10 Amendments of Tomáš ZDECHOVSKÝ related to 2018/2036(INI)
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure that the media can operate independently and free from discrimination in minority languages, to take into account national minorities when licensing or privatising media services, including assigning TV and radio broadcaster minority languages, to provide appropriate funds for self-governance to organisations representing minorities, with a view to fostering their sense of belonging to, and identification with, their respective minority groups, and to bring their identities, languages, histories and cultures to the attention of the majority;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to refrain from political and legal acts and policies that aim to prescribe restrictive measures, such as subtitling and/or translation obligations and mandatory quotas for programmes in official languages; calls on the Members States and the Commission to allow and promote the presence of regional or minority-language media, also on online interfaces; calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure appropriate funding or grants for organisations and media representing national minorities, in view of their regional specificities and needs;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure thatable persons belonging to national minorities to have rights and adequate opportunities to receive education in a minority language and for instruction in their mother tongue in both public and private educational institutionsin areas where people belonging to national minorities are traditionally present; calls on the Member States to formulate appropriate education policies, bearing in mind the right for reflecting the education in a minority language and the needs of national minorities; calls on the Members States and the Commission to incorporate the best practices in teaching foreign languages into the methodology of teaching official languages when it comes to curricula for schools which provide education in a minority language; notes that the Member States should ensure that both the regional or minority language and the official language are taught using appropriate methods;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Member States to define preferential thresholds in the learning of regional or minority languages; calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure thatable people belonging to national minorities living in areas where the national minorities are traditionally present especially in rural area, or living in widely scattered settlements, to have the rightpossibility to receive education in a minority language, e.g. in their mother tongue and ; calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure that education reforms and policies do not restrict the right to receive education in a minority language;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Notes that the training of teachers and access to textbooks of good quality are essential preconditions for ensuring good quality education for students; notes that a widely recognised problem regarding minority language education that needs to be addressed is the insufficient availability of high-quality teaching material and skilled minority language teachers; notes that multi-dimensional teaching of history should be a requirement in all schools, whether in minority or majority communities;
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Notes that language is an essential aspect of cultural identity and the human rights of minorities; calls on the Member States to take into consideration this rights perspective, to ensure the right to and to protect linguistic diversity within the Union; to enable the use a minority language in private as in public places without any discrimination in areas where people belonging to national minorities are traditionally present, and to protection of linguistic diversity within the Union; calls onencourages the Commission to strengthen its plan to promote the teaching and use of regional languages as a potential means of tackling language discrimination in the EU, and to promote linguistic diversity;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls the Member States and the Commission to allow and promote, with regard to the administrative authorities and public service organisations, the use of regional or minority languages in practice, according to the principle of proportionality, such as in relations between private individuals and organisations on the one hand, and public authorities on the other; calls on the Member States to make information and public services available in these languages, including on the internet, in areas where people belonging to national minorities are traditionally present; encourages municipal authorities in these areas to ensurable the use of regional and minority languages; encourages the Member States to use the good practices already existing within the Member States as guidelines;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls on the Member States and the Commission to ensure that in areas where people belonging to national minorities are traditionally present, the safety and security marking and labelling, important mandatory instructions and public announcements of import to citizens, whether provided by the authorities or the private sector, as well as place names and topographical designations, are written in their correct form and available in the languages commonly used in a given region, including on signs indicating entry into or exit from urban areas and on all other road signs providing information;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 – indent 3
Paragraph 30 – indent 3