43 Amendments of Anders VISTISEN related to 2018/2044(INI)
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the existing agencies, infrastructures and capabilities created to address the threat of terrorism within the EU and the Member States are robust and can be utilized more effectively without the need for the creation of additional entities;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas in recent years the EU Member States have suffered major terrorist attacks, perpetrated or inspired by jihadist groups such as Daesh, Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda; whereas far right, far left and ethno- nationalist separatist extremism are also matters of concern;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas terrorists continue to use small arms (of which almost all are illegal firearms brought illegally into the EU; hence, do not originate from legal gun owners within the EU) and explosives and have increasingly resorted to ad hoc weapons such as vehicles, trucks and knifes; whereas recent attacks have been prepared thoroughly or carried out spontaneously;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas populism-fuelled political discourse regarding the terrorist threat can lead to polarisation within society; “right-wing” extremism in many countries has inspired a number of attacks and represents a threat that needs to be addressed for the protection of society at large and not least to reassure Muslim citizens, who are often, but not exclusively, the target of such attacks; whereas nevertheless the threat is not at all of the same scale, frequency or nature as that posed by Islamist terrorists, who must remain the main focus of counter- terrorism efforts;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AB
Recital AB
AB. whereas a violent radicalised discourse has been increasingly present in the territory of the EUmany EU Member States, often in the form of books, teaching or audiovisual content, including satellite TV channels; whereas this discourse opposes European values, undermines pluralism, promotes violence and intolerance against all other religions, is openly anti-Semitic, refuses equality between men and women, and rejects the science and education which have been promoted by Islam during centuries;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AD a (new)
Recital AD a (new)
AD a. whereas in many Muslim countries, the activities of imams, the message they convey and the language they speak, is controlled by law in order to prevent extremism; whereas in European countries there is little control over such activity, the word is spoken in a foreign language, imams are trained abroad, and extremist mosques and madrassahs often rely on foreign sources of funding;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AD b (new)
Recital AD b (new)
AD b. whereas the teachings of extremist imams in certain mosques and madrassahs have been a factor in radicalisation; whereas these same institutions reinforce the sense of alienation of many young people of immigrant origin, particularly young men;
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AF
Recital AF
AF. whereas Daesh’sIslamist terror groups such as Daesh’s possess a sophisticated web communication strategy of marketing terrorism by glorifying, it also offers alternative social and cultural opportunities to followers and design copied from the global ‘youth culture’ such as online gaming, and thus has a strong appeal to minors;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AK a (new)
Recital AK a (new)
AK a. whereas excessive coverage by the media of terrorist attacks may serve the terrorists’ purpose in two ways - by multiplying the impact of a terrorist attack, spreading terror and weakening public confidence; and by unintentionally giving terrorists heroic status through publication of their names, images, and justificatory statements and suicide notes;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AU
Recital AU
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BR
Recital BR
BR. whereas the fact thatsome Member States, especially in Schengen, and more specifically the airport operators on their territory, aredo not yet obliged to conductdemand conformity checks on passengers’ personal data on their ticket and ID card or passport, which makesmaking it difficult to ascertain whether the given identity matches the true identity of the person;
Amendment 553 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CW
Recital CW
CW. whereas regions which are not direct EU neighbours but are areas of interest, such as the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, the Middle East, the Gulf and Central Asia, have also experienced the development of terrorist networks; whereas in these regions religious radicalism benefiting from external financing is also a serious concern;
Amendment 645 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses the importance of Europol continuing its close cooperation with relevant authorities of non-EU countries, international organisations and other relevant entities, as well as with EU Member States with a special membership status with whom a Strategic and Operational Agreement has been concluded;
Amendment 656 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls for clarification of the status and role of the Counter Terrorism Coordinator, as a bridge between the EU Counter Terrorism institutions and Member State agencies;
Amendment 663 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Recommends that Member States should emulate best practice of, for example, the UK and set up a specialised team of lawyers trained to prosecute terrorism cases, while judges selected to hear terrorism cases should have the appropriate background and training to preside over them;
Amendment 672 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Recommends that Member States prioritize the training of their respective counter-terrorism personnel to ensure exhaustive familiarity with the rationale of enemy terrorist organizations: their ideology, motivations, goals, cost-benefit analysis, and decision making processes including how they address conflicts, rivalries and competition within their leadership and the external and internal influences on them;
Amendment 684 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Encourages Member States to ensure that convicted persons of terrorist activities in possession of a non-EU citizenship are expulsed from their country and have their citizenship revoked;
Amendment 725 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Welcomes the European Council (at 27) Guidelines of 23 March 2018 in which it expresses “determination to have as close as possible a partnership with the UK in the future […] in particular the fight against terrorism and international crime[…]”; recognises that the Directors of both EUROPOL and the EU Intcen have called for uninterrupted continuation of UK engagement in their organisations in the post-Brexit arrangements; urges negotiation of special arrangements to underpin the future internal security relationship between the EU and the UK;
Amendment 739 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 751 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notesing that the European Court of Auditor’s report of 2018 on deradicalisation found that the Commission does not maintain a complete overview of EU-funded measures, and that no indicators or targets for EU funds are used to measure to what extent the approach is successful;, calls on the Commission to propose a new financial instrument in the forthcoming MFF for introduce impreoventing and countering radicalisation, which would streamline resod coordination on measurces currently fragmented across different funds and programmes and allow for better coordination and visibility as well as higher impactto evaluate the effectiveness and to report to Parliament accordingly;
