Activities of Steeve BRIOIS related to 2015/2095(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The situation in the Mediterranean and the need for a holistic EU approach to migration (A8-0066/2016 - Roberta Metsola, Kashetu Kyenge) FR
Amendments (9)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the current migratory challenge needs a holistic and integratedflood needs, first and foremost, a national approach with multilevel cooperation involving the EU, the Member States, and regional and local authorities, including coordination with, and the involvement of, all stakeholder of the EU and all third countries acting as transit points for migrants;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that such an influx of migrants should not only be considered a humanitarian phenomenon but also an opportunity for the EU to enhance economic and social development; asks the Member States, along with regional and local authorities, to promote a sustainable set of measures, such as access to the labour market; n economic phenomenon that places a heavy burden on the social security systems of the Member States, but also an unprecedented threat to the values and way of life of Europeans; recalls, in this regard, that the serious assaults carried out against hundreds of women in Cologne and other German cities on New Year’s Eve are almost entirely attributable to migrants classified as asylum seekers or irregular immigrants;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. WelcomStrongly denounces the Luxemburg EU Council Presidency’s conclusions of 27 November 2015 on the occasion of the Informal Ministerial Meeting on Territorial Cohesion and Urban Policy which ‘consider providing cities and municipalities with adequatefinancial support to deal with the refugee situationmanage the reception of migrants, in particular by mobilising [...] the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds) dedicated to sustainable urban development and [by] accommodating the issue of migration and refugees within the EU Urban Agenda’;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. SupportCondemns the allocation of the designated amounts from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) during 2014- 2020 programming period to help with the integration of migrants and, in particular, the use of the ERDF for emergency measures concerning their accommodation;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to be flexible in using existing programmes to address the current additional challenges for cohesion policy; welcomes the Commission’s readiness to examine proposals by the Member States to make use of EU support, and its willingness to examine and rapidly approve amendments to the 2014-2020 Operational Programmes in order to better integrate migrants; urges the Member States acto immediately reconsider the possibility of reprogramming the corndingly to take advantagtions for the use of theEU funding available through the ESI Funds to benefit migrants;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is of the opinion that the ESI Funds, in synergy with the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF), are useful tools for addressEU humanitarian and development aid and subject to the condition that the Member State concerned consents, may be allocated to financing reception facilities for migrants ing the scaleird countries, ofr the migratory challenges in areas such as accommodation, relocation, skills training, and issues relato strengthening capacities in terms of the monitoring, detention and expulsion of migrants ing to povertyhe EU Member States;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 8
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Urges the Commission to make full use of its discretionary powers, under Article 23(9)-(14) of the Common Provisions Regulation, regarding the level and scope of any suspenin order to immediately suspend any decision ofn commitments or payments in cohesion policy, whenever additional public expenditure by individual Member States is needed for the accommodation and integration of large numbers of migrants.