Resolution Booklet - EYP · Speech by Nicola Beer, State Minister for Europe in Hesse Video Message...

RESOLUTION BOOKLET International Forum on Integration Wiesbaden, Germany August 31st – September 4th, 2011 www.eyp.de

September 2011, Wiesbaden – Germany

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European Youth Parliament Europäisches Jugendparlament in Deutschland e. V. Sophienstraße 28-29 10178 Berlin Germany Phone: + 49 (0) 30 2 80 95-155 Fax: + 49 (0) 30 2 80 95-150 E-Mail: [email protected] www.eyp.de


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Programme of the General Assembly 09:00 – 09:45 Opening Ceremony in the State Parliament of Hesse

Speech by Nicola Beer, State Minister for Europe in Hesse

Video Message by László Andor, European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion

Keynote by Dr. David Deißner, Vodafone Stiftung

Jari Marjelund, President of the Session

09:45 – 10:30 Committee on Employment and Social Affairs (EMPL)

10:30 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 12:15 Committee on Women’s Rights and Gender Equality (FEMM)

Committee on Culture and Education II (CULT II)

12:15 – 12:30 Transfer to Town Hall

12:30 - 13:00 Reception of the Lord Mayor

13:00 - 13:20 Lunch

13:20 - 13:30 Tranfer to State Parliament

13:30 - 15:00 Committee on Human Rights (DROI)

Committee on Culture and Education I (CULT I)


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Procedure of the General Assembly General rules The wish to speak is indicated by raising the committee placard. The authority of the board is absolute. Procedure and time settings Presenting of the motion for the resolution (operative clauses, friendly amendments) 3 minutes to defend the motion for the resolution 3 minutes to attack the motion for the resolution Response to the attack speech Points of information 25 minutes of general debate 3 minutes to sum-up the debate Voting procedure Announcing the votes Friendly amendment Last minute modifications of a resolution in order to improve it. Amendments are to be handed in on a specific form (distributed to the chairs) two resolutions before the resolution in question. Point of information Request for a brief explanation of the meaning of specific words and abbreviations. Note that translations are not points of information. Point of personal privilege Request for a delegate to repeat a point that was inaudible. Point of order A delegate feels that the board has not properly followed Parliamentary procedure. The placard is used by chairpersons after a request from a delegate. Direct response Once per debate, each committee may use the Direct Response sign. Should a committee member raise the Committee Placard and the “Direct Response” sign, the board recognises them immediately. The direct response sign is used to contribute to the point made directly beforehand.


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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION BY THE COMMITTEE ON EMPLOYMENT AND SOCIAL

AFFAIRS Youth unemployment rates on the rise all over Europe: What measures should European governments take to integrate immigrant youth into the labour market and what role should the private sector take in the

process?

Submitted by: Jonas Albrecht (DE), Levent Aslan (TR), Can Elvanlioglu (TR), Nela Gábrišová (CZ), Magdalena Gebhart (DE), Franziska Karcher (DE), Michel Damme Luvibudulu (IT), Lia Pachler (AT), Juhani Plümacher (DE), Sandrine Weller (DE), Richard Janoušek (Chairperson, CZ)

The European Youth Parliament,

A. Deeply disturbed by a lack of employment experience among European youth,

B. Fully aware that the immigrant youth has less access to education due to various obstacles, such as prejudice, discrimination and insufficient language skills,

C. Noting with satisfaction the existence of multicultural meetings which focus on the exchange of traditions, information concerning religion and other aspects of culture,

D. Taking into consideration the fact that native people are preferred by employers over immigrants with the same level of education,

E. Alarmed by the soaring crime rate and its further aggravation due to unemployment,

F. Realising that the low level of education among immigrants reduces their chances of becoming a part of the labour market, which in turn contributes to poverty problems,

G. Deeply disturbed by the increasing youth unemployment rates which have reached all-time peaks at:

i) 21 % in the European Union,

ii) 44 % in Spain,

iii) 7 % in the Netherlands,

H. Noting with regret a deficiency in the number of immigrants who are informed about the existence of job fairs,

I. Taking into account the ‘Europe 2020’ strategy;

1. Encourages schools and the private sector to co-operate in the area of internship

programmes;

2. Calls for the introduction of additional free language courses commencing at primary school level;

3. Supports the promotion of multicultural meetings in all the EU Member States through:

a) advertisement in the native tongue of immigrants,

b) recommendations provided by former attendees,

c) provision of a wider range of activities conducted at the meetings;


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4. Further recommends that the private sector accepts anonymous applications and resumes in order to establish equal access to employment opportunities;

5. Draws attention to already existing social studies classes and recommends that they be:

a) implemented in all the EU Member States,

b) taught by experts,

c) non-graded;

6. Emphasises the importance of scholarships awarded by the private sector in providing broader access to education;

7. Promotes the advertisement of job fairs through:

a) word of mouth within immigrant communities,

b) social networks,

c) personal invitations,

d) other media;

8. Encourages the participation of immigrants in professional training courses offered by employment agencies;

9. Expresses its hope for a feeling of European belonging among all citizens.


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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION BY THE COMMITTEE ON WOMEN’S RIGHTS AND GENDER

EQUALITY Reframing integration: Which measures should the EU adopt in order to

achieve gender equality in everyday life whilst respecting religious believes and ideals?

