2020/2846(RSP) Resolution on the European Citizens’ Initiative ‘Minority SafePack – one million signatures for diversity in Europe’
Progress: Procedure completed
Legal Basis:
RoP 132-p2, RoP 222-p8Subjects
Events
2020/12/17
EP - Results of vote in Parliament
Documents
2020/12/17
EP - Decision by Parliament
Details
The European Parliament adopted by 524 votes to 67, with 103 abstentions, a resolution on the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘Minority SafePack - one million signatures for diversity in Europe’.
The resolution was tabled by the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA and GUE/NGL groups.
A fundamental value of the EU
Members recalled that the protection of persons belonging to minorities is a fundamental value of the European Union, as is democracy, the rule of law and respect for human rights, as explicitly set out in Article 2 of the EU Treaty. Minority languages and cultures are an essential and inalienable part of the EU’s heritage and culture.
While the protection of national and linguistic minorities is primarily the responsibility of Member State authorities, Members stressed the central role that the EU can play in supporting these authorities in this area.
The Commission is therefore invited to develop, in line with the principle of subsidiarity, a common framework establishing minimum EU standards for the protection of the rights of persons belonging to minorities, which are strongly embedded in a legal framework guaranteeing democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights throughout the EU.
For their part, Member States are invited to take all necessary measures to uphold the rights of persons belonging to minorities and to guarantee full respect for these rights.
Stressing the need to respect linguistic rights in communities where there is more than one official language, Parliament called on the EU to raise awareness of multilingualism throughout Europe, through EU programmes and the active promotion of the benefits of multilingualism. It encouraged Member States to implement and ratify the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
Support for the nine ECI proposals
Expressing its support for the ECI, which calls for legislative proposals in nine separate areas, Parliament invited the Commission to follow up this initiative by presenting proposals for legislation based on the Treaties and the ECI Regulation, respecting the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality.
The Commission and the Member States were invited to:
- launch anti-hate speech campaigns as well as to combat racism and xenophobia towards persons belonging to national and linguistic minorities;
- promote language learning throughout the EU, including the learning of minority languages; in this respect the ECI calls for the establishment of a European language diversity centre with the aim of protecting the rich diversity of European languages;
- take into account the needs of national and linguistic minorities when developing funding programmes;
- take into account the regional situation and develop measures to help cultural operators in expressing the freedom of culture, regardless of their linguistic or other specificities;
- take the most appropriate measures to support the development of media services with a view to ensuring that every European citizen has access to culture and leisure in his or her own language;
- undertake positive actions in favour of the large number of stateless persons living on the territory of the European Union who belong to national and linguistic minorities.
Parliament is of the opinion that cultural and linguistic identity preservation measures for the benefit of persons belonging to national and linguistic minorities must aim at positive action, including in the areas of education, culture and public services.
Documents
2020/12/14
EP - Motion for a resolution
Documents
2020/12/14
EP - Motion for a resolution
Documents
2020/12/14
EP - Debate in Parliament
Documents
Documents
- Results of vote in Parliament: Results of vote in Parliament
- Decision by Parliament: T9-0370/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0403/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0405/2020
- Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0403/2020
- Motion for a resolution: B9-0405/2020
Activities
- François ALFONSI
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Esteban GONZÁLEZ PONS
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Clare DALY
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Rasmus ANDRESEN
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Marcel KOLAJA
Plenary Speeches (2)
- Loránt VINCZE
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Malik AZMANI
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Dace MELBĀRDE
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Hannes HEIDE
Plenary Speeches (1)Institutional Motions (1)
- Pascal ARIMONT
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Andrea BOCSKOR
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Izaskun BILBAO BARANDICA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Daniel BUDA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Andor DELI
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Petra KAMMEREVERT
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Ádám KÓSA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Ilhan KYUCHYUK
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Jeroen LENAERS
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Juan Fernando LÓPEZ AGUILAR
Institutional Motions (1)
- Roberta METSOLA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Maite PAGAZAURTUNDÚA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Bronis ROPĖ
Institutional Motions (1)
- Michaela ŠOJDROVÁ
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Iuliu WINKLER
