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Draft report (2025/2179(INI)) 2026-03-05

Countering transnational repression – towards an EU strategy to protect Europe’s sovereignty and democratic values

Committee on Foreign Affairs

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Amendment 196

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Establishing a common EU understanding of TNR

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Amendment 197

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Establishing a common EU understanding of TNR

Establishing a common understanding among Member States on TNR

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Amendment 198

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Addressing regimes and states responsible for TNR on European territory

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Amendment 199

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

The special case of Russian TNR

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Amendment 200

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Establishing a common EU understanding of TNR

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Amendment 201

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph -1 (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

-1 Recalls that the practice of transnational repression by the Kremlin has deep historical roots, spanning from the Tsarist era through the Soviet period to the present day; notes that Russian intelligence services have long treated political emigration as a strategic threat, developing sophisticated methods to monitor, manipulate, and neutralise opposition movements abroad, including false-flag operations such as the Soviet “Trust” operation of the 1920s, which sought to lure political emigres into Soviet control 10a;

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10a https://jamestown.substack.com/p/the-trust-lives-moscow-uses-early

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Amendment 202

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph -1 (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

-1. Considers that transnational repression (TNR) is a threat to democracy; is worried by the reported increase in reported cases of transnational repression; is of the opinion that they also represent an increase in detection;

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Amendment 203

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph -1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

-1 a Notes that while Russia does not typically target religious conversion abroad in the manner of some theocratic regimes, it has engaged in repression against independent religious actors, including Ukrainian evangelical leaders, Protestant pastors, Greek-Catholic priests and non-aligned Orthodox clergy, particularly in occupied Crimea and eastern Ukraine; further notes reports of pressure campaigns against religious activists in exile and the use of “extremism” designations to restrict and delegitimise independent faith communities;

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Amendment 204

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph -1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

-1 a. Recalls the many different methods under which transnational repression is performed, such as targeted killings, abductions, violence, harassment and forced returns, disappearances and expulsions, or lawfare; is increasingly worried by the misuse of legal instruments such as consular services, extradition procedures, arrests or abusive use of Interpol’s ‘red notices’, and accusations of terrorism or undermining state security;

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Amendment 205

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph -1 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

-1 b Underlines the multiple documented instances that show that the Russian Federation has utilised its intelligence services, including the Federal Security Service (FSB), successor to the KGB, and the Main Directorate of the General Staff (GRU), in coordination with structures affiliated with the Russian Orthodox Church, in particular the Moscow Patriarchate, to conduct activities amounting to transnational repression, including surveillance, recruitment, influence operations and other hybrid tactics targeting dissidents, exiled opposition figures and diaspora communities abroad 1a; underlines the historical intertwining of Soviet state security services and the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church, including documented cases of clergy cooperation with the KGB during the Soviet period, has evolved under President Vladimir Putin into a renewed alignment between state power and ecclesiastical structures, with the Church serving as an instrument of soft power, ideological influence and narrative projection under the concept of the so-called “Russkiy Mir” (“Russian World”); further highlights that this framework has enabled the instrumentalisation of religious networks and ecclesiastical diplomacy to advance geopolitical objectives, justify external interference and reinforce influence in neighbouring regions, especialy in the Westerrn Balkans, Eastern Europe, South Caucasus and some EU member states and diaspora communities;

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1a https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/putins-useful-priests-russia-church-influence-campaign; https://lansinginstitute.org/2025/12/02/orthodoxy-as-cover-russias-intelligence-operations-through-church-structures-in-northern-europe/; https://cepa.org/article/praying-for-putin-spies-in-cassocks-threaten-the-west/;

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Amendment 206

Alexander Sell

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

1. Considers TNR to constitute a serious human rights violation, and a form of foreign interference and, in certain cases, a type of hybrid threat, undermining democratic governance, the rule of law, fundamental rights and the sovereignty and security of host states;

1. Considers that certain acts of TNR may constitute a serious human rights violation, and a form of foreign interference and, in certain cases, a type of hybrid threat, undermining democratic governance, the rule of law, fundamental rights and the sovereignty and security of host states; stresses that any assessment and response to such acts must fully respect the primary responsibility of Member States for safeguarding national security and maintaining law and order, in accordance with Article 4(2) TEU and Article 72 TFEU;

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Amendment 207

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 208

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

1. Considers TNR to constitute a serious human rights violation and a form of foreign interference, undermining democratic governance, the rule of law, fundamental rights and the sovereignty and security of host states;

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Amendment 209

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

1. Considers TNR to constitute a serious and growing human rights violation, and a form of foreign interference and, in certain cases, a type of hybrid threat, undermining democratic governance, the rule of law, fundamental rights and the sovereignty and security of host states;

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Amendment 210

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

1. Considers TNR to constitute a serious human rights violation, and a form of foreign interference and, in certain cases, a type of hybrid threat, undermining governance, the rule of law, fundamental rights and the sovereignty and security of host states;

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Amendment 211

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

1. Considers TNR to constitute a serious human rights violation, and a form of foreign interference; recalls that protecting persons on Member States’ territory, and ensuring internal security, remain primarily the responsibility of the Member States;

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Amendment 212

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

1 a. Stresses that treating TNR primarily as a security or foreign interference issue risks obscuring its other dimensions, limiting effective responses and leaving persons and communities affected by TNR insufficiently protected; expresses concern that the tendency in the EU and Member States to focus on direct national security implications has resulted in neglect of the human rights impact of TNR;

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Amendment 213

Thijs Reuten, Marta Temido

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 1 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

1 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to acknowledge that TNR constitutes an unacceptable and unlawful practice, often exercised by authoritarian regimes, and to commit to a zero-tolerance approach towards any form of TNR occurring on EU territory;

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Amendment 214

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this report;

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Amendment 215

Merja Kyllönen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this report;

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this report; and Calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop a common, legally clear definition of transnational repression and to include it in EU law in the form of a directive; Calls for the establishment of a permanent EU-level coordination centre as part of the EEAS structure, in close cooperation with Europol and Eurojust; Calls on the Member States to ensure systematic information exchange and common risk assessment mechanisms; Calls on the Council to introduce a graduated diplomatic response model, including targeted sanctions within the framework of the EU human rights sanctions regime;

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Amendment 216

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this report;

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this report and to keep, and where needed amend, the definition consistent with the definition offered by the UN human rights office and other UN mechanisms; calls on the Commission, the Council and the EEAS to integrate this definition systematically across EU policies and instruments, including in external action, justice and home affairs, migration and asylum, digital policy, financial regulation and sanctions frameworks in order to prevent EU legal and administrative frameworks from being misused for repressive purposes;

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Amendment 217

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this report;

2. Stresses that transnational repression constitutes a direct attack on the sovereignty of host states and their ability to ensure the protection of persons residing on their territory; underlines the need to address this phenomenon in a coordinated manner; Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this report;

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Amendment 218

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this report;

2. Calls on the Member States, in full respect of their constitutional traditions and criminal law systems, to develop and apply objective, transparent and reviewable criteria for identifying acts of transnational repression; invites the Council to facilitate voluntary exchanges of best practices, without prejudice to national competences;

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Amendment 219

Alexander Sell

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this report;

2. Calls on the Member States, on a voluntary basis, to exchange views on their national assessments and responses to TNR; rejects the establishment of a legally binding EU definition that could extend Union competences in criminal matters;

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Amendment 220

Marta Temido, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Thijs Reuten, Sandra Gómez López, Chloé Ridel, Andreas Schieder, Matjaž Nemec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this report;

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this report and urges Member States to codify transnational repression in their national legislation;

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Amendment 221

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this report;

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this and previous reports of the European Parliament;

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Amendment 222

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR based on the definition set out in this report;

2. Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to adopt a common EU definition of TNR;

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Amendment 223

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2 a. Stresses that the definition of transnational repression must be precise and narrowly tailored, focusing on coercive acts such as violence, intimidation, surveillance, legal harassment or forced repatriation, and must not encompass lawful political advocacy, diplomatic engagement or international public debate;

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Amendment 224

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2 a. Considers that the lack of a clear definition of TNR contributes to underreporting, limits effective policy responses and hinders the use of accountability tools, including sanctions mechanisms;

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Amendment 225

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

2 a. Stresses that any qualification of conduct as transnational repression, and any restrictive measure taken in response, must be subject to independent judicial oversight and effective remedies;

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Amendment 226

Marta Temido, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Thijs Reuten, Sandra Gómez López, Chloé Ridel, Andreas Schieder, Matjaž Nemec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Defines TNR as deliberate acts or threats carried out by states, including repressive or authoritarian governments and their proxies, to advance their interests by reaching across borders to intimidate, silence, coerce or harm individuals or groups with a national connection to the perpetrating state living abroad, through a broad range of physical methods or the strategic misuse of legal instruments as well as non-physical methods;

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Amendment 227

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Defines TNR as deliberate acts or threats carried out by states, including repressive or authoritarian governments and their proxies, to advance their interests by reaching across borders to intimidate, silence, coerce, assassinate, abduct or harm in any other way individuals or groups living abroad or their support networks as well as their family members using physical and digital means;

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Amendment 228

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Defines TNR as deliberate acts or threats conducted or directed by a State, or its proxy, to deter, silence or punish dissent, criticism or human rights advocacy towards it, expressed from outside its territory[1];

[1] Wording source: Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). Transnational Repression (Civic Space Brief). 18 June 2025

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Amendment 229

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Defines TNR as deliberate acts or threats carried out by states, state-affiliated entities or entities under the influence or pressure of a state, including repressive or authoritarian governments, to advance their interests by reaching across borders to intimidate, silence, coerce or harm individuals or groups living abroad;

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Amendment 230

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Defines TNR as deliberate acts or threats carried out by states, including repressive or authoritarian governments and their proxies, to defend and advance their interests by reaching across borders to intimidate, silence, coerce, control or harm individuals or groups living abroad, in violation of fundamental rights;

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Amendment 231

Michał Kobosko, Hilde Vautmans, Dan Barna, Engin Eroglu, Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Defines TNR as deliberate acts or threats carried out by states, including repressive or authoritarian governments, their proxies or entities working for them, to advance their interests by reaching across borders to intimidate, silence, coerce or harm individuals or groups living abroad;

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Amendment 232

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Defines TNR as deliberate acts or threats carried out by foreign state actors, including authoritarian regimes, or their proxies, to advance their interests by reaching across borders to intimidate, threaten, silence, coerce or harm individuals or groups residing outside their territory;

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Amendment 233

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Defines TNR as deliberate acts or threats carried out by regimes, including repressive or authoritarian governments, such as Russia, China and Iran, and their proxies, to advance their interests by reaching across borders to intimidate, silence, coerce or harm individuals or groups living abroad;

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Amendment 234

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Notes that, in general, TNR refers to deliberate acts or threats carried out by states, including repressive or authoritarian governments and their proxies, to advance their interests by reaching across borders to intimidate, silence, coerce or harm individuals or groups living abroad;

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Amendment 235

Engin Eroglu, Helmut Brandstätter, Marjan Šarec, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 236

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

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Amendment 237

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Defines TNR as deliberate acts or threats carried out by states, GONGOs and their proxies and implementing partners, to advance their interests by reaching across borders to intimidate, silence, coerce or harm individuals or groups living abroad;

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Amendment 238

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3. Defines TNR as deliberate acts or threats carried out by repressives of authoritarian governments and their proxies, to advance their interests by reaching across borders to intimidate, silence, coerce or harm individuals or groups living abroad;

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Amendment 239

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3 a. Proposes defining transnational repression as attacks and threats by states, including authoritarian regimes and their proxies, that aim to defend and advance their interests by reaching across national borders to coerce, control or silence dissidents, political opponents, journalists, activists, HRDs and diaspora members, through a broad range of physical methods, such as targeted killings, abductions, violence, harassment and enforced returns, disappearances and deportations, and the strategic misuse of legal instruments, including abuse of consular services, extradition procedures or red notices, and arrests, as well as non-physical methods, such as digital surveillance, intimidation, blackmail and threats against HRDs’ families;

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Amendment 240

Michał Kobosko, Hilde Vautmans, Dan Barna, Engin Eroglu, Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3 a. Notes that TNR may constitute a crime against humanity within the meaning of Article 7(h)1a of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, taking into account the systematic and widespread nature of such acts;

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1a https://www.icc-cpi.int/sites/default/files/2024-05/Rome-Statute-eng.pdf

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Amendment 241

Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 3 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

3 a. Recognises with concern that the growing number of TNRs carried out by third countries or their proxies within EU territory poses a significant threat to the security of the European Union and its society at large;

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Amendment 242

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, members of the diaspora, political opponents, academics, journalists, artists, lawyers, human rights defenders, religious and cultural leaders, as well as other individuals considered to be opposed to, or critical of, the regime of their country of origin, as well as their family members, people around them and their support networks, including individuals who have no connection to the perpetrator state through citizenship or nationality, such as politicians and journalists who support groups that oppose dictatorships;

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Amendment 243

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

4. Notes that targets of TNR include, inter alia, dissidents, political opponents, defectors, former regime allies or insiders, academics and researchers, students, journalists, lawyers, activists, human rights defenders, humanitarian organisations, their donors, business representatives, other individuals deemed to be in opposition to or critical of their home-country regime, diaspora members and their support networks as well as affiliates and family members, including persons with no national connection to the perpetrator state;

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Amendment 244

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

4. Notes that targets of TNR include, inter alia, dissidents, political opponents, defectors, former regime allies or insiders, academics and researchers, students, journalists, lawyers, activists, human rights defenders, humanitarian organisations, their donors, business representatives and diaspora members and their support networks as well as affiliates and family members; and urges competent authorities to take due account of the power imbalance between potential targets and perpetrators of TNR;

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Amendment 245

Marta Temido, Matjaž Nemec, Andreas Schieder, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Chloé Ridel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members; Calls on the Commission, the Council and Member States to recognise journalists as a group particularly affected by transnational repression, and acknowledgment of exiled journalists as key allies in identifying, documenting, and countering such practices;

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Amendment 246

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

4. Notes with concern that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, journalists, academics, lawyers, human rights defenders, members of diaspora communities, and their support networks as well as their family members; expresses serious concern about shrinking civic space and the silencing of exiled communities, whose voices are instrumental in documenting human rights situations and abuse by authoritarian states;

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Amendment 247

Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, ethnic and religious minorities, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members; emphasizes that targets range from recent refugees and immigrants to individuals of the second and third generations who have citizenship in the host state;

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Amendment 248

Michał Kobosko

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, as well as other individuals deemed to be in opposition to or critical of their home-country regime, and their support networks as well as their family members, including persons with no national connection to the perpetrator state;

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Amendment 249

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, whistleblowers, former government officials, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, activists in exile or diaspora communities, ethnic and religious minorities, and their support networks, as well as family members;

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Amendment 250

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, athletes, religious converts and leaders, union members, and their support networks as well as their family members;

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Amendment 251

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, representatives of minority or religious groups, as well as their support networks and their family members;

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Amendment 252

Nacho Sánchez Amor, Marta Temido, Matjaž Nemec, Chloé Ridel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders and civil socitey organisations, and their support networks as well as their family members;

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Amendment 253

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

4. Notes that targets of TNR include state and locat authorities, dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

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Amendment 254

Dan Barna, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius, Marjan Šarec, Nathalie Loiseau, Michał Kobosko

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

4. Notes that targets of TNR include dissidents, political opponents, academics, journalists, bloggers, lawyers, human rights defenders, and their support networks as well as their family members;

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Amendment 255

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4a. Stresses that independent journalists, including those in exile, are among the main targets of TNR; calls on the Member States to strengthen the mechanisms for their protection, including digital, legal and physical protection, and to ensure the swift and effective investigation of threats, intimidation and attacks;

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Amendment 256

Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 4 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

4 a. Acknowledges that TNR extends beyond diasporas, and it increasingly targets organisations and persons that defend and provide support to victims, which includes activists, politicians, scholars, doctors, journalists, lawyers, and legal teams;

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Amendment 257

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – introductory part

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5. Underlines that TNR encompasses a wide range of tactics, including:

5. Underlines that TNR encompasses a wide range of tactics, including: (1) physical TNR, such as targeted killings, abductions, violence, enforced returns, enforced disappearances and deportations; (2) legal and administrative abuse, including misuse of consular services, extradition and mutual legal assistance procedures, in-absentia prosecutions, abuse of international notice systems or restricted access to banking and financial services; (3) non-physical coercive methods, such as digital surveillance, intimidation, financial repression, blackmail, harassment of relatives and coercion-by-proxy, including through diplomatic or consular missions, organised crime networks, private actors, or state-aligned and state-affiliated entities operating abroad;

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Amendment 258

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – introductory part

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5. Underlines that TNR encompasses a wide range of tactics, including:

Stresses that the misuse, overbroad interpretation or instrumentalisation of counter-terrorism frameworks, terrorist listings and national security legislation may facilitate or conceal patterns of transnational repression; warns that the overuse or politicised application of the term “terrorism” risks lowering legal thresholds, enabling cross-border targeting of activists, civil society actors and diaspora communities, and undermining fundamental rights, due process guarantees and the principle of proportionality.

