Activities of Mikuláš PEKSA related to 2021/2018(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on European political parties – report 2021
Amendments (6)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Welcomes the Commission’s intention to review Regulation Nº 1141/2014 on the statute and funding of European political parties and European political foundations, at the end of 2021, with a view to go beyond the current objective of addressing financing and transparency rules and ease the registration conditions under Article 3 and open membership to all EU citizens to provide for a more inclusive representation of political parties active at the European level;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Recalls the recommendations of academics presented during the European Parliament AFCO committee hearing on 25th May 2021, namely lowering the threshold for registration and introducing citizen support as an alternative to parliamentary support to fulfil representational criterion;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Notes with concern that several existing trans-national political parties active in European politics and represented in the European Parliament are not permitted to register officially as European political parties due to requirements listed in Regulation Nº1141/2014, consequently hindering the democratic representation of smaller political parties at the European level; suggests that in this view the European Commission should make an ambitious reform proposal by the end of 2021;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Highlights that funding of European Political Parties and European Political Foundations is inherently linked to registration criteria listed in Regulation Nº 1141/2014, meaning that both issues will need to be addressed in the legislative proposal of the Commission to amend the Regulation;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Requests that every European party’s application for EU funding is made publicly-available on the Authority for European Political Parties and European Political Foundations’ website, ahead of the European Parliament’s decision to approve the application; notes that the vast majority of European parties’ funding comes from public sources and, therefore, requires the highest level of transparency and accountability;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that the Regulation (EU, Euratom) NoNº 1141/2014 requires national members parties to display the logo, the political programme and the website link of their EU party of affiliation on their websites as a condition for accessing funds; calls on the Commission to clearly define the requirementsof accessing funds; is concerned that, according to the λogos project1a, national member parties overwhelmingly fail to properly implement the Regulation’s display requirement, as only 15% of member parties display the logo in a clear and user-friendly manner; calls on the Commission to clearly define and provide more specific display the requirements, as well as detailed guidelines, related to the visibility of the European party of affiliation. _________________ 1a https://eudemocracy.eu/logos-project