Submitted by: Maximilian Benderoth (DE), Michal Bulka (CZ), Christina Daubjerg Newman (DK), Batuhan Orbay Dizman (TR), Nadine Harbaš (DE), Larissa Haunhorst (DE), Ariane Keck (DE), Benedikt Reidick (DE), Lukas Scheiderer (DE), Erdem Osman Topcu (TR), Carla Viegas (DE), Viktoria Wähnert (DE), Kati Pärn (Chairperson, EE)


A. Bearing in mind that proper education can be used to the great benefit of gender equality and vice versa,

B. Convinced that learning the language of the host country is the first step of successful integration,

C. Realising that gender stereotypes are influenced by both natural physical differences and by the influence of society and home education/tutoring,

D. Disturbed by obstacles to secularisation existing in some Member States, such as:

i) religious symbols in public places,

ii) advantaged positions of some religions,

E. Bearing in mind that religion leads to different cultures and that culture defines the way religion is practiced,

F. Emphasising that measures taken by the EU to promote integration should never contradict national constitutions and basic laws,

G. Viewing with appreciation that, according to the European Constitution, no one has the right to limit the personal freedoms of any other individual,

H. Draws attention to the fact that the natural capabilities and physical differences of a person are not things one may change about oneself;

1. Calls for social education for all ages in order to:

a) broaden knowledge of the rights of European citizens,

b) ensure that citizens are not solely influenced by their culture and surroundings,

c) teach gender equality and motivate people to educate themselves and not allow social stereotypes to limit their career opportunities;

2. Encourages every immigrant coming to the European Union to learn the language of the host country as a first step towards integration;


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3. Points out that successful integration would particularly empower the suppressed gender to be independent from their partner, which would allow them to:

a) have a social life outside closed subcultures,

b) gain financial independence through a secure work place,

c) find a balance between the religion and culture of the country of origin and those of the country of arrival,

d) build self-esteem, and thus make all further steps of integration more successful,

e) have access to the best possible education in order to guarantee good living conditions in the future;

4. Demands accordingly that there be a more fierce punishment for crimes of violence, especially if it occurs at home;

5. Requests, in light of increasing migration in Europe, that personal freedoms be considered above religious practices in cases where the latter disregards the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;

6. Urges the removal of all religious symbols and items from state institutions and of any constitutional disadvantages to any religion;

7. Recommends that the education offered in EU Member States should have a focus on the religions, the countries and the cultures from which migrants come;

8. Strongly condemns any declaration of women as the weaker gender, which gives the male gender the right to cease control over women, even where it is allowed by a particular religion.


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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION BY THE COMMITTEE ON CULTURE AND EDUCATION II

Integration through education: To what extent and with which measures should the European governments promote integration of immigrant

youth through education and non-formal learning in particular?

Submitted by: Patrick Azevedo Rodrigues (LU), Dorina Baraku (KS), Tamer Avci (TR), Steffen Hermann (DE), Teresa Masih (DE), Tobias Pingel (DE), Romy Alea Raab (DE), Lorenzo Virginio Teucci (IT), Jelena Stevanovic (AT), Miriam Völker (DK), Christian Macht (Vice-President, DE)


A. Welcoming the efforts concerning integration already taken by European governments and non-governmental organisations (NGOs),

B. Fully aware of the complete lack of a common and efficient European immigration policy in the face of more and bigger migration waves,

C. Emphasising that successful integration can only be achieved through active cooperation between hosts and immigrants,

D. Alarmed by the lack of knowledge in the areas of language and culture on the part of both natives and immigrants which leads to:

i) fear of the other culture,

ii) fear of losing one's own culture,

iii) a lack of tolerance, respect and acceptance,

iv) failure to integrate,

E. Noting with regret that there is no common language fully comprehensible to all European citizens,

F. Further noting that there is no common education system in Europe,

G. Recognising that young people who are not able to speak the host language experience many disadvantages in school, which results in high drop-out rates among fringe groups,

H. Fully alarmed by increasing segregation:

i) in neighbourhoods, due to socio-economic differences,

ii) in schools, caused by parents afraid of a decrease in quality of education in heterogeneous classes,

