Amendments submitted to draft emergency resolution "The Mediterranean must not be a graveyard" № Party Line Action Current Text 1 EELV 5 replace 2 EELV 12 add 3 Groen 16-17 replace 4 Groen 19-20 replace 5 EELV 22 replace 6 EELV 24 add Proposed Amendment Explanation More than 800 people died More than 800 people died at Europe' maritime More accurate, closer to near Europe's maritme border border reality The EU and its member states The EU and its member states have consistently The whole policy of the EU have consistently made it more favoured a policy of selective migration concerning migration has difficult for migrants and and made it impossible for refugees to find to be questioned. A refugees to enter their asylum in their territory, trying to seal off...... selective migration, usually territory, and have based on economic criteria increasingly tried to seal is in contradiction with off... Green values. … without stopping the arrival … leading to the arrival of even more vessels. More logical of vessels. … thus taking out precious … without making available sufficient resources Seems more logical. As it resources from… for… was stated it looked too much as if repression ad integration are communicating vessels. Disappointing results Disastrous results The committee is being too kind ;-) Keep out as many people as Keep out as many people as possible except for The EU probably considers possible those considered as useful … having a welcoming migration policy as there are people that are accepted as migrants on selective criteria Page 1 | Amendments draft emergency resolution "The Mediterranean must not be a graveyard" | Zagreb Council - 15-17 May 2015 № Party Line Action Current Text Proposed Amendment 7 EELV 25 add … and human suffering … and human suffering, ignoring the legitimate urge for people to find a safe place to live. 8 Bündnis 90/ 26 Die Grünen add 9 EELV 29 add We strongly oppose the militarization of the European approach towards refugees. With the plan to sink refugees' boats, the EU further radicalizes its frontier protection policy. Futhermore, it sends a disastrous signal to other parts of the world, one current example being the tragic incident in front of the South East Asian coast. … very controversial issues like … very controversial issues like the fight against Self explanatory the trafficking mafias and the smugglers 10 Groen 29 replace 11 Vihreät - De 30 Gröna add refugees Explanation asylum seekers If talking of relocation, the correct term is asylum seekers. Refugees should be used in relation to resettlement. Addition after "...policy on legal and concentrates still too much to border control An obvious call that we migration. " such as adding the rights of Frontex to return have always made. The migrants. approach of Commission is still unbalanced. Page 2 | Amendments draft emergency resolution "The Mediterranean must not be a graveyard" | Zagreb Council - 15-17 May 2015 № Party Line Action Current Text Proposed Amendment 12 ICV 35 add new point 13 Groen 40 replace 14 15 Groen EELV 44 replace 45-46 add - Finds it unacceptable that the EU’s main response This amendment comes to the current humanitarian crisis of migrants is still from the original text of focused in closing its borders to external the resolution on 'Liberties neighbouring countries, making it more difficult to and fundsmental rights in reach EU territory. We reinforce our stand for a Europe', plus a proposed European migration and refugee policy that is based smendment, namely to the on respect for life and human rights, and in full point 5 of the draft. It was compliace with the EU and international law. We agreed that the conted reiterate that practices under national law violating fitted even more to this EU and international law, and the principal of nin- specific resolution than on refoulement should be stopped immediately.We thus that more general one. express our serious concerns in relation to the recurrent illegal practices undertaken by some member states towards migrants, such as on-thespot deportations in Melilla’s bordering fence, in many cases involving fleeing refugees and asylumseekers whose life may be at risk. Five Extra axis proposed on line 65 (see further) appropriate self-explaining To counter human trafficking on the continents Ignoring the trafficking on as well as on the sea the continents will only displace the problem, the refugees will die in the harbours instead of dying at sea a four consistent To counter human trafficking Explanation Page 3 | Amendments draft emergency resolution "The Mediterranean must not be a graveyard" | Zagreb Council - 15-17 May 2015 № Party Line Action Current Text 16 EELV 50-56 replace 17 18 Alternattiva Demokratika EELV 19 20 Groen Groen 21 Vihreät - De 69 Gröna Proposed Amendment Explanation The whole bullet