5 Amendments of Harald VILIMSKY related to 2022/2047(INI)
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas culture has major potential to promote the EU’sEuropean values, solidify its identity and contribute to the fulfilment of its objectives worldwide, as well as addressing global challenges;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the EUMember States needs to engage in international cultural relations using itstheir own instruments to shape theEurope’s cultural face of the EU worldwide and complement the work of Member States’ cultural institutes abroadworldwide;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas worldwide cultural theft continues to remain a problem in the EU; whereas after 1974 in Northern Cyprus more than 60,000 cultural objects were taken abroad through looting and by vandalism on the black market; whereas more than 550 Greek Orthodox churches and monasteries have been robbed of their works of art and destroyed or converted into mosques; whereas this is intended to deliberately destroy the Christian Western cultural heritage;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Condemns any destruction or theft of Christian cultural goods; calls for the European Commission to make efforts to return Christian cultural goods, such as those that were black-marketed after the Turkish occupation of the northern part of Cyprus, to their origins; condemns any conversion of Greek Orthodox or Christian monasteries and churches into mosques; calls on the Commission to take an appropriate stance by officially condemning especially the theft of Christian cultural goods and the conversion of Christian or Greek Orthodox churches and monasteries; calls for a reconsideration of cultural relations, in particular with those countries which continue to endanger the Christian cultural heritage worldwide through such practices;
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4