16 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2015/2095(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomeCondemns the fact that the Commission has adopted an ambitious European migration agenda; urges the European Council not to show the same level of ambition and to support the Commission by deeds;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that thousands of migrants have already reached Europe and that the resources needed to cater for them are not available;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Urges the Commission to stop putting the interests of third-country nationals before those of European citizens, who are already being crushed by the crisis and the EU;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Reminds the Commission that as more and more migrants are taken so the resources available to and the prospects for the peoples of Europe are steadily being reduced;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that as regards the medium term, the issue being raised by Europe’s current refugee crisis is the integration of refugees into European society; calls on the Commission, therefore, to opt for a plan geared towards social and occupational integration of refuge, but also, and above all, the well-being of Europeans; calls on the Commission, therefore, to allow the Member States to act individually and take the measures required in their territories;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Maintains that labour market data have to be taken into account in the permanent relocation mechanism for refugees in order to ensure that it will not worsen the social and economic situation for refugees’ home territories and their populations; points out that the brutal, unannounced relocation of migrants may give rise to a lack of security and hygiene and, as a result, health problems and disease;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Maintains that labour market, purchasing power and insecurity data have to be taken into account in the permanent relocation mechanism for refugees in order to ensure that it will not worsen the social and economic situation for refugees’ home territories and their populations;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that, in the Commission’s view, there is nothing to prevent European funds, including the European Social Fund, from beingEuropean Social Fund ‘is Europe’s main instrument for supporting jobs’1, and thus cannot be used to help integrate refugees; calls on fund managing authorities, however, to use the funds as effectively as possible without damaging other recipients; __________________ 1European Commission website, http://ec.europa.eu/esf/main.jsp?catId=35 &langId=en
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Points out that, in the Commission’s view, there is nothing to prevent European funds, including the European Social Fund, from being used to help integrate refugees; calls on fund managing authorities, however, to use the funds as effectively as possible without damaging other recipients; points out, further, that this fund is not unlimited and each improper use made of it would penalise beneficiaries who have already been registered;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission, in consultation with the Member States, to set up a sysallow the Member Statems to speed up diploma equivalence and the recognition of skills, thereby helping refugees and migrants to integrate socially; maintains that refugees and migrants must receive language training as soon as they arrive in the country to which they have been relocre-establish borders, in order to monitor people entering and leaving their territories, thereby combating insecurity and the terrorist threat, and take in only as many migrants as they can accommodated;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Notes that all European integration proposals are based on one-way journeys, leading to permanent uprooting;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points out to the Commission that illegal work by migrants constitutes a danger; notes that under the ‘Sanctions’ Directive1 and the ‘Seasonal Workers’ Directive2, employers can be punished for exploiting migrant labour; calls on the Commission, however, to work towards a morstresses that, unfortunately, many migrants are not coming to Europe with the integrantion-oriented system serving to encompass all aspects of this problem of settling and integrating here, but in the hope of claiming benefits here; __________________ 1 Directive 2009/52/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 June 2009 providing for minimum standards on sanctions and measures against employers of illegally staying third- country nationals, OJ L 168, 30.6.2009, p. 24. 2 Directive 2014/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the conditions of entry and stay of third-country nationals for the purpose of employment as seasonal workers, OJ L 94, 28.3.2014, p. 375.
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out that the proper integration of migrants is possible only if the persons in question demonstrate the desire actually to integrate into the host country; stresses, in this context, that encouraging long-term dependence on handouts will not offer migrants an incentive to integrate; reiterates, therefore, that the integration of migrants seems impossible under these circumstances;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Strongly condemns the EU’s decision to allocate EUR 10 billion to fund reception arrangements for migrants, even though, at the same time, the European population is facing the worst crisis in its history, characterised by unprecedented poverty levels;
Amendment 81 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Points out that when they sign an asylum-seeker’s employment contract, the employee and the employer are both running a risk to the extent that the application for asylum might be rejected; considers that this could also jeopardisesupports and encourages the Commission’s aims regarding the policy of return to the home country;
Amendment 90 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8