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Amendment 259

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – introductory part

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5. Underlines that TNR encompasses a wide range of tactics, including:

5. Underlines that TNR encompasses a wide range of coercive practices, including physical violence, intimidation, surveillance, digital harassment, abuse of legal frameworks, misuse of spyware technologies, asset freezing and threats against family members;

Or. en

Amendment 260

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – introductory part

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5. Underlines that TNR encompasses a wide range of tactics, including:

5. Underlines that TNR encompasses a wide range of tactics, including but not limited to:

Or. en

Amendment 261

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(1) physical TNR;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 262

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(1) physical TNR;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 263

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 1

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(1) physical TNR;

(1) physical TNR, such as assaults, assassinations, kidnapping, forced disappearances, abductions, physical surveillance and attacks on property;

Or. en

Amendment 264

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(2) legal and administrative abuse;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 265

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(2) legal and administrative abuse;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 266

Nacho Sánchez Amor, Marta Temido, Matjaž Nemec, Chloé Ridel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(2) legal and administrative abuse;

(2) legal and administrative abuse, including misuse of consular services, extradition and mutual legal assistance procedures, in-absentia prosecutions, abuse of international notice systems, access-to-travel- authorisation systems and behavioural and transactional data, and triggering compliance-based account freezes and restriction of access to banking and financial services;

Or. en

Amendment 267

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 2

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(2) legal and administrative abuse;

(2) legal and administrative abuse, such as baseless criminal charges, selective prosecution, denial of permits, licenses, or approvals without valid reason, or arbitrary fines or penalties;

Or. en

Amendment 268

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(2 a) digital and cyber-enabled TNR, such as the use of spyware or hacking;

Or. en

Amendment 269

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(2a) repression in digital environments;

Or. pl

Amendment 270

Michał Kobosko

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 2 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(2 a) digital TNR

Or. en

Amendment 271

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(3) non-physical coercive methods;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 272

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(3) non-physical coercive methods;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 273

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(3) non-physical coercive methods;

(3) non-physical coercive methods, such as threats, intimidation or fear tactics;

Or. en

Amendment 274

Marta Temido, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Thijs Reuten, Sandra Gómez López, Chloé Ridel, Andreas Schieder, Matjaž Nemec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(3) non-physical coercive methods;

(3) non-physical coercive methods, comprising damage to mental health;

Or. en

Amendment 275

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(3) non-physical coercive methods;

(3) non-physical coercive methods, such as financial pressure;

Or. en

Amendment 276

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 – point 3 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

(3 a) Stresses that Member States are currently affected by TNR to differing degrees and display varying levels of awareness, institutional preparedness and protection mechanisms; stresses, however, that as perpetrators operate across borders and exploit divergences between national systems, TNR cannot be addressed effectively through isolated national responses, and therefore requires the engagement and preparedness of all Member States, within a coordinated EU framework;

Or. en

Amendment 277

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 a. Underlines with concern that the Russian government engages in highly aggressive transnational repression abroad with hughly agressive campaigns which notably include assassination as a tool targeting former insiders and others perceived as threats to regime security; highlights that the Kremlin maintains influence over key cultural institutions operating overseas to shape and monitor the Russian diaspora thereby facilitating multiple forms of transnational repression, including surveillance, intimidation, harassment of dissidents, manipulation of community structures, and pressure on individuals and their families;

Or. en

Amendment 278

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 a. Condemns in the strongest possible terms the repeated and systematic acts of TNR by the Russian authorities, in particular the poisoning, assassination and repression of dissidents living in exile; recalls in particular the poisonings of Sergei and Yulia Skripal and the murder of Alexander Litvinenko on UK soil, as well as the assassination of Chechen commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Germany;

Or. en

Amendment 279

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 a. Considers the growing TNR to be a threat to democracy; calls on the Commission to provide guidance and recommendations to Member States on how to protect at-risk groups in exile; calls on the Commission to consider establishing a mechanism for police and judicial cooperation on TNR at the European level;

Or. en

Amendment 280

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5a. Stresses, furthermore, that the arsenal of tactics and tools being used for TNR is constantly growing;

Or. pl

Amendment 281

Michał Kobosko

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 a. Underlines that the arsenal of TNR tactics and tools is constantly expanding;

Or. en

Amendment 282

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 b. Notes with concern that the Russian Federation has developed and systematically deployed specialised instruments of transnational repression, including the strategic abuse of international legal cooperation mechanisms such as the Interpol notice and diffusion system; underlines that the Kremlin has demonstrated a sustained capacity to weaponise these tools as low-cost means of harassment, restriction of movement, and detention of political opponents and exiles abroad; further underlines that Russia accounts for a disproportionate share of public Interpol Red Notices globally, far exceeding comparable usage by other states 1a; stresses that this pattern reflects a deliberate state strategy to project repression beyond its borders through technical, legal, and bureaucratic channels, in addition to covert or violent methods; underlines, therefore, that the European Union must develop equally specialised defensive instruments to detect, prevent, and counter the misuse of international legal frameworks for politically motivated purposes; calls for the establishment of EU-level screening mechanisms, coordinated legal safeguards, and enhanced transparency standards to protect political dissidents and asylum seekers from politically motivated notices and extradition attempts originating from authoritarian regimes;

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1a https://freedomhouse.org/report/transnational-repression/russia; https://www.occrp.org/en/news/repressive-states-misuse-interpol-red-notices-to-pursue-political-targets-report

Or. en

Amendment 283

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 b. Condemns in the strongest possible terms the acts of TNR carried out by the Chinese Communist Party against dissidents, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Falun Gong practitioners, Hong Kong democracy activists, and other human rights defenders; condemns in particular the so-called ‘foreign police stations’ China has established in a number of EU countries and around the world; highlights that the aim of China is to silence the opposition living abroad;

Or. en

Amendment 284

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 c. Underlines that, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Russian Federation has progressively reasserted state influence over official cultural and religious institutions operating abroad, including the Russian Orthodox Church, Russian-language media, and state-linked cultural organisations; notes in particular the 2006 reunification of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, as well as the establishment in 2008 of Rossotrudnichestvo (Federal Agency for the Commonwealth of Independent States Affairs, Compatriots Living Abroad, and International Humanitarian Cooperation), tasked with coordinating engagement with Russian-speaking communities overseas; further underlines that these structures form part of a broader state ecosystem capable of shaping narratives, maintaining networks of influence, and monitoring diaspora communities beyond the territory of the Russian Federation;

Or. en

Amendment 285

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 c. Condemns in the strongest possible terms the acts of TNR by the Islamic Republic of Iran in EU Member States; notes that in July 2025 the Council imposed sanctions on individuals and an organised crime network linked to Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security for extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of dissidents abroad, including on EU territory; recalls the joint statement issued on 31 July 2025 by 14 Western governments condemning assassination, kidnapping and intimidation plots carried out by Iranian intelligence services and proxy networks on European soil;

Or. en

Amendment 286

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 d. Expresses grave concern that acts of violence and intimidation linked to the leadership of the Chechen Republic have extended beyond the borders of the Russian Federation, affecting members of the Chechen diaspora in exile; notes that the assassinations of former military commander Sulim Yamadayev in Dubai and former bodyguard Umar Israilov in Austria in 2009 marked the emergence of a pattern whereby individuals who fled Chechnya and publicly criticised its leadership were targeted abroad; further highlights that subsequent killings and attacks against Chechen dissidents in third countries including in Turkey, Germany, France, Sweden, and Austria demonstrate a sustained risk faced by exiled critics and individuals cooperating with foreign authorities; underlines that investigative reporting and judicial findings have indicated links between certain perpetrators and Russian state security structures, suggesting that such operations may require logistical support, coordination, or acquiescence beyond regional actors alone 2a;

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2a https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2020/02/17/v-like-vympel-fsbs-secretive-department-v-behind-assassination-of-zelimkhan-khangoshvili/

Or. en

Amendment 287

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 d. Condemns in the strongest possible terms the ongoing repression by the Lukashenka regime in Belarus, which increasingly targets Belarusians abroad through criminal prosecution, asset seizures, and other coercive measures aimed at silencing dissent;

Or. en

Amendment 288

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 e. Notes with concern that the Russian Federation has increasingly relied on bilateral prosecutorial cooperation agreements with third countries to facilitate extradition requests targeting its nationals abroad; further notes that the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation maintains cooperation arrangements with partners in more than 80 countries, with extradition forming a key component of this collaboration ; stresses that this reflects a deliberate strategy to combine when possibel and to bypass multilateral safeguards by building alternative legal pathways through willing jurisdictions;

Or. en

Amendment 289

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 e. Condemns in the strongest possible terms the Turkish authorities’ surveillance and TNR of opposition representatives, in particular Kurdish activists or those labeled as supporters of the Gülen movement;

Or. en

Amendment 290

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 5 f (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

5 f. Condemns in the strongest possible terms Saudi Arabia’s involvement in TNR; recalls, in particular, the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul on 2 October 2018;

Or. en

Amendment 291

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to establish an EU data collection, monitoring and reporting mechanism for TNR;

6. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to establish EU data collection, monitoring and reporting mechanisms on TNR, covering incidents within the EU and globally, allowing Member States, EU institutions, civil society organisations and affected individuals or groups to provide input; and which the Commission and Member States can use to develop, refine and evaluate their policies to counter TNR; stresses the need for high data-protection standards, shared methodologies, and the systematic consideration of gendered impacts and intersecting vulnerabilities including those based on race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, migration status and socio-economic precarity; stresses the need of ensuring that the collection of data does not interfere with the professional or private lives of the persons targeted or affected by TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 292

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to establish an EU data collection, monitoring and reporting mechanism for TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 293

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to establish an EU data collection, monitoring and reporting mechanism for TNR;

6. Reaffirms that the documentation and investigation of TNR incidents on Member States’ territory fall primarily within Member States’ responsibilities; encourages Member States to collect relevant information under national law and, where appropriate, to share strictly anonymised and aggregated information on a voluntary basis, without establishing any centralised Union-level database or monitoring mechanism;

Or. en

Amendment 294

Engin Eroglu, Helmut Brandstätter, Marjan Šarec, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to establish an EU data collection, monitoring and reporting mechanism for TNR;

6. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to establish an EU data collection, monitoring and reporting mechanism for TNR, drawing on the Canadian example of foreign interference watchdogs and registries; make sure that this data collection is accessible to like-minded partners;

Or. en

Amendment 295

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to establish an EU data collection, monitoring and reporting mechanism for TNR;

6. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to establish an EU data collection, monitoring and reporting mechanism for TNR; calls for this mechanism to be integrated in the current work aiming at establishing the Centre for Democratic Resilience;

Or. en

Amendment 296

Marta Temido, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Thijs Reuten, Sandra Gómez López, Chloé Ridel, Andreas Schieder, Matjaž Nemec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to establish an EU data collection, monitoring and reporting mechanism for TNR;

6. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) in cooperation with relevant EU bodies including Europol, to establish an EU data collection, monitoring and reporting mechanism for TNR, including a targeted threat assessment;

Or. en

Amendment 297

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to establish an EU data collection, monitoring and reporting mechanism for TNR;

6. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to work with Member States and organisations such as Europol and Interpol to collect, monitor and report data on TNR;

Or. pl

Amendment 298

Alexander Sell

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to establish an EU data collection, monitoring and reporting mechanism for TNR;

6. Does not support the creation of new EU-level administrative structures in this field, emphasising that effective responses should remain within existing national frameworks;

Or. en

Amendment 299

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6. Calls on the Commission and the European External Action Service (EEAS) to establish an EU data collection, monitoring and reporting mechanism for TNR;

6. Calls for stronger coordination and data collection, monitoring and reporting among Member States for TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 300

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6a. Calls for the establishment of European support mechanisms for independent diaspora media, including through transparent funding programmes and access to legal aid to counter abusive judicial harassment (SLAPPs);

Or. ro

Amendment 301

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

6 a. Reiterates its call to develop an EU legal framework for the designation of states as sponsors of terrorism; urges the Council to include state actors engaged in TNR, such as Russia, on the EU list of state sponsors of terrorism;

Or. en

Amendment 302

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

7. Underlines the essential role civil society plays in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 303

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

7. Underlines the essential role civil society plays in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR;

7. Underlines the essential role civil society plays in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR; calls for a better coordination between civil society and law enforcement to prevent, detect, and ultimately end any such repressive measures; calls in particular for an improved cooperation between Member States to coordinate responses to such actions;

Or. en

Amendment 304

Engin Eroglu, Helmut Brandstätter, Marjan Šarec, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

7. Underlines the essential role civil society plays in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR;

7. Underlines the essential role civil society plays in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR; encourages better cooperation between civil-society and EU institutions and Member States through a TNR civil society platform on EU-level so as to pool resources and information;

Or. en

Amendment 305

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

7. Underlines the essential role civil society plays in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR;

7. Underlines the essential role civil society plays in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR and reiterates the need to support civil society, journalists, whistle-blowers and others uncovering mechanisms and cases of TNR often at cost of personal risk;

Or. en

Amendment 306

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

7. Underlines the essential role civil society plays in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR;

7. Recognises the essential role of civil society organisations plays in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR, and in raising awareness of this phenomenon and supporting victims;

Or. en

Amendment 307

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

7. Underlines the essential role civil society plays in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR;

7. Underlines the essential role civil society plays in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR; encourages Member States to support such important activity;

Or. en

Amendment 308

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 7

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

7. Underlines the essential role civil society plays in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR;

7. Underlines the essential role that political dissidents play in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 309

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Stresses that underreporting is structural; therefore, calls for reporting channels that are accessible and trauma-informed, and guarantee victim confidentiality and safety;

8. Stresses that underreporting is structural; underlines that victims may fear retaliation against family members, lack trust in authorities due to experiences in authoritarian contexts, face language barriers or precarious legal statuses, or fear negative consequences for asylum or residence procedures; calls therefore for reporting channels that are accessible, trauma-informed, multilingual and clearly separated from immigration enforcement, and guarantee victim confidentiality and safety; stresses that such mechanisms must be culturally competent, gender-sensitive and responsive to the specific risks faced by racial, ethnic and religious minorities, LGBTIQ+ persons and individuals with insecure migration status; stresses the need to integrate structured, confidential feedback from victims and affected communities into all protection and reporting mechanisms, with strong safeguards against retaliation and robust data-protection guarantees;

Or. en

Amendment 310

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Stresses that underreporting is structural; therefore, calls for reporting channels that are accessible and trauma-informed, and guarantee victim confidentiality and safety;

8. Stresses that underreporting is structural; underlines that persons targeted by TNR may fear retaliation against family members, lack trust in authorities due to experiences in authoritarian contexts, face language barriers or precarious legal statuses, or fear negative consequences for asylum or residence procedures; calls therefore for protection and rights-oriented reporting channels that are accessible, trauma-informed, multilingual and clearly separated from immigration enforcement, and guarantee victim confidentiality and safety; stresses the need to integrate structured, confidential feedback from persons targeted and affected communities into all protection and reporting mechanisms, with strong safeguards against retaliation and robust data-protection guarantees;

Or. en

Amendment 311

Jan Farský

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Stresses that underreporting is structural; therefore, calls for reporting channels that are accessible and trauma-informed, and guarantee victim confidentiality and safety;

