55 Amendments of Geoffrey VAN ORDEN related to 2018/2044(INI)
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the diverse landscape of regional, national, EU and international actors in the field of terrorism with overlapping competences and insufficiently delineateddifferent mandates, the multitude of formal and informal fora for cooperation and exchange of information, as well as the division of competences between the different regional and national agencies, between law enforcement services and intelligence services and between the EU and the Member States, give rise to difficulties with regard to theunderlines the complexity of coordination and coherence of thein response to the terrorist threat;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
F a. whereas the EU Counter Terrorism Coordinator has proved to be a useful bridge between the different EU institutions and with the Member States, nevertheless his mandate and status are ill-defined;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas in recent years the EU Member States have suffered major terrorist attacks, perpetrated or inspired by jihadist groups such as Daesh, Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda; whereas far right, far left and ethno- nationalist separatist extremism are also matters of concern;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas in recent years the EU Member StatesEurope haves suffered major terrorist attacks, perpetrated or inspired by jihadist groups such as Daesh, Hezbollah or Al-Qaeda; whereas far right, far left and ethno- nationalist separatist extremism are also matters of concern;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas developments and instability in the Middle East, North Africa, and the Caucasian regions have enabled Daesh and other terrorist groups to gain a footholdus make some elements in countries bordering the EU such as those of the Western Balkans more vulnerable to extremist influence, and the nexus between internal and external security has become more prominent;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas perpetrators of terrorist attacks in the EUEurope very often include EU nationals, often second or third generation migrants, who have grown up in the Member States which they have attacked, as well as foreigners who may in some cases have resided for a significant time in the Member State targeted;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U
Recital U
U. whereas populism-fuelled political discourse regarding the terrorist threat can lead to polarisation within society; “right-wing” extremism in many countries has inspired a number of attacks and represents a threat that needs to be addressed for the protection of society at large and not least to reassure Muslim citizens, who are often, but not exclusively, the target of such attacks; whereas nevertheless the threat is not at all of the same scale, frequency or nature as that posed by Islamist terrorists, who must remain the main focus of counter- terrorism efforts;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U a (new)
Recital U a (new)
U a. whereas the terrorist threat is as likely to come from a home-grown perpetrator of immigrant origin as from the fresh outsider; whereas young people of immigrant origin, brought up in areas where the predominant influences are foreign, will have difficulty in identifying with mainstream society; whereas it is in the interest of political and religious agitators to emphasise difference, separation, victimisation and alienation;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital U b (new)
Recital U b (new)
U b. whereas migrants often seek to escape the cultural, social, and political constraints of their previous life but only too often find themselves under the same influences waiting for them in the new country;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital W
Recital W
W. whereas the situation in each Member State differs and national strategies against radicalisation are importanttherefore of greatest importance, particularly in terms of providing general frameworks for programmes at local level; whereas these strategies must ensureneed sufficient financing for local authorities, vettproperly- screened NGOs and other civil society partners so that these programmes can be implementedmonitored and implemented with confidence;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AB
Recital AB
AB. whereas a violent radicalised discourse has been increasingly present in the territory of the EUmany EU Member States, often in the form of books, teaching or audiovisual content, including satellite TV channels; whereas this discourse opposes European values, undermines pluralism, promotes violence and intolerance against all other religions, is openly anti-Semitic, refuses equality between men and women, and rejects the science and education which have been promoted by Islam during centuries;
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AD a (new)
Recital AD a (new)
AD a. whereas in many Muslim countries, the activities of imams, the message they convey and the language they speak, is controlled by law in order to prevent extremism; whereas in European countries there is little control over such activity, the word is spoken in a foreign language, imams are trained abroad, and extremist mosques and madrassahs often rely on foreign sources of funding;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AD b (new)
Recital AD b (new)
AD b. whereas the teachings of extremist imams in certain mosques and madrassahs have been a factor in radicalisation; whereas these same institutions reinforce the sense of alienation of many young people of immigrant origin, particularly young men;
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AF
Recital AF
AF. whereas Daesh’s sophisticated web communication strategy of marketing terrorism by glorifying it and copying ideas from the global ‘youth culture’ also offers alternative social and cultural opportunities to followers and design copied from the global ‘youth culture’ such as online gaming, and thus has a strong appeal to minors;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AI
Recital AI
AI. whereas although major progress has been made with regard to removal of online terrorist content, there is a need to scale up the companies’ engagement; whereas the removals are often not complete, removing the content from one website but leaving it on another belonging to the same company; whereasand effective and comprehensive reporting by companies has to be improved;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AK a (new)
Recital AK a (new)