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Kosma ZŁOTOWSKI
Institutional Motions (1)
- Pernando BARRENA ARZA
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Gunnar BECK
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Gwendoline DELBOS-CORFIELD
Institutional Motions (1)
- Márton GYÖNGYÖSI
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Assita KANKO
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Niyazi KIZILYÜREK
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Nicola PROCACCINI
Institutional Motions (1)
- Diana RIBA I GINER
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Hermann TERTSCH
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Anna Júlia DONÁTH
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Virginie JORON
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Cristian TERHEŞ
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Milan BRGLEZ
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Łukasz KOHUT
Plenary Speeches (1)
- Elżbieta KRUK
Institutional Motions (1)
- Christian SAGARTZ
Plenary Speeches (1)
Votes
B9-0403/2020 - Am 6 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 556, +: 86, 0: 48
ID
ECR
NI
GUE/NGL
Verts/ALE
Renew
S&D
PPEB9-0403/2020 - Am 14 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 444, +: 215, 0: 32
B9-0403/2020 - Am 7 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 579, +: 99, 0: 12
B9-0403/2020 - § 5 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 540, -: 93, 0: 58
B9-0403/2020 - Am 8 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 583, +: 99, 0: 8
B9-0403/2020 - Am 15 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 469, +: 169, 0: 54
B9-0403/2020 - § 7 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 515, -: 132, 0: 45
B9-0403/2020 - Am 9 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 537, +: 107, 0: 46
B9-0403/2020 - § 9/1 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 669, -: 17, 0: 6
B9-0403/2020 - § 9/2 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 520, -: 161, 0: 10
B9-0403/2020 - Am 1 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 310, -: 304, 0: 78
B9-0403/2020 - Am 2 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 387, +: 234, 0: 70
B9-0403/2020 - Am 16 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 356, +: 236, 0: 99
B9-0403/2020 - Am 10 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 578, +: 102, 0: 10
B9-0403/2020 - Am 3 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 421, +: 215, 0: 55
B9-0403/2020 - Am 17 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 445, +: 227, 0: 19
B9-0403/2020 - § 12/1 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 642, -: 41, 0: 9
B9-0403/2020 - § 12/2 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 567, -: 105, 0: 19
B9-0403/2020 - Am 11 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 558, +: 119, 0: 13
B9-0403/2020 - § 13 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 565, -: 111, 0: 15
B9-0403/2020 - Am 4 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 457, +: 203, 0: 32
B9-0403/2020 - Am 12 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 556, +: 106, 0: 27
B9-0403/2020 - Am 18 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 428, +: 198, 0: 65
B9-0403/2020 - Am 13 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 557, +: 128, 0: 4
B9-0403/2020 - Am 19 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 490, +: 162, 0: 40
B9-0403/2020 - § 19 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 568, -: 83, 0: 41
B9-0403/2020 - Am 5/1 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 483, +: 198, 0: 11
B9-0403/2020 - Am 5/2 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: -: 485, +: 184, 0: 21
B9-0403/2020 - § 20/1 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 591, 0: 60, -: 41
B9-0403/2020 - § 20/2 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 413, -: 257, 0: 22
B9-0403/2020 - § 21/1 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 667, -: 20, 0: 5
B9-0403/2020 - § 21/2 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 544, -: 141, 0: 7
B9-0403/2020 - Visa 10 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 547, -: 128, 0: 16
B9-0403/2020 - Visa 15/1 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 582, -: 98, 0: 12
B9-0403/2020 - Visa 15/2 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 449, -: 227, 0: 16
B9-0403/2020 - Visa 15/3 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 644, -: 29, 0: 19
B9-0403/2020 - Visa 15/4 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 444, -: 231, 0: 17
B9-0403/2020 - Considérant C/1 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 655, -: 31, 0: 6
B9-0403/2020 - Considérant C/2 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 547, -: 133, 0: 11
B9-0403/2020 - Considérant D/1 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 647, 0: 32, -: 13
B9-0403/2020 - Considérant D/2 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 597, -: 56, 0: 39
B9-0403/2020 - Considérant E/1 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 655, -: 30, 0: 7
B9-0403/2020 - Considérant E/2 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 626, -: 57, 0: 9
B9-0403/2020 - Considérant I/1 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 673, -: 12, 0: 7
B9-0403/2020 - Considérant I/2 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 575, -: 101, 0: 15
B9-0403/2020 - Considérant J/1 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 617, -: 42, 0: 33
B9-0403/2020 - Considérant J/2 #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 582, 0: 55, -: 55
B9-0403/2020 - Considérant P #
2020/12/16 Outcome: +: 577, 0: 85, -: 29
B9-0403/2020 - Résolution #
2020/12/17 Outcome: +: 524, 0: 103, -: 67
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