20 Amendments of Patrizia TOIA related to 2015/2095(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the migration crisis can be addressed only within the context of a European approach and not by bilateral meetings among Members States; calls for a newwelcomes the European agenda on migration under the leadership of the Commission and the European Council, underpinned by solidarity among the Member States. This agenda mighust include the replacement of the Dublin regulation with a centralised European asylum system;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to show understanding for the new phenomenon of mixed inflows, as a result of which distinctions between asylum seekers and economic migrants are becoming increasingly blurred, discriminatory and hard to observe in practice; notes that the causes are intertwined and can be attributed to increasingly precarious situations in which social, economic, political and cultural deprivation are closely connected; observes that new policies must therefore be adopted to ensure a flexible response to this new and complex situation, and greater openness to migration, which could be accompanied by a recovery in European growth figures;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to do more to embrace internal and external policies involving migration, coordinate and harmonize migration and cooperation policies so as to facilitate the mobility of individuals in a bid to improve the welfare of their families, both at the regional South-South as well as international North-South level, in particular by forging closer links between local labour markets and in turn bringing them closer to the European labour market, managing supply and demand in a bid also to alleviate the brain drain and linking welfare and social protection systems, with special attention being paid to the needs of separated families;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers the issues and problems faced by women migrants in the migration process and its impact on women’s empowerment and human rights to be of major importance; stresses that an explicit gender perspective in migration policies is vital; calls in particular for gender discrimination to be removed in the legal aspects of migration; insists on the need to respect the human and individual rights of the weakest among the migrants, namelyin particular women and children (including the need for education for migrating and refugee children), and on the need to include these rights in the post-2015 development agenda;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls the need to uphold the paramount interests of children and unaccompanied minors, with regard to asylum for example, under the 1989 Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; considers it essential for children to be protected through the provision at all times of essential services - such as medical care, food, psychological support, education and training and accommodation enabling families to remain together; calls for special attention to be paid to the needs of separated families and those left behind, developing diversified reception arrangements tailored to the needs of unaccompanied minors and single mothers with children, facilitating family reunification and provisional family shelter; calls on the European Union and Member States to provide an adequate number of child protection experts to help defend the interests of children and their families and adopt all measures necessary to prevent the abuse and exploitation of migrant children and refugees; observes that the protection of children necessitates their progressive assimilation at school in the various Member States though specific measures to ensure the necessary levels of assistance, integration and language support;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Takes note of the creation of an ‘Emergency Trust Fund for stability and addressing root causes of illegal immigration in Africa’ and strongly encourages the Member States to contribute to the Fund in order to effectively help to foster stability and to address the root causes of migration; asks the Commission to enhance the transparency of the Fund and underlines that monitoring and evaluation of the projects and programmes financed will be essential, to make sure the Fund serve its purposes helping directly those in need and not financing governments responsible for human rights violations;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and the EU to fully respect the principle of Policy Coherence for Development (Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) in its migration and Mediterranean policies, and in particular in the implementation of its European Agenda on Migration, bearing in mind in this connection also the link between internal and external policies and hence the relationship between migration and development policies on the one hand and current social protection and employment policies in the Member States on the other;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Commission and the EU to fully respect the principle of Policy Coherence for Development (Article 208 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union) in its migration and Mediterranean policies, and in particular in the implementation of its European Agenda on Migration; underlines the need for a more systematic incorporation of the development dimension in migration policies;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the issue of consistency between common security and defence policy, cooperation and humanitarian assistance, and migration policy, given that European responsibilities in the conflicts should be met in full through greater commitment to peacekeeping and durable solutions for refugees (resettlement, local integration, mobility and return when possible), as should the commitments entered into at European and international level regarding the quantity and quality of public development assistance;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Recommends an incorporation of migration issues in the dialogue with partner countries and regions, ensuring that cooperation with third countries does not lead to trap migrants in abusive situations or preventing them from accessing fair asylum procedures;
