9.6.2020 A9-0091/25 Amendment 25 Lars Patrick Berg, Harald Vilimsky, Bernhard Zimniok, Susanna Ceccardi on behalf of the ID Group Report A9-0091/2020 Tonino Picula European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Western Balkans, following the 2020 summit (2019/2210(INI)) Proposal for a recommendation Recital A Proposal for a recommendation Amendment A. whereas enlargement is one of the A. whereas enlargement was and is EU’s most successful and strategic one of the EU’s more controversial policies as well as the most effective policies and has proved a rather foreign policy instrument contributing to ineffective policy tool in extending the extending the reach of the Union’s core area of democracy, peace and prosperity values of respect for human dignity, across Europe; freedom, democracy, fostering peace and prosperity equality, the rule of law and respect for human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities across Europe; Or. en AM\1207182EN.docx PE647.646v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 9.6.2020 A9-0091/26 Amendment 26 Lars Patrick Berg, Bernhard Zimniok on behalf of the ID Group Report A9-0091/2020 Tonino Picula European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Western Balkans, following the 2020 summit (2019/2210(INI)) Proposal for a recommendation Recital B Proposal for a recommendation Amendment B. whereas the enlargement process is B. whereas it is time to put a an integral part of European integration permanent end to any plans to further and remains strategically important to the enlarge the European Union; European Union; Or. en AM\1207182EN.docx PE647.646v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 9.6.2020 A9-0091/27 Amendment 27 Thierry Mariani, Jérôme Rivière, Susanna Ceccardi on behalf of the ID Group Report A9-0091/2020 Tonino Picula European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Western Balkans, following the 2020 summit (2019/2210(INI)) Proposal for a recommendation Recital I Proposal for a recommendation Amendment I. whereas the European Parliament deleted in its resolutions welcomed the progress achieved by North Macedonia and Albania; whereas given this progress, Parliament agreed to the granting of the performance reward under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance to North Macedonia and Albania; Or. en AM\1207182EN.docx PE647.646v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 9.6.2020 A9-0091/28 Amendment 28 Thierry Mariani, Jérôme Rivière, Anna Bonfrisco, Susanna Ceccardi on behalf of the ID Group Report A9-0091/2020 Tonino Picula European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Western Balkans, following the 2020 summit (2019/2210(INI)) Proposal for a recommendation Recital T Proposal for a recommendation Amendment T. whereas the prosperity and security T. whereas the prosperity and security of Europe are closely linked to the of Europe are closely linked to the integration process and the advancement advancement of peace, democracy, respect of peace, democracy, respect for human for human rights and the rule of law in the rights and the rule of law in the Western Western Balkans region; Balkans region and its countries’ future in a strong and reformed EU; Or. en AM\1207182EN.docx PE647.646v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 9.6.2020 A9-0091/29 Amendment 29 Thierry Mariani, Jérôme Rivière, Anna Bonfrisco, Susanna Ceccardi on behalf of the ID Group Report A9-0091/2020 Tonino Picula European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Western Balkans, following the 2020 summit (2019/2210(INI)) Proposal for a recommendation Recital T a (new) Proposal for a recommendation Amendment Ta. whereas violations of religious freedom in Kosovo and Montenegro are discrimination and are incompatible with respect for the rule of law; Or. en AM\1207182EN.docx PE647.646v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 9.6.2020 A9-0091/30 Amendment 30 Thierry Mariani, Jérôme Rivière, Susanna Ceccardi on behalf of the ID Group Report A9-0091/2020 Tonino Picula European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Western Balkans, following the 2020 summit (2019/2210(INI)) Proposal for a recommendation Recital T b (new) Proposal for a recommendation Amendment Tb. whereas the President of Kosovo rejected the EU’s special mediator for talks on normalising relations with Serbia on 26 May 2020; Or. en AM\1207182EN.docx PE647.646v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 9.6.2020 A9-0091/31 Amendment 31 Thierry Mariani, Jérôme Rivière, Susanna Ceccardi on behalf of the ID Group Report A9-0091/2020 Tonino Picula European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Western Balkans, following the 2020 summit (2019/2210(INI)) Proposal for a recommendation Recital T c (new) Proposal for a recommendation Amendment Tc. whereas the discrimination suffered by Serbs residing in Kosovo is intolerable, particularly the failure to implement the 2016 decision of the Constitutional Court of Kosovo regarding the land of the Visoki Dečani Monastery; Or. en AM\1207182EN.docx PE647.646v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 9.6.2020 A9-0091/32 Amendment 32 Lars Patrick Berg, Harald Vilimsky, Bernhard Zimniok, Susanna Ceccardi on behalf of the ID Group Report A9-0091/2020 Tonino Picula European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Western Balkans, following the 2020 summit (2019/2210(INI)) Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point a Proposal for a recommendation Amendment a) to support the European a) to acknowledge that the future of perspective of the Western Balkan Europe is not synonymous with the future countries and to enhance the accession of the EU and that it must be recognised process by ensuring that it strengthens that further enlargement is neither an fundamental values and the rule of law inevitable process nor the only way and brings sustainable democratic, forward for Europe, and that given the economic and ecological transformation naked ambition of the EU, it is vital to and social convergence, and ensures good stress that unanimity must be the neighbourly relations and regional overriding principle regarding any cooperation as essential elements of the question that further erodes national enlargement and the Stabilisation and sovereignty; Association Process, and by making sure that enlargement of the Union continues in parallel with the discussions on the future of Europe and the internal reform of the EU; Or. en AM\1207182EN.docx PE647.646v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 9.6.2020 A9 0091/33 Amendment 33 Thierry Mariani, Jérôme Rivière, Susanna Ceccardi on behalf of the ID Group Report A9-0091/2020 Tonino Picula European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Western Balkans, following the 2020 summit 2019/2210(INI) Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point b Proposal for a recommendation Amendment b) to increase efforts to build political deleted will among the Member States in progressing with the enlargement to the Western Balkans instead of letting internal EU processes stand in the way, as well as improving the EU’s political and strategic guidance of overall policy in the region; Or. en AM\1207182EN.docx PE647.646v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 9.6.2020 A9-0091/34 Amendment 34 Thierry Mariani, Jérôme Rivière, Susanna Ceccardi on behalf of the ID Group Report A9-0091/2020 Tonino Picula European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Western Balkans, following the 2020 summit 2019/2210(INI) Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point c Proposal for a recommendation Amendment c) to maintain enlargement as a deleted necessary condition for the EU’s credibility, success and influence in the region and beyond; Or. en AM\1207182EN.docx PE647.646v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 9.6.2020 A9-0091/35 Amendment 35 Thierry Mariani, Jérôme Rivière, Susanna Ceccardi on behalf of the ID Group Report A9-0091/2020 Tonino Picula European Parliament recommendation to the Council, the Commission and the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy on the Western Balkans, following the 2020 summit 2019/2210(INI) Proposal for a recommendation Paragraph 1 – point d Proposal for a recommendation Amendment d) to accelerate the accession process deleted of the countries committed, both politically and administratively, to the implementation