18 Amendments of Maria Grazia PAGANO related to 2008/2234(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas, however, without prejudice to the power of individual Member States to determine the ways of acquiring and losing citizenship, the Tampere European Council of 15 and 16 October 1999 endorsed ‘the objective that long-term legally resident third country nationals be offered the opportunity to obtain the nationality of the Member State in which they are resident’,
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas granting the right to vote and stand for election in local elections in the Member State of residence is essential in order to create a sense of genuinely belonging in that country,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. In the light of the findings of Eurobarometer Flash 213 (a 2007 Eurobarometer survey) to the effect that only 31% of the respondents considered themselves well informed about their rights as EU citizens, considers it vital to adopt an effective approach to information and communication aimed at making EU citizens aware of their rights and obligations and helping them to assume an active role in EU decision- taking, thus enabling participatory democracy to be genuinely exercised;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that Member States should incorporate the European dimension into school syllabuses at primary and secondary levels;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for women to participate on a larger scale in politics and decision-taking so as to promote European integration; to that end, believes that they need to be the target of more clear-cut awareness campaigns, the object being to enable them to exercise their rights as EU citizens to the full and be more active within political groupings, in politics, and in connection with the work of local authorities in their countries of residence;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the Commission’s initiative to promote knowledge of the new rules set out in the Free Movement Directive, including the publication of the Guide to the Directive, andbut regrets the fact that the 16 000 copies of the ‘Guide on how to get the best out of Directive 2004/38/EC’, published in 19 languages, are too small a quantity compared with the total number of people living in the EU; calls on the Commission to ensure that this information is made widely available to local and regional authorities, which are the first source of information for many citizens and as it is at local levels where most problems and infringements of EU citizens’ rights take place;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Considers the integration of immigrants to be a basic prerequisite for the exercise of their rights in their countries of residence; calls, therefore, on the Member States to give rapid and full effect to the recommendations set out in the Commission communication of 1 September 2005 entitled ‘A Common Agenda for Integration of Third-Country Nationals in the European Union’ (COM(2005)0389);
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Considers that it would be desirable to encourage an exchange of experiences regarding the naturalisation systems existing in the various Member States with a view to achieving closer coordination of the eligibility criteria and procedures for EU citizenship – without encroaching on the power of individual Member States to determine the ways of acquiring and losing citizenship – and hence to reducing the instances of discrimination inherent in the different legal systems;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to make funding available for the training of Member States’ local and regional civil servants who deal with intra-EU migrants in the basics of the EC legislation that applies in their respective fields, and to help administrations in answering questions concerning possible differences and conflicts between national and EC legislation; in this respect welcomes the SOLVIT online problem-solving network provided by the Commission and calls for it to be further strengthened and promoted; hopes that, by increasing human as well as financial resources, Member States will help to bolster the national SOLVIT centres;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Points out that the right of free movement is a linchpin of EU citizenship and therefore finds it highly disturbing that no Member State has yet fully and properly implemented the Free Movement Directive;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15c. Calls on the Member States, when giving effect to the right to free movement, to refrain from encumbering EU citizens and their family members with red tape that would be unwarranted to the extent that it is not expressly laid down in the Free Movement Directive and is contrary to Community law and would impede the exercise of a right which, leaving aside the performance of administrative procedures, is provided for as such in the Treaty; points out to the Member States that they have a duty to facilitate completion of the administrative procedures linked to the exercise of the right of free movement;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 d (new)
Paragraph 15 d (new)
15d. Calls on the Member States to refrain from adopting legislative acts imposing penalties that would be excessively harsh or discriminatory in relation to EU citizens, such as, for example, detention in the event of removal from the territory of a host Member State, invoking an aggravating circumstance on the grounds that an EU citizen who had committed an offence had previously resided illegally in another Member State, or automatic removal of an EU citizen because he or she had been convicted of a criminal offence;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Points out that the right to move and reside freely within EU territory will be impossible to exercise to the full unless, among other measures, an effective system is established for the recognition of professional qualifications; therefore urges the Commission and the Member States, acting within their respective spheres of responsibility, to enable greater numbers of EU citizens holding professional qualifications obtained in one Member State to be admitted to a corresponding profession in another Member State and to practise that profession on the same terms as citizens of the latter country;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)
Paragraph 16 c (new)
16c. Maintains that granting the right to vote and stand for election in local elections in the Member State of residence is a sine qua non for any effective policy to integrate immigrants;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Considers that the rise and spread of political parties at European level is the most effective way to underpin the right to stand for election for an EU citizen living in one Member State and having the nationality of another; hopes, therefore, that Europe-wide parties will be strengthened, not least through greater financial support;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Welcomes the fact that the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights has been set up and the adoption of Council Decision 2007/252/JHA of 19 April 2007 establishing for the period 2007-2013 the specific programme Fundamental rights and citizenship as part of the General programme Fundamental Rights and Justice1, the purpose of which is to promote the development of a European society founded on respect for fundamental rights, including the rights deriving from EU citizenship;