3 Amendments of Angelika WERTHMANN related to 2011/0217(COD)
Amendment 29 #
Proposal for a decision
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) Accordingly, the Stockholm Programme16 puts the citizen at the heart of European policies in the field of freedom, security and justice. It focuses its actions on ‘building a citizen's Europe’, including by ensuring the full exercise of the citizens' right to free movement, and it contributes to the realisation of the objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, to the extent that facilitating free movement and workers' mobility is an important means to address the consequences of demographic change on the labour market and increasing the employability of people and the competitiveness of European industries.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 2 – paragraph 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1
The general purpose of the European Year shall be to enhance awareness of the rights attached to Union citizenship, in order to help citizens make full use of their right to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member Statefacilitate the exercise of European Union citizens' right to move and reside within the European Union, by raising their awareness about this right, and, more broadly, about the right available to them across national borders. In this context, the European Year shall focus, among others, on the opportunities for civic participation and access to rights by Union citizens residing in another Member State than their own, by students, workers, consumers, and providers of goods and services across the Union. It will thus serve to highlight the concrete benefits of Union citizenship for individuals and the importance of their participation in shaping the European project as well as, indirectly, to enhance Europeans' sense of belonging to the European Union. The European Year delivers on to the Commission's political objective to put at the heart of the European Union policy agenda and to help Union become a tangible reality in their daily lives, by giving real effect to their rights.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a decision
Article 4 – paragraph 3
Article 4 – paragraph 3
The Commission shall convene meetings of representatives of European organisations or bodies active in the field of defending citizens' rights and stakeholders to assist the Commission in implementing the European Year at Union level. A media based information campaign should be organised which will be based on a horizontal strategy and a small number of specific communication strategies for specific target groups. Also a range of events, conferences and seminars should be organised across the Union at Union, national, regional or local level.