3 Amendments of Nirj DEVA related to 2008/2224(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that, according to recent polls (such as the referendum on the Lisbon Treaty in Ireland), a large majority of Europeans are not in favour of Europe speaking with one voice on matters of foreign policy; highlights the fact that a statement to that effect was included at the request of European citizens in the open letter/recommendations from the participants at the concluding conference of the six "Plan D" citizens' projects on 9 December 20071;
Amendment 8 #
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, greater efforts should beefforts made to provide for the integration of immigrants into the EU, giving them better 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)are best handled at Member State level;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls onStresses the importance of considering citizens' opinions on Europe, and therefore, noting that the citizens of Europe have huge concerns about the numbers of people coming into Member States from outside the Union, demands that the Commission toin no way launch local, small-scale communication campaigns with the involvement of local actors, and to or promote agreements providing for citizens to be better informed about immigrants' countries of origin, 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 2008because the citizens of Europe would be horrified to learn that their taxes, being wealth robbed from them by the state, were then being spent by the EU on propaganda designed to brainwash them.