PANZERI related to 2018/2017(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative on Libya (debate) IT
Recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative on Libya (debate) IT
Reports (1)
REPORT on a European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on Libya PDF (307 KB) DOC (63 KB)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 12
Citation 12
— having regard to the Joint Statement on the Migrant Situation in Libya, agreed at the African Union - European Union Summit 2017, and the establishment of the High-level Trilateral AU-EU-UN Taskforce,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas Libya has seen a continued increase in extrajudicial killings, torture, arbitrary detention, and indiscriminate attacks on residential areas and infrastructure, as well as increasingly hate speech and incitement to violence;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas the collapse of the criminal justice system, enhances the impunity in the country, narrowing avenues for victims to seek protection and remedy; whereas in several regions, even in cases where police reports have been filed after a crime, little action has followed to open prompt, thorough, effective, impartial, and independent investigations and to bring perpetrators to justice; whereas no perpetrator of a crime belonging to an armed group has been convicted in Libya since 2011;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to ensure the strongest support for the UN Action Plan for Libya presented in September 2017 by the UN Special Representative Ghassan Salamé, for the stabilisation of Libya and for an inclusive national reconciliation process achieved through the engagement of all Libyan actors, including all tribal entities; to continue to cooperate closely with the UN Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL);
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
(c) to further reflect on and discuss within the EU institutions how better to address all aspects of the Libyan conflictrisis, including by devoting greater attention to local dynamics, and to show unity of purpose and initiative among all institutions and the Member States in order to ensure coherence of the measures by all actors involved, as part of a broader regional strategy;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) to continue to emphasise that there can be no military solution to the Libyan crisis and to reaffirm the need for all parties and armed groups in Libya to commit to Article 42 of the Libyan Political Agreement, respect the principles of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, as well as to refrain from violent rhetoric and from the use of violence, and to demobilise and commit to a peaceful solution to the conflict, thus avoiding further damage and loss of life; considers that negotiations should serve to unify the Libyan forces from all regions in order to build a civilian- controlled national security architecture, with guarantees of transparency and accountability and respecting Libya’s international human rights obligations, and should lead to the signing of a protocol that commits all armed groups to renouncing the use of force and violence, and the withdrawal of all heavy weapons from the cities; believes that the signing of such a protocol, in the framework of a coherent and comprehensive Disarmament, demobilisation and reintegration (DDR) and security system reform (SSR) process guided by the Skhirat principles of non- discrimination and transparency; believes that the signing of such a protocol should allow for the implementation of the peace agreement paving the way to holding free and fair elections and should bring about economic and financial incentives and prompt the signatories to work towards building the new state's institutions of state;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) to intensify cooperation with all international organisations and other actors on the ground in order to strengthen the coherence of international action; to step up diplomatic efforts with all regional actors and neighbouring countries, especially Tunisia, Algeria and Egypt, to ensure they contribute to a positive solution to the crisis in Libya in line with the UN Action Plan – the only possible framework for a solution to the crisis;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) to reflect on the crisis in Libya in a wider, regional and pan-African context, bearing in mind that Libya is key to the stability of North Africa and the Sahel, the Sahel and the Mediterranean; promote and facilitate cooperation between the GNA and Libya's Southern neighbours, in particular, Niger, Chad and Sudan; to consider, as part of this reflection, the impact of the situation in Libya on the dynamics and challenges with which the EU is confronted; to develop a comprehensive policy towards Libya which takes into account the regional and pan-African perspective and encompassescovering broader development policies, security, migration policies, and the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, security, the fight against terrorism and countering violent extremism; and countering terrorism; to this extent, European institutions have to ensure that this policy is backed by adequate and sufficient funding for its implementation in order to yield concrete results;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g
Paragraph 1 – point g
(g) in line with the Paris Declaration, to ensure that EU funds are effectively deployed in projects that help the Libyan population and civil society and that adequate support is provided to municipalities in their provision of essorder to guarantee intergovernmential services and in building local governance, so as to ensure basic living standards for the population; to ensure coordination between central authorities and local municipalities in order to identify the priorities to invest in; to promote projects that foster locally embedded dialogue and conflict-resolution mechanisms, involving young people in particularcoordination in restoring public infrastructure through the EU Stabilization Facilities; to promote projects that foster locally embedded dialogue and conflict-resolution mechanisms, involving in particular the youth preventing them from engaging in criminal activities such as joining militias implicated in smuggling and trafficking; to ensure the money under the EU Emergency Trust Fund is only granted when accompanied by a sound analysis of local authorities and recipients;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point g a (new)
