9 Amendments of Tom VANDENDRIESSCHE related to 2020/2042(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas climate change and consequential natural disasters have become common driveare vague and unrealistic criteria for acceptance of migration; whereas, the first of migration, which will be further exacerbated as the climate crisis worsensbjective must be individual adaptation to local settings and, where appropriate, local or regional resettlement; whereas resettlement within a familiar culture and climate is preferable to migration to an area in which the culture and climate are totally different; consequently, migration must not automatically equate to migration to the EU;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas climate-induced migration is strongly related to other factors, including poverty, since when a country lacks the appropriate resources to adapt to climate change, this can aggravate poverty and force people to move; whereas climate change is an important risk multiplier for conflict, drought, famine and migrationpoverty and other problematic living conditions must not and cannot automatically mean migration to Europe; whereas the various social security systems of the EU Member States are unable to offer equal or equivalent protection to all people in the world who are less well placed; whereas further unbridled migration will simply undermine existing social security systems with disastrous consequences for the economy and the citizens of the EU Member States;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the fact that, while climate migration is a reality that is set to intensify, people who move for long-term, climate change-related reasons have no effective access to protection in the EU; calls on the Member States and the Commission to put in place protection pathways, which include promoting humanitarian visas, temporary protection, authorisation to stay, and regional and bilateral free movement agreements; proposesPoints out that ‘climate’ as a new justification for migration creates a fresh possibility for uncontrolled migration to Europe; takes the view that a climate passpormust not be missused to persons coming from a country, or part of it, that will become uninhabitable due to climate change as a way to offer them protection from vulnerability and statelessness; proposes that any changeas a pretext to further undermine the already highly permissive immigration policy in the EU; observes that it ins the environment due to climate change be explicitly listed among eligibility criteria for humanitarian protection; calls on the Commission and Member States to put forward such proposals in international forums, in parallel to oime for the EU to recognise that not every problem in the world must and can be solved by means of migration to one of ther EU initiativMember States;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to enhance and better coordinate less restrictive legal channels for third- country workers and their families, which would include mobility schemes and preferential access for workers coming from a country, or part of it, affected by climate changeReiterates that, aside from any discussion of the desirability and modalities of labour migration, climate should not be a criterion that lowers the threshold triggering this phenomenon;
Amendment 108 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the ruling of the UN Human Rights Committee of 20 January 2020, which states that countries may not deport individuals facing climate change- induced conditions that violate the right to life; calls on the Member Stat the right to life is not the same as the right to migrates to consider the risk of violations of the right to life due to climate change as part of their return decisions, notably triggering non-refoulement obligatione of the EU Member States;
Amendment 116 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that, as part of the reform of the Union’s Migration and Asylum Policy, a comprehensive framework should be established, which includes climate-induced migration and displacement as core part of this process. the EU should primarily focus on the well-being and prosperity of EU citizens;