21 Amendments of Sylvie GUILLAUME related to 2015/2063(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Takes the view that the prevention of the radicalisation and recruitment of European citizens by terrorist organisations is part of a series of measures that cover numerous areas and aim to promote security, justice and equal opportunities for all; reaffirms that other factors that may be conducive to the radicalisation and recruitment of European citizens by terrorist organisations include, in particular, inequality, marginalisation, social exclusion and difficult access to quality education;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the prevention of terrorism and countering of radicalisation is one of the key priorities within the European Agenda for Security, and stresses the need for a multifaceted, multistakeholder and multisectoral approach to address the root causes of terrorism; highlights the need to make all actors aware of their responsibility to prevent radicalisation, whether at local, national, European or international level; reiterates the fundamental role of education, teacher training, youth policies and interfaith and intercultural dialogue to prevent radicalisation leading to violent extremism; stresses the importance of dialogue and cooperation between all actors in education (families, parents and associations); calls on the Member States to encourage educational establishments to provide course modules on citizenship, cultural diversity, combating discrimination and prejudice, multicultural understanding and democratic values;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the radicalisation of these ‘European fighters’ is a complex and dynamic phenomenon that is based on a series of global, sociological and political factors; whereas it does not correspond to one single profile, and affects men, women and particularly young European citizens of all social origins, who share the common trait of feeling at odds with society; whereas the causes of radicalisation may equally be socio-economic, ideological, personal and psychological, and, for that reason, it has to be understood in the light of the background of each individual concerned;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas, because of terrorism and radicalisation, there is much stereotyping of religions, which in turn is bringing about renewed upsurges of hate crimes and hate speech motivated by racism, xenophobia or intolerance of opinions, beliefs or religions; whereas it must be pointed out that it is the perverse misuse of religion, and not religion per se, that is one of the causes of radicalisation;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes with concern the use of the internet and social media for the dissemination of propaganda material and recruitment by terrorist organisations, and underlines; calls for the implementation of youth awareness programmes on online hate speech and the risks that it represents and of programmes promoting media and internet education; supports the organisation of training programmes with a view to mobilising, training and creating networks of young activists to defend human rights online; underlines therefore the need to develop innovative online counter-communication with Member States and to stimulate critical digital judgement skills among all vulnerable internet users; emphasises the crucial role of a wide range of stakeholders, including educators, role models and community groups, to develop effective counter- messages;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls the importance of EU programmes in the field of education, culture and sport, as crucial vectors for supporting Member States’ efforts to tackle inequalities and prevent marginalisation; calls on the Commission to implement its commitment to mobilise targeted funding to promote concrete actions to challenge extremist ideologies and radicalisation; points to the opportunities offered to Member States and to media education experts by the ‘Creative Europe’ programme; stresses the importance of developing new actions to promote European values, as part of the European strategic framework for cooperation in education and training; calls on the Commission to implement its commitment to mobilise targeted funding to promote concrete actions to challenge extremist ideologies and radicalisation; welcomes in particular the Commission’s announcement that it will, by the end of the year, present recommendations to strengthen the idea of inclusion, diversity and civic values in schools on the basis of the Erasmus+ programme;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. Whereas the prevention of the radicalisation and recruitment of European citizens by terrorist organisations is part of a series of measures that cover numerous areas and aim to promote security, justice and equal opportunities for all; whereas other factors that may be conducive to the radicalisation and recruitment of European citizens by terrorist organisations include, in particular, inequality, marginalisation, social exclusion, and difficult access to quality education;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the Commission to establish as quickly as possible a global strategy to prevent the radicalisation and recruitment of European citizens, taking into account all vectors of radicalisation, on the basis of the exchange of best practice within the European Union and the evaluation of measures undertaken in the Member States; takes the view that the promotion of a multistakeholder and multisectoral approach (e.g. police, local authorities, schools, colleges and universities, youth support services, children’s services, border police, health services, social workers, housing services, prisons, judicial control) via the creation of an institutional infrastructure or the strengthening of existing cooperation in order to best share information and coordinate the various measures envisaged at all stages, from prevention through to radicalisation, from radicalisation through to deradicalisation, is indispensable in each Member States; takes the view that the Commission should develop an intensive communication strategy on preventing the radicalisation and recruitment of European citizens by terrorist organisations;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. calls on the Commission to establish a common definition of ‘foreigEuropean fighters’ and to carry out an in-depth study of the process and the various influences which lead to radicalisation, with the support of the new Centre of Excellence of the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN);
