13 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2010/2201(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas this organisational convergence can be achieved only by establishing a common political, legal and fiscal status for the European political parties, whereby this does not also entail an organisational standardisation of European political parties and their foundations, for which the European political parties and their foundations have sole competence,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas organisational and functional convergence and improving the funding process can beis accomplished only by adopting a uniform and common legal European statute for all the European political parties based on the law of the European Union,
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the European political parties, as they stand, are not yet in a position to fully play this role because they are merely the umbrella organisations of national parties and nonot yet directly in touch with the electorate in the Member States and cannot yet directly represent their interests;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need for a European political party to be made up of an association of natural persons or national or regional parties that respect and implement internal democracy (in the democratic election of party bodies, and democratic decision-making);
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that the same internal democracy should be respected by the European party itselfEuropean parties must abide by the same principles of internal democracy, including the election by all party members of delegates to party congresses, which in turn designate the decision-making bodies of the party, submitting programmes and manifestos either to a referendum of all members or to a congress;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the experience that European political parties have gained with forms of individual membership; stresses that individual members must have the same democratic rights of participation as members of national or regional member parties; encourages the European political parties in this connection to find a constructive solution to the existing conflict between collective and individual membership;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that a European political party should be represented by at least one Member Reaffirms the existing rules on the recognition of political parties at European level; stresses that, in the interests of widening public participation in the opinion-forming process in Europe, it is not necessary to raise the criteria for recognising the European Parliamentcorresponding political parties;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Takes the view that the European political parties should interact and compete on matters relating to common European challenges and the European Union and its development in a three-level approach: regionally, nationally and internationallyat European level; considers that in a period of crisis, it is of the utmost importance for European political parties to be efficient and productive at both EU and Member State levelact in close cooperation and in agreement with their national or regional member parties in this context;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines the importance of forming cross-country synergies among candidates standing on genuinely European issues and policy platforms; , which should eventually lead to the designation of nominees from the European political parties for the post of Commission President;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Considers that this would be a first step towards changing the character of the European elections, moving away from their image as ‘synchronised national elections’;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recalls a demand made long ago, namely to give the European political parties and foundations a legal statute, enabling them to acquire legal personality under EU law rather than the law of the State where they are established or recognised; considers that such a statute couldmust at the same time lay down minimum requirements as to their functioning and strucdemocratic nature; invites the Committee on Constitutional Affairs to draw up a legislative proposal with this aim, to be submitted to the Commission in accordance with Article 225 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union ;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31