11 Amendments of Charlie WEIMERS related to 2022/2081(DEC)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is concerned aboutNotes the destruction and confiscation of Union-funded projects in the West Bank; remindcalls ofn the position of the Council, expressing its commitment to ensure that all agreements betweenEU to fully cooperate with Israeli and the EU must unequivocally and explicitly indicate the inapplicability to the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, as well as to continue the effective implementation of existing Union legislation and bilateral arrangements applicable to settlement productuthorities when funding infrastructure and projects in areas of the West Bank under Israeli control in accordance with the Oslo Accords;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. RecogniStresses the critical role performed by UNRWA in providing Palestine refugees with vital services; commends the results of the study on Palestinian schoolbooks pongoing and past mismanagement by UNRWA and the use of facilities by EU-listed terror organisations; regrets that Palestinian textbooks continue to include the promotion and glorification of terfrormed by the Georg Eckert Institute, confirming that theyism, incitement to violence, and anti-Semitism; calls for Palestinian textbooks to adhere to the UNESCO standards and adopt criteria that are prominent in international education discourse.of peace, tolerance, and non-violence;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission to cease all funding of Islamism and organisations with ties to Islamism as well as campaigns glorifying or legitimising the Hijab;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Regrets that the Commission continued providing funds to third countries that refuse to enter into return agreements with Member States; calls on the Commission to, as a matter of policy, not disburse any funds until the beneficiary state has concluded agreements enabling the return of migrants from Member States;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 e (new)
Paragraph 5 e (new)
5e. Notes that in 2021, payments for ‘Neighbourhood and the world’ amounted to €10.9 billion according to the Court of Auditors and that these payments were disbursed using several instruments and delivery methods such as works/supply/service contracts, grants, special loans, loan guarantees and financial assistance, budget support and other targeted forms of budgetary aid in more than 150 countries; notes that the top payments per delegation for DG NEAR during 2021 was Turkey (127 million EUR), Moldova (109 million EUR), Morocco (106 million EUR), Egypt (88 million EUR) and Jordan (70 million EUR); notes the top payments per delegation for DG INTPA during 2021 was Bangladesh (140 million EUR), Iraq (103 million EUR), Pakistan (89 million EUR), Nepal (85 million EUR) and Afghanistan (77 million EUR);
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)
Paragraph 5 f (new)
5f. Notes with concern that the Court of Auditors, for 2021, only sampled 37 DG NEAR, 14 DG INTPA, 12 DG ECHO and four FPI transactions;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 g (new)
Paragraph 5 g (new)
5g. Notes with concern that the Court of Auditors found that the Commission had incorrectly cleared 44% of a reported 2.2 million EUR incurred expenditure that benefitted an international organisation tasked with carrying out actions aimed at challenging gender stereotypes in the Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine);
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 h (new)
Paragraph 5 h (new)
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 i (new)
Paragraph 5 i (new)
5i. Urges the Commission to, without delay, launch effective and wide-reaching communication campaigns targeting diaspora communities in the European Union representing the highest proportions of illegal arrivals and strategic communication campaigns targeting potential illegal migrants in source and transit countries with messages deterring potential migrants from considering illegal means of arrival to the Member States of the European Union; regrets that the existing campaigns of the Commission have not focused on deterrence, instead inform potential migrants of available legal pathways to Europe;