3 Amendments of Isabella ADINOLFI related to 2015/2104(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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1. Stresses that culture is a powerful instrument for European diplomatic relations, fostering EU core values and global citizenship, and that it should be incorporated consistently into the EU's external ac to be used for fostering EU fundamental rights, core values and the sense of a global cultural citizenship; considers highly important to consistently incorporate them into the EU's external action fully respecting other cultures and values and avoiding any kind of imposition; calls for a fruitful cooperation between the European Commission – more specifically its Directorate-General (DG) for Education and Culture and its DG for International Cooperation and Development –, the European External Action Service, the European cultural sector, civil society and the UN in areas such as cultural heritage at risk and illicit trade in cultural property, conflict prevention, the development of creative industries, the mobility of culture professionals, cultural goods and services, and education and training in emergencies;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
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2. WHighlights that, at international level, the EU should play the role of global peace actor collaborating with all the international organisations concerned; welcomes the consolidated cooperation between the EU and UNESCO, based on the adoption of the Financial and Administrative Framework Agreement between the European Union and the United Nations (FAFA) of 2003 and the EU's participation in the UN General Assembly following the UN General Assembly resolution adopted in 2011; calls, however, for more effective EU representation within the UN, particularly in the fields of culture and education and in line with the Lisbon TreatyCharter of fundamental rights of the European Union; stresses that a genuine EU-UN strategic partnership could be achieved by having EU representatives with voting rights on the boards of UN agencies in the areas of culture and education and by taking action jointly with UNESCO – and with UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, UNRWA and UNWOMAN – in the form of cultural capacity building, democratic and participatory governance and financial cooperation andin common project management, in agreement with the beneficiary partner countries; stresses that any decision-making process should be grounded on transparency, efficiency and accountability;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
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3. Recalls that the EU has ratified the 2005 UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and calls on the Member States that have not already done so to ratify the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property and, the 1954 Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict., the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the protection of the underwater cultural heritage and the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage;