Activities of Kristina WINBERG related to 2018/2044(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on Terrorism (debate) SV
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on Terrorism PDF (556 KB) DOC (134 KB)
Amendments (36)
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 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas the return of foreign terrorist fighters (FTFs) and their families poses particular challenges in terms of security and radicalisation; whereas child returnees pose specific problems as they can be both victims and potential perpetrators at the same time;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas these returnees have often received prolonged ideological indoctrination and military training in the use of weapons and explosives, and have in some cases established links with other terrorists, possibly former foreign fightersFT, with whom they form transnational networks;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S
Recital S
S. whereas the flow of illegal migrants and refugees poses challenges to integrassimilation, which have already been exploited by extremists and could be further exploited in the future;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas populism-fuelledan open and honest political discourseebate with regarding to the terrorist threat can lead to polarisation within society;
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 433 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BN
Recital BN
BN. whereas the Council conclusions 10152/17 recommend to Member States that all irregular migrants are checked at national level against databases fed and used by competent authorities and the national Automatic Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS), at European and international level against the SIS, Europol, VIS, Eurodac and Interpol databases (I-24/7 network) and more specifically Nominal data, Stolen and Lost Travel Documents (SLTD), Foreign Terrorist Fighters (FTF)T and Travel Documents Associated with Notices (TDAWN);
Amendment 456 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BS
Recital BS
BS. whereas battlefield evidence is often essential to identify potential foreign terrorist fightersFT and needs to be included in the relevant databases in order to reach border guards in real time;
Amendment 539 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CT
Recital CT
CT. whereas the key regions in the EU’s neighbourhood, and more specifically the Balkans and North Africa, are facing important challengesubstantial problems such as those relating to foreign fightersFT and returnees management, as well as to home-grown radical cells;
Amendment 542 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CU
Recital CU
CU. whereas the Balkans remain a key region for European stability; whereas the challenges related to terrorism and Islamist extremism compound a regional context already weakened by ethnic, political and social polarisation as well as criminal networks; whereas the countries of the region have not yet been, but may become, targets forsuffered a full scale terrorismt attack, and are already used as transit countries for people andas well as places of origin for people linked to or conducting terrorist acts and as the source of illegal weapons;
Amendment 548 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CV
Recital CV
CV. whereas all North African countries have been confronted with major terrorist actions and remain prime targets; whereas these countries may suffer from the return of foreign fighterFTs, considering the large number of jihadists from this region;
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 683 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to monitor all foreign terrorist fightersFT; calls for an effective and appropriate follow-up of the threat posed by returneeing terrorists, and for this purpose invites Member States to share contextual information about returneeing terrorists via Europol; calls on the Commission to assist Member States in the establishment of aligned classification systems in order to distinguish between high, medium and low-risk returneeterrorists;
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 739 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
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 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 1022 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Urges the Member States to ensure that thshare national, local and where relevant regional information available at local or regional level and in their databases is automatically uploadedwith each other and to feed it into European databases, where possible through automated or smart technical solutions, to national systems and, where appropriate, to relevant European databases whilst ensuring data quality standardprevent information from being lost as a result of the fragmentation of jurisdictions;
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 1270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 87
Paragraph 87
87. Encourages all relevant actors to enter battlefield information, systematically and without delay, in the relevant databases so as to enable the immediate identification of foreign terrorist fighterFTs when they try to cross the external borders;
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 1375 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 110
Paragraph 110
110. Believes that a system must be set up for car rental agencies to check the identity of clients against police and migration databases, showing only a red or green flag;
Amendment 1393 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 119
Paragraph 119
119. Highlights the importance of upgrading the regulatory framework on illegal firearms as warranted in each respective MS, in order to avoid illicit firearms being trafficked from both within and especially from outside the EU; calls for the loopholes in the existing firearms legislation to be closed, for example by taking measures to stop the circulation of easy-to-convert blank-firing guns, Flobert guns and alarm pistols;
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;
Amendment 1498 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 136
Paragraph 136
136. Calls for the Member States and the EU institutions, when adopting and applying CT measures, to find the right balance between the different fundamental rights involved; considers in this respect that, while privacy is a fundamental right, the first priority should lie in protecting people’s fundamental rights to life and security;