Activities of Bernhard ZIMNIOK related to 2022/2200(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
2022 Report on Bosnia and Herzegovina (debate)
Amendments (19)
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomeCondemns the European Council's decision to grant candidate status to BiH; reiterates its clear supportno for BiH’s EU integration, grounded in unity, sovereignty and territorial integrity;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service to continuease supporting BiH’s EU integration based on strict conditionality;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reaffirms its support forview that the mandates of the Office of the High Representative and EUFOR Operation Althea in overseeing the implementation of the Dayton Peace Agreement must cease;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. WelcomNotes BiH’s increased attempts to alignment with the EU Commission’s common foreign and security policy (CFSP), and urges for the effective implementation of sanctions stemming from CFSP alignregrets this development;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. SupportsIs surprised of BiH’s sustained aspirations towards Euro-Atlantic integration and NATO membership;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Denounces the recurring inflammatory rhetoric and secessionneo-colonialist policies by the leadership of the Republika Srpska (RS) entity, including the celebration of the so-called RS Day; underlines that such actions destabilise BiH, undermine the Dayton Peace Agreement, contradict BiH’s EU perspective and endanger access to EU fundingmembers of the EU Commission, the European Parliament and other political figures both in Europe and the USA in regard to the inner affairs of the Republika Srpska (RS); underlines that such actions destabilise BiH, undermine the Dayton Peace Agreement, contradicts the OSCE vision for the BiH and ultimately places the life and wellbeing of the peoples of both entities at risk;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Reiterates its call for targeteda stop to all forms of sanctions against destabilising actors in BiH;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Condemns malign foreign interference by third actors in BiH, notably United States and Russia’s destabilisation of the Western Balkans;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that the rule of law, good governance, pluralism and fundamental rights need to be mainstreamed in IPA III funding, which must be based on strict conditionality; recalls that EU funding for projects in the RS entity should remain frozen until the reversal of democratic backsliding by the RS entity and until full alignment with the CFSP that the Balkan-rout of illegal migration is stopped;
Amendment 166 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls for the judiciary’s integrity and independence to be strengthened, namely by bringing the Law on the High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council and the Law on Courts in line with EU standards proposed by the OSCE, and by eliminating selective justice, the case backlog, corruption, a lack of transparency and poor oversight;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Reaffirms the significance of reconciliation in BiH and calls on all authoritiesNotes with amusement that the neither the OSCE, the United Nations, the EU Commission has managed to launch and implement a comprehensive transitional justice process yet, despite more than 25 years of opportunity to do so, condemns this ineptness by the EU Commission, the United Nations and the OSCE; proposes to the two entities launch and implement such a process and to actively promote and ensure access to truth, justice and non-selective reparations;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
Amendment 334 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Reiterates the need for solidarity- based migration and asylum management and a fair distribution of reception capacities; welcomesto completely halt all illegal migration and asylum-fraud transiting trough both entities and encamping on the door step of the EU boundary line in the hopening of negotiations on BiH’s upgraded status agreement with the European Border and Coast Guard Agency; regrets persisting shortcomings in migration and border management; calls on BiH to fully align with the EU’s visa policy of making an illegal crossing, reminds both entities that any support from the Member States, including via the administrators of the EU Commission, is fully dependant to their ability to finally shut down and block the illegal Balkan corridor for illegal migrants;
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. UNotes the calls from the European Parliament and the EU Commission on urgently calls for measures to address the continued high degree of brain drain; stresses the importance of developing the Youth Guarantee in the Western Balkanas it is one of the key reasons why enlargement process with BiH now will end; once this process has ended it will have a positive effect to counter brain-drain and any other “drain” and stabilize both entities;
Amendment 360 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. WelcomNotes the Commission’s energy support package for the Western Balkans; recommends strengthening BiH’s integration into the European energy market;
Amendment 363 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Urges BiH to finalise and adopt the national energy and climate plan; calls on it toNotes that both entities of BiH could adopt the necessary legislation on gas, electricity, renewable energy and energy efficiency, and to ensure the full harmonisation of laws for a functional energy market;
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37