Activities of Georgios PAPANIKOLAOU related to 2009/0164(COD)
Plenary speeches (4)
Explanations of vote
Explanations of vote
Explanations of vote
Qualification and status of third country nationals or stateless persons as beneficiaries of international protection (debate)
Amendments (3)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) In the European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, adopted on 16 October 2008, the European Council noted that considerable disparities remain between one Member State and another concerning the grant of protection and the forms that protection takes and called for new initiatives to complete the establishment of a Common European Asylum System, provided for in the Hague Programme, and thus to offer a higher degree of protection. It also acknowledged that it was necessary to encourage solidarity and a more satisfactory redistribution of beneficiaries of international protection from one Member State to another so as to assist those Member States encountering particularly heavy and disproportionate pressures on their asylum systems, particularly by reason of their geographical location or demographic situation.
Amendment 17 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10 a (new)
Recital 10 a (new)
(10a) Article 80 of the Treaty on the Functioning on the European Union states that Union policies regarding border checks, asylum and immigration shall be governed by the principle of solidarity and fair sharing of responsibility, including its financial implications, between the Member States and that, wherever necessary, the Union acts adopted pursuant to this chapter shall contain appropriate measures to give effect to this principle.
Amendment 90 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 27 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 27 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Member States shall encourage access for beneficiaries of international protection to language learning programmes in the Member States, so as to facilitate full access for both juveniles and adults to the Member States' education systems.