6 Amendments of Silvia COSTA related to 2018/2036(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that multilingualism, including the various national sign languages, constitutes one of the greatest assets of cultural diversity in Europe;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the development of international standards for resolving national and regional minority issues through a number of legal instruments, such as the Council of Europe Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages, but also the development of soft law, such as the OSCE's Hague Recommendations regarding the Education Rights of National Minorities and the OSCE's Oslo Recommendations regarding the Linguistic Rights of National Minorities; calls on the Member States to incorporate these standards and indications into their legal systems and to guarantee that persons belonging to a national or regional minority are not discriminated against;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that mother-tongue education is essential for upholding language rights; encourages the Member States, therefore, to ensure that persons belonging to regional ethnic minorities, whether they be of school age or adults, have adequate opportunities to learn their languages and even to receive education in these languages at all levels of education in the territories in which they live;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Member States to provide funding for teacher training and the development of special curricula (including for lifelong learning), methodologies and textbooks to ensure effective teaching in minority languages and of special teaching methodologies for official languages for children with minority-language backgrounds; calls on Member States furthermore to promote stable cross-border relations, including through the tools of cultural, artistic and educational cooperation, especially in those areas where linguistic minorities are most strongly represented;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to promote research into education, language learning and models of education in multilingual contexts, to support programmes focusing on exchanges of experience and best practices relating to regional and minority languages in Europe and to present a legislative proposal or an EU recommendation on the protection and promotion of cultural and linguistic diversity;
Amendment 93 #
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 visits and to further develop links with the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities.