13 Amendments of Balázs HIDVÉGHI related to 2022/2051(INL)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. SupportsNotes with concern the proposals made by the plenary of the Conference on the Future of Europe (‘the Conference’) of 9 May 2022 in relation to the field of civil liberties, justice and home affairs1 ; calls upon the Union to more systematically uphold the rule of law principles and ensure fundamental rights protection, and to scrutinize respect for these values and principles, both in the accession of new members and continually across all Union policies and across the Member States; _________________ 1 In particular the following proposals: 22, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 31, 34, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 45. which do not reflect consensus, and therefore lack sufficient legitimacy; calls upon the Member States and the Union to uphold the rule of law principles and ensure fundamental rights protection on an equal basis without the application of double standards, and to ensure respect for these values and principles, both in the accession of new members and continually across all Union policies and across the Member States with full respect to their national competences and the principle of subsidiarity; underlines that the Union institutions must also adhere to the rule of law when they act; rejects the abuse of the concept of the rule of law for political aims and its use for political blackmailing;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that the Union’s main political instrument to address and reverse systemic rule of law threats and violations in the Member States, Article 7 TEU, has been wholly ineffective as the rule of law situation further deteriorated since the activation of the procedure in relation to both Poland and Hungary;2 therefore, considers it necessary to reform Article 7 TEU as follows: to change the Council voting thresholds of Article 7(1) TEU from four-fifths majority to qualified majority voting, and of Article 7(2) TEU from unanimity to a four-fifths majority; to involve the institution which triggers Article 7(1) TEU throughout the procedure;3 to require the Council to periodically organize hearings, draft country-specific recommendations and evaluate their implementation under Article 7(1) TEU; to involve the Parliament and the Commission in drafting modalities for the 7(1) TEU hearings;4 to allow the Parliament to trigger Article 7(2) TEU; to invite the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (‘FRA’) to give its input during the Article 7(1) hearings; _________________ 2 European Parliament resolution of 16 January 2020 on ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (2020/2513(RSP)); European Parliament resolution of 5 May 2022 on ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (2022/2647(RSP)). 3 European Parliament resolution of 16 January 2020 on ongoing hearings under Article 7(1) of the TEU regarding Poland and Hungary (2020/2513(RSP)). 4 European Parliament resolution of 7 October 2020 on the establishment of an EU Mechanism on Democracy, the Rule of Law and Fundamental Rights (2020/2072(INI).objective of an "ever closer union" must be deleted from the Treaties as integration is not an end in itself, but a means to the fulfilment of national freedom; rejects the constant overriding of national interests and of traditional values with the support of Union institutions;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the Treaties currently do not contain a legal basis to introduce legislation to defend the common values expressed in Article 2 TEU and that this absence has seriously limited the Union in creating suitable mechanisms to redress national threats to the common values; calls for the inclusion of such a provision, which would allow the Union, through the ordinary legislative procedure, to introduce new mechanisms for the structural monitoring and assessment of the developments as regards the common values in each Member State, including annual reports on the situation as regards the Article 2 TEU values in each of the Member States, and to issue country- specific recommendations and impose measures in case of lack of remedial actionUnderlines that Europe's Christian roots and culture are the basis of European integration, and that they serve as a moral compass in uncertain times; points out that this principle must appear in the Treaties;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Underlines that the competences exercised by the Union's institutions must be reviewed and set out in a detailed catalogue in the Treaties, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity; notes that the political and ideological neutrality of the European Commission must be recorded in the Treaties; notes that the practice of outsourcing activities to politically biased civil society organizations in the framework of preparing the annual rule of law report by the Commission must be prohibited;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Calls for the inclusion of the effective possibility in the Treaties to allow for national parliaments to stop unwanted legislation at the Union level, as well as of the possibility for governments and national parliaments to initiate Union legislation; calls for the adoption of a general "emergency brake clause" in order to protect Member States' constitutional identity;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4 d. Calls for the protection of the rights and support by the Treaties of national minorities living in the territory of the European Union;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 98 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Believes these form a sound basis to respond to calls from citizens expressed at the Conference6 which included strengthening the EU’s role on legal migration, on asylum, on addressing irregular migration, and on strengthening the protection of the European Union's external borders, while respecting fundamental rights, as well as for reform of the common European asylum system and for applying common rules uniformly in all Member States on the reception of migrants and for improving integration policies in all Member States; _________________ 6 Recommendations Nos 41 to 45, see https://www.europarl.europa.eu/resources/l ibrary/media/20220509RES29121/202205 09RES29121.pdfUnderlines the right of all peoples and nations to decide who they want to live with in their country; stresses that this right must be clearly guaranteed in the Treaties;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses however that action at EU level remains incomplete due to the institutional imbalance between the co- legislators; recommends therefore that the ordinary legislative procedure apply to all Union policies on border checks, asylum and immigration, including for the evaluation of the implementation of those policies (Article 70 TFEU); calls for competences to be fully shared between the EU and the Member States, including for harmonisation of the laws and regulations of the Member States, which at the moment excludes integration measures, even though integration is the natural end point for efforts to develop common rules from the arrival of third- country nationals into the EU and is a key part of the implementation of the Common European Asylum Systemthat the past seven years have proven that real and effective solutions to stop illegal migration to the EU were found at the Member State level; stresses that as there is no unanimous political agreement among Member States on how to tackle migration, competences related to immigration must be transferred back to the Member States;
Amendment 109 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17