AK a. whereas excessive coverage by the media of terrorist attacks may serve the terrorists’ purpose in two ways - by multiplying the impact of a terrorist attack, spreading terror and weakening public confidence; and by unintentionally giving terrorists heroic status through publication of their names, images, and justificatory statements and suicide notes;
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AZ
Recital AZ
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BA
Recital BA
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BB
Recital BB
Amendment 448 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital BR
Recital BR
BR. whereas the fact thatsome Member States, especially in Schengen, and more specifically the airport operators on their territory, aredo not yet obliged to conductdemand conformity checks on passengers’ personal data on their ticket and ID card or passport, which makesmaking it difficult to ascertain whether the given identity matches the true identity of the person;
Amendment 537 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CT
Recital CT
CT. whereas the key regions in the EU’s neighbourhood, and more especifically the Balkans and North Africa, are facing important challenges such as those relating to foreign fighters and returnees management, as well as to home- grown radical cells;
Amendment 553 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital CW
Recital CW
CW. whereas regions which are not direct EU neighbours but are areas of interest, such as the Sahel, the Horn of Africa, West Africa, the Middle East, the Gulf and Central Asia, have also experienced the development of terrorist networks; whereas in these regions religious radicalism benefiting from external financing is also a serious concern;
Amendment 577 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital DA a (new)
Recital DA a (new)
DA a. whereas there must be no confusion between the terrorists and their victims, and extremist propaganda, which aims to create equivalence between terrorists and the security forces that combat them, must be rejected;
Amendment 643 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that, at this stage, the EU and the Member States should improve cooperation through existing European agencies and Member States’ security and justice institutions;
Amendment 645 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses the importance of Europol continuing its close cooperation with relevant authorities of non-EU countries, international organisations and other relevant entities, as well as with EU Member States with a special membership status with whom a Strategic and Operational Agreement has been concluded;
Amendment 656 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls for clarification of the status and role of the Counter Terrorism Coordinator, as a bridge between the EU Counter Terrorism institutions and Member State agencies;
Amendment 663 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Recommends that Member States should emulate best practice of, for example, the UK and set up a specialised team of lawyers trained to prosecute terrorism cases, while judges selected to hear terrorism cases should have the appropriate background and training to preside over them;
Amendment 695 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 716 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes that terrorists have been known to start off in petty crime; is concerned that certain Member States’ justice systems have low conviction rates, with inadequate sentences being issued for serious crime andUrges Member States to ensure that radicalised individuals beingare not released prematurely or on parole; therefore encourages Member States to organise their justice systems such as to ensure effective intervention vis-à-vis habitual offenders and sufficient dissuasiveness for such offenders, and that they continue to be monitored on release;
Amendment 729 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Recognises the close professional counter-terrorist collaboration between European countries and, as appropriate, with foreign counter-terrorist authorities, and calls for continued enhancement through operational missions, data analysis, more rapid exchange of intelligence, and sharing of best practice;
Amendment 736 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 c (new)
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10 c. Calls for urgent attention to controlling migration from countries that are incubators of extremism and terrorism; there is little point in pouring resources into countering radicalism if the problem continues to expand;
Amendment 738 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 751 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Notesing that the European Court of Auditor’s report of 2018 on deradicalisation found that the Commission does not maintain a complete overview of EU-funded measures, and that no indicators or targets for EU funds are used to measure to what extent the approach is successful;, calls on the Commission to propose a new financial instrument in the forthcoming MFF for introduce impreoventing and countering radicalisation, which would streamline resod coordination on measurces currently fragmented across different funds and programmes and allow for better coordination and visibility as well as higher impactto evaluate the effectiveness and to report to Parliament accordingly;
Amendment 785 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Urges the Member States to encourage and tolerate only ‘practices of Islam’ that are in full accordance with EUliberal democratic values; welcomes the initiatives by moderate Muslim religious communities throughout Europe to counter the dangerous narratives from within their communities
Amendment 798 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Member States to conduct prior screenings of chaplains and to consistently blacklist any hate preachers; calls on the Commission to introduce an EU watch list so as toUrges discouragement of foreign imams and blacklisting, on a case by case basis of known hate preachers, with better exchange of information on radical chaplainbetween Member States on this;
Amendment 808 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to increase the offer of higher education opportunities for chaplainimams in the EU, with accrediting theological education programmes integrating EUliberal democratic values; invites the Commission and the Member States to develop and fund a network of European religious scholars that can spread - and testify to - practices of Islam that are compliant with EUliberal democratic values;
