Activities of Clare MOODY related to 2018/2117(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Defence of academic freedom in the EU's external action (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2
Citation 2
— having regard to the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, particularly Article 13 thereof,
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
- having regard to the Venice Commission Opinion 891/2017
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 12 September 2018 on the situation in Hungary,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas this definition must be grounded in core democratic values, including access and anti-discrimination principles, accountability, institutional autonomy and social responsibility; there can be no democracy without the academic freedom that enables informed debate;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas the attempts to close the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest and attacks on academic freedom, including the blocking of gender studies in Hungary, reflected in the Parliament's resolution of 12 September 2018, demonstrate a wider failure to adequately address and guarantee academic freedom in accession to the EU;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
I b. whereas academic freedom is under threat in candidate countries as demonstrated by the case of Mustafa Erdoğan in Turkey;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point a
Paragraph 1 – point a
(a) explicitly recognise the importance of academic freedom in public statements, policies and actions, including recognition ofrecall that academic freedom should guarantee freedom of expression and of action, freedom to disseminate information and conduct research, distribute knowledge and truth without restriction, recall that this freedom extends to academics' freedom to express their views and opinions, even if controversial or unpopular, in the areas of their research and professional expertise and that this may include an examination of the functioning of public institutions in a given political system, and a criticism thereof, while recalling the principles that ideas are not crimes and that critical discourse is not disloyalty;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point b
Paragraph 1 – point b
(b) publicly highlight the problems of attacks on academic freedom, including their negative consequences, and the responsibility of states to protect higher educationby national authorities or private actors, and recall the responsibility of states to guarantee academic freedom, act in conformity with it as well as proactively protect higher education institutions, academics and students from attacks regardless of their origin and nature;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) work with UN, Council of Europe, international agencies and civil society to create a mechanism for monitoring and reporting attacks on higher education and individual scholars, to strengthen and promote monitoring in order to raise awareness, hold perpetrators to account and improve efforts to prevent and respond to attacks on academic freedom;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point h a (new)
(h a) include the defence of academic freedom in the Copenhagen criteria aimed at preventing the attacks on academic freedom demonstrated in Member States such as the case of the CEU in Hungary;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – point k
Paragraph 1 – point k
(k) create new initiatives within existing and future programmes, such as Erasmus+, the Instrument for Pre Accession (IPA III) and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions of new EU- funded programmes to support the placement of at-risk academics and students with international protection status at European higher education and research institutions;