4 Amendments of Gianni VATTIMO related to 2013/2078(INI)
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the European Union is going through a period of economic and financial crisis, and also a democratic and constitutional crisis, caused by the irresponsibility of the banking, financial and political authorities, of which European citizens are the main victims, as demonstrated by recent events in certain Member States, and whereas these tensions have highlighted the lack of appropriate national and European instruments to cope with this crisis, as well as the difficulties in applying thea lack of political courage in applying the legal requirements and monitoring, evaluation and penalty mechanisms provided for in the existing treaties, in particular Articlerequirements under Articles 2 and 7 of the EU Treaty;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls for the respect of dignity at the end of life, notably by ensuring that decisions expressed in living wills are recognised and respected;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to grant immediately, as a matter of urgency, political asylum to Edward Snowden and appropriate protection of his right to life, given that his only ‘crime’ is to have revealed the serious violation of the fundamental rights of US and European citizens by intelligence services who eluded all democratic, parliamentary and judicial scrutiny;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Believes that the current policies on drugs should be urgently re-examined, as they have not reached their stated objectives, and that the current approach, which is based on criminalisation and imprisonment, leads only to further stigmatisation and marginalisation, as well as to an overload of the justice and prison system, instead of saving lives and helping drugs' abusers concretely; consequently calls for the revision – at national, EU and international level – of laws and policies on the basis of a more rational approach based on fundamental rights, medical care and harm reduction;