16 Amendments of Arnaud DANJEAN related to 2019/2210(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas enlargement has been one of the EU’s most successful policies and the most effective foreign policy instrumenteffective policies contributing to extending the area of democracy, peace and prosperity across Europe;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the prospect of EU membership has beenconstitutes recognition of a major geopolitical challenge for the unification of the European continent and a fundamental incentive for reforms in the Western Balkan countries;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) to underpin the European perspectives of the Western Balkan countries and enhance the accession process by ensuring that it strengthens fundamental values and brings sustainable democratic and economic transformation and social convergence, and by making sure that the internal reform of the EU and its enlargement run in parallel;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point d
Paragraph 1 – point d
(d) to provide clear and consistent accession benchmarks as well as continued support throughout the process, and to improve the measuring of progress, ensuring that each accession country is assessed on the basis of its own merits;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) to facilitate the implementation of the enhanced methodology for the accession countries already in negotiations, should they decide to opt in with a view to a meaningful, long-lasting alignment with EU standards and norms;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point g
Paragraph 1 – point g
(g) to encourage gradual participation in EU sectoral policies and certain programmes prior to accession, including through targeted financial support, in order to bring tangible benefits for citizens and enhance the EU’s assistance and presence in these countries;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
(i) to enhancestrengthen the conditionality mechanism and strengtheinsist on the reversibility of the accession process to ensure it is credible and incentive in nature by applying objective criteria when deciding whether negotiations should be put on hold or suspended; to strengthen specific political governance to underpin the accession process; to ensure that the Commission initiates these procedures after thorough evaluation and in response to a proposal from the Member States or the European Parliament; to ensure that these evaluations are examined by the Member States and that the Council plays a more important role;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point j
Paragraph 1 – point j
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) to look into how to engage the representatives of accession countries in the Conference on the Future of Europe;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point m
Paragraph 1 – point m
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – point n
(n) to immediately open accession negotiations with Albania and North Macedoniarecognise, on the basis of a strictly individual, one-off assessment of the merits of each candidate country’s performance, the efforts made by North Macedonia to meet the necessary conditions for the opening of negotiations;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point o
Paragraph 1 – point o
(o) to grantwhile recognising that Kosovo has fulfilled the technical benchmarks for visa liberalisation, to Kosovo, as the benchmarks have been fulfilledpay due account to the excessive migration risks and abuses which could result from an unconditional liberalisation, in the light of previous experiences in some Member States and the region’s demographic issues;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a m
Paragraph 1 – point a m
(am) to ensure adequate, fair and results- oriented pre-accession financingfinancial support that matches the transformation needs of the beneficiaries and helps them deliver on EU accession obligations; stresses that such funding must focus, as a matter of priority, on specific projects benefiting the people of the countries in question and addressing issues of mutual interest for beneficiary countries and Member States;