8 Amendments of Paulo RANGEL related to 2018/2094(INI)
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J a (new)
Recital J a (new)
Ja. whereas in its report (2017/2054 (INL) - 2017/0900), the European Parliament rejected at the outset the creation of transnational lists; whereas the debate on the future of the Union must not be a return to the past, bearing in mind that the legitimacy and the democratic nature of the European project are fundamentally based on respect for decisions taken by Parliament; whereas transnational lists are in breach of the degressive proportionality principle, serving to consolidate the Eurosceptic movements and alienate voters from their constituencies, as well as being perceived as a drift towards centralism, widening the gap between Member States and upsetting the democratic balance of the Union;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Takes note of the report of the Task Force on Subsidiarity, Proportionality and ‘Doing Less More Efficiently’ of 10 July 2018, presenting recommendations on a new way of working; considers that many of these recommendations, particularly regarding the role of national parliaments within the Union and the advisability of reforming the early warning system, have already been highlighted by Parliament;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Regrets that, to date, there has been no practical follow-up neither to its call for a convergence code – to be adopted by codecision – in order to have a more effective framework for economic policy coordination, nor to its call for an interinstitutional agreement (IIA) to be concluded to give Parliament a more substantial role in the European Semester; recalls in this context its suggestion, specifically in line with its report on the implementation of the Treaty provisions concerning national parliaments (A8- 0127/2018), that budgetary calendars at national and European level need to be better coordinated throughout the process in order to better involve both the European Parliament and national parliaments in the European Semester;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Welcomes the Council decision establishing permanent structured cooperation (PESCO), the Coordinated Annual Review on Defence (CARD) and the European Defence Fund (EDF) as important steps towards a common defence policy, and notes proposals by certain Member States for an EU Security Council and a European Intervention Initiative; recalls its call for the establishment of a permanent Council of Defence Ministers chaired by the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (VP/HR), and underlines the importance of appropriate democratic accountability of decisions taken in this area and the need for reinforced cooperation between the European Parliament and national parliaments in this regard; welcomes the strengthening of the European Civil Protection Mechanism and calls once again for the creation of a European Civil Protection Corps, given that the existing Treaties provide a good basis for this;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Underlines its determination to continue with the Spitzenkandidaten process for the election of the next Commission President, and welcomes the support of the Commission and certain Member States in this respect; underlines that it will reject any candidate, in the investiture procedure of the Commission President, the Treaties are being interpreted in line with the usage that any candidate who was not appointed as a Spitzenkandidat in the run-up to European Parliament elections and who does not have a sufficient parliamentary majority; considers it essential to will be rejected; considers that this usage has amply proved its worth, strengthening the social legitimacy of the European elections and the supranational role of the European Parliament as an exponent of European citizenship and European sovereignty;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Underlines the need to strengthen the European public sphere as a supranational area of European democracy; stresses that the major challenges Europe is facing mustcan be addressed and discussed from a European perspective and not from a national perspective; points out that, for this reason, European democracy needs a European identithrough the introduction of an annual European week allowing Members of the European Parliament and Commissioners to appear simultaneously before national parliaments to discuss the European agenda with their MPs and with representatives of civil society, a genuinely European demos, more European institutional education and a deliberative, more participatory and less national social frameworknd explain it to them; points out that this measure will strengthen European identity, interlinking the peoples of Europe and bringing them closer together;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the approach taken to the current negotiations on the United Kingdom’s orderly withdrawal from the European Union, and underlines the remarkable unity displayed by the EU institutions and Member States; notes that experience in the negotiations to date has shown the enormous complexities of such decisions; stresses that maintaining a close cooperation relationship with the United Kingdom is extremely relevant to the future of the Union;