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8 Amendments of Tomas TOBÉ related to 2023/2122(INI)

Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises the crucial role played by grassroots and community organisations, trade unions, activist groups, human rights defenders and non- governmental organisations (NGOs) in promoting and upholding democracy, equality, the rule of law and fundamental rights and in ensuring accountability for state and private actions;
2023/10/24
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that civil society is a broader category than that of NGOs; notes that while NGOs are, on the one hand, a favoured institutional form of the neoliberal state and therefore rarely truly oppositional, on the other hand many resist instrumentalisation and expose the excesses of state and private interests; stresses, therefore, that they must be protected, including through the provision of adequate funding, including foreign funding; notes that it is short-sighted to treat NGOs as a singular bloc with a singular policy outlook;deleted
2023/10/24
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Remains deeply concerned by threats to and attacks on NGOs in some Member States;
2023/10/24
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Member States and the EU to improve the legal environment for civil society by ensuring that any measure restricting the right of associations to seek, secure and use resources, including foreign resources, must pursue one of the legitimate aims under Article 11(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights;
2023/10/24
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Expresses its concern that foreign states exercise illegitimate influence in Europe through the funding of NGOs, calls for new rules to prevent NGOs from being used by foreign actors;
2023/10/24
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that transparency and accountability measures must only serve the purpose of ensuring legitimate public scrutiny; stresses that reporting requirements for NGOs must remain strictly necessary and proportionate to the specific aims pursuedalso should cover NGOs ;
2023/10/24
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 96 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that current EU instruments are likely sufficient for achieving proportionate transparency goals concerning NGO funding;deleted
2023/10/24
Committee: LIBE
Amendment 114 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
7. Warns emphatically against the weaponisation of the concept of ‘foreign interference’ and emphasises that this can be and is being used by governments to repress civil society and NGOs.deleted
2023/10/24
Committee: LIBE