European Parliament

Agenda Item 1: European Democracy Shield

Agenda Item 2: Minimum Rules to Prevent and Counter the Facilitation of Unauthorized Entry, Transit, and Stay in the Union

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Under-Secretary-General: Dila Demircan 

Academic Assistants: Yasemin Raithel - Nilay Kıbrıs​

 

Introduction to the European Parliament

The European Parliament as a co-legislator in the European Union, remains as a vital  forum for political debate and decision-making at the EU level. Sharing the power to adopt and amend legislative proposals and deciding on the EU budget with the Council, Parliament stands as a co-decision maker under the roof of the EU. The Parliament currently (2024-2029) has 720 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs). As a conjunction to the European Commission, the Parliament stands as an active contributor to both the elections to choose the Commission’s President , approvals, stabilizing accountability, law making procedures , and several cooperations.
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Introduction to the Agenda Items

          1. European Democracy Shield will be our first agenda item for the European Parliament. By starting with the definition, the European Democracy Shield, as an initiative of the European Commission which was founded / proposed in 2023- 2024 period by the commission, focuses on safeguarding European democracy. The European Democracy Shield was not created as a single law on an exact date. Instead, it emerged as a strategy to combat several target key issues which the initial fights for. Regarding these targeted issues, the İnitial fights against foreign interference, disinformation, and manipulation of elections. Therefore, its key concepts regarding its main focus are establishing transparency, necessary and accurate information related to the elections. However, there are both in favor and against sides for establishing this Shield to all over Europe. Even though the key concept was acceptable by most of the states, the approach of monitoring the transparent democracy from only one base, which is The European Democracy Shield, is the point which has been objected to by several Member States. Therefore, in the first agenda item, Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) shall discuss the applicability and eligibility of this Shield. 

 

         2. ​The second agenda item for the parliament shall be Minimum Rules to Prevent and Counter the Facilitation of Unauthorized Entry, Transit and Stay in the Union. Beginning with the concept of “minimum” rules, the European Union has established some minimum rules in order to monitor migration within the territory. The aim in establishing such rules is to combat the illegal migration across Europe, which stands as an important topic when it comes to the safety and peace of the territories. The original EU framework which is criminalizing facilitation of illegal migration is the Facilitation Directive (Directive 2002/90/EC), adopted in 2002. Therefore, in order to protect each chance that has been lost because of the illicit migration across or from the outside of the territories because unacceptable for the European people and European legislative bodies. Other than concerns related to peace and welfare, there is smuggling issue as well. In order to combat their issues, the possible aim stands as strengthening cooperation among Member States’ law enforcement agencies to detect and dismantle smuggling networks. Therefore, in the second agenda item, the MEPs will be actively collaborating with each other and try to figure these problems out with the best way possible.