30 Amendments of Frank ENGEL related to 2018/2103(INI)
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas there is a risk that the increased levels of racial or gender-based hatred and violence and xenophobia, whether expressed in the form of hate crimes, fake news, anonymous messages spread on social networks and other internet platforms, protests or political propaganda, are starting to be seen as normal in the Member States;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. whereas in its resolutions and reports Parliament has repeatedly urged the Member States to implement the appropriate policies to ensure that people with disabilities, the elderly and the most vulnerable in society may fully enjoy their social, political and economic rights.
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls in this regard on EU Member States to consider six main areas of intervention to step up their commitment to safeguarding the dignity and rights of women and girls, as suggested in the FRA report: empowering equality bodies to deal with the entire range of issues that impacts on women’s rights, from gender equality to violence against women; improving safety online; promoting gender equality in education and life-long learning more effectively; introducing gender quotas as a bold step towards positive action; mainstreaming gender equality in the coordination of economic policies across the EU through the European Semester; improving data collection and dissemination of knowledge on all forms of discrimination and violence against women and girls;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Expresses concern about the risk of misogyny in European societies and its impact on women’s fundamental rights in all spheres of life; calls on Member States to address the key obstacles to gender equality in economic empowerment and political participation, including sexual harassment which hampers women’s full participation in the labour market; highlights the fact that gender stereotypes must be tackled from an early age to effectively address the under- representation of women in work, decision making and politics; calls on Member States to appropriately address this issue in school curricula;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Encourages EU Member States to take effective steps to respect and protect women’s sexual and reproductive rights, including a range of civil, political, economic, social and culturalrights; acknowledges that women’s sexual and reproductive health is linked to many human rights, including the rights to life, to health, to be free from torture and ill-treatment, to privacy, equality and non-discriminationhe right not to be subjected to torture, the right to health, the right to privacy, the right to education and the prohibition of discrimination; stresses, in this regard, that persons with disabilities are entitled to enjoy all their fundamental rights on an equal basis with others; recalls that Member States have the obligation, under international human rights law, to provide all women with accessible, affordable, good quality sexual and reproducccess to preventive health care and services; notes that this should include the elimination of laws, policies and practices that infringe upon these rights as well as the prevention of the erosion of existing protection; insists that the Union must play a role in raising awareness about and promoting best practices on this issue, including in the context of the EU Health Strategy, while respecting the competences of the Member States, given that health is a fundamental human right that is essential to the exercise of other human rights;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to exchange best practices and to provide regular training for police and judicial staff on all forms of violence against women;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Member States to undertake adequate measures safeguarding and promoting a pluralist, independent and free media; Calls on the Commission and the Member States to implement legislative frameworks in order to avoid concentration of ownerships in the media sector;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Expresses its concern that few specific legal provisions to ensure the protection of media actors from violence, threats and pressures can be identified at national level in EU Member States; expresses its concern over the precarious working conditions for journalists and the amount of psychological violence they witness, which compromises their ability to work appropriately and thus hampers media freedom; expresses its deep concern about deadly attacks still being committed against journalists in the Member States; urges the law enforcement national authorities to take all the measures to prevent such violence and further cooperate with EUROPOL, to accelerate investigations on the deaths of journalists in the European Union;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Expresses concerns about the obstacles to the work of human rights defenders, including civil society organisations active in the field of fundamental rights and democracy; recognises the key role of these organisations in making fundamental rights and values a reality for everyone and stresses that they should be able to carry out their work in a safe and well-supported environment; is concerned by the closing down of civil society space; reiterates the need for a dedicated funding, as outlined in the European Parliament’s resolution on establishing European Values Instrument (EVI), to provide support to CSOs engaged in promoting fundamental values in the European Union; calls on the EU and the Member States to address proactively the root causes of shrinking civil society space and to uphold their fundamental rights;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Stresses that purposeful dissemination of false information about any category of persons living in the EU, the rule of law or fundamental rights represents an immense threat to the EU’s democratic values and unity;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Points out that social media and the anonymity guaranteed by many different media platforms encourage the expression of hatred – including far-right and jihadist extremism – in many different ways, and emphasises that the internet must not be a lawless area;
Amendment 253 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Deplores the fact that in 2017, LGBTI people were still victims of discrimination and hatred and encourages the Member States to adopt laws and policies to combat homophobia and transphobia; calls on the Member States to update their criminal codes accordingly to the Council Directive 2000/78/EC Establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation and the Council Directive 2000/43/EC which implement the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of racial or ethnic origin, homosexuality and disabilities should be found in every catalogue of features protected against discrimination;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Affirms that the separation of powers and the independence of the judiciary are essential to ensure the effective functioning of the rule of law in any society; recalls that this concept is enshrined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in the principles of equality before the law, the presumption of innocence and the right to a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal established before the law; these fundamental values were the inspiration for the introductory articles of the European Treaties, which every Member State has willingly endorsed and committed themselves to respecting;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recalls that, in accordance with Article 17(1) of the TEU, the Commission, as guardian of the Treaties, has the legitimacy and authority to ensure that all Member States are upholding the principles of the rule of law and the other values referred to in Article 2 of the TEU; insists that Article 7 of the TEU should be employed if all other remedies have failed;
