3 Amendments of Ioan Mircea PAŞCU related to 2008/2224(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses the importance of education in strengthening European values, through the introduction of courses in European law and history in secondary schools alongside those which already exist in relation to national law;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that, particularly in the context of the increase in the number of third-country nationals in the EU and the emergence of multicultural societies, to which they have also contributed, greater efforts should be made to provide for the integration of immigrants into the EU, giving them betconcreter access to information about what EU citizenship entails by, for example, strengthening partnerships between different levels of government (local, regional and national) and non- governmental actors (e.g. employers, civil society, migrants' associations, the media and non-governmental organisations supporting migrants); considers that successful integration will support the further development of a multicultural European consciousness based on tolerance, dialogue and equality;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission to launch local, small-scale communication campaigns with the involvement of local actors, and to promote agreements providing for citizens to be better informed about immigrants' countries of origin and, equally, to better inform immigrants of their rights and duties as European citizens, as the most effective and meaningful ways of achieving these communication goals, and also to continue with the efforts made in the context of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008.