32 Amendments of Jadwiga WIŚNIEWSKA related to 2017/2131(INL)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that, the Venice Commission guidelines and opinions are not binding and may, but need not be, considered by the governments of the Member States; notes that the Hungarian Government is sovereign in its actions;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Recalls that the Government of Hungary was elected with a two-thirds majority and continues to enjoy increasing support; whereas the current Hungarian Government has a strong democratic mandate to pursue educational reform;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses that pursuant to Article 5 of the TEU, which lays down the principle of subsidiarity in areas which do not fall within its exclusive competence, the Union acts only if and in so far as the objectives of the intended action cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas it is a legitimate expectation towards non-governmental organisations to have transparent financial background;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges that the Hungarian Government has acceded to some of the demands in the Resolution of the European Parliament of 17 May 2017 on the situation in Hungary, notably as regards the suspension of the deadlines established in the Act amending the National Higher Education Act and the launching of a dialogue with the relevant US authorities; notes, however, that the Hungarian Government has not rescinded the Act amending the National Higher Education Act;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Bb. whereas Hungary has taken into consideration the remarks and recommendations of the Venice Commission and redrafted the original proposal of the Hungarian Act on the transparency of organizations supported from abroad;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets deeply that the Commission’s attempts to settle the legal dispute with the Hungarian Government have not met with success so far and that the Commission was forced to initiate proceedings before the Court of Justice of the European Union, since the Act amending the National Higher Education Act runs counter to internal market freedoms, notably the freedom to provide services and the freedom of establishment, and to the right to academic freedom, the right to education and the freedom to conduct business, enshrined in the Charter of Fundamental Rightsbefore the Court of Justice of the European Union;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
Bc. whereas the Venice Commission recognised that the acceptance of the amendments they had proposed represent an important improvement on Hungary’s Law on the Transparency of Organisations Receiving Foreign Funds;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Recital B d (new)
Recital B d (new)
Bd. whereas out of the 47 members of the Council of Europe only 22 ratified the Istanbul Agreement, and another 21 member signed the Agreement but have not yet ratified;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Expresses its regret, that the Commission often applies double standards for introducing solutions that are also applied in other Member States; therefore considers that the Commission’s targeting of Hungary is unjustified and politically driven;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital B e (new)
Recital B e (new)
Be. whereas the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe commended also in its resolution that the Hungarian Act on the transparency of organizations supported from abroad does not include the controversial term of ‘foreign agent’ and provides for a judicial rather than and administrative review;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses, in accordance with the principle of sincere cooperation, that the Hungarian Government is engaging in exhaustive dialogue with the Commission on current reforms and is providing comprehensive explanations in this regard; stresses that Hungary has responded in a comprehensive and timely manner to all inquiries made by the Commission;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Stresses that the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union applies to actions of the EU and the Member States when implementing EU legislation; stresses that Declaration No 1 concerning the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union stipulates that ‘the Charter does not extend the field of application of Union law beyond the powers of the Union or establish any new power or task for the Union, or modify powers and tasks as defined by the Treaties’;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Recital B f (new)
Recital B f (new)
Bf. whereas the latest representative research carried out by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights shows that the rate of the victims of physical and /or sexual violence in Hungary falls below the EU average;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital B g (new)
Recital B g (new)
Bg. whereas the rate of employment among women in Hungary has seen a significant rise compared to the 2010 level;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital B h (new)
Recital B h (new)
Bh. whereas there is no collection of data about ethnicity regarding health status records or the provision healthcare services;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the efforts taken in recent years to achieve a better reconciliation of work and private life to which end Hungary allocated a funding of 14 billion HUF for the ‘Women in families and at work’ project;; recalls the Commission's proposal for a directive on work-life balance for parents and carers1 presented in April 2017 and encourages the Hungarian government to contribute to its swift adoption; __________________ 1 COM(2017)0253.
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the reinterpretation and narrowing of gender equality policies towards family policies and recalls the National Strategy for the Promotion of Gender Equality (2010-2021), which Hungary has not yet implementedRecognizes that in order to provide the full freedom of choice for women, a nurturing environment must be established for starting and raising a family, so that no extra burden would affect women’s choice in balancing work and family life;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses, with reference to the ‘Democracy Index 2017’ published recently by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), that media freedom in Hungary has been considerably restricted in the past year as a result of State intervention and increased State control; deplores, in this connection, the closure and subsequent sale of Népszabadság, one of the oldest and most prestigious newspapers in Hungary, once again revealing the Hungarian Government’s intolerance vis-à-vis a critical pressthat the closure and subsequent sale of Népszabadság was a decision made by the owner based on unprofitability;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is concerned about the impact of Hungary’s Law on the Transparency of Organisations Receiving Foreign Funds on civil socieAcknowledges the necessity forganisations that receive funds from the EU, EEA and third countries and on the future the transparent and lawful functioning of non- governmental organisations, which include many women's rights organisations, which are crucial for the functioning and progress of society;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that the pro-government newsindependent and privately owned website 888.hu recently published a black list of journalists working for foreign media, who are described as foreign propagandists for Soros, and that this clearly runs counter to the principle of media freedom;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that violence against women in Hungary, as in all other Member States, is a persistent structural violation of human rights; calls onacknowledges that the Hungarian gGovernment to ratify the Istanbul Convention as soon as possiblestepped up efforts, in accordance with European standards, to diminish violence against women and domestic violence, and creating stricter regulation to support these efforts;
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Urges the leaders of the EU institutions to regard the results of the referendum of 23 June 2016 in the United Kingdom as an important signal of wider discontent into the current direction of the EU; calls on them, for the benefit of the EU, to reflect on ways the Union should be reformed in order to bring the decision-making process closer to citizens and guarantee better compliance with the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance of the right of women to self-determination and, in this context, the importance of respecting their sexual and reproductive rights, including the respect of patients' rights to a safe and non-violent birth;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that from 2010 to 2015 the number of abortions in Hungary decreased by 22.9%, which is the effect of introducing social and financial facilitations for parents;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Stresses the need to fully respect the principle of subsidiarity and the competence of Member States to legislate on reproductive and sexual rights;
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Strongly condemns, in this context, the ill-treatment and discrimination of Roma women in fields such as access to healthcare; notes that Hungarian law and healthcare regulations clearly forbid any distinction in terms of ethnicity or gender;