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Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield
9.9.2026 A10-0199/37
Amendment 37
Sarah Knafo, Marcin Sypniewski
on behalf of the ESN Group
Report A10-0199/2026
Tomas Tobé
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield
(2025/2069(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 b (new)
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| 29b. Insists that the application of the DSA and the designation of a platform as a very large online platform must be based exclusively on objective and quantitative criteria, in particular the number of active users, and not on the nature of the political opinions expressed on that platform; reiterates that the fight against foreign interference must never serve as a pretext for censoring lawful political content, including content critical of the EU institutions; |
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9.9.2026 A10-0199/38
Amendment 38
Christine Anderson, Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski
on behalf of the ESN Group
Report A10-0199/2026
Tomas Tobé
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield
(2025/2069(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)
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| 34a. Warns against de facto internet censorship through overly far-reaching measures; stresses that the European Democracy Shield must not be used to suppress lawful political dissent or confer on public authorities the power to determine permissible political views; recalls that measures affecting the visibility, ranking or dissemination of lawful content may interfere with the right to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority, guaranteed by Article 11 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and must satisfy the requirements of legality, necessity and proportionality under Article 52 thereof; |
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9.9.2026 A10-0199/39
Amendment 39
Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski
on behalf of the ESN Group
Report A10-0199/2026
Tomas Tobé
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield
(2025/2069(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 a (new)
| Motion for a resolution | Amendment |
| 48a. Notes that fact-checking organisations receiving EU funding may be called upon to assess claims concerning the institutions financing them; calls for full disclosure of their public and private funding, governance and methodologies, and for safeguards ensuring their political, financial and editorial independence; |
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9.9.2026 A10-0199/40
Amendment 40
Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski
on behalf of the ESN Group
Report A10-0199/2026
Tomas Tobé
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield
(2025/2069(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 b (new)
| Motion for a resolution | Amendment |
| 48b. Rejects the institutionalisation of ‘prebunking’ or predictive narrative intervention; stresses that democratic resilience requires citizens to evaluate competing claims and that public authorities must not seek to neutralise lawful narratives before they circulate; |
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9.9.2026 A10-0199/41
Amendment 41
Sarah Knafo, Marcin Sypniewski
on behalf of the ESN Group
Report A10-0199/2026
Tomas Tobé
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield
(2025/2069(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48 c (new)
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| 48c. Stresses that fact-checking must, under no circumstances, serve as an automatic basis for the removal, demotion or demonetisation of lawful content, and that any such decision must always fall within the remit of an independent judicial authority rather than private bodies financed by the institutions whose activities they are supposed to assess; |
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9.9.2026 A10-0199/42
Amendment 42
Christine Anderson, Marcin Sypniewski
on behalf of the ESN Group
Report A10-0199/2026
Tomas Tobé
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield
(2025/2069(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 a (new)
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| 53a. Stresses that EU institutions are themselves participants in the information environment through public communication, funding and awareness campaigns; emphasises that such activities and the funding of media and civil society must remain transparent and politically neutral and not be conditional on supporting the Commission’s contested policy preferences; |
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9.9.2026 A10-0199/43
Amendment 43
Christine Anderson, Stanisław Tyszka, Marcin Sypniewski
on behalf of the ESN Group
Report A10-0199/2026
Tomas Tobé
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield
(2025/2069(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56 a (new)
| Motion for a resolution | Amendment |
| 56a. Calls for full transparency regarding EU, national and third-country funding of civil society organisations, think tanks and umbrella organisations involved in democratic-resilience activities, including amounts, intermediaries, beneficiaries and purposes; stresses that transparency rules must apply equally and proportionately; |
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9.9.2026 A10-0199/44
Amendment 44
Christine Anderson
on behalf of the ESN Group
Report A10-0199/2026
Tomas Tobé
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield
(2025/2069(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56 b (new)
| Motion for a resolution | Amendment |
| 56b. Notes with concern the structural and personnel links between the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) and Türkiye’s Presidency of Religious Affairs (Diyanet), including imams employed by the Turkish State; calls for full transparency regarding DITIB’s governance, financing, personnel and instructions from third-country authorities; calls for the completion of the agreed phase-out of Turkish state-employed imams; stresses that public funding and participation in consultative structures should be conditional on organisational independence from third-country governments, with full respect for freedom of religion; |
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9.9.2026 A10-0199/45
Amendment 45
Christine Anderson
on behalf of the ESN Group
Report A10-0199/2026
Tomas Tobé
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield
(2025/2069(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61
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| 61. Strongly condemns escalatory drone and other airborne incursions targeting and interfering with critical infrastructure, including civil airports, ports, military bases, industrial hubs, border management infrastructure and energy facilities across the EU, in particular as perpetrated by Russia and Belarus; calls on the Member States to respond in a coordinated, unified and appropriate manner to any breach of their airspace, including by shooting down aircraft, drones and other airborne threats; urges the Commission and the Member States to work on knowledge transfer programmes with Ukraine and on the joint training and certification of drone pilots in the light of the knowledge acquired in Ukraine about the conduct of modern warfare; | 61. Strongly condemns escalatory drone and other airborne incursions targeting and interfering with critical infrastructure, including civil airports, ports, military bases, industrial hubs, border management infrastructure and energy facilities across the EU, in particular as perpetrated by Russia and Belarus; calls on the Member States to respond in a coordinated, unified and appropriate manner to any breach of their airspace, including by shooting down aircraft, drones and other airborne threats; urges the Commission and the Member States to work on knowledge transfer programmes with Ukraine and on the joint training and certification of drone pilots in the light of the knowledge acquired in Ukraine about the conduct of modern warfare; condemns the attempted explosive-drone attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport, which the German Government has attributed to actors acting on behalf of Russian state agencies; calls for a coordinated response and stronger protection of critical aviation infrastructure; |
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9.9.2026 A10-0199/46
Amendment 46
Christine Anderson
on behalf of the ESN Group
Report A10-0199/2026
Tomas Tobé
Findings and recommendations of the Special Committee on the European Democracy Shield
(2025/2069(INI))
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 78 a (new)
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| 78a. Condemns violence, intimidation and attacks against police officers and other law-enforcement personnel; stresses that attacks on their integrity and safety are attacks on democracy itself; |
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