10 Amendments of Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ related to 2018/2036(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Regrets that the EU has no explicit competence regarding minority issues, but recalls that minority rights are guaranteed under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; recalls that the EU has a special duty to take care of the more than 50 million people belonging to national or regional minorities who live on its territory;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Is convinced that mother-tongue language is a central element of cultural and individual identity, but besides it, learning the state language(s) is an important aspect of integrating into society;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. In the regions with national or regional minorities, Member States are invited to ensure that people living in widely scattered settlements receive appropriate education in the language of regional or national minority;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Encourages the Member States to ensure that those who speak a regional or minority language as their mother tongue have the opportunity to learn the official language sufficiently;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to provide funding for the development of special curricula, methodologies and textbooks to ensure effective teaching in minority languages and of special teaching methodologies forin those regions with a recognised linguistic minority and to step up the teaching of official languages forto children with minority-language backgrounds;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the European Commission to strengthen the promotion of programmes focused on the exchange of experiences and best practices concerning education in regional and minority languages in Europe; calls on the European Union and Commission to put greater emphasis on regional and minority languages in the future generation of Erasmus+, Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens programmes under the new MFF;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Restates firmly that freedom of expression includes the ability of minorities to express themselves and communicate freely with members of their own communities and others in their own language through private and public sector broadcast, print and electronic media;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6e. Considers that in order to encourage and facilitate the effective participation of minorities in public life, the use of their languages in municipalities, electoral, administrative, consultative and other public participation processes should be encouraged, where practicable;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 f (new)
Paragraph 6 f (new)
6f. Invites the Member States to promote and encourage the use of regional or minority languages at local and regional level; with this aim in mind, actively encourage municipal authorities to ensure the use of such languages in practice;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that it should be envisaged to establish the office of a Special Rapporteur for Minority Rights whose mandate would be to monitor the implementation and fulfilment of minority rights and to draw up reports based on country visitalls the Commission to monitor the implementation of the Convention on the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in the Member states and to provide them recommendations.