13 Amendments of Marco CAPPATO related to 2008/2225(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Insists on the need for recognition of parity between the EU's official languagesto resist and prevent any form of language discrimination;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to devise a funding mechanism for the European institutions' language services which is proportionate to the extent to which the languages are actually used in the course of the institutions' activities; those Member States whose official languages are used as the European institutions working languages should be required to make additional payments to the Community budget to be used for the specific purpose of developing the language services;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the crucial role of the EU institutions in ensuring respect for the principle of parity, in relations between Member States as also, in EU citizens' relations with national administrations and international institutions and bodies, and in the employment field, particularly in the private sector;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the importance of multilingualism is not confined to the economic and social aspects and that attention must also be paid to those related to cultural and scientific creation and transmission and to the importance of translation, both literary and technical, in the lives of the citizens and for the EU's long-term development; calls on the Commission and the Member States, therefore, to promote and provide financial support for the setting up and running of research centres and university courses covering subjects such as multilingualism, the language economy, linguistic democracy, language law, linguistic federalism and interlingualism;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to introduce a European Supervisor for the protection of linguistic diversity and the prevention of language discrimination or, alternatively, to confer those tasks on the European Ombudsman; the linguistic diversity Supervisor should have the task of receiving complaints about cases of language discrimination and notifying the Commission, in particular, of any cases involving breaches of European principles and abuses of dominant position;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Calls on the Commission to produce a study of the direct and indirect costs, to the public and private sector, of the current situation with regard to the teaching of foreign languages in the European Union's education systems; this economic report should show the economic and financial consequences, and impact on the employment market, of the current system, and in particular should indicate who benefits from, and who pays for, such resource flows, any dominant positions and the costs involved;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls that for these reasons it is vital to ensure quality in this context; calls on the Commission, therefore, to take steps to introduce Esperanto as an international foreign language under the educational systems both of the Member States and of countries excluded from the globalisation process, on the grounds of its neutral status and because it is simple enough to be learned thoroughly in the course of basic compulsory education;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses the need to give sufficient importance to language learningearning national and mother-tongue languages and those included in the programme at pre- school level;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Considers that the European dubbing industry should be safeguarded; calls for care to be taken, therefore, to ensure that the use of subtitles is limited and compatible with maintaining linguistic diversity, and that they are not used inappropriately to impose a language which has a dominant position in relation to other languages;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls on the Council and the Commission to appoint, together with Parliament, a committee of experts to draw up a legal proposal designed to punish the deliberate destruction of languages, and in particular lesser-used, regional, minority or indigenous languages, as a flagrant abuse of human rights, as called for in the recommendations of the international group of experts on indigenous languages of the United Nations adopted by the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at its seventh session in May 2008;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Recommends that the language competence indicators should also be extended to classical Greek and Latin and the international language, Esperanto, not only because these languages are part of a shared European heritage that is of major civilisational and cultural importance, but also because learning them facilitates further learning experiences and stimulates reflection on language;