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Amendment 7 Anna Bonfrisco, , , , , Jérôme Rivière, , , Jörg Meuthen on behalf of the ID Group

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Aa. whereas the unacceptable provocations by the Erdogan regime should not be rewarded by continuing endless and pointless accession negotiations with Turkey;

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Amendment 8 Anna Bonfrisco, Susanna Ceccardi, Marco Zanni, Marco Campomenosi, Thierry Mariani, Jérôme Rivière, Harald Vilimsky, Jaak Madison, Jörg Meuthen on behalf of the ID Group

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2

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2. Notes that Turkey’s lack of 2. Underlines that the visit of Ursula political will to carry out the reforms von der Leyen and Charles Michel to required under the accession process and Ankara on 7 April, with the so-called its failure to address the EU’s serious ‘sofagate’, instead of being used as an concerns about the rule of law and opportunity to rebalance the geopolitical fundamental rights have deeply and dynamics between Europe and Turkey, negatively affected the accession process has once more shown the world the EU’s and its prospects and have led to EU- weakness in its relations with Turkey; Turkey relations becoming progressively considers that the evidence of the facts – more transactional and driven by taking into account also the continuous circumstances that barely reflect the countless provocations towards Member original intended format of gradual and States, the aggressive behaviour in the progressive alignment with predetermined Mediterranean, the instrumentalisation of benchmarks; notes that as a result, within refugees and the threat of unbearable the framework of accession negotiations, migratory pressure – has now turned the only 16 of the 35 chapters have been European hope of starting to build a opened and only one chapter has been ‘positive dynamic’ with Turkey, as provisionally closed; stresses, therefore, reported in the Council conclusions of 25 that under the current circumstances, March, into a utopian exercise in itself; Turkey’s accession negotiations have calls on the Commission and the Council effectively and regrettably come to a to unconditionally and irrevocably standstill; terminate all negotiations regarding Turkey’s accession to the EU, as it is not a European country and does not act in accordance with European values, particularly those aimed at preserving a peaceful Europe, and should therefore not become a member of the ;

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Amendment 9 Anna Bonfrisco, Susanna Ceccardi, Marco Zanni, Marco Campomenosi, Thierry Mariani, Jérôme Rivière, Harald Vilimsky, Jaak Madison, Jörg Meuthen on behalf of the ID Group

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9

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9. In this context, stresses the 9. Calls on the Commission and the importance of ensuring, in parallel with a Council to terminate all funding to capacity of dialogue at institutional level, Turkey in terms of the pre-accession close functioning links with Turkish process, the current and planned society; therefore urges the Commission multiannual financial framework, the and the European External Action Facility for Refugees in Turkey and the Service (EEAS) to prioritise the vibrant EU-Turkey action plan on migration; civil society in Turkey and its pro- calls furthermore for the EU to stop all democracy efforts, and to continue to European Investment Bank loans to support Turkish civil society Turkey; underlines that Turkey is using organisations through relevant financial the Facility for Refugees to challenge and instruments, including the Instrument for blackmail the EU and its Member States, Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA), as these in order to obtain some leverage for organisations could contribute to political, economic or military generating the political will necessary for concessions, to justify its aggressive building strong foundations for the EU behaviour towards the EU Member States integration process; reiterates, in this and to pursue its foreign policy ambitions; context, its demand that the IPA funding reiterates that the EU should definitively for political reforms in Turkey be stop considering a modernisation of the managed by the EU and continue to focus EU-Turkey Customs Union, also taking on fostering dialogue and providing into account that the continuous support for civil society, non-state actors violations of human rights and and people-to-people contacts, as long as fundamental freedoms by the Erdogan the country is not making any progress regime would make any alleged strong with regard to democracy, the rule of law conditionality on those aspects impossible and human rights; encourages a new and to be fulfilled; asks for the suspension of immediate constructive dialogue the EU-Turkey Customs Union mechanism with Turkish civil society for agreement, which entered into force on 31 mutual confidence building and for December 1995; sustaining the democratic and pro- European aspirations of Turkish society,

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EN United in diversityEN supporting exchanges in particular on democratisation, human rights, the rule of law, good governance, sustainable development and the green and digital transitions, while relying on adequate EU funding for effective results; asks the Commission and the EEAS to continue to support young people in Turkey through relevant financial instruments and by extending participation in the Erasmus+ programme and the Jean Monnet scholarships, with a view to supporting, inter alia, research cooperation and the common fight against climate change, the protection of the environment and the empowerment of women in society and business;

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Amendment 10 Thierry Mariani, Jérôme Rivière, Anna Bonfrisco, Susanna Ceccardi, Marco Zanni, Marco Campomenosi, Harald Vilimsky, Jaak Madison, Jörg Meuthen on behalf of the ID Group

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Motion for a resolution Paragraph 30

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30. Urges Turkey to refrain from 30. Urges Turkey to refrain from detaining and prosecuting journalists and detaining and prosecuting journalists and human rights defenders as a means of human rights defenders as a means of intimidating them or discouraging them intimidating them or discouraging them from freely reporting on human rights from freely reporting on human rights issues; urges Turkey to promptly and issues; urges Turkey to promptly and independently investigate reported independently investigate reported instances of intimidation and harassment of instances of intimidation and harassment of human rights defenders, journalists, human rights defenders, journalists, academics and civil society activists, and to academics and civil society activists, and to hold accountable those responsible for such hold accountable those responsible for such abuses; abuses; underlines the increase in discrimination against Christians in Turkey; draws particular attention to the cases of Simoni Diril, who was kidnapped and murdered, and Hurmuz Diril, who was kidnapped and is missing, cases that are still not being investigated by the Turkish authorities;

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