13.1.2020 B9-0036/16 Amendment 16 João Ferreira, Sandra Pereira on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Motion for a resolution B9-0036/2020 Renew, PPE, S&D, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL The European Parliament’s position on the Conference on the Future of Europe Motion for a resolution Paragraph - 1 a (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment - 1a. Rejects the farce that the so-called ‘Conference on the Future of Europe’ constitutes; considers that although it has an apparently democratic appearance, this process is evidence of the ever- growing distance between the EU and the peoples of the Member States, masquerading its undemocratic nature, as it imposes a predetermined agenda seeking to deepen its neoliberal, federalist and militarist policies, which safeguard the interests of monopolies, attack national sovereignty, increase and exacerbate inequalities between and within countries, attack labour, social and civil rights, destroy social and public state policies, overexploit the environment, promote xenophobic migration policies, and pave the way for extreme right-wing forces; Or. en AM\1196411EN.docx PE643.460v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 13.1.2020 B9-0036/17 Amendment 17 Manuel Bompard, Manon Aubry on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Motion for a resolution B9-0036/2020 Renew, PPE, S&D, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL The European Parliament’s position on the Conference on the Future of Europe Motion for a resolution Paragraph 1 Motion for a resolution Amendment 1. Welcomes the proposal for a 1. Acknowledges the proposal for a Conference on the Future of Europe and Conference on the Future of Europe and believes that, 10 years after the entry into believes that, 10 years after the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, it is an force of the Lisbon Treaty against the will appropriate time to give EU citizens a of the people, the EU urgently needs to renewed opportunity to have a robust take into consideration the deep debate on the future of Europe so as to discontent of the citizens and give them a shape the Union that we want to live in renewed opportunity to fundamentally together; reshape the EU and its policies through a revision of the Treaties that respects the sovereignty of the European peoples; Or. en AM\1196411EN.docx PE643.460v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 13.1.2020 B9-0036/18 Amendment 18 Helmut Scholz, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Petros Kokkalis on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Motion for a resolution B9-0036/2020 Renew, PPE, S&D, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL The European Parliament’s position on the Conference on the Future of Europe Motion for a resolution Paragraph 3 Motion for a resolution Amendment 3. Is of the opinion that prior to the 3. Is of the opinion that prior to the launch of the Conference process, a launch of the Conference process, a listening phase should be initiated to listening phase should be initiated to enable citizens from across the European enable citizens from across the European Union to express their ideas, make Union to express their ideas, make suggestions and propose their own vision suggestions and propose their own vision of what Europe means for them; of what Europe means for them; proposes that the methodologies used to collect and process citizens’ inputs be uniform and consistent across all Member States and at EU level; Or. en AM\1196411EN.docx PE643.460v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 13.1.2020 B9-0036/19 Amendment 19 Manuel Bompard, Manon Aubry, Marc Botenga on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Motion for a resolution B9-0036/2020 Renew, PPE, S&D, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL The European Parliament’s position on the Conference on the Future of Europe Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 a (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 2a. Recalls that any proposed change to the EU Treaties must be approved by all the people of Europe; recalls that, according to each Member State’s internal constitutional order, any revision must be adopted through a referendum or with parliamentary approval; Or. en AM\1196411EN.docx PE643.460v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 13.1.2020 B9-0036/20 Amendment 20 Manuel Bompard, Manon Aubry, Marc Botenga on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Motion for a resolution B9-0036/2020 Renew, PPE, S&D, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL The European Parliament’s position on the Conference on the Future of Europe Motion for a resolution Paragraph 2 b (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 2b. Stresses that compliance with a decision of the people, including the rejection of treaties, is of paramount importance in a democratic system; Or. en AM\1196411EN.docx PE643.460v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 13.1.2020 B9-0036/21 Amendment 21 Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Manon Aubry, Manuel Bompard, Marc Botenga on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Motion for a resolution B9-0036/2020 