8. Stresses that underreporting is structural; therefore, calls for reporting channels that are accessible and trauma-informed, and guarantee victim confidentiality and safety, emphasises that access to such data must be restricted to explicitly designated and trained authorities and institutions, and that effective safeguards must be in place to prevent unauthorised access, misuse of information, and the secondary victimisation of victims;

Or. en

Amendment 312

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Stresses that underreporting is structural; therefore, calls for reporting channels that are accessible and trauma-informed, and guarantee victim confidentiality and safety;

8. Stresses that underreporting has structural causes; calls on the Member States to harness existing structures to ensure clear, accessible and confidential reporting procedures, laid down in national law, hence avoiding the creation of parallel mechanisms that are not clearly regulated;

Or. ro

Amendment 313

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Stresses that underreporting is structural; therefore, calls for reporting channels that are accessible and trauma-informed, and guarantee victim confidentiality and safety;

Or. en

Amendment 314

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8. Stresses that underreporting is structural; therefore, calls for reporting channels that are accessible and trauma-informed, and guarantee victim confidentiality and safety;

8. Stresses that underreporting is structural; highlights the critical importance of collecting accurate data on cases of TNR; therefore, calls for reporting channels that are accessible and trauma-informed, and guarantee victim confidentiality and safety;

Or. en

Amendment 315

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 a. Underlines the essential role of civil society in documenting the most hidden forms of TNR – including digital surveillance, financial repression and administrative harassment – and that civil society is often better placed to engage with persons targeted and document community-level impacts; highlights that current data collection on TNR is still primarily based on non-governmental sources, many of which face severe funding constraints, increasing the urgency for Member State and EU-level monitoring mechanisms;

Or. en

Amendment 316

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 8 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

8 b. Calls on Member States to ensure that criminal and non-criminal acts that have a component of TNR are consistently recorded as such across the European Union, and that relevant authorities are equipped to identify the TNR dimension, including where conduct falls below the criminal threshold but contributes to intimidation, coercion or surveillance;

Or. en

Amendment 317

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Calls on the Member States to provide specialised training for relevant authorities and to establish dedicated reporting channels and rapid response mechanisms for victims and civil society organisations;

9. Calls on the Member States to react firmly to specific instances of TNR and to ensure cooperation between countries; encourages the Member States to provide specialised training for relevant authorities, based on an understanding of the complex character and dual nature of TNR, the need for a coordinated approach to countering the phenomenon and the ever-growing, endless catalogue of tools used as part of it, and to establish dedicated reporting channels and rapid response mechanisms for victims and civil society organisations;

Or. pl

Amendment 318

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Calls on Member States to provide specialised training for law enforcement, judicial, financial, cybersecurity, immigration and asylum authorities on identifying and responding to TNR, and to establish dedicated, accessible reporting lines and rapid response mechanisms for persons targeted and civil society organisations; calls on Member States to include affected communities in the design and implementation of these trainings;

Or. en

Amendment 319

Alexander Sell

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Recalls that the provision of specialised training for relevant authorities, as well as the establishment of dedicated reporting channels and rapid response mechanisms for victims and civil society organisations, fall within the competence of the Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 320

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Calls on the Member States to bolster the training of the competent authorities and to designate, within the already existing structures, operational contact points responsible for handling TNR cases, without creating new administrative bodies;

Or. ro

Amendment 321

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Calls on the Member States to provide specialised training for relevant authorities and to establish dedicated reporting channels in various languages and rapid response mechanisms for victims and civil society organisations;

Or. en

Amendment 322

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 323

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9. Encourages the Member States to provide specialised training for relevant authorities and to establish dedicated reporting channels and rapid response mechanisms for victims;

Or. en

Amendment 324

Thijs Reuten, Marta Temido

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

9 a. Calls on the Member States to strengthen local capacities by embedding knowledge, monitoring mechanisms, and policies to counter TNR, and to establish regular exchanges among local authorities and between Member States, to share experiences, trends, good practices, and lessons learned.

Or. en

Amendment 325

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up a network of national contact points on TNR to facilitate regular exchanges of experiences and good practices;

10. Calls on the Commission and Member States to set up a network of national contact points on TNR allowing for the regular exchange of experiences and good practices; calls on Member States to ensure systematic reporting on national-level developments to the Commission and strengthen coordination of national measures with a view to more effectively addressing the cross-border dimension of TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 326

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up a network of national contact points on TNR to facilitate regular exchanges of experiences and good practices;

10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up a network of national contact points on TNR to facilitate regular exchanges of experiences and good practices; calls for these contact points to be regularly invited in meetings of the Centre for Democratic Resilience;

Or. en

Amendment 327

Marta Temido, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Thijs Reuten, Sandra Gómez López, Chloé Ridel, Andreas Schieder, Matjaž Nemec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up a network of national contact points on TNR to facilitate regular exchanges of experiences and good practices;

10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up a network of national contact points on TNR to facilitate regular exchanges of experiences and good practices and reinforcing focal points in EU Delegations to support and raise cases concerning TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 328

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up a network of national contact points on TNR to facilitate regular exchanges of experiences and good practices;

10. Calls on the Commission to conduct an assessment of existing cooperation mechanisms before proposing the creation of a new network of national contact points, and to demonstrate the necessity, proportionality and legal basis of such an initiative;

Or. ro

Amendment 329

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up a network of national contact points on TNR to facilitate regular exchanges of experiences and good practices;

10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up a network of national contact points on TNR on a voluntary basis and in a manner that does not entail Union-level processing of victims’ personal data;

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Amendment 330

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up a network of national contact points on TNR to facilitate regular exchanges of experiences and good practices;

10. Encourages the Commission and the Member States to set up a network of national contact points on TNR to facilitate regular exchanges of experiences and good practices;

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Amendment 331

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to set up a network of national contact points on TNR to facilitate regular exchanges of experiences and good practices;

10. Calls on the Member States to set up national contact points on TNR and facilitate regular exchanges of experiences and good practices between them;

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Amendment 332

Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 10 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

10 a. Deplores the actions of the Belarusian and Russian regimes in targeting leaders of the democratic opposition and other critical voices, as well as their family members, who have been forced to seek refuge in EU Member States; urges EU Member States to follow Lithuania’s example and submit referrals of the situation in Belarus and neighbouring countries to the ICC, emphasising that the Lukashenka regime’s TNR may constitute a crime against humanity;

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Amendment 333

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Council to appoint a coordinator for countering TNR;

deleted

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Amendment 334

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Council to appoint a coordinator for countering TNR;

deleted

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Amendment 335

Alexander Sell

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Council to appoint a coordinator for countering TNR;

deleted

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Amendment 336

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Council to appoint a coordinator for countering TNR;

deleted

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Amendment 337

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Council to appoint a coordinator for countering TNR;

11. Calls on the Council to appoint a Coordinator for countering TNR, who would serve as a central contact point for national authorities, Council preparatory bodies, the Commission, EEAS, and other EU institutions, international organisations and civil society actors; underlines that the Coordinator should contribute to the development of an overarching EU strategy on TNR, ensure its implementation and evaluation, foster an exchange of best practices among member states, present policy recommendations and propose priority areas for action, and regularly report to Parliament on emerging challenges and progress achieved;

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Amendment 338

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Council to appoint a coordinator for countering TNR;

11. Calls on the High Representative and the EEAS to strengthen coordination within existing EU foreign policy instruments in order to counter TNR more effectively, including by doubling down on EU presence in third countries;

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Amendment 339

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11. Calls on the Council to appoint a coordinator for countering TNR;

11. Calls on the Council to appoint a coordinator for countering TNR; considers that this coordinator should be involved in the work of the Centre for Democratic Resilience;

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Amendment 340

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 a. Calls on Member States to establish national coordination hubs on TNR with a clear mandate, adequate resources and staffing, tasked with coordinating between relevant authorities at all levels, including law enforcement, judiciary, financial, asylum services, intelligence and social services; stresses that such focal points should support monitoring, victim protection, prevention, and responses to acts of TNR, and ensure scrutiny of foreign requests, including extradition and arrest requests, to prevent complicity in TNR;

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Amendment 341

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 b. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to publish an annual public report on TNR affecting the EU, assessing trends, patterns and emerging risks, including underreported forms such as digital repression, financial coercion, mobility restrictions and coercion-by-proxy, while ensuring confidentiality, victim safety and data protection;

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Amendment 342

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 11 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

11 c. Calls on the Commission to update the mandate of Europol to reflect the need to address TNR; calls on Europol to prioritise close cooperation and information exchange among EU member states to address TNR;

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Amendment 343

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with the EEAS, to adopt a whole-of-EU approach ensuring coordination and information sharing;

12. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with the EEAS, to adopt a whole-of-EU approach to countering TNR, ensuring coordination and information-sharing across EU institutions and agencies, Member States, EU national human rights institutions, and relevant stakeholders, including technology companies, financial institutions and international partners such as Interpol; stresses the need for strengthened inter-service cooperation and structured policy dialogue in order to ensure a consistent and effective EU response;

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Amendment 344

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with the EEAS, to adopt a whole-of-EU approach ensuring coordination and information sharing;

12. Calls for enhanced intergovernmental cooperation among Member States and between competent national authorities, ensuring information-sharing that is necessary, proportionate and strictly limited, in full respect of the principles of conferral, subsidiarity and proportionality;

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Amendment 345

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with the EEAS, to adopt a whole-of-EU approach ensuring coordination and information sharing;

12. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with the EEAS, to adopt a whole-of-EU approach ensuring coordination and information sharing with the members and institutions sharing the EU’s democratic values;

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Amendment 346

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with the EEAS, to adopt a whole-of-EU approach ensuring coordination and information sharing;

12. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with the EEAS, to adopt a whole-of-EU approach ensuring coordination and information sharing in order to more effectively tackle TNR in EU Member States;

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Amendment 347

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12. Calls on the Commission, in close cooperation with the EEAS, to adopt a whole-of-EU approach ensuring coordination and information sharing;

12. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to coordinate and share information;

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Amendment 348

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Believes that the best manner to counter the rising phenomenon of TNR perpetrated by authoritarian regimes against individuals residing in the EU is through demonstrating that the EU can be a deterring force; Thereby, urges the EU to continue to increase its own defence capabilities and reduce dependencies;

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Amendment 349

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 a. Condemns transnational repression aimed at dissidents, political opponents, journalists, activists, athletes and others and urges the establishment of a comprehensive framework to address the fragmentation of national responses and to introduce harmonized penalties for proxy agents involved in such acts;

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Amendment 350

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 b. Urges the Member States to increase the cooperation among national policing and border guards, through information sharing and coordinated actions to react to cases of TNR within their countries;

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Amendment 351

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 c. Highlights that acts of TNR committed by authoritarian countries within the EU implies that agents of these regimes are able to enter the EU territory; Therefore, urgently believes that better screening at the EU border is of paramount importance; To this end, urges the EU to further increase its support, through increased funding, personnel and equipment, for border guards of Member States and agencies such as Frontex in order to be able to be quicker to identify those agents and stop them;

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Amendment 352

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 12 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

12 d. Welcomes the New Pact on Migration and legislations within as they are designed to alleviate the migratory pressure on EU Member States, provide better screening process to identify those individuals that actually need protection, and to also be able to identify agents of authoritarian states that could commit acts of TNR;

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Amendment 353

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 3

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Strengthening protection and support for persons targeted by TNR

Strengthening protection and support for persons targeted by Transnational Repression

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Amendment 354

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Calls for a comprehensive, victim-centred approach to TNR;

13. Calls for a comprehensive, victim-centred approach to TNR, combining immediate and long-term protection measures, and tailored support for persons at heightened risk, including women, LGBTIQ+ persons, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders and other targeted groups;

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Amendment 355

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Calls for a comprehensive, victim-centred approach to TNR;

13. Calls on Member States to ensure that individuals legally residing in the EU are effectively protected from intimidation, violence and coercion by foreign actors or their proxies;

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Amendment 356

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13. Calls for a comprehensive, victim-centred approach to TNR;

13. Calls for a comprehensive approach to TNR;

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Amendment 357

Thijs Reuten

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 a. Calls on the Member States and their relevant authorities to establish a baseline protection framework for individuals targeted by TNR, ensuring minimum standards of situational awareness and rapid response capabilities within the competent authorities, as well as access to dedicated reporting mechanisms, direct contact points, and, where necessary, the possibility for relevant authorities to extend some form of extra protection to citizens targeted by TNR.

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Amendment 358

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 a. Highlights the needs for such a protection framework to operate along the protection continuum, including early warning, emergency protection, stabilisation, integration, accountability and deterrence;

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Amendment 359

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 b. Calls on the EU and Member States to address existing protection gaps by strengthening existing protection mechanisms and establishing a coherent and accessible framework for the protection of victims of TNR, including safe and timely access to visas and asylum procedures, durable residence status, legal pathways to long-term stay, access to housing, healthcare, education, banking and social services, legal and financial assistance, psychosocial support, language courses and childcare where relevant, as well as protection against security risks arising from missing or expired travel documents; stresses the need to avoid reliance on short-term or precarious legal statuses that increase vulnerability to coercion, intimidation and administrative pressure; stresses the importance of facilitating safe intra-EU relocation in certain TNR cases where necessary;

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Amendment 360

Thijs Reuten, Marta Temido

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 13 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

13 b. Calls for the establishment of a dedicated reporting channel, in the form of a national contact point in each Member State, where individuals can confidentially and securely share their experiences, stresses that reports received through these channels must lead to timely assessment and where appropriate, concrete action by the relevant authorities such as investigating incidents and trying to identify patterns or connections with foreign intelligence operatives or agents;

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Amendment 361

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Calls on the Member States to recognise psychosocial harm as an integral feature of TNR;

deleted

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Amendment 362

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Calls on the Member States to recognise psychosocial harm as an integral feature of TNR;

14. Calls on Member States to recognise psychosocial harm as an integral feature of TNR and to ensure access to multilingual, gender-responsive and trauma-informed mental-health support, including through early risk assessment and the activation of holistic protection measures where credible indicators of harm are identified;

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Amendment 363

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Calls on the Member States to recognise psychosocial harm as an integral feature of TNR;

14. Calls on the Member States to recognise psychosocial harm as an integral feature of TNR; Highlights the serious psychological, social and security consequences of transnational repression for victims and their families, as well as its chilling effect on democratic participation and freedom of expression;

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Amendment 364

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 14

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

14. Calls on the Member States to recognise psychosocial harm as an integral feature of TNR;

14. Calls on the Member States to recognise psychosocial harm as an integral feature of TNR; recalls in that respect the consequences and psychological burden caused by SLAPPs on journalists or legal pressure on academics;

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Amendment 365

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Calls on the Member States to recognise lawfare as a form of TNR and to ensure access to effective, proportionate and enforceable remedies;

deleted

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Amendment 366

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Calls on the Member States to recognise lawfare as a form of TNR and to ensure access to effective, proportionate and enforceable remedies;

15. Calls on Member States to recognise lawfare, including those brought by business entities, to exercise pressure, intimidate or exhaust the resources and morale of human rights defenders, as a form of TNR and to ensure that victims of TNR have access to effective, proportionate and enforceable remedies, including compensation and reimbursement of legal costs resulting from abusive or vexatious proceedings, and to strengthen enforcement of such awards; stresses that such remedies should, where appropriate, also address the broader professional, financial and social consequences of transnational repression, including loss of income, forced relocation and obstacles to professional reintegration; [2]

[2] Human Rights Council. Human rights defenders and new and emerging technologies: protecting human rights defenders, including women human rights defenders, in the digital age. Resolution 58/23, 4 April 2025. UN Doc. A/HRC/RES/58/23

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Amendment 367

Nacho Sánchez Amor, Marta Temido, Matjaž Nemec, Chloé Ridel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Calls on the Member States to recognise lawfare as a form of TNR and to ensure access to effective, proportionate and enforceable remedies;

15. Calls on the Member States to recognise lawfare — including abusive proceedings and procedural attrition financed by authoritarian states or their proxies — as a form of TNR, and to ensure access to effective, proportionate and enforceable remedies; calls on EU and Member States to monitor abusive use of judicial or law-enforcement mechanisms by perpetrator State or State-linked actors; further calls on Member States to consider enforcing abusive actors to fully compensate the victim as a precondition for submitting any further legal or information-sharing requests;

