Activities of Marie-Thérèse SANCHEZ-SCHMID related to 2011/2157(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Neighbourhood Policy (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for an equitable distribution and alignment of the ENP financial programmes’ funding for mobility and support of civil society, so that both the Eastern and the Southern arenas are equivalent in terms of EU external cooperationbenefit from EU external cooperation in a balanced way which reflects the challenges they face;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the territorial cooperation principles apply also to external borders and are a key tool to improve EU economic development as well as the EU’s overall ENP political goals, including the promotion of democracy; takes the view that these targets can only be achieved with the cooperation of both civil society and regional and local authorities, the object being to find practical ways of meeting citizens’ needs on the ground; underlines that the Commission should extend its integrated approach in order to clearly support the local and regional authorities as one of its pillars and guarantors of the general interest;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that the ENP must favour practical projects aimed at promoting institutional and economic support, investment, social cohesion, the environment, culture, mobility, and networking whereby local and regional authorities could learn to work together and exchange their best practices in order to exploit shared development opportunities;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that the ENP should be considered broadly in order to fuel the economic development of bordering areas; stresses the positive impact of relaxing visa requirements for local border traffic and the development of regional markets, particularly regarding such groups as students, researchers, businesspeople, artists or journalists; in this respect, calls on the Commission to propose an amendment to Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1931/2006 in order to enlarge the definition of ‘border area’ andadjust the definition of ‘border area’ according to territorial needs in order – where such action would be desirable – to increase the number of holders of local border travel rights, allowing them to move freely in the whole border region;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Affirms that the EU programmes for young people have had a great impact on enhancing educational opportunities for youth; appeals to the Member States, therefore, as far as possible to enable students from ENP countries to have access to education in Europe;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Actively supports the current process of relaunching the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) and the governance arrangements recently put in place; calls for UfM projects to receive more, and more targeted, financial input from the funds authorised under the ENP’s funding instruments;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Supports Parliament’s role in the ENP while noting the increased pressure on MEPs and Parliament’s services ofith regard to maintaining effectively the growing number of multilateral and bilateral forms of parliamentary cooperation; urges continual assessment of the added value and practical organisation of EuroNest and the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assemblynderlines that the multilateral parliamentary assemblies, such as EuroNest and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean (PA-UfM), are crucial vectors of confidence- and coherence- building between the EU and the partner countries and among the partner countries themselves; emphasises the need for the PA-UfM to be recognised as the legitimate parliamentary institution of the UfM;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Appreciates the impact of the Euro- Mediterranean University and indicates that this success should be publicised and that a similar initiative should be launched for the Eastern Partnership region;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the need to enhance synergies between Youth on the Move and the ENP, in order to ensure that learnerstudent mobility between the EU and neighbourhood countries can benefit from more opportunities, in the interests both of the EU and of young people from those countries;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the importance of networks of local authorities (particularly town twinning), European public actors and ENP beneficiary states for increasing political, economic and cultural exchange with these countries; to that end, recommends better information and better assistance for project organisers and beneficiaries of ENPI funds; encourages the creation of European information and good practice exchange platforms;