I. Recognising that the integration of parents with migrant backgrounds would ease the process of integration for the greater family;

1. Recommends increased support for the European Youth Parliament (EYP) and similar

NGOs which raise awareness and initiate involvement amongst European youth through non-formal methodology;

2. Considers the establishment of an EU fund reserved for:

a) integration issues,

b) easing access to international student exchanges;


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3. Calls for universal support to develop a common EU policy on immigration and to standardise EU citizenship;

4. Proposes a mentoring programme in which native volunteers socialise and interact with recently arrived migrants in order to ease the transition into the host country;

5. Calls for free language courses for immigrants and the revision of national education curricula to introduce cultural education;

6. Considers establishing cultural centres (“IntegrationCentres”) which provide information and support for migrants;

7. Encourages youth exchange programmes within cities, which allow non-native youth to stay with native families and young locals to experience foreign culture;

8. Welcomes free mandatory language courses to improve the language facilities of EU citizens;

9. Recommends English to be taught from early childhood as an official language all over Europe in order to reduce difficulties in understanding;

10. Encourages the establishment of more state funded international schools;

11. Endorses the introduction of 'focus-learning', an intensive one-year concentration on a particular subject, into curricula;

12. Further recommends the provision of free extra study help for migrant students;

13. Strongly recommends that new low cost social housing projects in cities which are densely populated avoid localising these projects in order to combat segregation and prevent monoculturalism at school;

14. Supports family meetings and street festivals which bring different cultures together and help facilitate acceptance within neighbourhoods.


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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION BY THE COMMITTEE ON HUMAN RIGHTS

A run on Europe: What measures should the EU take to ensure smooth and efficient admittance processes at its borders whilst protecting

immigrants’ and asylum seekers’ human rights?

Submitted by: Hugh Barlow (IE), Dominik Dalk (DE), Semih Kara (TR), Federico Lorenzon (IT), Marlene Metzger (DE), Genc Neziri (KS), Emre Örendil (TR), Irunú Pertack (DE), Clemens Rawert (DE), Lea Rösner (DE), Carolin Stiller (DE), Sandra Stojanovic (Vice-President, RS)


A. Taking into account an uneven distribution of refugees among European Union (EU) Member States,

B. Alarmed by the huge influx of asylum seekers into Mediterranean EU Member States, thus causing a build up of asylum seekers in these states,

C. Noting with regret that the management of asylum seekers and refugees overburdens European border states with responsibilities such as:

i) running refugee camps,

ii) providing for the personal basic needs of the refugees,

iii) carrying out the bureaucracy involved in processing applications for asylum,

D. Concerned by the lack of cooperation between EU Member States on admittance processes,

E. Strongly convinced that the Dublin II regulation is ineffective in tackling the refugee problems of the EU and is unfair to border states,

F. Observing the influx of illegal immigrants through the Mediterranean Sea, especially the Greek and Turkish borders,

G. Alarmed by allegations of misconduct by Frontex while securing borders, such as human rights violations,

H. Deeply concerned that the human rights of asylum seekers and immigrants at the borders of the EU are not being maintained,

I. Noting with concern that Frontex is not capable of fully restricting illegal immigrants‘ entrance to the EU,

J. Bearing in mind that the human rights of immigrants and asylum seekers must be upheld throughout the entire border security process,

K. Viewing with appreciation the implementation of the Blue Card System in the EU in 2012,

L. Recognising the potential for the EU to compensate declining birth rates by embracing immigration;


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1. Recommends that the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) contributes to the process of asylum seeking;

2. Encourages EASO to:

a) disperse the refugees over the EU according to language experiences, cultural aspects and economic situation in the Member States,

b) administrate restriction camps all over the EU,

c) prepare refugees to integrate into society through special programmes;

3. Further recommends the adoption of new refugee policies such as:

a) mandatory application by asylum seekers for EU asylum,

b) requiring that asylum seekers, upon being granted asylum, live in a certain Member State, which would be determined by the EASO;

4. Strongly recommends the expansion of the resources of Frontex to ensure more efficient border control;

5. Invites countries bordering the EU to cooperate with Frontex to ensure more secure and safer borders;

6. Endorses the necessity of cooperation between the European Migration Organisation (EMO) and Frontex;

7. Urges EMO to monitor Frontex in order to prevent misconduct and violation of human rights;

8. Strongly encourages the adoption of the Blue Card System by those EU Member States (e.g. United Kingdom, Ireland and Denmark) which have not yet done so.


