Activities of Tatjana ŽDANOKA related to 2021/2099(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
EU Citizenship Report 2020 (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the EU Citizenship Report 2020: empowering citizens and protecting their rights
Amendments (3)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
H a. whereas in some EU Member States stateless persons with long-term residency status are not fully involved in democratic participation and, in particular, are deprived of a right to participate in municipal and/or European elections; whereas the Commission did not come up with the recommendation on approximating equality for stateless minorities e.g. Roma as it was proposed in the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Minority SafePack – one million signatures for diversity in Europe’;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that statelessness is a barrier to enjoying EU citizenship rights; regrets the lack of rights conferred through EU long-term resident status and the possibility for Member States to impose limits on free movement; is deeply concerned that only EU citizens are protected from discrimination under the acquis; stresses that as a result, stateless persons with long-term residency status cannot enjoy free movement of persons or services, are not covered by Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 establishing a Community Code on Visas18 (the Visa Code), and do not enjoy rights equal to those in, for example, Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility19 (the Brussels IIa Regulation); calls on the Commission to revise Council Directive 2003/109/EC concerning the status of third-country nationals who are long-term residents20 and, as a priority, concerning the status of recognised refugees and stateless persons and other persons who do not hold the nationality of any country, who reside in a Member State and who are holders of a travel document issued by that Member State, and to introduce opportunities to approximate EU long-term resident status to EU citizen status, in particular, as regards the right to participate in municipal and European elections; _________________ 18 OJ L 243, 15.9.2009, p. 1. 19 OJ L 338, 23.12.2003, p. 1. 20 OJ L 16, 23.1.2004, p. 44.
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s intention, announced in its EU Citizenship Report 2020, to update the directives on the voting rights of mobile EU citizens in municipal and European elections (Council Directives 94/80/EC and 93/109/EC); stresses, in this regard, the urgency of removing all barriers and difficulties which hinder the exercise of voting rights, including by persons with disabilities, increasing and facilitating the provision of information on European elections and voting procedures (possibly through a single EU-wide information platform), and exploring and implementing remote voting options, including electronic voting, in order to increase and facilitate democratic participation; calls on the European Commission to propose measures to increase the participation of people with racial or ethnic minority background in elections;