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of making the fullest use of existing instruments to combastem and prevent the radicalisation and recruitment of European citizens by terrorist organisations; recommends that more use should be made of European funds to that end; stresses the major role which can be played by the Radicalisation Awareness Network (RAN) in taking on this objective of stamping out the radicalisation of European citizensAN and its Centre of Excellence in taking on this objective, and all the more so if it cooperates more with the political and administrative decision-makers, at a local and national level, with a view to implementing the recommendations made by experts at Member-State level;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Supports the implementation of youth awareness programmes on online hate speech and the risks that it represents and of programmes promoting media and internet education; supports the implementation of training programmes with a view to mobilising, training and creating networks of young activists to defend human rights online;
Amendment 349 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15 Stresses that schools and education have an important role to play in preventing radicalisation; recalls the crucial role that schools play in helping to promote integration and develop critical thinking; calls on the Member States to investigate the possibility of introducing, where it does not already exist, education on religious issues in schoolencourage educational establishments to provide course modules on citizenship, cultural diversity, combating discrimination and prejudice, multicultural understanding and democratic values;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the European Union to carry out a communication campaign to raise the awareness of young people, as well as supervisory staff, as regards issues of radicalisation; stresses that training and awareness-raising campaigns should give priority to early intervention, to protect individuals and avoid any risk of radicalisation; calls on the Member States to introduce specialist training for teaching staff so that they can detect any suspicious changes in behaviour and properly supervise young people who are at risk of being recruited by terrorist organisations;
Amendment 383 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. points to the opportunities offered to Member States and to media education experts by the 'Creative Europe' programme; notes that the European Union's programmes in the field of education, culture and sport constitute essential pillars of support for the actions taken by Member States to tackle inequalities and prevent marginalisation; stresses the importance of developing new actions to promote European values in education, as part of the European strategic framework for cooperation in education and training; insists among other things on targeted use of the Erasmus+ funding programme to offer significant opportunities for mobility to students and teachers, while prioritising the transmission of civic values;
Amendment 422 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. fFeels that those local actors have a crucial role to play in the development of projects adapted to their towns or organisations, in addition to their role as an integrating factor for those European citizens who feel at odds with society and tempted by radicalisation; feels that it is essential to raise awareness among, inform and train front line workers (teachers, educationalists, police officers, child protection workers and workers in the health care sector) in order to strengthen local capacity to combat radicalisation; feels that the Member States should support the establishment of structures facilitating, in particular, the supervision of young people, as well as exchanges with families, schools, hospitals, universities and so on; notes that such associations and organisations, which do not bear the mark of governments, sometimes achieve better results in reintegrating citizens who are on the path towards radicalisation into society;
Amendment 436 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers it vital to set up an alert system of assistance and guidance in each Member State which would allow families and community members to easily and swiftly flag the development of radical behaviour or a European citizen’s departure to join a terrorist organisationfriends of those concerned to be heard, to benefit from advice and to flag worrying situations; considers it vital to set up provision of support for families taking a whole-family approach, not focusing assistance solely on the parents but on the entire family; notes in this connection that gender is an important issue in family support, with each parent and family member having different responsibilities and roles;
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Stresses that recent research reports point to the increasing number of women who have been radicalised and recruited by terrorist organisations and provide evidence of their role in violent extremism; considers that the EU and Member States should take gender into account at least to some extent in developing strategies for prevention of radicalisation;
Amendment 513 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Believes that criminalising terrorist acts carried out by foreigEuropean fighters requires the collection of evidence in third countries to be possible; calls, therefore, on the European Union to work on establishing judicial cooperation agreements with third countries in order to facilitate such processes;
Amendment 529 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Reiterates its belief that the European Union must step up its external border controls as a matter of urgency; stresses that it will be impossible to effectively track the departures or arrivals of European citizens unless mandatory and systematic controls are introducedeffectiveness of European Union's external border controls must be improved; stresses that the Member States should therefore make full use onf the European Union’s external borders; states that, to this end, one of the European Union’s priorities must be reforming the Schengen Codeexisting Schengen framework and the opportunities for control which it offers;
Amendment 568 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Stresses once more the vital importance of the European Union establishing close cooperation with non-EU countries, notably transit countries and those to which foreigEuropean fighters are heading, insofar as this is possible, and while respecting the Charter of Fundamental Rights, in order to be able to identify EU citizens leaving to fight for terrorist organisations or returning thereafter;
Amendment 624 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Supports the development of a communication campaign at EU level based on the experiences of ʽformer foreigEuropean fightersʼ whose eye-witness accounts and traumatic experiences help strip away the religious significance of fighting for terrorist organisations such as ISIS; encourages Member States therefore to develop such structures enabling face-to- face meetings and dialogue with former fighters; emphasises furthermore that contact with victims of terrorism also seems to be an effective means of stripping radical rhetoric of its religious significance;