(ga) to support municipalities in their delivery of essential services and in building local governance; to ensure basic standards of life for the population, bearing in mind that a closer understanding of the local political and economic system is critical in taking the reconciliation process to the people and in counteracting illegal trafficking; to grant that the EU funds are effectively deployed in projects that help the Libyan population and civil society;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) to further encourage the Libyan authorities and institutions to work towards improving the living conditions of all Libyans, and to implement the necessary financial and economic reforms requested by the international financial institutions to help economic recovery and stabilisationzation; to assist Libyan authorities in establishing a market based economy able to deliver to all Libyans; to urge the Libyan authorities to enmake sure that natural resources are exploited for the benefitrevenues and deriving benefits are exploited in favour of the whole population, including at the local level; to help the Libyan authorities to fight against the criminalisation of the economyany illegal activity that hampers the national economy; as recently reported in the Interim report of the Panel of Experts established pursuant to resolution 1973(2011) concerning Libya;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) to continue to resolutely condemn human rights violationabuses and the violations of international humanitarian law and to intensify efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to the population in need; to increase the effectiveness of humanitarian financial assistance and to enhance support for and cooperation with humanitarian organisations on the ground; condemns as well as the numerous, ever-increasing attempts to shrink the space for civil society notably through repressive legal framework, attacks on human rights defenders, and the judiciary; to calls for the AU, UN and EU to continue working together and to take strong measures for an immediate end of these human rights violations;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
(j) to address the issue of migration inirregular migration through and from Libya, bearing in mind the need to findfor long-term, effective and viable solutions, which that should include addressing the root causes of migration in Africa and establishing legal channels of migration to Europe; to promote inmigration channels to Europe, currently limited to resettlements through the Emergency Transit Mechanism or direct resettlements; to alert the international community to the need to take appropriate measures to resolve the multifacetedof measures to tackle development and security challenges ofin Libya and the Sahelo-Saharan region, including effective means to counter the trafficking of human beings and smuggling of migrants;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) to step up the joint efforts carried out by the EU, the African Union and the UN to improve the protection of migrants and refugees in Libya, paying particular attention to vulnerable individuals; to investigate thoroughly the allegations about abuses and inhuman treatment of migrants and refugees in Libya by criminal groups; to devise initiatives to prevent any such incidents from occurring in the future and; to improve the conditions of refugees and migrants held in detention centres and to urge the Libyan authorities to close as soon as possible those facilities which are found not to be in line with international standards; to continue and step up assisted voluntary returns and resettlement efforts carried out in cooperation with the UN and the African Union; underlines in this context the importance to abolish the Libyan requirement of ‘exit visas’; to encourage the Libyan authorities to stop arbitrary detentions and avoid detention of vulnerable persons, in particular children; to ensure that migrants are treated in a manner accordant with the relevant international human rights instruments and to allocate the necessary funding from the EU budget; to ensure that the EU Border Assistance Mission (EUBAM) in Libya is actively contributing to developing the capand EUNAVFOR Med Operation Sophia jointly focus on how to disrupt illicit activities, including the smuggling of migrants, human trafficking and terrorism in the Central Mediterranean; ensure that EUBAM , in line with its mandate, remains acities of the Libyan authorities, notably the Libyan Coast Guard, in line with the highest standards of international law; vely engaged with and assists the Libyan authorities in priority areas related to border management, law enforcement and the broader criminal justice system; The European Border and Coast Guard Agency launched on 1 February the new Operation Themis in the Central Mediterranean to better reflect the changing patterns of migration and cross border crime, such as human smuggling, terrorism and foreign fighters;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) to investigate allegations of migrant smugglingstep up international efforts to dismantle migrant smuggling and human trafficking networks and to intensify efforts to combat this crime and bring the perpetrators to justice; to continue and intensify the work of EUNAVFOR Med in order to prevent the loss of life at sea and to fight against smugglOp Sophia to disrupt the business model of traffickers and smugglers, develop the Libyan Coast Guards' capacity and support the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolutions on the arms embargo and illegal oil trafficking;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point l a (new)
(la) to reaffirm its full support to the International Criminal Court’s mandate on ongoing human rights violations in Libya; recalls that international accountability mechanisms such as the ICC and Universal Jurisdiction play an important role in the implementation of the peace plan within a framework that sets out steps toward accountability and the respect of human rights in Libya; to call on the EU and Member States to support international mechanisms in providing the national justice system with all necessary means to start investigating previous and ongoing grave violations and to support the future legitimate Libyan authorities in fulfilling this mission by themselves; to consider that fair trials would bring justice for all victims of human rights violations on the Libyan territory and this will pave the way to a sustainable reconciliation and peace;