Activities of Bernhard ZIMNIOK related to 2020/2255(INL)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Legal migration policy and law
Amendments (7)
Amendment 2 #
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1. Notes that the 'New Pact on Migration and Asylum' is a holistic attempt ton attempt by the Commission to be viewed as addressing Europe's mass-immigration challenges; stresses however that these challenges originate outside Europe and urges that the root causes and drivers of migration be effectively addressedthreat, by allowing ever increasing numbers of third country nationals to come and live in the Member States based on a delusional narrative of a European guilt and global responsibility, coupled with the fantasy that the only policy that can save Europe´s nations is massive immigration from other parts of the world; stresses the fact that the whole concept of the proposed Union Pact is outdated, based on a reality that never existed and the Member States have to halt and find a solution that enables cooperation on re-immigration of large volumes of immigrants that constitute a cultural liability for the nations and peoples of Europe;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
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2. Recalls Member States’ right to determine their own immigration policies;, the people of Europe´s right to self determination and underlines that facilitating labour immigration at Union level undermines Member States’ unique and diverse labour market policies; considers that increasing regular immigration channels, making what is today illegal into legal immigration will not reduce illegal migration or human trafficking, it will only massively increase this direct threat;
Amendment 27 #
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3. Points out that the external borders must be securedUnion boundary line must be secured by respective Member State and that immigrants who lack the right to stay or enter the Member States must be swiftly returned; supports proposals for an accelerated border procedure to apply to persons whose asylum applications have been rejectedplaced in secure lodgings, preferably outside of the Member States and swiftly returned to their home country; all third country nationals that have one and more secure countries between them and the Member States shall automatically be denied not only asylum, but asylum proceedings and immediately be processed for a prompt and safe return to the country through which they illegally entered the Member State or their home country;
Amendment 37 #
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4. Underlines that emigration of highly qualified citizens deprives countries of origin of their human capital and an educatedthe problem is made even worse with this applies to the few well educated within the workforce (“brain drain”) and seriouss it fully hampers their economic and social development in the affected nations; calls for the abolishment of future EU Talent Partnerships tso address this issue and take on board lessons from the recent EU pilot projects on legal migrationthat Member States do not continue to undermine the very nominal development of the third world, the process of giving with one hand and taking with the other has to end;
Amendment 56 #
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5. Calls for strengthening international law enforcement efforts, in cooperation with local governments, to combat criminal networks of smugglers contributop in all development aid to third countries that despite massive European investments and support in their police-, security- and rule of law institutions are still unwilling to stop illegal immigration from and/or through their territory;
Amendment 65 #
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6. Calls for the appropriate use ofdecisive use of conditionality in administrating the NDICI-Global Europe to contribute to reducing immigration flows by stimulating economic growth and development in third countriesand demands that the earmarked 10% of all development funds, supplied by the Member States and administered by the Commission, to be used for immigration facilitation in third countries is immediately cancelled;
Amendment 77 #
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7. Stresses the need to involve all stakeholders in Europe and partnerrespect the majority-wish of the peoples of Europe with a substantial and/or total stop of immigration from third countries into the definition and evaluation of new and existing legal migration strategies; highlights the importance of religious entities, which play a key role in partner countries, including in conflict resolutMember States; and demand that the Commission stop all of their initiatives to turn what is today illegal immigration into legal immigration, by creating new more laxed immigration rules so that new ways are established to legally enter into the Member States and thus vastly increase the already massive volumes of immigrants from third countries; demands that the Commission provides impact assessments with regard to demographic change and other relevant consequences for all immigration policies debated with Union institutions and noting the documented wish in 2018 for circa 70 million third country nationals to immigrate to the Member States - a number that is bound to now have increased substantially, especially due to all pro-immigration initiatives from the Commission.