point should 2. AS FOR REFUGEES, the application of the 2001 The question of refugees be divided into two bullet temporary protection directive, notably to address should not be under the points the Syrian crisis; the immediate lifting of visa heading of full use of the requirements for Syrian refugees; better funding and existing legal instruments. an easier implementation of measures like family In the case of refugees we reunification, private sponsorship programs, study are in a state of emergency and labour migration schemes. and these people do not 3.FULL USE OF THE EXISTING LEGAL have the time for legal INSTRUMENTS TO ENSURE SAFE AND LEGAL instruments ACCESS. These include: The swift completion of negotiations on the Visa code, currently blocked at the Council; the granting of Humanitarian visas. 52 add after "… Humanitarian visas" the possibility to apply for visas in countries of origin. 58-69 renumbe Bullet point 3 Bullet point 4 If the amendment on bullet r if AM point 2 is carried, then we 16 is already have bullet points 2 adopted and 3, thus bullet point 3 becomes bullet point 4 63 65 replace add add UNCHR for asked UNHCR asked for 4. A REVISION OF THE DUBLIN REGULATION Editorial The Dublin regulation is a different topic which does not fit under resettlement EU needs also to create legal routes for migrants It's not only about refugees, seeking to come to the EU to live and work. we need to build legal routes also for migrants seeking to come to work in EU. Page 4 | Amendments draft emergency resolution "The Mediterranean must not be a graveyard" | Zagreb Council - 15-17 May 2015 № Party Line Action Current Text 22 EELV 71-76 to split the point in two 23 EELV 71-76 replace 24 Groen 25 Groen 26 Groen Proposed Amendment Explanation This bullet point should be divided into two. We don't quite see the direct link between the first three lines and the last thee Change bullet point 4 into Bullet point 5 : one of the medium and long term It is rather stage to have bullet points 5 and 6 policy of the EU should be the eradication of all the only one bullet point when factors that are the source of the refugee problem : addressing such different unfair trade and development policies, support of topics. non democratic regimes, climate change ..... The beginning of the bullet Bullet point 6 : The European Greens oppose the point is too restrictive, all proposal ..... to the end of line 76 the factors that are at the source of the refugee problem must be addressed, this emergency resolution is mainly on the problem of refugees, we should stick to the point. 71 replace 4 5 fifth axis inserted on line 65 72-73 replace have been blamed for being are to a large extent responsible for Have been blamed seems among too vague. In the past... By whom? Should be stronger and more direct 74-76 move to It seems.more logical to line 56 move this sentence dealing with access to Europe to the appropriate paragraph 2. Page 5 | Amendments draft emergency resolution "The Mediterranean must not be a graveyard" | Zagreb Council - 15-17 May 2015 № Party Line Action Current Text 27 Groen 74 28 29 Groen 74 Vihreät - De 74 Gröna 30 Vihreät - De 76 Gröna 31 Vihreät - De 76 Gröna Proposed Amendment Explanation add In particular, the link between trade, agriculture, making reassessment of fisheries, and investment policies on the one hand, policies more concrete and development and migration on the other hand, should be acknowledged and be center stage on the political agenda. replace re-assess reassess Editorial add Add after "It is therefore The EU policies must aim for sustainable living The brain drain is a serious necessary to re-asses those conditions also for youth and educated people in problem for the policies." African countries. development and future of many African countries. In order to find a sustainable long-term solution to the development of African countries we Greens must aim to ensure that there is a future for young and educated people in their home countries, too. add a 5. REJECTING MILITARIZATION OF MIGRATION CSDP mission has to be new POLICIES Reject the policy proposed by HR/VP rejected paragrap Mogherini and the Commission and supported by h the European Council to pursue a military operation under the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) against smugglers in the Mediterranean including Libyan waters and even Libyan soil. We consider that a dangerous military adventure when what we need would be a save and rescue mission. add Besides policy coherence for development, there is an urgent need for development aid. This is not a time to make cuts, but to increase development aid. Page 6 | Amendments draft emergency resolution "The Mediterranean must not be a graveyard" | Zagreb Council - 15-17 May 2015
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