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Amendment 368

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Calls on the Member States to recognise lawfare as a form of TNR and to ensure access to effective, proportionate and enforceable remedies;

15. Calls on Member States to recognise lawfare as a form of TNR and to ensure that victims of TNR have access to effective, proportionate and enforceable remedies, including compensation and reimbursement of legal costs resulting from abusive or vexatious proceedings, and to strengthen enforcement of such awards;

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Amendment 369

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Calls on the Member States to recognise lawfare as a form of TNR and to ensure access to effective, proportionate and enforceable remedies;

15. Calls on the Member States to recognise lawfare as a form of TNR and to ensure access to effective, proportionate and enforceable remedies; welcomes in that context the EU anti-SLAPP directive; is of the opinion that similar measures should be taken to protect academic freedom from external pressure;

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Amendment 370

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15. Calls on the Member States to recognise lawfare as a form of TNR and to ensure access to effective, proportionate and enforceable remedies;

15. Notes that, in general, lawfare can be considered as a form of TNR and that, accordingly, victims should have access to effective, proportionate and enforceable remedies;

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Amendment 371

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 a. Calls on Member States to ensure access to specialised legal assistance for victims of TNR, including in cases involving extradition requests, Interpol notices, financial restrictions, SLAPPs, harassment and requests to access behavioural data, and to define a list of TRN state-enablers for a pause/non-recognition regime, conditioned not to recognise, enforce, or provide procedural assistance (including MLA) for any legal and quasi-judicial requests originating from the state-initiator of TNR and its proxy structures until the independence of the judicial system in the state is restored;

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Amendment 372

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 15 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

15 b. Calls on Member States to provide targeted support enabling persons targeted by TNR to continue their professional and civic activities, including journalists, researchers, artists, human rights defenders and their donors, including through early access to the labour market, recognition of professional qualifications, reducing nationality-based obstacles to registering associations or continuing civic activities, non discriminatory access to EU funding, and to ensure effective and timely protection for those who choose to publicly document or report abuses;

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Amendment 373

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on law-enforcement and security authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with communities affected by TNR;

16. Calls on law-enforcement and security authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with communities affected by TNR; Calls for a comprehensive, victim-centred and intersectional approach to TNR, combining immediate and long-term protection measures, and tailored support for persons at heightened risk, including women, LGBTIQ+ persons, racial, ethnic and religious minorities, persons with disabilities, individuals with precarious migration status, journalists, lawyers, human rights defenders and other targeted groups;

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Amendment 374

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on law-enforcement and security authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with communities affected by TNR;

16. Calls on law-enforcement and security authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with communities most affected by TNR, both to facilitate safe reporting and to improve understanding of evolving TNR patterns, including conduct falling below criminal thresholds; calls in this regard for community liaison structures, early-warning systems and appropriate protective measures, including safety planning, emergency relocation or personal protection where necessary;

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Amendment 375

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on law-enforcement and security authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with communities affected by TNR;

16. Calls on law-enforcement and security authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with communities and institutions affected by TNR; calls on the reinforcement of Europol and Eurojust to better combat TNR across the Member States and ensure better information sharing, including via dedicated trainings;

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Amendment 376

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on law-enforcement and security authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with communities affected by TNR;

16. Calls on law-enforcement and security authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with communities affected by TNR; calls on the competent authorities to develop, using existing structures, clear and accountable institutional mechanisms for communication with the communities affected;

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Amendment 377

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on law-enforcement and security authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with communities affected by TNR;

16. Calls on law-enforcement and security authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with communities affected by TNR; notes that digital channels should incorporate strong end-to-end encryption in order to minimise the risk of interception or surveillance;

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Amendment 378

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on law-enforcement and security authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with communities affected by TNR;

16. Calls on national authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with communities affected by TNR in order to improve detection and reporting;

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Amendment 379

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16. Calls on law-enforcement and security authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with communities affected by TNR;

16. Calls on law-enforcement and security authorities to establish sustained outreach and trusted communication channels with persons affected by TNR;

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Amendment 380

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Notes the EU's failure to protect journalist Julian Assange, who published whistleblower information, from TNR; calls for amendment of the EU Whistleblower Directive to strengthen journalistic source protection and grant immediate protection status, non-refoulement guarantees and reparations to both whistleblowers and journalists facing extraterritorial prosecution; Calls on Member States to provide automatic legal protection, accelerated asylum procedures and safe harbour status to journalists such as Julian Assange, who publish whistleblower information, and to whistleblowers themselves when facing TNR-related prosecution; urges the Commission to systematically challenge US/UK extradition requests targeting journalistic source protection as manifestations of transnational repression;

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Amendment 381

Marta Temido, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Thijs Reuten, Sandra Gómez López, Chloé Ridel, Andreas Schieder, Matjaž Nemec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to establish easily accessible and safe reporting mechanisms, designed to respect and protect user privacy, to enable persons targeted by TNR living in exile or in diaspora communities to raise concerns about digital transnational repression with relevant government agencies;

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Amendment 382

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 16 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

16 a. Calls on the EU and Member States to recognise and support affected individuals and communities as key first responders, including through consultation, protection of community leaders, and sustained support for community-based monitoring, documentation and peer-support initiatives;

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Amendment 383

Alexander Sell

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt gender-sensitive protection measures for women affected by TNR;

deleted

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Amendment 384

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt gender-sensitive protection measures for women affected by TNR;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 385

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt gender-sensitive protection measures for women affected by TNR;

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt gender-sensitive protection measures for women affected by TNR, including those facing economic dependency, legal insecurity or gender-based violence as a result of family-based coercion or consular denial, and to ensure access to safe reporting channels and effective remedies;

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Amendment 386

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt gender-sensitive protection measures for women affected by TNR;

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt gender-sensitive protection measures for women and LGBTIQ+ communities affected by TNR; calls further the Commission and the Member States to reinforce the security of families of those targeted by TNR, in particular children;

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Amendment 387

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt gender-sensitive protection measures for women affected by TNR;

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt victim-centred, needs-based protection measures for persons affected by TNR, ensuring equal protection and support for all victims, including those facing specific vulnerabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 388

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt gender-sensitive protection measures for women affected by TNR;

17. Requests the Commission and the Member States to ensure that protection measures are applied in a non-discriminatory manner to all persons affected by TNR, in line the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;

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Amendment 389

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt gender-sensitive protection measures for women affected by TNR;

17. Calls on Member States to ensure that protection measures for women affected by TNR are appropriate to their specific needs and circumstances;

Or. en

Amendment 390

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 17

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt gender-sensitive protection measures for women affected by TNR;

17. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt protection measures for women affected by TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 391

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Calls on the EEAS to update the EU action plan on human rights and democracy and the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders to explicitly address TNR;

18. Calls on the EEAS to update the EU action plan on human rights and democracy and the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders to explicitly address TNR; Calls on the Commission and Member States to establish, in particular, safeguards preventing the abuse of EU and national counter-terrorism, financial and administrative instruments in ways that may contribute to transnational repression, including through periodic fundamental-rights impact assessments, judicial oversight mechanisms and independent review procedures; stresses that measures adopted in the name of security must not replicate the coercive practices characteristic of TNR perpetrator states;

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Amendment 392

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18. Calls on the EEAS to update the EU action plan on human rights and democracy and the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders to explicitly address TNR;

18. Calls on the EEAS to update the EU Action Plan on Human Rights and Democracy and the EU Guidelines on Human Rights Defenders to explicitly address TNR, including protection and support for HRDs in exile and diaspora communities;

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Amendment 393

Marta Temido, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Thijs Reuten, Sandra Gómez López, Chloé Ridel, Andreas Schieder, Matjaž Nemec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 a. Calls on the European Parliament and the Council to amend the Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 establishing a Community Code on Visas (Visa Code) to introduce provisions allowing further rise extensions for individuals affected by TNR;

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Amendment 394

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 a. Calls on the Commission to operationalise the EU Civil Society Strategy by establishing a dedicated EU mechanism to prevent and respond to TNR;

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Amendment 395

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 b. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to strengthen engagement with civil society and ensure adequate and predictable funding, including under NDICI, CERV and Horizon Europe, for documentation, victim support, early-warning systems and digital security tools used by human rights defenders;

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Amendment 396

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 18 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

18 c. Notes that protection needs recognised in one EU Member State shall be consistently and mutually recognised across the Union, thereby avoiding protection gaps between Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 397

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 4

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Preventing and responding to specific forms of TNR

Preventing and responding to specific forms of Transnational Repression

Or. en

Amendment 398

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 5 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Calls to protect individuals who have contacted the authorities to report credible cases of transnational repression from deportation and extradition, including by advising them to request asylum or seek other forms of subsidiary protection if they have not already done so;

Or. en

Amendment 399

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 5 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Calls for the EU and its Member States to to enhance mechanisms to protect political refugees and human rights defenders at risk of transnational repression, including providing safe havens, fair asylum procedures, and ensuring protection from forced deportation and legal harassment; Urges to be particularly mindful of the risks and fears experienced by refugee and asylum communities; Recommends facilitating family reunification for asylum seekers and refugees, including from countries known to have engaged in transnational repression, considering the risk of reprisals that relatives may face;

Or. en

Amendment 400

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Calls for an EU framework to be established to address the cross-border nature of physical TNR;

19. Calls for an EU framework to be established to address the cross-border nature of physical TNR; Demands to take measures to protect human rights defenders from transnational repression, including providing legal and political support for those at risk of retaliation outside their home countries, and ensuring that international legal cooperation mechanisms are not misused to target them;

Or. en

Amendment 401

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Calls for an EU framework to be established to address the cross-border nature of physical TNR;

19. Calls for the establishment of an EU framework addressing the cross-border nature of physical TNR, including surveillance, coercion, assaults, and attempted abductions, to ensure such acts are systematically identified, investigated, and treated as state-linked repression rather than isolated criminal offences;

Or. en

Amendment 402

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Calls for an EU framework to be established to address the cross-border nature of physical TNR;

19. Calls for strengthened operational cooperation between Member States to address the cross-border nature of physical TNR, including through existing instruments and channels, without creating new centralised Union-level structures and in full respect of Member States’ competences for internal security;

Or. en

Amendment 403

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Calls for an EU framework to be established to address the cross-border nature of physical TNR;

19. Calls for the strengthening of cooperation at EU level to combat physical TNR, in line with the competences provided for in the Treaties;

Or. ro

Amendment 404

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19. Calls for an EU framework to be established to address the cross-border nature of physical TNR;

19. Considers it important to address the cross-border nature of physical TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 405

Marta Temido, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Thijs Reuten, Sandra Gómez López, Chloé Ridel, Andreas Schieder, Matjaž Nemec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Psychological TNR

Or. en

Amendment 406

Marta Temido, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Thijs Reuten, Sandra Gómez López, Chloé Ridel, Andreas Schieder, Matjaž Nemec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 b. Calls on the EU to establish a comprehensive EU framework to effectively prevent, monitor and address the cross-border nature of psychological TNR, including its impact on the persons targeted by TNR and their families. Urges the EU to recognise and respond to the severe and lasting psychological consequences of transnational repression on victims’ mental health, well-being, sense of safety, psychological integrity, social relationships and ability to continue public and civic engagement, which often result in long-term trauma, isolation and exclusion;

Or. en

Amendment 407

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Reiterates that digital platforms are used as a tool by perpetrator states of transnational repression and calls on the Commission to consequently implement digital legislation to protect persons targeted by TNR online; notes that hate and defamation campaigns, including illegal content, against individuals or institutions can be a component of TNR, notes that tech companies have a responsibility to prevent abuse of their digital services for repressive purposes;

Or. en

Amendment 408

Michał Kobosko, Hilde Vautmans, Dan Barna, Engin Eroglu, Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19 a. Underlines that the EU borders authoritarian regimes that, in the digital era, are developing increasingly sophisticated capabilities to conduct TNR, including online surveillance, hacking, intimidation via digital communications, disinformation, and incitement of hatred against dissidents in their countries of residence, posing a direct challenge to the security and human rights of Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 409

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19a. Highlights the fact that the most brutal forms of TNR, i.e. killings and abductions ordered by hostile regimes, particularly by Russia and Iran, are taking place on EU territory, which constitutes a direct violation of the sovereignty of Member States and has a direct impact on citizens’ security;

Or. pl

Amendment 410

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19b. Notes that the Russian Federation uses a wide range of brutal tools for TNR against political opponents abroad, including surveillance, intimidation, attempted kidnapping and murder; highlights the fact that refugees and dissidents from Chechnya are a particular target for such actions, with violence and killings having been reported in European countries over many years; recalls that Chechen commander Zelimkhan Khangoshvili was murdered in Berlin in 2019, and that the German investigative authorities determined that the perpetrator had links to the Russian security services; points out that this case is part of a broader pattern of action, including attacks on political opponents, former combatants and Chechen pro-independence activists who have found refuge in Europe; notes, furthermore, that Russian repressive operations abroad have also included high-profile attacks and attempted killings using prohibited chemical or radiological substances, such as the killing of Alexander Litvinenko in London in 2006, and the attempted poisoning of Sergei Skripal in 2018, showing the Russian authorities’ readiness to use extreme measures against opponents on the territory of other countries;

Or. pl

Amendment 411

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 19 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

19c. Notes that Aliaksandr Lukashenka’s regime uses a wide range of tools for TNR against Belarusian dissidents, journalists and civil society activists abroad, including surveillance, intimidation, threats against family members who remain in the country, and attempts at forced return; emphasises that these actions have intensified, particularly since the rigged presidential elections in 2020, when thousands of Belarusians were forced into political exile in European Union countries, and since 2022, when Belarusians decided to support the defence of Ukraine, including through the creation of the Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment; condemns the unprecedented act of state TNR that occurred in May 2021 when a Polish civilian aircraft flying between EU countries was forced to land in Minsk so that Roman Protasevich could be arrested; emphasises that the incident in which the passenger plane was hijacked was a terrorist act and constitutes an extreme example of the use of state tools to persecute political opponents abroad and a serious breach of international civil aviation safety; notes, furthermore, that the Belarusian security services and related structures are carrying out activities targeting émigré communities, including attempts to infiltrate diaspora organisations, orders to carry out physical violence, intimidation campaigns, including on social media, political trials in absentia and other forms of pressure being brought to bear on activists’ families who remain in Belarus, thus intimidating and restricting the political activity of Belarusians in the EU;

Or. pl

Amendment 412

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR including their gendered dimension;

20. Calls on the EU and Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR such as censorship, disinformation, smear campaigns, online harassment and intimidation, including their gendered dimension; calls for accessible reporting mechanisms for victims and for holding technology companies and other private actors accountable where they facilitate such practices; stresses that targeted sanctions can produce digital transnational repression effects when they lead to technology-mediated exclusion from essential services (payments, travel platforms, communications) that impedes or hinders an HRD's legitimate work across borders;

Or. en

Amendment 413

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR including their gendered dimension;

20. Calls on the EU and Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR such as censorship, disinformation, smear campaigns, online harassment and intimidation, including their gendered dimension, all enabled by hyperpersonalised algorithms and recommender systems; calls for accessible reporting mechanisms for victims and for holding technology companies and other private actors accountable where they facilitate such practices and welcomes the current review of the existing notice and action mechanisms of platforms under the DSA by the Commission to ensure that exercising user rights is simple and efficient;

Or. en

Amendment 414

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR including their gendered dimension;

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR, ensuring full and equal protection for all persons affected, without distinction, in line with the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and without in any way restricting the right to freedom of expression and information;

Or. ro

Amendment 415

Marta Temido, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Thijs Reuten, Sandra Gómez López, Chloé Ridel, Andreas Schieder, Matjaž Nemec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR including their gendered dimension;

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR including their gendered dimension; stresses the need to recognise the specific challenge of gender-based digital transnational repression and the particular consequences of this type of repression for women targeted by TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 416

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR including their gendered dimension;

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR as digital technologies are essential components in the toolkit of extraterritorial coercion, including surveillance, hacking attacks and online harassment;

Or. en

Amendment 417

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR including their gendered dimension;

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR including their gendered dimension; recalls that technologies such as artificial intelligence and spyware are also used in the context of TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 418

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR including their gendered dimension;

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR, including through cybersecurity and counter-hybrid threat measures;

