Activities of Ivo VAJGL related to 2013/2149(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on assessing and setting priorities for EU relations with the Eastern Partnership countries PDF (199 KB) DOC (109 KB)
Amendments (15)
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the recent developments in the EaP countries and their relations with the EU are a warningn indication that the EU is still not considered as the only political alternative but remains the most important inspiration in the quest for democratic reforms and social change;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the EU is called to engage more concretly in the quest for solutions to frozen conflicts in EaP countries, since these conflicts could at any given moment trigger a crisis with far-reaching consequences for peace and stability;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the achievements and ambitions of the EaP, which is the political framework for strengthening relations between the EU and the Eastern Partners, founded on mutual interests, commitments, shared ownership and joint responsibility, as well as the institutional basis for political cooperation, and a forum for dialogue between the partner countries; welcomes, in this connection, the establishment of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly and other cooperation platforms, such as the EaP Civil Society Forum and the Eastern Europe Initiatives Congress; notes however that the recent developments in some EaP countries have drawn attention to the fragility of the political processshow that the process of democratic state building and adoption of democratric values has not yet reached a mature state;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises that the EaP project needs new impetus and a clear vision for the way forward, focusing not only on the political cooperation, but aiming to anchor the societies of the EaP to the EU, thus urges the EU to focus particularly on establishing; reminds that an important instrument the EU should build upon is the establishement of a visa-free regimes, on as well as investing in youth and future leaders, and on the energy sector;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that more progress can be made on the establishment of the visa-free regime; notes, in this connection, that visa liberalisation is only one of a number of processes aimed at bringing the societies closer together, and that more efforts are required in this area, particularly with regard to advancing cooperation in the field of education and culture; considers that greater emphasis should be placed on the fact that the EaP project is directed at societies rather than authoritie, striving for the inclusion and intense cooperation of civil society actors as well as institutions;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Considers that, to improve cooperation between Eastern Partners, the EU should refrain from imposing a restriction to one language in joint projects, and should promote multilingualism, notably in local government, civic and educational initiatives;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Highlights the importance of promoting and supporting joint efforts in research and innovation, including exchange programmes for students, in virtual multilingual projects, in dialogue between cultures, through jointcooperative film productions and jointother artistic projects, allocation of resources for literary translations, in joint research on the legacy of Nazism and Communism, and of totalitarian regimes and on common history in Europe, with the aim of developping a common assessment of history;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Highlights the importance of investing in youth and future leaders, by making full use of thecivic education and promotion of tolerance of youth and future leaders, for example within the framework of the Youth in Action Programme's EaP Youth Window; calls for the establishement of school exchanges with dedicated funding between EU Member States and EaP countries; encourages to make full use of scholarship opportunities under the ‘'Erasmus for All’' programme to foster student exchanges between EaP countries and the EU Member States and establishing an Eastern Partnership University and the Black Sea European College, which would provide postgraduate education and seek to formand proposes to look in the possibility of establishing specific higher education institutions such as an Eastern Partnership University, bringing closer together students and future leaders from EaP countries and the EU Member States;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 265 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Finds it regrettable that there isRegrets the uneven interest among theEU Member States in relations with, and developments in, EaP countries; notes with concern the lack of misunderstanding among the Member States about the geopolitical importance of cooperation and of a uniform stance on some issuesof issues at stake in EaP countries by EU Member States; regrets the lack of awareness that more cooperation and the adoption of common positions is of major geopolitical importance;
Amendment 278 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Highlights the importance of promoting and supporting joint efforts in research and innovation, including exchange programmes for students, in virtual multilingual projects, in dialogue between cultures, through jointcooperative film productions and jointother artistic projects, allocation of resources for literary translations, in joint research on the legacy of Nazism and Communism,authoritarian and of totalitarian regimes and on common history in Europewith the aim of developing a common assessment of European history;