Activities of Chrysoula PALIADELI related to 2013/2007(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on endangered European languages and linguistic diversity in the European Union PDF (162 KB) DOC (102 KB)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas endangered languages should be conceived as part of the European cultural heritage, and not as a vehicle for political, ethnic or territorial aspirations;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the great majority of the endangered languages are transmitted orally from generation to generation;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the European Union and the Member States to pay more attention to the extreme danger that many European languages are in, and to commit wholeheartedly to a policy of protection and promotion that is up to the job ofsupporting the recording, documentation and study, the protection and promotion of endangered languages, within their general aim to preservinge the diversity of the Union's linguistic and cultural heritage by supporting ambitious protection policieswith respect to the rules of subsidiarity and in accordance within the language communities concernedEuropean ideas for unity and diversity;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Council to adapt EU policies and schedule programmes so as to support the documentation and preservation of the endangered languages and linguistic diversity using EU financial support tools for the period between 2014 and 2020, including: programmes on education and training, youth and sport, the culture and media programme, the structural funds (cohesion fund, ERDF, ESF, European territorial cooperation, EARDF) and all, Life Long Learning and Active Ageing programmes, as well as any other instruments designed to promote new technologies and multimedia platforms;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Takes the view that the European Union should support a language policy that enables children to acquire two mother tongues from the very earliest age,; points out that such a programme would, as all linguists maintain, help children learn additional languages later on, while encouraging intergenerational transmission of languages and that it would offer speakers of traditional languages practical support in revitalising intergenerational language transmission in areas in which it is dwindling;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Supports the reinforcement of teaching endangered languages with appropriate methodologies for students of all ages, including distance learning for the development of true European citizenship based on multiculturalism and linguistic pluralism;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the Commission's multilingualism programmes; takes the view that promoters of projects connected with minority languages must be able to take advantage of the opportunities they offer, and, given that language communities fighting for the survival of endangered languages often consist of small groups of people, urges the Commission not to deem programmes involving these communities ineligible for funding on the grounds of low levels of financial commitment. In the mean time it urges Member States to act as intermediaries and supporters of these communities to be funded from European funds;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Member States to pay increased attention to and support higher education studies and research with a special focus on endangered languages;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to support both pilot projects that help promoterecord, document and encourage the promotion of endangered languages and action plans drawn up by the language communities themselves;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Takes the view that programmes related to the promotion of multilingualism are essential for EU neighbourhood/candidate and potential candidate countries policy strategies;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to open up the literary translation strand of the Creative Europe programme to all languages, including those that are not recognised in the Member StatCreative Europe programme for the documentation of the orally transmitted endangered languages and its strand for translation for the preservation and publication of their written documents to all European endangered languages;