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Welcomes the November Summit in La Valletta as a real opportunity to discuss solutions to the migration crisis with developing countries; recalls the need for the summit to address not only the fight against human trafficking and the need to secure access to protection and asylum, but also the root causes of migration and the need of stabilisation and development of the African countries concerned;
Amendment 571 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Recommends that the criteria on which the Relocation Decisions are based should be built directly into the Union’s standard rules for allocating responsibility; emphasises that, in reviewing the Dublin Regulation, it is important to reflect on the value of describing certain asylum seekers as ‘applicants in clear need of international protection’, since those migrants and refugees who do not fall into that category would still – at least under the current system – have to be dealt with by the Member State of first arrival, paying great attention to mixed flows because of steadily increasing human insecurity in third countries, and to new modalities of protection;
Amendment 771 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Believes that the return of migrants should only be carried out safely, in full compliance with the fundamental and procedural rights of the migrants in question, and where the country to which they are being returned is safe for them; reiterates, in that regard, that voluntary return should be prioritised over forced returns, and that these returns should be conceived in a humanitarian and development approach, in full agreement with third countries;
Amendment 997 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 80
Paragraph 80
80. Points out that the Global Approach to Migration and Mobility (GAMM) pillar on asylum and international protection should be developed further, with greater involvement of third countries; notes that current actions in this field, under Regional Protection Programmes (RPPs) or Regional Development and Protection Programmes (RDPPs), focus on capacity building to tackle criminal smuggling and human trafficking networks within third countries of origin and transit; notes, at the same time, that the resettlement component of these programmes continues to be weak; believes that capacity-building efforts and resettlement activities should be stepped up and carried out together with third countries hosting large refugee populations; points out that these programs, as well as humanitarian operations, should be more linked to development cooperation, and durable solutions options;
Amendment 1004 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 81
Paragraph 81
81. Acknowledges that the basic instrument that sets out the objectives of the Union’s external policies on migration, asylum and borders is the GAMM; takes note that various instruments exist under that umbrella, including regional dialogues, bilateral dialogues, mobility partnerships, common agendas for migration and mobility, readmission agreements, visa facilitation agreements, visa exemption agreements, RPPs and RDPPs; affirms that all these instruments should be based upon the policy coherence for sustainable development principle established in the Treaty of Lisbon;
Amendment 1010 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 82
Paragraph 82
82. Understands that the external dimension should focus on cooperation with third countries in tackling the root causes of,, contributing to the human development and addressing, irregular flows to Europe in the medium long term; understands that partnerships and cooperation with key countries of origin, transit and destination should continue to be a focus, for example through the Khartoum and Rabat processes, the Africa- EU migration and mobility dialogue, the Budapest Process and the Prague Process; sustains that legal migration and mobility, and development impact of migration pillars of GAMM should be reinforced in these Processes;
Amendment 1091 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92
Paragraph 92
92. Understands that, in the long term, greater impetus and coherence is needed in solving the geo-political issues that affect the root causes of migration, as war, poverty, corruption, hunger and a lack of opportunities means that people will still feel forced to flee to Europe unless Europe looks at how to help re-build those countries; points out that this means that the Commission and the Member States must put up the money to help build capacity in third countries, such as by facilitating investment and education,; recognising the role of diasporas committed on peace and human development initiatives; strengthening and enforcing asylum systems, helping to manage borders better, and reinforcing legal and judicial systems there;
Amendment 1113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 95 a (new)
Paragraph 95 a (new)
95a. Recommends that development cooperation funding must be not conditioned to the implementation of readmission agreements or similar initiatives, and that refugee reception funds must not be recorded as development aid; points out that every intervention has to be conceived in a coherent strategy between EU internal and external policies;
Amendment 1195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 111
Paragraph 111
111. Takes the view that, in the long run, the Union will need to establish more general rules governing the entry and residence for those third-country nationals seeking employment in the Union to fill the gaps identified in the Union labour market, not only focused on highly qualified employment;
Amendment 1243 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 121
Paragraph 121
121. Believes, moreover, that it is clear that the directive should focus not just on the highly-qualified, but also on targeted high- qualification occupations where there are proven labour shortages; believes, in addition, that the revision of the Blue Card should be both ambitious and targeted, and should seek to remove the inconsistencies of the existing directive, particularly as regards parallel national schemes; recommends that thought be given to revising the scope to include those third- country nationals who could help tackle the gaps identified in EU labour markets; points out that the Directive should evaluate brain drain effects occurring in third countries and measures for ethical recruitment and compensations according to the policy coherence for sustainable development principle;