Amendment 785 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges the Member States to encourage and tolerate only ‘practices of Islam’ that are in full accordance with EUliberal democratic values; welcomes the initiatives by moderate Muslim religious communities throughout Europe to counter the dangerous narratives from within their communities
Amendment 798 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States to conduct prior screenings of chaplains and to consistently blacklist any hate preachers; calls on the Commission to introduce an EU watch list so as toUrges discouragement of foreign imams and blacklisting, on a case by case basis of known hate preachers, with better exchange of information on radical chaplainbetween Member States on this;
Amendment 802 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 814 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Recommends the establishment of a publicly accessible database of organisations whose charitable status has been removed due to links with terrorism;
Amendment 818 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 832 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Urges the Member States to design a legal framework for mosques and places of worship that provides for prior as well as regular follow-up inspections of finances so that such organisations can be vetted if harmful foreign influences are detected; Urges the Member States to close without delay mosques and places of worship and ban associations that do notupon further inspection do not appear to adhere to EU values and incite to terrorist offences, hatred, discrimination or violence;
Amendment 913 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Calls for the creation of an online European platEncourages Member States to create practical and easy practices form thateir citizens can use in order to enable them to flag terrorist and extremist content online;
Amendment 945 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29 a. Recommends Member States establish isolation measures and specialized 'dispersal prisons' to ensure that radicalized inmates can be removed from the general population;
Amendment 962 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)
Paragraph 30 a (new)
10 a. Considers that a responsible contact for radicalisation in the prison system might be useful, as the observed information would be placed in the right context and could then be dealt with by the competent internal and external authorities; urges the Member States to examine whether such a legal framework would bring added value in the context of their national security apparatus;
Amendment 969 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Urges Member States to implement, fully and on time, the existing legislation, and calls on the Commission to provide the necessary support; calls on the Commission to use its powers to initiate infringement proceedings when Member States fail to properly implement legislation;
Amendment 996 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
Amendment 1058 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a (new)
Paragraph 46 a (new)
46 a. Urges arrangements to be put in place to enable continued full involvement of the UK with the EU in terms of PNR data, SIS II and the Prüm system;
Amendment 1066 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. Calls on Member States to strengthen the Prüm network by updating their national processing systems to adapt to modern information technology; urges the Commission to further develop a ‘hub-and-spoke’ model to link national systems more efficiently via a central routlign these in terms of ICT, not to mention the advisability of containing the fragmentation of competencies among internal services, so that data could be processed faster and thus be exchanged with European partners;
Amendment 1121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57 a (new)
Paragraph 57 a (new)
57 a. Calls on Member States to ensure that all initiatives taken in the fight against terrorism are open to all members to engage on equal footing and maintains the position that Member States with opt- ins and opt-outs such as Ireland and Denmark maintain their right to use them when and where appropriate;
Amendment 1197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 a (new)
Paragraph 72 a (new)
72 a. Recommends that Member States re-evaluate Directive 2016/680 to address data retention regulations to ensure that Europol and third countries can retain data related to criminal networks and activities older than 3 years to maintain the counter-terrorist agencies’ corporate memory and understanding, and to ensure that previous case work can be utilised in anticipation of a ‘reunion’ of terrorist organisations with organised criminal groups and activities;
Amendment 1200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 b (new)
Paragraph 72 b (new)
72 b. Recommends that Member States re-evaluate Directive2016/680 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities and its subsequent directives on the transfer of data to third countries for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences to ensure that Member States, Europol and third countries are able to share data in real time;
Amendment 1277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 88
Paragraph 88
88. Calls for the mandate of EUNAVFOR MED Operation Sophia to be extended and modified, to focus fully on the prevention of illegal migration, traffickers and irregular movements by third country nationals, its territorial scope enlarged with a view to better responding to changing irregular migration patterns such as ghost landings from Tunisia, and for the fight against terrorism to be specifically included in its mandate;
Amendment 1433 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125 a (new)
Paragraph 125 a (new)
125 a. Recommends that Member States further enhance cooperation with NATO and contribute political, financial, operational and logistical support towards Joint Force Command Centres in Europe and NATO's Capacity Building Initiatives in MENA countries;
Amendment 1437 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125 b (new)
Paragraph 125 b (new)
125 b. Recommends that Member States support, finance and coordinate joint training exercises to regional security bodies such as G-5 Sahel, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and provide assistance on a case by case basis to developing countries fighting terrorism to ensure that committed forces combating terrorist organisations and insurgencies are given the political, financial, logistical and operational support they need to expel and defeat them;
Amendment 1441 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125 c (new)
Paragraph 125 c (new)
125 c. Recommends that Member States support efforts to maintain closer security cooperation with the United Kingdom following Brexit via a Security Treaty that emphasises farsighted intelligence cooperation in counter-terrorism;
Amendment 1442 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125 d (new)
Paragraph 125 d (new)
125 d. Recommends that Member States work closely with the United States and Canada in areas of intelligence sharing and joint training;
Amendment 1443 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125 e (new)
Paragraph 125 e (new)
125 e. Recommends that Member States allocate resources to track and monitor ongoing ideological and dawa campaigns from religious elites and key opinion formers, with particular emphasis towards campaigns emanating from Iran;
Amendment 1444 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125 f (new)
Paragraph 125 f (new)
125 f. Recommends that the EU and Member States sanction any State providing proscribed terrorist organisation with sponsorship, safe haven or any form of political, operational, religious, financial or logistical support;