Amendment 297 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Notes the Commission's and the Council's efforts to ensure that all Member States fully uphold the rule of law, but also the limited impact of the procedures regarding the art. 7(1) TEU; considers that all legal steps, taken thus far, in the scope of art. 7(1), are insufficient and has not brought any tangible results on the general situation of the rule of law in the Union; calls on the Council to start, without further delay, the necessary proceedings to determine whether there is an existence of a clear risk of a serious breach of the values on which the Union is founded in the Member States concerned;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Shares the view that any rule of law assessment should be based on solid, objective and comparable data and analysis; Wrecalls that fundamental rights should be included as part of the impact assessment for all legislative proposals; welcomes in this regard the FRA’s new European Union Fundamental Rights Information System (EFRIS), which will bring together all existing information relevant to fundamental rights delivered under the different mechanisms at UN, Council of Europe and EU level;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Recalls the intrinsic link that exists between the rule of law and fundamental rights; notes the strong mobilisation of EU citizens through which they show their strong commitment to fundamental rights and European values; recalls, in this context, the need to make all Europeans more aware of the EU’s common values and the Charter;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Stresses that corruption is a serious threat to democracy, rule of law and fundamental rights; reiterates that corruption poses a threat to good governance and the economic development; calls on the Member States and the EU institutions to fight corruption and to devise effective instruments for combating fraud;
Amendment 326 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Calls, to that end, on the Member States and the EU institutions to facilitate the rapid establishment of the European Public Prosecutor's Office, thus providing appropriate guarantees of the anti- corruption strategy; Calls, therefore, on the remaining Member States to join the European Public Prosecutor's Office;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)
Paragraph 21 c (new)
21c. Highlights the importance of the freedom of movement and residence of European citizens and their families, as one of the most important fundamental values for our citizens;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Expresses concern about persistent fundamental rights challenges in the area of migration, with regard to access to territory, reception conditions, asylum procedures, immigration detention and protection of unaccompanied childrenand underlines the importance of Member States complying with and fully transposing the common asylum package adopted by the Union and common legislation on migration with a view to improving reception conditions, asylum procedures, immigration detention and protection of unaccompanied children; points out that almost a third of asylum seekers are children and are particularly vulnerable; calls on the EU and its Member States to step up their efforts to prevent unaccompanied minors from going missing;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Recalls, that all the Member States are signatories to Geneva Conventions, and are therefore obliged to ensure that all Its provisions are respected, regardless of the circumstances.
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on Member States to introduce specific safeguards to guarantee that the interoperability of large-scale IT systems does not lead to adverse effects on the rights of children or vulnerable persons, such as applicants for and beneficiaries of international protection, or to discriminatory profiling; calls on Member States to ensure that the implementation of interoperability aims at fulfilling a child protection objective, such as identifying missing children and assisting family reunificatio; calls on Member States to ensure that interoperability systems can contribute to the identification of missing children;
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Emphasises that the EU and the Member States should develop credible and effective systems that would make it unnecessary to detain children for asylum or return purposes; stresses the importance of taking the principle of the best interests of the child into consideraCalls for specific procedures to be developed and put in place with a view to ensuring that all children are protected, in line with the UN Convention ion all aspects concerning children as well as of the practical implementation of the right to be heard; recalls that Article 14 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and Article 28 of the United Nations Conventions on the Rights of the Child guarantee the right to education to every child, including migrant and refugee children, both unaccompanied and accompanied and avoiding separated schooling and segregation; stresses that Member States should ensure that migrant and refugee children are effectively supported through linguistic, social and psychological support basethe Rights of the Child; points out that, as a matter of priority, measures need to be taken in all the Member States with a view to giving all children, asylum seekers, refugees and migrants access to adequate and dignified reception conditions, language courses, a grounding in intercultural dialogue and oan individual assessment of their needseducation;
Amendment 366 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Acknowledges, that while there may be indications that an asylum procedure is lengthy, determining the appropriate time of such a procedure seems almost impossible. The right to good administration and to a fair hearing within a reasonable time is infringed by asylum procedures leaving an asylum seeker in a state of prolonged uncertainty and limbo. On the other hand, extremely truncated procedures may violate the individual’s right of access to asylum and to an effective remedy; Calls therefore on Member States to accelerate the procedures, while keeping all the necessary security safeguards, in order not to detain migrants more than it is necessary, since it has a negative impact on their following integration process;
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Stresses that Member States should consider putting into place a combination of protection-related schemes, such as resettlement and humanitarian admission, and regular mobility schemes to promote legal pathways to the EU for persons in need of protection such as resettlement; recalls that any action undertaken by a Member State, when acting within the scope of EU law, must respect the rights and principles of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights; calls on EU Member States to effectively ensure the right to asylum and to accept relocation of refugees from Member States most affected by high numbers of arrivals; also calls on Member States to respect the principle of non-refoulement and introduce adequate procedural safeguards to their asylum and border procedures, including safeguards against collective expulsion;
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Recalls the resolution adopted by the European Parliament on 5 July 2018 on guidelines for Member States to prevent humanitarian assistance from being criminalised;
Amendment 394 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Points out that one sole reception policy is not enough and the challenge facing the European Union is to establish an effective integration policy based on the sharing between Member States of good practices. Encourages, in that context, the development of European Integration Networks and the European Website on Integration.