15 Amendments of Aldo PATRICIELLO related to 2015/2095(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the migration crisis can be addressed only within the context of a European approach and not by bilateral meetings among Members States; calls for a new European agenda on migration under the leadership of the Commission and the European Council, underpinned by solidarity among the Member States. This agenda might include the replacement of the Dublin regulation with a centralised European asylum system making it possible to create an area of security, freedom, and justice for those seeking protection in the Union, harmonize asylum procedures and ensure their effectiveness, safety, fairness and legality;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls that under the UNCLOS convention1 and the SOLAS convention2 every state party to the convention requires the master of a ship flying its flag, in so far as he can do so without serious danger to the ship, the crew or the passengers, on receiving a signal from any source, to render assistance with all speed to any person found at sea in danger of being lost and to actively participate in search and rescue operations at sea, if possible informing the persons concerned or the search and rescue service that the ship is doing so; points also to the obligation incumbent on Member States, under the International Convention on Maritime Search and Rescue (SAR Convention) of 1979, to ensure assistance is provided to any person in distress at sea regardless of their nationality or status or the circumstances in which they are found, and to provide for their initial medical or other needs and deliver them to a place of safety; __________________ 1 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 1982, Article 98 ‘Duty to render assistance’ 2 International Convention for the Safety of Life at Sea, Regulation 33 ‘Distress messages: obligations and procedures’
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
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2. Reiterates the complexity of the development-migration nexus, diverging from the common view of development as a means to reduce, if not eliminate, migration, without denying that development can help mitigate some of thestressing that, while poverty, underdevelopment, state fragility and conflicts are among the principal causes of forced migration, such as conflicts or state fragility; recalls thatin particular forced migration, emigration rises with economic development until countries reach an upper-middle-income country status (around USD 7000-8000 per capita), at which point it begins to decrease;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
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3. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to maximise the positive contribution of migration and human mobility in global development, as recognised for the first time in the post- 2015 development agenda and the proposed Sustainable Development Goals and their migration targets; urges States to facilitate the integration of immigrants, whose active participation in society helps to promote the social and economic development and cultural diversity of the Union;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
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4. Recalls that the right to leave any country, including one’s own, is enshrined in Article 13 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights; stresses that, while this is a liberty and a fundamental right that should benefit everybody, only citizens of the ‘global North’ and the wealthiest citizens of the ‘global South’ can truly exercise this right; stresses the need to better and fully implement the principle of ‘non-refoulement’, which, particularly for asylum seekers, is the corollary of the right to migrate; and is enshrined in Article 33 of the 1951 Convention on Refugees, contained in the 1967 Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees and reaffirmed in Article 3 of the 1984 Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
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5. Calls on the Commission, in consultation with the Member States, to set up a system to speed up diploma equivalence and the recognition of skills, thereby helping refugees and migrants to integrate socially; maintains that refugees and migrants must receive language training as soon as they arrive in the country to which they have been relocated; calls on the Commission, further, to encourage volunteering, above all in the light of the limited economic resources available to refugees;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that Member States and authorities involved need to ensure a fluent disembarkation of rescued refugees and migrants in the appointed sea port from vessels which have been part of a rescue operation; in this connection, points to the Guidelines on the treatment of persons rescued at sea established in Resolution MSC 167(78) adopted by the Maritime Safety Organisation in May 2004, according to which the disembarkation of rescued asylum seekers and refugees in territories where their lives or freedom would be threatened must be avoided;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Underlines that military operations should not be the predominate aspect of any holistic approach to migration and rReiterates that Operation Sophia must not distract assets already deployed in the Mediterranean from saving lives at sea;
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Considers it appropriate therefore to extend relocation arrangements to all nationalities following the relocation of all those belonging to nationalities for which the proportion of positive decisions granting international protection in the Union has been 75 % or more for the preceding three months;
Amendment 638 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Emphasises that hosting Member States must offer refugees support and opportunities to integrate and build a life in their new society and – as provided for in the Qualifications Directive12 – this should also include effective access to democratic structures in society; emphasises that integration is a two-way process and that respect for the values upon which the EU is built must be an integral part of the integration process; __________________ 12 Directive 2011/95/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2011 on standards for the qualification of third-country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection, for a uniform status for refugees or for persons eligible for subsidiary protection, and for the content of the protection granted (OJ L 337, 20.12.2011, p. 9).
Amendment 758 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. Acknowledges that, in the light of the fact that, in 2014, 36 % of third country nationals who were ordered to leave the Union were effectively returned, there is a need to improve the effectiveness of the Union’s return system, also by concluding new readmission agreements, in particular with African countries, that should be added to the 17 agreements already drawn up by the EU;
Amendment 1039 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 86 a (new)
Paragraph 86 a (new)
86a. The Union should make the allocation of economic resources for international cooperation projects to assist developing countries conditional upon the full and effective cooperation of those countries with regard to the control of outgoing migration flows and the return of migrants who are denied political asylum or other forms of international protection;
Amendment 1096 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92 a (new)
Paragraph 92 a (new)
92a. Calls on the European Council to consider military intervention in Libya and Syria, under the auspices of the United Nations, with the aim of combating ISIS and human traffickers in order to stem outgoing migration flows;
Amendment 1156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 104
Paragraph 104
104. Notes that, prior to the increased migratory flows into the Union in 2015, according to an OECD and Commission study of 2014, the working-age population (15-64) in the Union will decline by 7.5 million between 2013 and 2020, and that if net migration were to be excluded from their projections, the decline would be even more pronounced, as it would amount to a reduction of the working age population by 11.7 million; calls on the Commission, therefore, to submit to the Member States a set of measures with a view to boosting the birth rate, in order to avoid having to resort to workers from third countries because of the decline of the European population;
Amendment 1181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 110
Paragraph 110