Or. en

Amendment 419

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR including their gendered dimension;

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 420

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR including their gendered dimension;

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 421

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR including their gendered dimension;

20. Calls for the EU and its Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR in its all dimensions;

Or. en

Amendment 422

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 a. Believes that digital TNR fits the criteria for inclusion under activities that have negative effects on ‘fundamental rights’ as defined by the Digital Services Act (DSA), in particular when it comes to risk assessments under the DSA; calls for robust and consistent enforcement of the DSA to ensure that platforms, in particular VLOPs, take effective action to mitigate and address digital TNR threats; calls on the Commission to pay particular attention to the impact of TNR in the upcoming revisions of their guidelines in relation to risk assessment and mitigation measures of VLOPs;

Or. en

Amendment 423

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to ensure that regulatory frameworks concerning online content, digital services or disinformation do not impose de facto global speech standards on actors outside the Union, and to assess the potential impact of EU legislation on freedom of expression and sovereignty in third countries;

Or. en

Amendment 424

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 b. Notes with concern that regulatory pressure from EU institutions has in some instances led to changes in global content moderation policies affecting speech within and beyond EU territory; calls on the Commission to examine these allegations transparently and ensure that EU legislation does not undermine freedom of expression or sovereignty in the Union and in third countries;

Or. en

Amendment 425

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 20 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

20 b. Call the Commission and the EEAS to explicitly address transnational censoring efforts as a form of TNR, including by developing guidance to detect and counter cross-border censorship, intimidation, and digital silencing of diasporas and civil society actors within the EU, and by publicly attributing and condemning such practices where appropriate;

Or. en

Amendment 426

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA);

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 427

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA);

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 428

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA);

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 429

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA);

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 430

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA);

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 431

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA);

21. Calls on the EU and Member States to recognise, prevent and counter digital forms of TNR such as censorship, disinformation, smear campaigns, online harassment and intimidation, including their gendered dimension; calls for accessible reporting mechanisms for victims and for holding technology companies and other private actors accountable where they facilitate such practices; stresses that targeted sanctions can produce digital transnational repression effects when they lead to technology-mediated exclusion from essential services (payments, travel platforms, communications) that impedes or hinders an HRD's legitimate work across borders; Calls on the EU and Member States to ensure that technology companies conduct robust and ongoing human rights due diligence to prevent their platforms, tools or services from being used to facilitate digital transnational repression;

Or. en

Amendment 432

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA);

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA) to the degree needed to help curb online TNR, while fully respecting freedom of expression; emphasises that these actions should prevent authoritarian states from using internet platforms to intimidate, blackmail, harass and monitor members of the diaspora and opposition activists in the European Union, while enabling them to continue the legitimate public, journalistic or civic activities that were often the reason they were forced into exile and remain the main target of TNR;

Or. pl

Amendment 433

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA);

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of relevant EU digital legislation, including by investigating the systemic risks posed by platforms such as WeChat and TikTok; insists that these platforms must be held accountable for failing to fulfil their legal obligations and mitigate risks to the fundamental rights of individuals residing in the EU, particularly regarding the use of these apps for state-sponsored surveillance, the censorship of political speech, and the facilitation of transnational repression against diaspora communities;

Or. en

Amendment 434

Engin Eroglu, Helmut Brandstätter, Marjan Šarec, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA);

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA), including by investigating the systemic risks posed by platforms such as WeChat and TikTok; insists that these platforms must be held accountable for failing to mitigate risks to the fundamental rights of individuals residing in the EU, particularly regarding the use of these apps for state-sponsored surveillance, the censorship of political speech, and the facilitation of transnational repression against diaspora communities;

Or. en

Amendment 435

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA);

21. Emphasises that the freedom of speech is the cornerstone of a democratic society; is worried that the Digital Services Act (DSA) will construct a pan-European censorship regime, and that the EU uses the DSA to decide what can or cannot circulate on social media; considers that this development undermines legitimate democratic discourse and suppresses free speech;

Or. en

Amendment 436

Jan Farský

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA);

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA), especially with regard to the obligation of very large online platforms to identify, assess, and mitigate systemic risks related to digital transnational repression, including coordinated harassment campaigns, algorithmic manipulation;

Or. en

Amendment 437

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA);

21. Calls for strong, consistent and proportionate enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA), with complete respect for freedom of expression, media pluralism and the principle of subsidiarity, and prevention of any use of the DSA as an instrument of political or ideological censorship;

Or. ro

Amendment 438

Alexander Sell

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21. Calls for strong and consistent enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA);

21. Stresses that TNR should not be used to justify the enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA) beyond its established mandate;

Or. en

Amendment 439

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21 a. Notes with concern documented cases involving private companies developing and exporting advanced spyware and digital surveillance tools, including Israeli companies such as NSO Group, developer of Pegasus spyware, whose products have been used against journalists, human rights defenders, political opponents and minority representatives; calls for enhanced export controls, post-sale monitoring obligations and the suspension or termination of contracts where there is a substantial risk of misuse for transnational repression; Stresses that Member States must refrain from contracting surveillance or spyware services from companies credibly implicated in human rights abuses, where there is a clear risk that such tools may be used to facilitate transnational repression; recalls that public procurement decisions must comply with international human rights obligations and that continued engagement with companies linked to documented abuses may risk contributing to or enabling such practices;

Or. en

Amendment 440

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 21 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

21 a. Expresses grave concern about the use of artificial intelligence by third countries and their proxies as a tool of transnational repression, including through AI-enabled digital surveillance, deployment of spyware, phishing and hacking attacks, doxxing, automated online harassment and coordinated disinformation campaigns on social media; calls on the Commission and the Member States to explicitly address threats of AI-enabled transnational repression within the framework of relevant EU legislation to ensure robust enforcement, stringent export controls, and accountability mechanisms;

Or. en

Amendment 441

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

22. Calls for digital TNR to be explicitly incorporated within the scope of ‘systemic risks’ under the DSA;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 442

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

22. Calls for digital TNR to be explicitly incorporated within the scope of ‘systemic risks’ under the DSA;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 443

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

22. Calls for digital TNR to be explicitly incorporated within the scope of ‘systemic risks’ under the DSA;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 444

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

22. Calls for digital TNR to be explicitly incorporated within the scope of ‘systemic risks’ under the DSA;

22. Calls for digital TNR to be incorporated explicitly within the scope of ‘systemic risks’ under the DSA and for platforms to be required to assess and mitigate such risks; calls on the Commission to reflect on this when producing guidelines on the compliance with the DSA;

Or. en

Amendment 445

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

22. Calls for digital TNR to be explicitly incorporated within the scope of ‘systemic risks’ under the DSA;

22. Notes that the DSA does not effectively address digital TNR; highlights the need to significantly amend and scale down the DSA to better safeguard freedom of speech online; calls for strong measures to better protect individuals from digital TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 446

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

22. Calls for digital TNR to be explicitly incorporated within the scope of ‘systemic risks’ under the DSA;

22. Stresses that the inclusion of digital TNR in the category of 'systemic risks' must not lead to any restricting of legal content or limiting of democratic debate, and calls for robust judicial review mechanisms and effective avenues of redress for users;

Or. ro

Amendment 447

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

22. Calls for digital TNR to be explicitly incorporated within the scope of ‘systemic risks’ under the DSA;

22. Notes that digital threats have become a core component in the toolkit of governments engaged in TNR as digital threats against exiled opponents reduce the cost of extraterritorial political control;

Or. en

Amendment 448

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

22. Calls for digital TNR to be explicitly incorporated within the scope of ‘systemic risks’ under the DSA;

22. Calls for digital TNR to be explicitly incorporated within the scope of ‘systemic risks’ under the DSA and enable dedicated reporting channels for diaspora communities;

Or. en

Amendment 449

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

22a. Emphasises the crucial importance of internet platforms and digital media for individuals who have been forced to leave their countries as a result of political persecution; notes that these tools enable them to continue their journalistic, civic and political activities, including those promoting human rights, democracy and freedom of expression, and to maintain contact with communities and loved ones in their country of origin; emphasises that the digital space is an essential element in safeguarding the pluralism of information and supporting civil society operating in exile; takes the view that freedom of expression in particular should be protected;

Or. pl

Amendment 450

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 22 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

22 a. Stresses that responses to technology-enabled TNR must fully respect freedom of expression, privacy and due process; calls on online service providers to cooperate with competent national authorities, subject to judicial authorisation and effective remedies, to address unlawful harassment, threats and coercion linked to foreign state actors.

Or. en

Amendment 451

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23. Expresses deep concern about the use of spyware and surveillance technologies by third countries and their proxies;

23. Expresses deep concern about Human Rights defender‘s exposure to unlawful or arbitrary surveillance, unlawful or arbitrary interference with privacy, targeted interception of communications, hacking, including government-sponsored hacking, and all forms of online violence and harassment[1]; calls on the EU and Member States to ensure strict oversight of spyware markets, effective accountability mechanisms and the criminalisation of unlawful data collection carried out on behalf of foreign states in violation of EU law;

Or. en

Amendment 452

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23. Expresses deep concern about the use of spyware and surveillance technologies by third countries and their proxies;

23. Expresses deep concern about the use of spyware and surveillance technologies by third countries and their proxies against individuals in the Union; calls on the EU and Member States to ensure strict oversight of spyware markets and effective accountability mechanisms;

Or. en

Amendment 453

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23. Expresses deep concern about the use of spyware and surveillance technologies by third countries and their proxies;

23. Expresses deep concern about use of spyware and surveillance technologies by third countries and their proxies that is illegal and infringes the sovereignty of Member States;

Or. pl

Amendment 454

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23. Expresses deep concern about the use of spyware and surveillance technologies by third countries and their proxies;

23. Highlights that the right to secure and private communication is fundamental; strongly condemns the use of spyware and surveillance technologies by third countries and their proxies;

Or. en

Amendment 455

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23. Expresses deep concern about the use of spyware and surveillance technologies by third countries and their proxies;

23. Expresses deep concern about the use of spyware and surveillance technologies by third countries and their proxies to target individuals residing in the European Union;

Or. en

Amendment 456

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23. Expresses deep concern about the use of spyware and surveillance technologies by third countries and their proxies;

23. Expresses deep concern about the use of spyware and surveillance technologies;

Or. en

Amendment 457

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23. Expresses deep concern about the use of spyware and surveillance technologies by third countries and their proxies;

23. Expresses deep concern about the use of spyware and surveillance technologies by repressive governments;

Or. en

Amendment 458

Engin Eroglu, Helmut Brandstätter, Marjan Šarec, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23 a. Expresses grave concern about the use of artificial intelligence by third countries and their proxies as a tool of transnational repression, including through AI-enabled digital surveillance, deployment of spyware, phishing and hacking attacks, doxxing, automated online harassment and coordinated disinformation campaigns on social media; calls on the Commission and the Member States to explicitly address threats of AI-enabled transnational repression within the framework of relevant EU legislation, including the Digital Services Act, the AI Act, and the Dual-Use Regulation, to ensure robust enforcement, stringent export controls, and accountability mechanisms;

Or. en

Amendment 459

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23 a. Calls, in that context, on Member States to implement the recommendations of Parliament’s Committee of Inquiry to Investigate the Use of Pegasus and Equivalent Surveillance Spyware, and to strengthen safeguards against spyware proliferation and abuse, and counter deficiencies in national legislation through better enforcement of Union legislation such as the Anti-Money Laundering Directive, procurement rules, and the Dual-Use Regulation;

Or. en

Amendment 460

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23 a. Opposes securitised technological responses to digital TNR, such as indiscriminate AI monitoring and expanded platform liability; prioritises data protection, encryption rights and civil society-led monitoring over the expansion of state and corporate surveillance infrastructures that mirror TNR perpetrator tactics;

Or. en

Amendment 461

Michał Kobosko, Hilde Vautmans, Dan Barna, Engin Eroglu, Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23 a. Notes that tools such as the Pegasus spyware are being used to surveil activists, politicians, and journalists;

Or. en

Amendment 462

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23 b. Recalls the EP report of the PEGA Inquiry Committee containing recommendations to fight the illegal use of spyware, in particular intrusive spyware; laments that the Commission to this date has not taken the recommendations on board, even though issues prevail; points out that this puts all EU citizens, in particular civil society actors, journalists, academics, human rights defenders but also institutions at considerable risk of exposure especially to foreign interference;

Or. en

Amendment 463

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23 b. Condemns the role of the AWS Sovereign Cloud as a potential TNR vector, given its dependence on US-based infrastructure vulnerable to foreign requests; calls for a ban on the use of AWS for sensitive EU data, including data relating to human rights defenders and diaspora communities, and for the development of a sovereign public EU cloud; deplores this systemic risk to EU digital sovereignty;

Or. en

Amendment 464

Michał Kobosko, Hilde Vautmans, Dan Barna, Engin Eroglu, Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23 b. Notes that regimes use threats or offer paid assignments to record protest participants or spy on dissidents, directly affecting the exercise of fundamental rights such as freedom of assembly, association within the EU;

Or. en

Amendment 465

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23 c. Recalls the concerns expressed by UN Special Rapporteurs regarding the reported use of Pegasus and Candiru spyware against Catalan minority political representatives and civil society actors in the so-called “CatalanGate” case; notes that the scale and sophistication of the surveillance and its chilling effect on freedom of expression, assembly and minority participation raise concerns about patterns of digital transnational repression within the Union; underlines that the opacity of the commercial spyware market hinders effective attribution and accountability:

Or. en

Amendment 466

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23 c. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that very large online platforms and search engines apply human-rights-based content moderation; calls on these platforms to establish rapid response mechanisms for individuals at risk, including priority reporting channels, timely human review, safeguards against arbitrary content removal as outlined in the DSA, and effective responses to doxxing, account takeovers and coordinated online harassment;

Or. en

Amendment 467

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23 d. Urges the Commission to revoke EU-US Data Privacy Framework certifications for AWS in light of TNR risks arising from AML/CFT-related over-compliance; calls on the Commission and Member States to mandate independent audits of all commercial sovereign clouds to prevent data weaponisation;

Or. en

Amendment 468

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23 d. Calls on the Commission AI Office to further assess the impact of artificial intelligence on TNR and to propose concrete safeguards to prevent the misuse of AI systems in ways that enable surveillance, coercion or repression across borders;

Or. en

Amendment 469

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23 e. Condemns Israeli interference in EU cybersecurity and data protection through the export of invasive tools to high-risk states; urges the Commission to list NSO and equivalent companies under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime and to revoke EU funding and partnerships with the entities involved;

Or. en

Amendment 470

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24. Recognises reprisals against family members of exiled individuals as a form of TNR;

24. Recognises reprisals against family members of exiled individuals, whether occurring within the EU or in third countries, as a distinct and serious form of TNR; calls for family-targeted intimidation, detention, property confiscation, travel bans and similar practices to be systematically addressed within EU monitoring, sanctions, asylum and diplomatic response frameworks;

Or. en

Amendment 471

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24. Recognises reprisals against family members of exiled individuals as a form of TNR;

24. Recognises reprisals against family members of exiled individuals as a form of TNR, both where members of these families live in the country exerting the TNR and where they live in third countries;

Or. pl

Amendment 472

Michał Kobosko

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24. Recognises reprisals against family members of exiled individuals as a form of TNR;

24. Recognises reprisals against family members of exiled individuals as a form of TNR, including when family members reside on the territory of TNR-perpetrating state or on the territory of a third country.

