7 Amendments of Silvia COSTA related to 2011/2182(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points out that volunteering is an important means of enhancing the opportunities for every EU citizen to participate in developing and pursuing active citizenship, creating social capital and fostering a stronger sense of European belonging; calls on the Commission and Member States to dismantle the obstacles to volunteering, to develop strategies to promote it and to acknowledge the contribution it makes to promoting EU citizenship;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls on the European Union and its Member States to ensure, not least via public broadcasting organisations, that the appropriate information is provided on the history and culture of Europe and on its institutions, and to illustrate Community programmes in the academic, social and economic fields, in order to open up access to the opportunities which the EU offers;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Directorates-General for Communication of Parliament and of the Commission to enhance and broaden ways and means of involving school children and students, as well as their teachers, in interactive communication campaigns, including on the internet and through innovative approaches, in order to increase awareness of, and active participation in, matters relating to EU citizenship;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to support and broaden all cultural and educational programmes promoting European and cross-border mobility, as well as multilingualism, in order to nurture and enhance shared values and interculturalism in the field of EU citizenship;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal to make 2013 the European Year of Citizens and highlights the importance of granting a status to EU citizenship and recognising the rights associated with this; stresses the need to promote awareness and information on those rights in the everyday lives of the members of the public, with special reference to new generations.
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Emphasises the need to promote, at an EU level, on the basis of the rights and duties set out in the Treaty of Lisbon, a clear common framework for the rights of children born in Member States to parents who are immigrants from outside the EU and are residing regularly and continually in a Member State, including by extending to them the rights arising from EU citizenship.
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6c. Calls on the EU and Member States to promote an information campaign targeting new EU citizens, or in other words people who have acquired citizenship of a Member State, to inform them on the rights and duties that come with EU citizenship.