Renew, PPE, S&D, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL The European Parliament’s position on the Conference on the Future of Europe Motion for a resolution Paragraph 5 a (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 5a. Highlights the need for a fully democratic and transparent process, including when it comes to preventing economic groups from having an influence on the Conference; Or. en AM\1196411EN.docx PE643.460v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 13.1.2020 B9-0036/22 Amendment 22 Helmut Scholz, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Konstantinos Arvanitis, Petros Kokkalis on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Motion for a resolution B9-0036/2020 Renew, PPE, S&D, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL The European Parliament’s position on the Conference on the Future of Europe Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new) Motion for a resolution Amendment 9a. Proposes the systematic use of online and other platforms to reach citizens across as broad a demographic range as possible and allow them to prioritise policy issues by introducing a ‘digital agora’ for the Conference; Or. en AM\1196411EN.docx PE643.460v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 13.1.2020 B9-0036/23 Amendment 23 Manuel Bompard, Manon Aubry, Eugenia Rodríguez Palop, Miguel Urbán Crespo, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Motion for a resolution B9-0036/2020 Renew, PPE, S&D, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL The European Parliament’s position on the Conference on the Future of Europe Motion for a resolution Paragraph 7 Motion for a resolution Amendment 7. Proposes that the Conference 7. Proposes that the Conference Plenary should enable an open forum for Plenary should enable an open forum for discussions among the different discussions among the different participants without a predetermined participants without a predetermined outcome, while including input from outcome, while including input from Citizens’ agoras and without limiting the Citizens’ agoras and without limiting the scope to pre-defined policy fields or scope to pre-defined policy fields or methods of integration; suggests that as a methods of integration; suggests that as a maximum, pre-defined but non-exhaustive maximum, pre-defined but non-exhaustive policy priorities could be identified, such policy priorities could be identified, such as: as: – European values, – Environmental and climate fundamental rights and freedoms, emergencies, – Democratic and – A democratic EU based on institutional aspects of the EU, the sovereignty of EU citizens, – Environmental challenges – Fundamental rights and and the climate crisis, freedoms, – Social justice and equality, – Protection of workers’ – Economic and employment rights, issues including taxation, – Reduction of social and – Digital transformation, economic inequalities, – Security and the role of the – The fight against tax EU in the world; havens and tax dodging, underlines that this is a non-exhaustive set – Universal access to quality of policies that could serve as guidance for public services, – International peace and the Conference; suggests that special multilateral cooperation and Eurobarometer surveys are used to support sustainable and fair trade that agenda setting and debates in the protects EU producers, framework of the Conference process; – Gender issues and LGTBI rights; AM\1196411EN.docx PE643.460v01-00 EN United in diversityEN underlines that this is a non-exhaustive set of policies that could serve as guidance for the Conference; suggests that special Eurobarometer surveys are used to support agenda setting and debates in the framework of the Conference process; Or. en AM\1196411EN.docx PE643.460v01-00 EN United in diversityEN 13.1.2020 B9-0036/24 Amendment 24 Manuel Bompard, Manon Aubry, Nikolaj Villumsen on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group Motion for a resolution B9-0036/2020 Renew, PPE, S&D, Verts/ALE, GUE/NGL The European Parliament’s position on the Conference on the Future of Europe Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 Motion for a resolution Amendment 22. Proposes that the Steering 22. Proposes that the Steering Committee should consist of: Committee should consist of: – representatives of – representatives of Parliament (all political groups Parliament (all political groups represented as well as a represented as well as a representative of the Constitutional representative of the Constitutional Affairs Committee and a Affairs Committee and a representative of the European representative of the European Parliament Bureau), Parliament Bureau), – representatives of the – representatives of the Council (EU Presidencies), Council (EU Presidencies), – representatives of the – representatives of national Commission (three Commissioners and regional parliaments, responsible); – representatives of the calls for the composition of the Steering citizens’ agoras; Committee to ensure political and calls for the composition of the Steering institutional balance and for all of the Committee to ensure political and components of the Steering Committee to institutional balance and for all of the have equal weight; components of the Steering Committee to have equal weight; Or.