Or. en

Amendment 473

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24. Recognises reprisals against family members of exiled individuals as a form of TNR;

24. Notes that TNR can also include reprisals against family members of targeted individuals;

Or. en

Amendment 474

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24. Recognises reprisals against family members of exiled individuals as a form of TNR;

24. Recognises reprisals against family members or associates of exiled individuals as a form of TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 475

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 24 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

24 a. Calls on Member States to ensure that cases of coercion-by-proxy and family-based intimidation are documented and addressed, even where criminal prosecution is limited by jurisdictional constraints, and that affected individuals are provided with appropriate protection and support;

Or. en

Amendment 476

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

25. Calls on the Member States to use family reunification and other protective pathways to reduce exposure to coercion by proxy;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 477

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

25. Calls on the Member States to use family reunification and other protective pathways to reduce exposure to coercion by proxy;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 478

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

25. Calls on the Member States to use family reunification and other protective pathways to reduce exposure to coercion by proxy;

25. Calls on Member States to make use of family reunification and other protective pathways to reduce exposure to coercion-by-proxy, underlining that family reunification is one of the most effective safeguards against pressure exerted on individuals through their relatives;

Or. en

Amendment 479

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

25. Calls on the Member States to use family reunification and other protective pathways to reduce exposure to coercion by proxy;

25. Calls on the Member States to use protective pathways to reduce exposure to coercion by proxy, including family reunification, where deemed appropriate;

Or. en

Amendment 480

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

25. Calls on the Member States to use family reunification and other protective pathways to reduce exposure to coercion by proxy;

25. Calls on the Member States to use protective pathways to reduce exposure to coercion by proxy;

Or. pl

Amendment 481

Michał Kobosko, Hilde Vautmans, Dan Barna, Engin Eroglu, Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 25 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

25 a. Notes with serious concern that the regime authorities increasingly use trials in absentia, mass criminal proceedings, property confiscation, and intimidation of relatives as tools of repression against dissidents abroad, thereby preventing safe return, restricting property rights, and exerting indirect pressure through family members remaining in the country;

Or. en

Amendment 482

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 8

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Addressing structures that enable TNR

Addressing structures that enable Transnational Repression

Or. en

Amendment 483

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to identify, assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in administrative, legal and financial systems that may be exploited for TNR;

26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to identify, assess and mitigate structural vulnerabilities in EU and national administrative, legal and financial systems that may be exploited for TNR, including in consular services, visa and residence procedures, financial regulation and data-handling practices; calls for heightened scrutiny of administrative and legal procedures concerning asylum and international protection, given the potentially fatal consequences for victims of TNR if deported to a country that practices or enables it.

Or. en

Amendment 484

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to identify, assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in administrative, legal and financial systems that may be exploited for TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 485

Marta Temido, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Thijs Reuten, Sandra Gómez López, Chloé Ridel, Andreas Schieder, Matjaž Nemec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to identify, assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in administrative, legal and financial systems that may be exploited for TNR;

26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to identify, assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in administrative, legal and financial systems that may be exploited for TNR, recognising that the countries are often ill-equipped to understand and support people targeted by TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 486

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to identify, assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in administrative, legal and financial systems that may be exploited for TNR;

26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States, as well as organisations such as Interpol, to identify, assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in administrative, legal and financial systems that may be exploited for TNR;

Or. pl

Amendment 487

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to identify, assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in administrative, legal and financial systems that may be exploited for TNR;

26. Encourages the Member States to identify, assess and mitigate vulnerabilities in administrative, legal and financial systems that may be exploited for TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 488

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26a. Points out that state actors using TNR to suppress dissent and criticism outside their own countries are increasingly instrumentalising and ‘arming’ state institutions and related structures, using them to bring pressure to bear on the diaspora and dissidents; highlights, in this context, the activity of structures such as the Chinese United Front Work Department (UFWD), which, according to several analyses, act as a tool to exert political influence and control over the diaspora;

Or. pl

Amendment 489

Thijs Reuten, Marta Temido

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26 a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure that relevant authorities receive targeted training on the indicators and forms of TNR, enabling them to recognise possible cases at an early stage - such as the abuse of red notices, arrest warrants and presumed terrorist connections to mislead Member States authorities - and to act swiftly to prevent any kind of facilitation or occurrence of TNR within the EU;

Or. en

Amendment 490

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26 a. Stresses that preventing EU institutions and Member States from becoming unwitting enablers of TNR requires the introduction of risk-aware safeguards, alternative procedures where necessary, and enhanced oversight of legal and financial infrastructures, including residency-by-investment schemes and anti-money-laundering frameworks, in order to prevent their misuse by perpetrators and ensure accountability;

Or. en

Amendment 491

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26 a. Calls on financial institutions to conduct enhanced human rights due diligence in high-risk contexts, to assess the potential misuse of compliance procedures for purposes of transnational repression, and to ensure that over-compliance does not result in arbitrary de-banking, exclusion from essential financial services or indirect facilitation of TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 492

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26b. Notes that the People’s Republic of China is using a variety of institutional instruments, including diplomatic representations, student organisations and academic institutions, to exert illegal influence on academia abroad and to monitor and bring pressure to bear on students and researchers of Chinese origin, which should also be classified as TNR; emphasises that Chinese diplomatic posts often secure funding and guidance for Chinese Students and Scholars Associations (CSSA), which, in some cases, are mobilised to react to events, lectures or initiatives perceived to be at odds with the Chinese Communist Party line, including attempts to disrupt academic debates and events on topics such as human rights, Tibet or Taiwan; also emphasises that, in recent years, many Confucius Institutes in Europe, North America and Australia have been closed or investigated on the basis of concerns that they may be used by Beijing as instruments for propaganda, political influence or information-gathering in academia, including against international students; notes that these practices contribute to the creation of an atmosphere of pressure and self-censorship among students, especially those who express critical views of the Chinese communist authorities or show support for democracy in Hong Kong, human rights in Tibet or a democratic Taiwan, which is an example of TNR undermining academic freedom and freedom of expression in host states;

Or. pl

Amendment 493

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26 b. Calls on banks to adopt pre-freeze verification requirements to detect abuses before restrictions are applied, ensuring guaranteed access to basic banking services while reviews are pending and directing Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) to identify and analyse TNR-linked financial patterns; stresses that where financial restrictions are found to have facilitated or resulted from transnational repression, affected individuals and organizations should have access to effective remedies, including the lifting of unjustified restrictions and appropriate compensation for financial and reputational harm;

Or. en

Amendment 494

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26 b. Urges Member States to rigorously vet—and where appropriate revoke—investment-linked residence permits and similar “golden visa” arrangements for persons credibly linked to regimes or networks known to engage in TNR, in order to prevent perpetrators and enablers from acquiring EU residency rights that facilitate illicit activity;

Or. en

Amendment 495

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 26 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

26 c. Stresses that reparations for victims of transnational repression should be understood in a broad and victim-centred manner and may include individual as well as collective measures, in order to address systemic and long-term harm; underlines that such measures should contribute to restitution, rehabilitation and guarantees of non-repetition, and be accessible to all victims irrespective of the country of origin of the perpetrator;

Or. en

Amendment 496

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls on the Member States to refuse, document and report informal, coercive or extra-legal requests from foreign authorities;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 497

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls on the Member States to refuse, document and report informal, coercive or extra-legal requests from foreign authorities;

27. Calls on Member States to refuse, document and report any informal, coercive or extra-legal requests from foreign authorities to surveil, detain, restrict, intimidate or hand over exiles or members of diaspora communities, including when such requests are conveyed through diplomatic channels, security liaison officers or proxy actors; calls in this context for mandatory enhanced scrutiny, automatic suspension and independent judicial review of all international cooperation requests — including extradition, mutual legal assistance and law-enforcement data sharing — involving recognised refugees, asylum seekers, human rights defenders, journalists, lawyers or other persons at risk of TNR; further calls on Member States to refrain from extraditing victims or potential victims of TNR and to ensure their protection, including access to legal residence and employment within the Union;

Or. en

Amendment 498

Thijs Reuten, Marta Temido

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls on the Member States to refuse, document and report informal, coercive or extra-legal requests from foreign authorities;

27. Calls on the Member States to refuse, document and report informal, coercive or extra-legal requests from foreign authorities; further calls on the Commission and Member States to make clear to any interfering actor that surveillance and enforcement activities within the EU fall exclusively under the competence of the relevant EU and national authorities, and that foreign surveillance practices on EU territory are unacceptable and will not be tolerated; calls on the Commission to initiate legislation to harmonize prohibition of foreign surveillance activities within the EU, in particular those activities falling under TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 499

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls on the Member States to refuse, document and report informal, coercive or extra-legal requests from foreign authorities;

27. Calls on the Member States to refuse, document and report informal, coercive, false or extra-legal requests from foreign authorities; emphasises that, in order to make their requests appear more credible, state services responsible for TNR often falsify allegations, presenting victims of TNR as perpetrators of crimes;

Or. pl

Amendment 500

Michał Kobosko

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls on the Member States to refuse, document and report informal, coercive or extra-legal requests from foreign authorities;

27. Calls on the Member States to refuse, document and report informal, coercive or extra-legal requests from foreign authorities and to provide relevant training to judicial, law-enforcement and border authorities;

Or. en

Amendment 501

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls on the Member States to refuse, document and report informal, coercive or extra-legal requests from foreign authorities;

27. Calls on the Member States to refuse, document and report informal, coercive or extra-legal requests from foreign authorities, ensuring effective cooperation between law enforcement agencies;

Or. en

Amendment 502

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27. Calls on the Member States to refuse, document and report informal, coercive or extra-legal requests from foreign authorities;

27. Calls on the Member States remain vigilant against abusive extradition requests, Interpol notices and other legal instruments used for political purposes;

Or. en

Amendment 503

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 27 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

27 a. Strongly condemns the abuse by some states of Interpol’s notice system in order to persecute opponents beyond their borders and calls for adequate reforms and resources to be put in place to provide long-term solutions that prevents politically motivated Red Notices and diffusion orders to arrest;

Or. en

Amendment 504

Engin Eroglu, Helmut Brandstätter, Marjan Šarec, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28. Calls on the Member States to ensure that relevant authorities receiving Interpol data are properly trained to assess and identify risks of abuse;

28. Calls on the Member States to ensure that relevant authorities receiving Interpol data are properly trained to assess and identify risks of abuse; recalls the misuse of Interpol "Red Notices" to restrict the travel of targeted individuals by authoritarian actors, such as the People’s Republic of China;

Or. en

Amendment 505

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28. Calls on the Member States to ensure that relevant authorities receiving Interpol data are properly trained to assess and identify risks of abuse;

28. Calls on Member States to ensure that law-enforcement, judicial and immigration authorities receiving Interpol data are properly trained to identify and assess risks of abuse, and that this is embedded through formal procedures, recurring training and accountability mechanisms;

Or. en

Amendment 506

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 28

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

28. Calls on the Member States to ensure that relevant authorities receiving Interpol data are properly trained to assess and identify risks of abuse;

28. Calls on the Member States to ensure that relevant authorities receiving Interpol data and implementing bilateral cooperation agreements with countries using TNR are properly trained to assess and identify risks of abuse;

Or. pl

Amendment 507

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29. Highlights that extra vetting for extradition requests and Interpol notices from governments known to engage in TNR is essential;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 508

Nacho Sánchez Amor, Marta Temido, Matjaž Nemec, Chloé Ridel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29. Highlights that extra vetting for extradition requests and Interpol notices from governments known to engage in TNR is essential;

29. Highlights that extra vetting for extradition requests and Interpol notices from governments known to engage in TNR is essential; stresses that Interpol Purple and Silver Notices are conceived as operational tools without individual remedy and may be deployed to flag patterns of activity of human rights defenders, donors and associated entities without notification to those concerned, thereby silently abusing law-enforcement and financial compliance systems and enabling access to behavioural data — travel, communication and financial records — without any formal accusation; calls on Member States to push within Interpol for the publication, on an annual basis, of detailed statistics for each type of notice and diffusion, broken down by issuing state and indicating the number and reasons for approvals, refusals and deletions; calls on Member States to advance a set of benchmarks within Interpol to restrict the use of its notice system by states and entities under EU sanctions and to subject chronic abusers to enhanced scrutiny; calls on EU and Member States to require that any State or its proxies found to have abusively used the Interpol system fully compensates the victim as a precondition for submitting any further Interpol requests;

Or. en

Amendment 509

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29. Highlights that extra vetting for extradition requests and Interpol notices from governments known to engage in TNR is essential;

29. Stresses that addressing Interpol abuse requires affirming in domestic law and operational guidance that Interpol notices and diffusions are not subject to the same scrutiny as arrest warrants before they are issued and should not be treated as equivalent to arrest warrants; highlights that additional vetting for extradition requests and Interpol notices from governments known to engage in TNR is essential; stresses that the conditions and assessments for Interpol corrective measures should be reviewed in the context of countering TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 510

Engin Eroglu, Helmut Brandstätter, Marjan Šarec, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29. Highlights that extra vetting for extradition requests and Interpol notices from governments known to engage in TNR is essential;

29. Highlights that extra vetting for extradition requests and Interpol notices from governments known to engage in TNR is essential; is concerned about extradition agreements with the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong, and in this context recalls the 2022 Liu v. Poland ruling by the ECtHR; calls on the Member States to suspend extradition treaties with China and Hong Kong thereby provide effective protection to individuals at risk of political persecution;

Or. en

Amendment 511

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29. Highlights that extra vetting for extradition requests and Interpol notices from governments known to engage in TNR is essential;

29. Highlights that extra vetting for extradition requests and Interpol notices from governments known to engage in TNR is essential; is concerned about extradition agreements with the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong; calls on the Member States to suspend extradition treaties with China and Hong Kong thereby provide effective protection to individuals at risk of political persecution

Or. en

Amendment 512

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 a. Calls on the Commission to establish an EU-level appeal mechanism for abusive Interpol red notices and diffusions, excluding legal cooperation in cases where serious due-process concerns exist or where in-absentia verdicts are used, imposing a pause/non-recognition regime, conditioned not to recognise, enforce, or provide procedural assistance (including MLA) for any legal and quasi-judicial requests originating from the state-initiator of TNR and its proxy structures until the independence of the judicial system in the state is restored, and systematically integrating a state’s TNR record into extradition and mutual legal assistance (MLA) decisions;

Or. en

Amendment 513

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29a. Calls on Member States to continue to seek to reform Interpol with a view to the introduction of strong, effective safeguards against Interpol’s instruments being misused for political reasons, based on fabricated criminal charges against exiled individuals who are the targets of TNR;

Or. pl

Amendment 514

Michał Kobosko, Hilde Vautmans, Dan Barna, Engin Eroglu, Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 a. Notes that the issuance of trials held in absentia for political reasons by countries engaging in TNR against individuals abroad significantly hinders their lives, including in areas such as opening bank accounts, applying for asylum, international travel, and legal residence;

Or. en

Amendment 515

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 a. Calls for the development of a multilateral dialogue on TNR, with the aim of establishing universally accepted principles respecting sovereignty, freedom of expression and non-interference;

Or. en

Amendment 516

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 b. Calls on Member States to ensure that abuses of the Interpol system are effectively investigated and that individuals harmed by such misuse have access to remedies, including compensation for damages and legal costs where appropriate and to require that any Member State found to have abusively used the Interpol system fully compensates the victim as a precondition for submitting any further Interpol requests concerning that individual;

Or. en

Amendment 517

Michał Kobosko

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 b. Calls on the Council, the Commission and the EEAS to include conditions on resisting the abuse of multilateral and bilateral cooperation agreements in criminal matters by states perpetrating TNR in the EU accession agreements and in trade and cooperation agreements with third states;

Or. en

Amendment 518

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 b. Emphasises that combating transnational repression must not be instrumentalised to justify political pressure, ideological conditionality or interference in the internal affairs of third countries;

Or. en

Amendment 519

Michał Kobosko

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 c. Calls on the Member States to pursue further reforms of the Interpol, aimed at putting in place strong safeguards against abuse of the Interpol instruments on politically-motivated grounds based on fabricated criminal charges against the exiles residing abroad;

Or. en

Amendment 520

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 29 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

29 c. Calls on EU member states to ensure Interpol sets benchmarks to prevent other states and EU-sanctioned entities affiliated with them to misuse its notice system and subjects governments with a poor human rights and TNR record to further scrutiny;

Or. en

Amendment 521

Nacho Sánchez Amor, Marta Temido, Matjaž Nemec, Chloé Ridel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30. Calls on EU financial regulators to recognise that the Financial Action Task Force’s anti-money laundering / countering of the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) framework and cybersecurity frameworks may be weaponised; therefore, calls for safeguards and redress mechanisms to be developed;

