21 Amendments of Constance LE GRIP related to 2014/2248(INI)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the ‘polymultiple crisis’es currently faced by the Union, including its financial, economic, social and migratory consequences, have all led to the rejection by a growing part of the population of the current as well as the rising of populist parties and nationalist movements, have all led to a decrease of trust in the European Uninstitutions;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas these significant European challenges cannot be handled by single Member States, but only by a joint response from the European Union;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas, instead of fostering the Union, the system whereby Member States make progress at different speeds in accordance with their different capacities and circumstances, further reinforced in the Lisbon Treaty, which introduced new formal methods of enhanced cooperation, has increased the complexity of the Union and accentuated its ‘variable geometry’; whereas more and more Member States are declining to agree on the goals and prefer ‘à la carte’ solutions, some of them even unilaterallyresort to ‘à la carte’ solutions, further reinforced in the Lisbon Treaty, has increased the complexity of the Union and accentuated its ‘variable geometry’;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas, while Article 16 of the TSCG provides that within five years of the date of entry into force (before 1 January 2018) the necessary steps must have been taken to incorporate the Fiscal Compact into the legal framework of the Union, it is clear that the resilience of the euro area, including the completion of the banking union, cannot be achieved without further fiscal deepening steps together with the establishment of a more reliable, effective and democratic form of governance; whereas this will complete the current Stability and Growth Pact, which, ever since it came into existence, even after its reform by the so-called six-pack and two-pack, has never been applied for any obvious political reasons;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas, finally, the urgency for reform of the Union has been dramatically increased by the United Kingdom’s decision, through a referendum, to leave the European Union; whereas it is crystal clearobvious that the negotiations to set out the arrangements for the UK’s withdrawal also need to take account of the framework for its future relationship with the Union; whereas this agreement must be negotiated in accordance with Article 218(3) TFEU and be concluded on behalf of the Union by the Council, acting by a qualified majority, after obtaining the consent of the European Parliament;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S
Recital S
S. whereas the UK’s decision creates an opportunity to reduce and drastically simplify the ‘variable geometry’ and complexity of the Union; whereas it offers at least the opportunity to, by clarifying what membership of the Union really means and what could be a clear structure in the future fframework the EU’s relationship with non- members in our periphery (the United Kingdom, Norway, Turkey, Ukraine, etc.); whereas the founding fathers of the Union had already envisaged a type of ‘associate status’o be developed in order to build a ring of partners around the EU for countries who cannot yet or will not join the Union;
Amendment 323 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that a comprehensive democrapolitical reflection on the reform of the Treaties can and must only be achieved through a Convention, which guarantees inclusiveness through its composition of representatives of national parliaments, governments of allshould be envisaged ahead of the 60th anniversary of the EU’s founding Rome Treaty in order to achieve a comprehensive set of proposals for those Member States, the Commissat want to continue with deeper integration; and the European Parliament, and also provides the proper platform for such reflection and engagement with European citizenscknowledges however that EU’s future architecture shall be approved at an European Convention, as the next step from the Lisbon Treaty towards a renewed constitutional framework;
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Recommends that, instead of these multiple derogations, a type of ‘associaten instrument or even a status’ c should be proposed to those states in the periphery that only want to participate on the sideline, i.e. in some specific Union policies; this statudeveloped in order to set up a ring of partners around the EU for countries swhould be accompanied by obligations corresponding to the associated rights cannot yet or will not join the Union;
Amendment 408 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Considers that the possibility of differentiated integration should be left open for all Member States, if they are able and willing to advance with the Union’s common objectives; notes, however, that such differentiated integration should only vary in its timescale, so as to ensure a clear and uniform implementation of the Treaties;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. The single institutional framework should be preserved and any form of flexibility should aim to achieve the Union’s common objectives, without undermining the principle of equality of all citizens and Member States;
Amendment 414 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes that thise new type of ‘associateinstrument or status’ could also be one of the possible outcomes to respect the will of the majority of the citizens of the United Kingdom to leave the EU; stresses that this wish must be respected, given that the withdrawal of the United Kingdom, as one of the larger Member States, and as the largest non-euro-area member, affects the strength and the institutional balance of the Union – a new situation that adds to the need for revision of the Treaties;
Amendment 445 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Given the choice made by the citizens of the United Kingdom to leave the European Union; calls for the headquarters of the European Banking Authority and the European Medicines Agency, both currently in London, to be moved to another Member State;
Amendment 449 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls for the establishment of an ‘observer’ status applicable to all United Kingdom representatives, whether elected or unelected, at the EU institutions; the status would enable the representatives to participate in debates until the United Kingdom leaves the European Union without taking part in decisions, including votes in the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union; proposes that the European Parliament’s Committee on Constitutional Affairs is given a mandate to set out the arrangements for this ‘observer’ status on behalf of all the institutions;
Amendment 450 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12b. Calls for ‘observer member’ status to be applied to British Members of the European Parliament once the British Government has invoked Article 50 of the TFEU and the British Parliament has voted in favour of repealing the European Communities Act; the status will enable them to participate in Parliamentary debates without taking part in votes; proposes that the Committee on Constitutional Affairs be tasked with preparing and setting out the arrangements for this ‘observer member’ status;
Amendment 480 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that neitherthe framework for economic governance provided by the Stability and Growth Pact norand the ‘no bail- out’ clause (Article 125 TFEU) provide the intended solutions, and that they have furthermore lost credibility in their current form, as the pact has been infringed by several Member States without political or legal consequences, while Greece has been bailed out on a large scale on three occashould be developed in order to ensure a truthful and comprehensive implementation of their provisions;
Amendment 686 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 877 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Welcomes the successful new procedure whereby European political parties promote their toplead candidates for the President of the European executive, but believes that they should be able to stand during the next elections as official candidates in all Member States; proposes, therefore, following its legislative proposal on the reform of the electoral law of the European Union, empowering the electorate by giving them two votes, one for the national or regional lists and a secelected by the European Parliament on a proposal by the European Council; suggests the integrationd one for the European party lists; these European lists will be headed by the parties’ nominees to become President of the European executive or government and will be composed of candidates drawn from at least one third of the Member Statesf the ‘Spitzenkandidat procedure’ into the Union’s legal framework;
Amendment 892 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
Amendment 908 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)
Paragraph 39 a (new)
39a. Calls, in the light of the decentralised European Union institutions and the need for citizens to see and feel close to the European Parliament, for the permanent recognition as part of treaty revisions of the fact that the European Parliament has officially and historically had its headquarters in Strasbourg;
Amendment 1018 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
52. Believes, finally, that the current Treaty ratification procedure is too rigid to befit such a supranational polity as the European Union; proposes allowing amendments to the Treaties to come into force if not by an EU-wide referendum then after being ratified by a qualified majority of four-fifths of the Member States, having obtained the consent of the Parliament; correspondingly, once this threshold has been met, Member States which still decline to ratify the amended Treaty should decide, in accordance with their own constitutional requirements, whether to start the process of secession or to opt for an associate status;
Amendment 1038 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
54. Is of the opinion that the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome would be an appropriate moment to modernise the European Unlaunch the reflection andon to start a Convention withthe future of Europe and agree on a vision for the pcurpose of making the European Union ready for the decades aheadrent and future generations of European citizens;