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Committee on Human Rights INFO SHEET Refugee: A person who has been granted asylum in a state they applied for. Asylum seeker: A person applying for asylum. Asylum: Protection and immunity from extradition granted by a government to a political refugee from another country. European Asylum Support Office (EASO): An EU agency mainly facilitating exchange of information on asylum seekers’ countries of origin, by providing Member States with support for translation and interpretation, training of asylum officials and assisting in the relocation of beneficiaries of international protection. Frontex: European Agency for the Management of Operational Cooperation at the External Borders of the Member States of the European Union) is the European Union agency for external border security. It is responsible for co-ordinating the activities of the national border guards in ensuring the security of the EU's borders with non-member states. Frontex is headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. European Migration Organisation (EMO): EU's newly established refugee office in Malta. Integrated into the EU's global network, EMO operatives can feed back real-time information to national capitals about migration trends in key regions and foster intimate working relationships with immigration, labour, health and education authorities in their host countries. Dublin II regulation: This Regulation replaces the provisions of the 1990 Dublin Convention with Community legislation. Its objective is to identify as quickly as possible the Member State responsible for examining an asylum application, to establish reasonable time limits for each of the phases of determining the Member State responsible, and to prevent abuse of asylum procedures in the form of multiple applications. Asylum seekers may only apply for asylum in the country through which they enter the EU. Blue Card: Also known as the Blue European Labour Card is an approved EU-wide work permit allowing high-skilled non-EU citizens to work and live in any country within the European Union, excluding Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom, which are not subject to the proposal.


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MOTION FOR A RESOLUTION BY THE COMMITTEE ON CULTURE AND EDUCATION I

With populist parties on the rise in several EU Member States, the European Idea is in peril. What measures should the EU take to

counteract such developments?

Submitted by: Anna Lisa Bähr (DE), Manfredi Danielis (IT), Zeynep Demir (TR), Emmanuel Gerlin (FR), Tobias Geser (DE), Linn Jenschovar (DE), Lennart Lengeling (DE), Morgan McDonagh (IE), Charlott Schmidt (DE), Edona Sina (KS), Kolja Zajicek (DE), Nina Zündorf (Chairperson, DE)


A. Concerned by the fact that 5 % of the Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are members of populist parties and their growing strength in Europe,

B. Recognising that populist parties affect European citizens emotionally by exploiting:

i) the current financial crisis,

ii) fears of loosing cultural and national identity,

iii) social discontent,

C. Deeply concerned by the general unawareness among European citizens of the long term consequences of voting for a populist party,

D. Bearing in mind that populist parties, in order to communicate directly to the electorate, make use of both the traditional and new media,

E. Observing an increasing distance between mainstream parties and citizens, particularly with regard to:

i) the representation of the citizens,

ii) the communication between the citizens and mainstream parties,

iii) the trust in the capability of mainstream parties,

F. Deeply disturbed by the agendas of populist parties which frequently violate fundamental human rights, such as Article 10 “Freedom of thought, conscience and religion” in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (EU),

G. Having devoted attention to the fact that xenophobia and religious prejudice, especially Islamophobia, is on the rise,

H. Further keeping in mind the aim of populist parties for a homogenous society,

I. Noting with regret an insufficiency on the part of the EU with regard to its connections with its citizens, as it fails to provide:

i) transparency,

ii) democratic participation in governmental decision making processes,

iii) identification with the values of the EU,

iv) information on its activities,

J. Noting with deep concern that populist parties emphasise negative and short term effects and ignore the long term benefits, particularly concerning immigration and monetary policy;


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1. Demands that existing mainstream parties in EU Member States fight populist parties together by:

a) making a clear public statement against populism,

b) developing an agenda to reject populist parties;

2. Calls for the introduction and financial support of mandatory ‘European education classes’ in secondary schools in Member States, which would cover the following subjects in relation to the EU history, politics, current affairs and economics;

3. Subsequently recommends the stimulation of students through various events, such as:

a) inviting MEPs to schools,

b) organising cultural exchanges,

c) holding mock elections;

4. Calls upon mainstream European parties to develop a united election programme within their party in the European Parliament in order to address its electorate with a stronger voice;

5. Encourages mainstream parties to employ new media such as social networks and blogs in order to promote their ideals and reconnect with citizens;

6. Urges EU Member States to monitor violations of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU by individual members of populist parties and to act to prosecute any offenders;

7. Calls for the introduction of an intercultural festival by local municipalities in all Member States to be called ‘Day of Tolerance’ which would work to counteract xenophobia by endorsing multiculturalism and raising awareness of different traditions;

8. Calls upon governments of Member States to cooperate with the European Parliament in publishing monthly surveys on governmental websites which include questions about current political issues of concern to the general public, aimed at:

a) the inclusion of citizens in governmental decision making processes,

b) helping to reinstate trust in the concern of government with the problems of citizens,

c) an increase in transparency.

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