21 Amendments of Jean-Paul GARRAUD related to 2021/2103(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 5
Citation 5
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 23
Citation 23
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 24
Citation 24
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that the main responsibility for this regression lies with Member States and the European Union;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Condemns all attemptthe decisions by Member States to control civil society actors and discriminate between them on a political basis, including by over-regulating the sectorrestrict citizens’ freedoms disproportionately in connection with the health crisis;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas in some Member States, restrictions have been imposed with the deliberate aim of limiting civic space and are accompanied by legal, administrative and fiscal harassment, criminalisation and negative rhetoric aimed at stigmatising and delegitimising CSOs and draining their capacity to carry out their legitimate work; whereas hate speech, harassment and attacks also emanate from non-state actors; whereas CSOs working on women’s rights, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, environmental issues and the protection of minorities and LGBTI rights, as well as those providing assistance to asylum seekers and those involved in search and rescue operationgender equality, environmental issues and the freedom to criticise Islamic fundamentalism, as well as those fighting to prevent Europe from being overrun by migrants, are particularly exposed;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Strongly cCondemns, in particular, the adoption by Hungarian anwidespread Prolish authorities of acts that restrict the access of non-governmental organisations to funding and that target LGBTIQ+ persons and activistl-out of the health pass;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Condemns the severexcessive restrictions imposed by Member States on the right to protest, the disproportionate use of violence by public authorities, and the arbitrary arrests of protesters;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Asserts the crucial role played by CSOs in the realisation of EU values and fundamental rights, and the implementation of EU policies and strategiesEurope; stresses their key contribution to informed public debate, articulating aspirations present in society, giving a voice to vulnerable and marginalised people, to populations worried about the preservation of their identities, providing expertise in policy- making, promoting active citizenship and acting as schools of democracy and whistleblowers;
Amendment 103 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Condemns the increasing criminalisation and judicial harassment of certain civil society actors; is concerned about the growing use of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) by powerful public and private actors, and strongly recommends the adoption of an anti- SLAPPs directive protecting all parties legitimately engaging in public participation;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Condemns far-left organisations using social media to decry advertisers whose adverts appear in the media in order to intimidate them into withdrawing financial support; takes the view that by doing so, these organisations seek to censor and as such undermine freedom of expression and media pluralism;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 126 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 139 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Denounces the extreme inequality in access to information and decision- makers between industry representatives on the one hand, and civil society actorbetween lobbies defending powerful private interests on the one hand, and citizens and their representatives on the other, including within the EU institutions;
Amendment 155 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Deplores the growing concentration of media ownership at the expense of plurality, independence and fair public representation of the ideas and actionsinterests of citizens and of civil society organisations.
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. WelcomesStrongly disapproves of the adoption with an increased budget of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme; calls on the Commission to actively consult CSOs in the definition of work programmes and funding mechanisms so as to ensure transparency, flexibility and user- friendliness; welcomes re-granting mechanisms in the Union Values strandstop funding campaigns, as it did with the ‘Rights, Equality and Citizenship’ programme, that promote the hijab or other cultural practices that run counter to gender equality and the European identity;
Amendment 234 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Urges the Commission to ensure that EU funds are onlynot awarded to organisations that are strictly independent from any government and fully adhere to EU valuesstaging the invasion of Europe; calls instead for it to support organisations working to prevent this from happening;
Amendment 241 #
19. CondemnWelcomes attempts by certain Member States to impose limitations on foreign funding andwith the related political narratives they have promulgated and measures they have taken with the aim of stigmatising CSOsaim of protecting CSOs from any outside interference;
Amendment 281 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission to leverage the definition of national programmes implementing EU funds and the implementation by Member States of EU strategies and action plans to require Member States to put in place effective civil dialogue mechanismsstop using EU funds to blackmail Member States that it simply disagrees with ideologically and be open to dialogue;