25 Amendments of Morten MESSERSCHMIDT related to 2014/2248(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
– having regards the consistently declining turnout in the European elections, from 61.9% in 1979 to 42.6% in 2014 according to final results TNS/Scytl in cooperation with the European Parliament; and simultaneously rising criticism of the EU,
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 16 a (new)
Citation 16 a (new)
– having regard to negative referenda decisions concerning the current Union and/or policies as expressed by majorities of people in France on the 29th of May 2005, the Netherlands on the 1st of June 2005, Ireland on the 12th of June 2008, Greece on July 5, 2015, Denmark on the 3rd of December 2015, Netherlands on the 6th of 2016, in addition to renouncing the candidacy of Norway on the 28th of November 1994, Switzerland on the 4th of March 2001 and Iceland on the 12th of March 2015,
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the ‘polycrisis’ currently faced by the Union, including its financial, economic, social, democratic, cultural, identity, safety and migratory consequences, have all led to the rejection by a growing part of the population of the current European Union;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, as regards Schengen, the free movement of people and the resulting abolition of internal border controls, all formally integrated into the Treaties, ‘opt- outs’ were given to the UK and Ireland; whereas four other Member States are also not taking part, but have the obligation to do so, while ‘opt-ins’ were accorded to three countries outside the European Union; whereas this fragmentation not only prevents the total abolition of some remaining internal borders, but also hinders the establishment of a true internal market and of a fully integrated area of freedom, security and justice;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas, last but not least, this ‘variable geometry’ endangers the uniform application of EU law, leads to excessive complexity in terms ofambitions, visions and capacities of EU Member States differs, the variable geometry approach appears now as the most pragmatic way to avoid disintegration, facilitate and deepen sincere cooperation between EU Members; a goivernance, jeopardises the cohesion of the Union and undermines solidarity among its citizenn level of flexibility shall offer differentiated degrees and areas for common policies and mediate divergent national preferences;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas, while Article 16 of the TSCG provides that within five years of the date of entry into force (before 1 January 2018) the necessary steps must have been taken to incorporate the Fiscal Compact into the legal framework of the Union, it is clear that the resilience of the euro area, including the completion of the banking union, cannot be achieved without further fiscal deepening stepsintelligent reforms that take into consideration calls and proposals by Economic Nobelists such as Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman, Thomas Sargent and Christopher Pissarides, together with the establishment of a more reliable, effective and democratic form of governanceeconomic cooperation ; whereas this will complete the current Stability and Growth Pact, which, ever since it came into existence, even after its reform by the so- called six-pack and two-pack, has never been applied for any obvious political reasons; ;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the European Union is a constitutional system based on the rule of law; whereas the Treaties must be rooted in the sovereignty of its Member States as authors of the EU Treaties and noting that if the exercise of certain competences changed to give the European C obviously be delegated, sovereignty by itself cannot be divided, shared, limited or transferred ourt of Justice (ECJ) jurisdiction over all aspects of EU law, in particular common foreign and security policy (Article 24(1) TEU) and monetary and economic policy (Article 126(10) TFEU)people’s control without de facto dissipating and undermining the rule of law ; whereas ultra vires ECJ teleological interpretations lead to unilateral judicial amendment to the Treaties against the very will of its signatory representative governments ; whereas in case of risk of conflict of laws, nobody else than relevant national parliament(s), the competent national high Court or/and the people itself deciding by referendum shall now decide which legal provision, national or European shall have the primacy over the other;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas the decline of Europe’'s Member States defence capabilities has limited itstheir ability to project stability beyond our immediate borders; whereas this goes hand in hand with the reluctance of our US allies to intervene if Europe is not ready to take its fair share of responsibility; whereas this leads inevitably to the need for more intense cooperation among the Member States and an integration of some of their defence capacities into a European defence community, both in line with a new European security strategy as well as to protect our internal territories which face now an unprecedented and multifaceted terrorist risk ; whereas this leads inevitably to the need for more intense cooperation among the Member States to meet objective of a new European security strategy based on internal border controls and combat the ideology that justifies terrorism that attacks our European societies, values and freedoms;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. NoStates that the direction of the Union’s reform should lead towards its modernisation by establishing new effective European capacities and instruments, rather than its renationalisation by means of greater intergovernmentalismbasic criterion for review of the powers and their distribution should be the full respect of the three fundamental principles anchored in the Treaty : the principle of conferral that concerns delimitation of EU competences; the principle of subsidiarity which should be now understood as opposing centralism and allocating competencies and tasks at those levels of authority, which, due to the proximity of the issue are the best predestined ; and finally the principle of proportionality of the intervention of the Union;
