12 Amendments of Charles GOERENS related to 2020/2255(INL)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the 'NWelcomes the Union's new Pact on Migration and Asylum' is a holistic attempt to; notes that this Pact addresses Europe's migration challenges; stresses however that these challenges originate outside Europe and urges that, asylum, integration and border management challenges; deeply regrets the absence of legislative proposals on improving safe and legal pathways to the Union; reiterates however the need to tackle the external challenges of migration, such as political instability, poverty and violence; urges therefore, to continue addressing the root causes and drivers of migration be effectively addressedthrough a values- based approach;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Draws attention that the 'New Pact on Migration and Asylum' should revolve around responsibility and solidarity by creating a proper solidarity system among Member States; calls for overcoming the principle of the first country of arrival in favour of a more flexible mechanism; beneficiaries of international protection should be granted freedom of movement in the Schengen area;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls Member States’ right to determine their own that the Union has a shared competence for developing a common immigration policiesy; underlines that facilitating labour migration at Union level underminescan provide a complementary addition to Member States’ unique and diverse labour market policies; considers that increasing regular migration channels will not reduce illegal migration or human trafficking and will alleviate pressure on the Union's asylum system; considers that a fragmentation of labour migration regulations across the Union discourages the use of legal pathways; calls therefore on the Union and its Member States to establish harmonised application procedures;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that external borders must be secured and that migrants who lack the right to stay or enter the Member States must be swiftly returned; supports proposals for an acceleratedmigrants who are not granted a stay in the Union or an entry to the Member States must be returned under humane conditions and that this should occur on a voluntary basis; stresses that the external borders procedure to apply to persons whose asylum applications have been rejecteds should be considered as an optional tool and not as a mandatory practice to be used in normal times;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses that no detention should be allowed where detention conditions are not compatible with human dignity; health and psychological care, access to interpretation, legal information and assistance by NGOs should always be provided;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. URecalls that the right to migrate is a human right; underlines that emigration of highly qualified citizens deprives countries of origin of theircan lead to a reduction of human capital and an educated workforce (“brain drain”) and seriously hampers their economic and social development; considers circular migration, a more open visa policy, but also increasing funding of the Erasmus+ programme to be useful tools to tackle those risks; calls for the expansion of more alternatives for legal migration to the Union, by creating opportunities for academic exchanges through the Erasmus+ programme, apprenticeships and vocational training; calls for the future EU Talent Partnerships to address this issue and take on board lessons from the recent EU pilot projects on legal migration;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Union to develop new and improve on existing safe and legal pathways to the Union, including labour migration policies as well as increased resettlement capacities and complementary pathways; welcomes the revised Union Blue Card Directive, but stresses that labour migration policies should also be developed for medium- and low-skilled workers;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Calls on the Union to strive for formal agreements with partner countries on migration mobility, return- and readmission in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the Geneva Convention on the Status of Refugees;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Welcomes the EU Talent pool proposed by the Commission as a measure to attract global talent but regrets its limited scope; considers that the Union should strive to develop a more sustainable migration policy, including through circular migration and labour mobility agreements in its partnerships with third countries;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for strengthening international law enforcement efforts, in close cooperation with relevant local governments as well as with UNHCR and IOM, to combat criminal networks of smugglers contributing to illegal migrationand human traffickers;
Amendment 69 #
6. Calls for the appropriate use of the NDICI-Global Europe to contribute to reducing migration flows byaddressing the root causes of migration by fighting poverty, stimulating economic growth and by enabling development in third countries; recalls that the NDICI- Global Europe covers a wide array of other Union migration-related policies which requires to be in line with the principle of policy coherence for sustainable development;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need to involve all stakeholders in Europe and partner countries in the definition and evaluation of new and existing legal migration strategies; highlights the importance of religiousindependent civil society entities, which play a key role in partner countries, including in conflict resolution.