30. Calls on EU financial regulators, entities and relevant supervisory authorities, including the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA), to recognise that compliance with the Financial Action Task Force’s anti-money laundering / countering of the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) framework and cybersecurity frameworks may be weaponised to target, among others, civil society, human right defenders, journalists, diaspora communities, and research and academia; therefore, calls on them to develop safeguards and redress mechanisms to prevent and remedy such manipulation, including: (a) clear rapid-response pathways for victims to challenge compliance-based freezes, de-banking or closures, with guaranteed access to basic banking services while reviews are pending, preventing and providing remedy to their financial exclusion; (b) prohibition of immediate de-risking and account closures based solely on vague or behaviour-based alerts — including through Interpol Purple or Silver Notice pathways — without concrete, verifiable evidence and an opportunity for the affected party to respond; (c) appropriate screening and data protection measures preventing data collection on victims and the sharing of victim data with perpetrator states; (d) public correction mechanisms enabling affected individuals and entities, upon request and with appropriate safeguards, to have false or outdated records corrected or clarified publicly in order to restore reputation; calls for an increased coordination between financial regulators, entities and relevant supervisory authorities with the relevant EU bodies addressing TNR; calls on Financial Intelligence Units to identify and systematically analyse TNR-linked financial patterns and report relevant findings to national and EU TNR coordination hubs;

Or. en

Amendment 522

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30. Calls for EU financial regulators and relevant supervisory authorities to recognise that compliance with FATF’s AML/CFT and cybersecurity frameworks may be weaponised to target civil society and their donors, business people and their entities, associates and individuals; calls on them, including the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA), to develop safeguards and redress mechanisms to prevent and remedy such manipulation, including clear rapid response pathways for victims to challenge compliance-based freezes or closures and appropriate screening and data protection measures preventing any disproportionate data collection on the victims and sharing of victim data with perpetrator states;

Or. en

Amendment 523

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30. Calls on EU financial regulators to recognise that the Financial Action Task Force’s anti-money laundering / countering of the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) framework and cybersecurity frameworks may be weaponised, for example by freezing accounts of critics or civil society; therefore, calls for safeguards and redress mechanisms to be developed;

Or. en

Amendment 524

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30. Calls on EU financial regulators to recognise that the Financial Action Task Force’s anti-money laundering / countering of the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) framework and cybersecurity frameworks may be weaponised by actors engaging in TNR; therefore, calls for safeguards and redress mechanisms to be developed;

Or. pl

Amendment 525

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30 a. Calls on banks to adopt pre-freeze verification requirements to detect abuses before restrictions are applied, ensuring guaranteed access to basic banking services while reviews are pending and directing Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) to identify and analyse TNR-linked financial patterns;

Or. en

Amendment 526

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 30 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

30 b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to establish mechanisms ensuring guaranteed access to basic banking services to individuals credibly as risk of TNR and emergency financial continuity or liquidity mechanisms where repression results in sudden asset freezes;

Or. en

Amendment 527

Nacho Sánchez Amor, Marta Temido, Matjaž Nemec, Chloé Ridel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 31

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

31. Calls on law enforcement and judiciaries to cooperate with financial regulators to prevent and address such abuses;

31. Calls on Member States´ law enforcement authorities, judiciaries and financial regulators to strengthen cooperation to prevent and address abuses of lawful financial systems and travel databases to facilitate TNR; calls further on Member States to establish mechanisms whereby, as a condition for agreeing to any further request for cooperation from a perpetrator state or its proxies, the perpetrator state or its proxies bear financial responsibility for the harm caused to victims and for the costs incurred by the host state, ensuring that such reparations do not draw upon EU funds or programmes; calls on Member States to ensure specialised training for law-enforcement, judicial, financial and cybersecurity authorities on identifying TNR-linked financial patterns, including the misuse of FATF, Interpol and travel-database tools;

Or. en

Amendment 528

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 31

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

31. Calls on law enforcement and judiciaries to cooperate with financial regulators to prevent and address such abuses;

31. Calls on Member States’ law enforcement and judiciaries to cooperate with financial regulators to help prevent and address abuses of financial systems and travel data bases used to facilitate TNR; further calls on Member States to establish effective compensation mechanisms whereby the perpetrator state or its proxies bear financial responsibility for the harm caused to victims and for the costs incurred by the host state, ensuring that such reparations do not rely on or exhaust EU funds or programmes;

Or. en

Amendment 529

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 31

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

31. Calls on law enforcement and judiciaries to cooperate with financial regulators to prevent and address such abuses;

31. Calls on law enforcement and judiciaries to cooperate with financial regulators to prevent and address such abuses; calls on the Member States to ensure that their national financial regulators have the mandate to share the data available to them with law enforcement and judiciaries;

Or. en

Amendment 530

Michał Kobosko, Hilde Vautmans, Dan Barna, Engin Eroglu, Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 31 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

31 a. Condemns the new forms of TNR employed by the Lukashenko regime for political reasons1a , involving the confiscation of property as a tool of large-scale repression; recalls that, since 2023, all real estate transactions, including sales and donations, can only be carried out on the territory of Belarus; highlights that, since September 2023, Belarusian citizens have been unable to carry out notarial acts abroad, preventing emigrants from managing their property or authorizing relatives to act on their behalf, thereby facilitating the state’s confiscation and sale of apartments and other assets;

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1a Article 361-1 of the Belarusian Criminal Code (Formation of an extremist group and participation therein) and Article 369-1 (Discrediting the Republic of Belarus)

Or. en

Amendment 531

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 31 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

31a. Encourages Member States to provide guidance to financial institutions and to establish effective national complaints and oversight mechanisms to limit cases of over-compliance, blanket de-risking and financial institutions cutting off entire categories of clients in situations in which the individuals concerned were intentionally and baselessly added to lists of ‘terrorists’ or ‘extremists’ by authoritarian countries of origin that have been proven to use TNR, such as Belarus;

Or. pl

Amendment 532

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 31 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

31 a. Calls on the Member States to provide guidance to financial institutions and establish an effective national complaint and review mechanism to mitigate over-compliance, blanket de-risking, or cutting-off entire classes of customers by financial institutions when individuals are included by their home state in the lists of “terrorists” or “extremists” or when their state of origin is included by intergovernmental organisations in the black list of states with a high risk of money laundering and terrorist financing;

Or. en

Amendment 533

Dan Barna, Lucia Yar, Nathalie Loiseau, Petras Auštrevičius, Marjan Šarec, Michał Kobosko

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 31 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

31 a. Condemns Azerbaijani authorities for further expanding its transnational repressions’ campaign, including the intensified misuse of extradition and security mechanisms against exiled government critics, journalists, bloggers, researchers, and activists, and the growing number of politically motivated in-absentia convictions on fabricated charges;

Or. en

Amendment 534

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Abuse of asylum and migration systems

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 535

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Abuse of asylum and migration systems

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 536

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Abuse of asylum and migration systems

Protecting Asylum and Migration services from being abused by perpetrators of TNR

Or. en

Amendment 537

Geadis Geadi

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 11

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Abuse of asylum and migration systems

Asylum and migration systems

Or. el

Amendment 538

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 539

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 540

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 541

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

32. Calls on Member States to review and update guidance for asylum and migration authorities to ensure that applicants belonging to groups commonly targeted by TNR are properly identified as facing heightened risk, including in situations of collective or pattern-based targeting, with a view to reducing undue evidentiary burdens and ensuring effective protection outcomes; calls for the establishment of reinforced procedural guarantees, including the mandatory suspensive appeal for every person seeking international protection under TNR claims;

Or. en

Amendment 542

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

32. Calls on the Member States to update their guidance for asylum and migration authorities to ensure that applicants belonging to groups commonly targeted by TNR are identified as facing heightened risk; recalls that diasporas are often used as a tool to exert TNR; insists on the need to strengthen the identification of individuals among the diaspora that might be involved in TNR measures;

Or. en

Amendment 543

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Or. en

Amendment 544

Geadis Geadi

on behalf of the ECR Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 32

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

32. Calls on the Member States to update their guidance for asylum and migration authorities, based also on the European Parliament's recent approval of the list of safe third countries and safe countries of origin;

Or. el

Amendment 545

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 32 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

32 a. Condemns the use of mobility controls by perpetrator states, including the revocation of passports, denial of consular services and other restrictions on movement; calls on Member States and the Commission to address the resulting risks within their own areas of responsibility, including through visa policy, screening practices and data-protection safeguards in consular and administrative processes, in order to prevent intimidation, surveillance or coercion of affected individuals; notes that expired or revoked documents resulting from repressive practices should not prejudice the protection status of victims;

Or. en

Amendment 546

Marta Temido, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Thijs Reuten, Sandra Gómez López, Chloé Ridel, Andreas Schieder, Matjaž Nemec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 32 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

32 a. Calls on the Member States to implement EU legislation in a way that protects individuals targeted by TNR who seek shelter and asylum from authoritarian regimes, ensuring that they receive effective protection, including the swift issuance of humanitarian visas in urgent cases;

Or. en

Amendment 547

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

33. Calls on the Member States to recognise that denial of consular services is a form of TNR and to ensure that victims and their children can access alternative civic documentation;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 548

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

33. Calls on the Member States to recognise that denial of consular services is a form of TNR and to ensure that victims and their children can access alternative civic documentation;

33. Calls on Member States to recognise the denial of consular services as a form of TNR and to ensure access to alternative civic documentation for victims and their children, legal identity registration and nationality determination procedures, in line with international standards on the prevention of statelessness and the best interests of the child;

Or. en

Amendment 549

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

33. Calls on the Member States to recognise that denial of consular services is a form of TNR and to ensure that victims and their children can access alternative civic documentation;

33. Calls on the Member States to recognise that denial of consular services is a form of TNR and to ensure that victims and their children can access alternative civic documentation; highlights in this context that the Lukashenka regime of Belarus is exploiting the expiry of many Belarusian passports to force the diaspora to return to the country;

Or. en

Amendment 550

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 33

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

33. Calls on the Member States to recognise that denial of consular services is a form of TNR and to ensure that victims and their children can access alternative civic documentation;

33. Calls on the Member States to assist victims and their children with accessing alternative civic documentation in case consular services are denied;

Or. en

Amendment 551

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 33 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

33 a. Calls on the Commission to issue official guidelines on countering consular coercion, ensuring that persons targeted by TNR do not need to visit their national embassies or consulates abroad;

Or. en

Amendment 552

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 33 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

33 b. Calls on the Member States and other Schengen area countries to apply the EU’s Visa Code and Handbook consistently and flexibly to address protection needs for persons targeted by TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 553

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

34. Stresses the need to increase the cost of TNR for countries that engage in it and to strengthen deterrence;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 554

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

34. Stresses the need to increase the cost of TNR for countries that engage in it and to strengthen deterrence;

34. Stresses the need to increase the cost of TNR and strengthen deterrence, including through effective investigation and prosecution of perpetrators and enablers; calls on Member States to establish clear legal liability for individuals and entities — including lawyers, intelligence actors, intermediaries and private operatives and corporate actors, including technology providers, surveillance companies, digital platforms, financial institutions and other business enterprises — who knowingly facilitate or profit from acts of TNR on behalf of foreign states; ; calls further for the effective implementation of corporate human rights due diligence obligations, including under Directive (EU) 2024/1760, to prevent, identify, mitigate and remedy TNR-related harms across value chains;

Or. en

Amendment 555

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

34. Stresses the need to increase the cost of TNR for countries that engage in it and to strengthen deterrence;

Or. en

Amendment 556

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

34. Stresses the need to increase the cost of TNR for countries that engage in it and to strengthen deterrence;

34. Stresses the need to increase the cost of TNR for countries that engage in it and to strengthen deterrence, including by disclosing and publicising cases of TNR and imposing targeted sanctions on perpetrators and entities enabling TNR, as well as by seeking to ensure legal accountability;

Or. pl

Amendment 557

Engin Eroglu, Helmut Brandstätter, Marjan Šarec, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

34. Stresses the need to increase the cost of TNR for countries that engage in it and to strengthen deterrence;

34. Stresses the need to increase the cost of TNR for countries that engage in it and to strengthen deterrence, including through the use of EU sanctions; calls on the European Commission and the EEAS to regularly name and shame TNR perpetrators in order to raise awareness across the EU and beyond;

Or. en

Amendment 558

Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

34. Stresses the need to increase the cost of TNR for countries that engage in it and to strengthen deterrence;

34. Stresses the need to increase the cost of TNR for countries that engage in it and to strengthen deterrence, including via the use of sanctions;

Or. en

Amendment 559

Michał Kobosko, Hilde Vautmans, Dan Barna, Engin Eroglu, Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 34

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

34. Stresses the need to increase the cost of TNR for countries that engage in it and to strengthen deterrence;

34. Stresses the need to increase the cost of TNR for countries that engage in it and to strengthen deterrence or impose sanctions against them;

Or. en

Amendment 560

Nacho Sánchez Amor, Marta Temido, Matjaž Nemec, Chloé Ridel

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 34 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

34 a. Calls on the EU and on Member States to define a list of perpetrator states that systematically exploit trust-based international cooperation mechanisms, fail to share reliable data and disregard international law; calls on EU and Member States to , upon sufficient evidence, consider imposing cautionary measures on these states such as not recognising, enforcing or providing procedural assistance, including mutual legal assistance (MLA), in order to prevent harm to victims of TNR; calls on future Council Presidencies to prioritise TNR on the EU agenda as an EU and national security threat, promote exchanges of best practice among Member States and work towards a Council communication setting out a coherent EU approach;

Or. en

Amendment 561

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 34 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

34 a. Deplores the US sanctions against UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, an EU citizen, and against European ICC officials such as French judge Nicolas Guillou, as a form of TNR through financial coercion; calls on the VP/HR and the Commission to counter US extraterritorial sanctions targeting EU citizens and human rights defenders, including those at the ICC, to strengthen protection for whistleblowers and to challenge such measures in relevant WTO and UN fora;

Or. en

Amendment 562

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 34 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

34 a. Calls for the systematic use, where appropriate, of the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime (EU Magnitsky Act) against perpetrators of transnational repression;

Or. en

Amendment 563

Pernando Barrena Arza

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 34 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

34 b. Expresses concern about the growing global trend of labelling non-violent political dissent, solidarity movements, investigative journalism or human rights advocacy as “terrorism” or “extremism” in order to justify restrictive measures; underlines that such practices may produce cross-border chilling effects and contribute to environments conducive to transnational repression; calls on the EU to actively monitor and challenge the misuse of terrorism designations where they risk facilitating TNR or undermining civic space;

Or. en

Amendment 564

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 34 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

34 b. Calls on the HR/VP and the Member States to include TNR as a sanctionable category in the EU GHRSR;

Or. en

Amendment 565

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

35. Calls on the Member States to strengthen preventive and accountability measures, including vetting diplomats, interpreters and other relevant actors for involvement in TNR;

35. Calls on Member States to strengthen preventive and accountability measures, including vetting diplomats, interpreters and other relevant actors for involvement in TNR prior to accreditation, and to impose appropriate measures — including expulsions, entry bans or suspension of accreditation — against individuals responsible for such acts; further calls on Member States to share relevant information with partner countries to prevent re-accreditation or continued abuse;

Or. en

Amendment 566

Marta Temido, Nacho Sánchez Amor, Thijs Reuten, Sandra Gómez López, Chloé Ridel, Andreas Schieder, Matjaž Nemec

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

35. Calls on the Member States to strengthen preventive and accountability measures, including vetting diplomats, interpreters and other relevant actors for involvement in TNR;

35. Calls on the Member States to strengthen preventive and accountability measures, including vetting diplomats, official staff of the countries involved, interpreters, lobbyists' representatives and other relevant actors for involvement in TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 567

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 35

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

35. Calls on the Member States to strengthen preventive and accountability measures, including vetting diplomats, interpreters and other relevant actors for involvement in TNR;

35. Emphasises the importance of strengthening preventive and accountability measures in order to tackle TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 568

Michał Kobosko, Hilde Vautmans, Dan Barna, Engin Eroglu, Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 35 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

35 a. Expresses its support for the preliminary examination conducted by the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court into the situation in the Republic of Lithuania / Republic of Belarus (ICC-01/24-1), and encourages the adoption, without undue delay, of a decision to proceed to an investigation;

Or. en

Amendment 569

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 35 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

35 a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that, in their legal frameworks, interference with the exercise of rights according to the European Convention on Human Rights on behalf of a foreign power is outlawed, and that it constitutes an aggravating factor for sentencing on existing crimes;