Amendment 431 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the fact that, until the Treaties cease to apply to the United Kingdom, it will continue to participate in all decision-making of the Union throughout its institutions, with the exception of the negotiations and the agreement concerning its own withdrawal; considers that intermediate arrangements will need to be made concerning the UK’s participation in European decision- making, as it will be politically difficult to allow a Member State in the process of leaving to influence decisions affecting the Union of which it will soon cease to be a member;
Amendment 603 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 650 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 688 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 743 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. NRecalls that mass immigration to the European Union undermines the Schengen agreements which now need urgent and serious reform ; notes that the Treaties should have provided ample means to set up a humane, well- functioning migration management system including a European Border and Coast Guard;, believes, however, that the Treaties, particularly Article 79(5) TFEU, are too restrictive regarding other aspects of migration, especially on the establishment of a genuine European legal migration system; insists that democratic scrutiny by Parliament is neededright of asylum and the right to accept refugees should be solely the competence onf the implementation of border control, asylumMember States and mhigration policies, and that the safeguarding of national security cannot be used as ahlighting that if one doesn’t preotexct to circumvent European actionits own borders nobody else will ;
Amendment 778 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
Amendment 799 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Stresses that for the Union to strengthen the defence of the EU territory, as a pillar within NATO, which remains the cornerstone of the European security architecture, and to enable the Union to act autonomously in operations abroad, mainly with a view to stabilising its neighbourhood, the Treaties should provide for the possibility of establishing a European defence union ;
Amendment 813 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Believes, finally, that it is essential that the restrictions in Article 24(1) TEU on the authority of the European Court of Justice in the field of CFSP be removed; calls, in the same spirit,Calls for Parliament to gain greater powers of scrutiny and accountability over CFSP, including full co-decision powers over the budget together with national parliaments ;
Amendment 891 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 a (new)
Paragraph 38 a (new)
38a. Reiterates its commitment to initiating an ordinary treaty revision procedure under Article 48 TEU with a view to proposing the changes to Article 341 TEU and Protocol 6 necessary to allow Parliament to decide on the location of its seat and its internal organisation;
Amendment 901 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Reiterates its call for a single seat for the European Parliament; proposes that Parliament and the Council each decide the location of their own seat after having obtained the consent of the other; further proposes that the seats of all the other EU institutions, agencies and bodies be determined by Parliament and the Council on a proposal by the European executive, acting in accordance with a special legislative procedure;
Amendment 907 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)
Paragraph 39 a (new)
39a. Reiterates its call for a single seat for the European Parliament; reminds that the European Parliament is the only EU institution directly elected by EU citizens ; recalls that over one million of them endorsed a petition asking for a single seat ; proposes accordingly changes to Article 341 TFEU and Protocol 6 and to allow the EP to decide on its internal organisation;
Amendment 933 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
Amendment 957 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)
Paragraph 44 a (new)
44a. Believes that when the Parliament and the Council vote on legislation, irrespective of whether it is specific Eurozone measure or not, all elected MEPs and respective representatives of its Member States should take part in the vote ;
Amendment 965 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Recogniszes the significant role that should now be played by national parliaments in the constitutional order and the democratic legitimation of the European Union, and in particular their role in transposing EU legislation into national law and the role they wshould play in both ex-ante and ex-post control of legislative decisions and policy choices made by their members of the new Council of States, including its specialised configurations; suggests therefore complementing and enhancing the powers of national parliaments by introducing a ‘green card’ procedure whereby national parliaments could submit legislative proposals to the Council for its considerationbinding instructions to the Commission in the exercise of its initiative power ; as well emphasizes the need to strengthen the role of national parliaments by an efficient use of ‘yellow’ and ‘red card’ to make it possible for a group of national parliaments acting together to block an indicated legislative proposal whose author would then be forced to withdraw it ;
Amendment 1017 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
52. Believes, finally, that the current Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to befit such a supranational polity as the European Union; proposes allowing amendments to the Treaties to come into force if not by an EU-wide referendum then after being ratified by a qualified majority of four-fifths of the Member States, having obtained the consent of Parliament; correspondingly, once this threshold has been met, Member States which still decline to ratify the amended Treaty should decide, in accordance with their own constitutional requirements, whether to start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status that respect for the Treaties, its signatory Members’ legitimacy, State of Law, democratic will expressed through every referenda organized in Europe for more than 10 years, and viability of the Union itself require strict compliance with procedures for revision of the Treaties provided in Article 48-1 to 5 TEU;