8 Amendments of Tudor CIUHODARU related to 2021/2186(INI)
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that too much parliamentary time is taken up with targeting conservative Member States, such as Hungary or Poland, but that not enough is done to eliminate corruption and breaches of the rule of law and media freedom in other Member States, and hence considers it necessary to monitor respect for the rule of law and freedom of the press throughout Europe;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Condemns attempts by governments to silence and intimidate media outlets that criticise them and to eliminate media freedom and pluralism; also condemns social media platforms that censor, deplatform or intimidate independent journalists and free citizens who express a narrative differing from that of mainstream media;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Condemns governmental politicisation of the media, wherebyich is prejudicing the provision of proper information to EU citizens and respect for the principle of access to information, and through which governments use ithe media as a tool for their own propaganda; urges the Member States to decouple nominations to broadcasting councils from political parties, ensuring independence of financing, editorial freedom and journalistic integrity; notes that the German broadcasters ARD and ZDF are firmly in the hands of politicians, despite decades of appeals by the German Constitutional Court to try and change this;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Condemns the violence of Antifa rioting in the midst of peaceful vaccine passport protests across Europe and the lack of any measures to counter these groups; notes the allegations that they are working in cooperation with police authorities to create headlines and discredit the protests;
Amendment 308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is concerned about the use of the vague notion of ‘hate speech’ and stresses the need to clarify this concept in European legislation; calls on the Commission and the Member States to work, in cooperation with internet companies, to provide adequate safeguards, in particular to ensure that any interference is limited to what is necessary and proportionate, and to include the possibility of judicial redress;
Amendment 335 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Strongly condemns NGOs masquerading as aid agencies while facilitating the smuggling of unqualified migrants into the EU; urges the Commission to cease funding such entities and regularly to publish a list with the names of such organisations to stop them receiving fresh funding from other sources;
Amendment 364 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Expresses grave concern about the excessive lockdown measures, including the ending of flights and cross-border transport connections, which have put businesses into debt and closure, seen people separated from their loved ones and families (often during their final hours), increased mental illness through isolation, and the number of suicides, and led to rises in domestic violence, as people are imprisoned in their homes and prevented from having external contact, and seen children unnecessarily masked and vaccinated; urges the Member States to encourage early treatment of the SARS- CoV-2 infection9; __________________ 9 Alexander, P.E. et al. ‘Early multidrug treatment of SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19) and reduced mortality among nursing home (or outpatient/ambulatory) residents’, PMC, 5 June 2021, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/ PMC8178530/
Amendment 375 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to present to the European Parliament full details of contracts concluded for the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines, without redactions, along with a status report on vaccine stocks and the measures to be taken if those doses are not used, and calls for full transparency of health data associated with the vaccines’ efficacy and side effects; notes that manufacturers of harmful vaccines are liable under Directive 85/374/EEC;