Amendment 838 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Urges the Member States to close without delay mosques and places of worship and ban associations that do not adhere to EUliberal democratic values and incite to terrorist offences, hatred, discrimination or violence;
Amendment 863 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Recognises the success of schemes such as the Prevent Programme, to safeguard and support vulnerable individuals, to stop them becoming terrorists or supporting terrorism, and whereas the best results are often achieved in partnership with local communities, particularly schools, challenging the core communications of Daesh and other terrorist groups with credible counter narratives;
Amendment 877 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Recognises the crucial importance of home influences and of the education sector and calls for greater effort to be given to combatting the promotion of extremism on campuses, in communities, and on social media; urges more effort to integrate people of immigrant origin into mainstream society, actively encouraging the learning and use of the language of the host country, discouraging the taking of brides and movement of extended families from the old country;
Amendment 897 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Underlines the need to achieve automatic, fast and full removal of terrorist content; requests the Commission to present a legislative proposal obliging companies to remove terrorist content fully within one hour following upload and to introduce clear reporting obligations on the incidence of terrorist content and removal rates, as well as sanctions for non- compliance;
Amendment 985 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Urges Member States to adopt the approach of ‘information sharing by default’ when it comes to sharing CT- related information, thus exchanging such information as a rule, and refraining from such exchange only in specific cases where circumstances require that it be withheld; and furthermore calls on Member States to examine and share information on the links between organised crime and terrorist groups, which constitutes a growing security threat;
Amendment 997 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
Amendment 1001 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
Amendment 1055 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
Amendment 1197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 a (new)
Paragraph 72 a (new)
72 a. Recommends that Member States re-evaluate Directive 2016/680 to address data retention regulations to ensure that Europol and third countries can retain data related to criminal networks and activities older than 3 years to maintain the counter-terrorist agencies’ corporate memory and understanding, and to ensure that previous case work can be utilised in anticipation of a ‘reunion’ of terrorist organisations with organised criminal groups and activities;
Amendment 1200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 b (new)
Paragraph 72 b (new)
72 b. Recommends that Member States re-evaluate Directive2016/680 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities and its subsequent directives on the transfer of data to third countries for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences to ensure that Member States, Europol and third countries are able to share data in real time;
Amendment 1308 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 94
Paragraph 94
Amendment 1400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 121
Paragraph 121
Amendment 1421 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 123
Paragraph 123
123. Considers that CT is a field which requires concrete expertise, including on related aspects such as rights of victims; calls, therefore, for the deepening of professionalisation of the EU network in this area, in particular by granting CT operative personnel coming from Member States a better and longer integration into the EU structure, beyond a single assignment within an EU delegation; considers that posting within the EU institutions would maximise expertise and use of competences in the field of CT;
Amendment 1433 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125 a (new)
Paragraph 125 a (new)
125 a. Recommends that Member States further enhance cooperation with NATO and contribute political, financial, operational and logistical support towards Joint Force Command Centres in Europe and NATO's Capacity Building Initiatives in MENA countries;
Amendment 1442 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125 d (new)
Paragraph 125 d (new)
125 d. Recommends that Member States work closely with the United States and Canada in areas of intelligence sharing and joint training;
Amendment 1443 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125 e (new)
Paragraph 125 e (new)
125 e. Recommends that Member States allocate resources to track and monitor ongoing ideological and dawa campaigns from religious elites and key opinion formers, with particular emphasis towards campaigns emanating from Iran;
Amendment 1444 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 125 f (new)
Paragraph 125 f (new)
125 f. Recommends that the EU and Member States sanction any State providing proscribed terrorist organisation with sponsorship, safe haven or any form of political, operational, religious, financial or logistical support;
Amendment 1447 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 126
Paragraph 126
126. Calls on the Commission to establish an EU Coordination Centre for victims of terrorism (CCVT), which should provide timely and adequate crisis support in cases of mass attacks in one or several Member States; considers that the role of the CCVT would be to ensure urgent assistance to victims from another Member State as well as the provision of expertise at EU level by promoting exchange of knowledge and best practices;
Amendment 1458 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 128
Paragraph 128
128. Calls on the Commission to put forward a legislative proposal on the victims of terrorism, including a clear definition of their specific status and rights, specifically excluding those engaged in acts of terrorism or belonging to terrorist organisations and a standardised form to claim compensation; considers that there should be a simplified procedure at national level for granting automatic compensation to victims of terrorism directly after an attack and for sanctioning fraudsters, and that the question of further compensation should be reviewed at regular intervals on the basis of an assessment of the victim’s situation;