Or. en

Amendment 570

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 35 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

35 b. Calls on the Council to explore the possibility of identifying TNR as a serious crime with a cross-border dimension in accordance with Article 83 TFEU, with a view to establishing common EU rules on definitions and sanctions where appropriate;

Or. en

Amendment 571

Michał Kobosko, Hilde Vautmans, Dan Barna, Engin Eroglu, Nathalie Loiseau

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 35 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

35 b. Calls on law enforcement and judiciaries to investigate and prosecute TNR that amount to crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute;

Or. en

Amendment 572

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 35 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

35 c. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS, in cooperation with Member States, to integrate TNR risks into EU travel information and consular guidance, including through targeted travel advisories for countries where credible evidence indicates the involvement of state authorities or proxies in TNR, with specific guidance for diaspora communities, journalists, human rights defenders, activists and their donors;

Or. en

Amendment 573

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 35 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

35 d. Calls on the Commission and EEAS to ensure that individuals and entities engaging in TNR are systematically considered for listing under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime, and to explicitly include TNR as ground for designation under the forthcoming EU sanctions regime on transnational organised crime;

Or. en

Amendment 574

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

36. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase investment in forensic, financial and digital investigations into TNR;

36. Calls on the Commission and Member States to increase investment in forensic, financial and digital investigations related to TNR to identify, attribute and document TNR, and to support legal proceedings brought by victims;

Or. en

Amendment 575

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

36. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase investment in forensic, financial and digital investigations into TNR;

36. Calls on the Commission and Member States to prioritise and strengthen forensic, financial, and digital investigative capacities to address TNR, ensuring that resources are used efficiently and effectively;

Or. en

Amendment 576

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 36

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

36. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to increase investment in forensic, financial and digital investigations into TNR;

36. Emphasises the importance of forensic, financial and digital investigations into TNR;

Or. en

Amendment 577

Helmut Brandstätter

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 36 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

36 a. Calls on the member states to introduce more thorough background checks when issuing visas or allowing EU-border crossing for the individuals likely associated with TNR practices of the third countries or their proxies; underlines that such practices should not lead to prejudices to individuals based on their nationality alone;

Or. en

Amendment 578

Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 36 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

36 a. Expresses the need to acknowledge the risks posed by TNR infiltration among democratic opposition groups abroad and to undertake coordinated, collective measures to prevent and counter such activities;

Or. en

Amendment 579

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 36 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

36 a. Recognises the role of exiled journalists as key allies in countering authoritarian propaganda and foreign information manipulation and interference;

Or. en

Amendment 580

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 36 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

36 b. Calls on Member States to prioritise the investigation and dismantling of TNR networks, including proxy actors and links to organised crime, through enhanced coordination between security, judicial and financial authorities;

Or. en

Amendment 581

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 36 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

36 c. Calls for these measures to be applied internally and externally, covering also cases where perpetrators of TNR are linked to EU Member States;

Or. en

Amendment 582

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Positioning the EU as a global leader in countering TNR

Positioning the European Union as a global leader in countering Transnational Repression

Or. en

Amendment 583

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 13

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Positioning the EU as a global leader in countering TNR

The EU as a significant target of TNR and the need for systemic countermeasures

Or. pl

Amendment 584

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 13 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Notes with concern the growing global scale of transnational repression, driven by increasing impunity for authoritarian actions abroad, the misuse of new technologies, and expanding migration flows; underlines that these trends are likely to intensify due to the erosion of international norms and rapid technological change, which is also reducing the cost of carrying out such actions; calls on the European Union to recognise transnational repression as a long-term security and human rights priority and to strengthen safeguards protecting individuals on its territory;

Or. en

Amendment 585

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 13 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Calls on the European Union to integrate within its institutional structures specialised tools to counter Russian transnational repression, including sophisticated influence and coercion mechanisms operating through state-linked cultural and religious networks, including those associated with the Russian Orthodox Church;

Or. en

Amendment 586

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 13 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Notes with concern the growing use by Russia of criminal networks as proxies in acts of transnational repression targeting exiled dissidents; Stresses that this shift towards deniable methods complicates detection and accountability; calls on the European Union to strengthen coordination between counter-intelligence and organised crime responses to address state-sponsored repression carried out through criminal intermediaries;

Or. en

Amendment 587

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 13 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Calls on the European Union to recognise the targeting of religious actors as a form of political repression and to ensure appropriate monitoring and protection for affected individuals and communities.

Or. en

Amendment 588

Cristian Terheş

Motion for a resolution

Subheading 13 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

Notes that Iranian authorities may take action against individuals who convert to Christianity abroad when such activities become known, including through interrogation, detention, or national security charges; Further notes reports of pressure exerted through the questioning or harassment of family members in Iran; Calls on the European Union to recognise the risks faced by Christian converts and their families in the context of transnational repression and to ensure appropriate protection safeguards;

Or. en

Amendment 589

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to systematically integrate the countering of TNR into the EU’s external action;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 590

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to systematically integrate the countering of TNR into the EU’s external action;

37. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to systematically integrate countering TNR into the EU’s external action, including political and human rights dialogues, engagement with third countries and candidate countries, and public diplomacy, and to raise concerns publicly;

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Amendment 591

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to systematically integrate the countering of TNR into the EU’s external action;

37. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS, within the limits of the competences conferred by the Treaties and without prejudice to Member States’ prerogatives, to support Member States, upon their request, in addressing TNR in appropriate international fora;

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Amendment 592

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to systematically integrate the countering of TNR into the EU’s external action;

37. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to integrate the countering TNR into EU external action, diplomatic engagement and human rights dialogues with third countries;

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Amendment 593

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37a. Notes with concern that the phenomenon of TNR is more pronounced in Europe than in other parts of the world, demonstrating how vulnerable Europe’s political and legal spaces are to the actions of authoritarian states targeting individuals who have found refuge in Europe; points out the stark contrast between the response of certain Member States and European institutions and the actions taken in the US, where the authorities are more active and determined in their responses to cases of TNR, especially those that are linked to the activities of the People’s Republic of China, carrying out investigations, bringing criminal proceedings against individuals engaged in illegal activities on behalf of foreign governments, and taking legislative and operational action to protect people in the diaspora and to counter the networks of influence operating within the country;

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Amendment 594

Michał Kobosko

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37 a. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to engage in cooperation on countering TNR with other intergovernmental organisations, including the UN, the Council of Europe and the OSCE, take into consideration systematic TNR practices by perpetrating states when considering their involvement and initiatives within international bodies;

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Amendment 595

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37 a. Calls for the establishment of a periodic review mechanism assessing whether EU policies, diplomatic practices or regulatory measures could inadvertently contribute to forms of transnational pressure affecting individuals or organisations outside the Union;

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Amendment 596

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37 a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to raise TNR-related cases regularly with officials from perpetrator countries, and call for the termination of such practices;

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Amendment 597

Engin Eroglu, Helmut Brandstätter, Marjan Šarec, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37 a. Calls on the EU and its Member States to raise TNR-related cases regularly with officials from perpetrator countries, and call for the termination of such practices;

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Amendment 598

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37 a. Calls on the Member States to raise TNR cases, including coercion-by-proxy and family-based repression in bilateral relations with perpetrator states;

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Amendment 599

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37 b. Calls on the EEAS to include TNR explicitly within the mandate of the EU Special Representative for Human Rights and to ensure that it is addressed in EU human rights reporting;

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Amendment 600

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37 c. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to strengthen strategic communication on TNR, explicitly recognising it as a global threat, strongly condemning perpetrators, and signalling EU support for targeted individuals;

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Amendment 601

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37 d. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to include TNR conditionality in international agreements, human rights assessments and cooperation frameworks, including the possibility of suspension where credible evidence of TNR exists;

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Amendment 602

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37 e. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to restrict or suspend financial assistance and aid to, as well as arms trade with, countries engaging in repressive acts in the Union, and to systematically consider TNR risks when preparing funding, cooperation and partnership agreements with third countries;

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Amendment 603

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 37 f (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

37 f. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to engage proactively with countries where TNR occurs frequently, while recognising that some host states may themselves be perpetrators, and to reflect this dual reality in risk assessments and engagement strategies;

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Amendment 604

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 38

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

38. Calls on the Commission to include TNR as a category in its rule of law and enlargement reports;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 605

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 38

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

38. Calls on the Commission to include TNR as a category in its rule of law and enlargement reports;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 606

Michał Kobosko

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 38

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

38. Calls on the Commission to include TNR as a category in its rule of law and enlargement reports;

38. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to include TNR as a category in its rule of law and enlargement reports;

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Amendment 607

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 38

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

38. Calls on the Commission to include TNR as a category in its rule of law and enlargement reports;

38. Calls on the Commission to include TNR as a category in its Rule of Law Report and Enlargement Reports;

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Amendment 608

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

39. Calls on the Commission to make TNR a priority when implementing the European Democracy Shield;

deleted

Or. en

Amendment 609

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

39. Calls on the Commission to make TNR a priority when implementing the European Democracy Shield;

deleted

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Amendment 610

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

39. Calls on the Commission to make TNR a priority when implementing the European Democracy Shield;

39. Condemns the ‘European Democracy Shield’ as a vehicle for centralisation, competence-creep and political conformity; stresses that countering TNR must not be used to justify Union-level monitoring, centralised data-collection, or de facto control of lawful public debate, including through platform governance frameworks; recalls that national security remains the sole responsibility of each Member State and that Union action must comply with the principles of conferral, subsidiarity and proportionality;

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Amendment 611

Claudiu-Richard Târziu

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

39. Calls on the Commission to make TNR a priority when implementing the European Democracy Shield;

39. Stresses the need for the EU to make the combating of TNR a priority, while ensuring complete respect for fundamental freedoms and the right to freedom of expression, without resorting to centralised mechanisms liable to restrict such rights;

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Amendment 612

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

39. Calls on the Commission to make TNR a priority when implementing the European Democracy Shield;

39. Calls on the Commission to make TNR a priority in the implementation of the European Democracy Shield, especially in the Centre for Democratic Resilience;

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Amendment 613

Sebastian Tynkkynen

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 39

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

39. Calls on the Commission to make TNR a priority when implementing the European Democracy Shield;

39. Calls on the Commission to make TNR a priority in countering foreign interference;

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Amendment 614

Miriam Lexmann

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 39 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

39 a. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to deepen strategic cooperation with G7 partners and other like-minded partners to counter transnational repression; insists on the creation of multilateral mechanisms for information sharing and early-warning;

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Amendment 615

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 39 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

39 a. Calls on Member States, in their external policies, to provide diplomatic protection and support to persons targeted by TNR in third countries, including through emergency visas or other protective measures via EU delegations where appropriate;

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Amendment 616

Petar Volgin

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40. Calls on future Council Presidencies to prioritise TNR on the EU agenda and work towards a coherent EU approach to countering TNR;

deleted

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Amendment 617

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40. Calls on future Council Presidencies to prioritise TNR on the EU agenda and work towards a coherent EU approach to countering TNR;

40. Calls on future Council Presidencies to facilitate voluntary exchanges among Member States on countering TNR, focusing on practical cooperation and best practices, without pursuing a centralised ‘coherent EU approach’ that would undermine subsidiarity or Member States’ responsibilities for national security;

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Amendment 618

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40. Calls on future Council Presidencies to prioritise TNR on the EU agenda and work towards a coherent EU approach to countering TNR;

40. Calls on future Council Presidencies to prioritise TNR on the EU agenda, facilitate exchanges of best practice among Member States, and work towards a Council communication setting out a coherent EU approach to countering TNR;

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Amendment 619

Alexander Sell

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40. Calls on future Council Presidencies to prioritise TNR on the EU agenda and work towards a coherent EU approach to countering TNR;

40. Calls on future Council Presidencies to encourages voluntary coordination between Member States;

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Amendment 620

Tomasz Froelich

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40. Calls on future Council Presidencies to prioritise TNR on the EU agenda and work towards a coherent EU approach to countering TNR;

40. Calls on the Member States to regularly exchange information and cooperate in order to counter TNR;

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Amendment 621

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40 a. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the EEAS to ensure that TNR risks are taken into account in the implementation of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum, including in the designation of “safe countries of origin” and “safe third countries”, and to review such designations where countries engage in TNR; calls on the co-legislators to consider in the ongoing negotiations on the Return regulation the heightened risk of exposure to TNR in the context of return and readmission;

Or. en

Amendment 622

Engin Eroglu, Helmut Brandstätter, Marjan Šarec, Lucia Yar, Petras Auštrevičius

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40 a. Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to deepen strategic cooperation with G7 partners and other like-minded partners to counter transnational repression; insists on the creation of multilateral mechanisms for information sharing and early-warning; encourages the structured exchange of best practices regarding the protection of vulnerable diaspora communities and the legislative safeguarding of national sovereignty;

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Amendment 623

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40a. Encourages Member States, the Commission and the EEAS to cooperate with other international organisations, including the UN, the Council of Europe and the OSCE, in countering TNR, and to take into account the systemic TNR practices used by perpetrator states when considering their involvement and initiatives within international organisations;

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Amendment 624

António Tânger Corrêa, Jaroslav Bžoch

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40 a. Underlines that Europe’s democratic resilience is best safeguarded through pluralism, strong sovereign Member States and voluntary cooperation, rather than through centralised bureaucratic structures and one-size-fits-all approaches.

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Amendment 625

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40 a (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40 a. Calls on Member States and EU institutions to treat transnational repression as a serious foreign interference and security threat requiring a coordinated and strategic European response;

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Amendment 626

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40 b. Condemns in the strongest terms the fact that the Cuban regime uses medical brigades, in an attempt to whitewash its image, abroad; highlights that the conditions and coercion used against the doctors not only is a form of modern slavery, but is also a form of transnational repression; urges the Member States to never make use of these brigades as they contribute to human rights violations; urges the Commission and the EEAS to coordinate a team Europe Approach in third countries that use these medical brigades as to provide the doctors with targeted assistance;

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Amendment 627

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40 b (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40 b. Welcomes the G7 Leaders’ Statement on Transnational Repression and calls on the Council and Commission to further strengthen coordination at G7 and UN level, including through sustained engagement at the UN Human Rights Council and support for the work of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights;

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Amendment 628

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40 c. Strongly condemns the crimes committed by the Maduro regime, that amount to crimes against humanity; highlights that the Maduro regime has committed numerous transnational crimes that amount to transnational repression; urges third countries where these crimes have occurred to investigate these crimes and bring the perpetrators to justice; Calls on the Commission and the EEAS to actively provide assistance to countries hosting Venezuelan dissident as to protect them from TNR from the Maduro regime; highlights that despite the US intervention and the removal of Maduro, the current regime were at the top of the decision-making process for crimes committed under the Maduro regime, including the acts of TNR; as such considers that current sanctions should not be lifted, on the contrary, more pressure should be placed on sanctioning those responsible for crimes against humanity, including TNR;

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Amendment 629

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40 c (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40 c. Calls on Member States to promote the development of a Council of Europe convention on TNR establishing binding standards on prevention, protection and accountability;

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Amendment 630

Antonio López-Istúriz White

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40 d. Urges Nicaragua to respect human dignity and the fundamental freedoms of all citizens, both within and outside the country; calls on the European Union Special Representative for Human Rights to monitor and assess the human rights violations committed by the Nicaraguan regime and to present recommendations for action; calls on the EU and its Member States to increase political, financial and technical support for independent media, dissidents and civil society initiatives operating outside Nicaragua;

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Amendment 631

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40 d (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40 d. Believes that continued scrutiny of TNR at the UN Human Rights Council and other relevant UN Human Rights fora and support for the work of the UN Human Rights Office on this issue are crucial; calls therefore on the EEAS to continue to include TNR as a priority in its engagement at the UN Human Rights Council;

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Amendment 632

Hannah Neumann

on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 40 e (new)

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

40 e. Strongly believes that the EU should coordinate closely with like-minded allies, including the UK, Canada and Australia, including through exchanges of best practice on legislation, victim protection, attribution and sanctions against proxy networks;

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Amendment 633

Mariusz Kamiński, Małgorzata Gosiewska

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 41

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

41. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the governments and parliaments of the Member States.

41. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council, the Commission, the Vice-President of the Commission / High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, and Interpol.

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