Committee Opinion | Doc. 11736 | 10 October 2008
Riots in European cities: lessons and Council of Europe response
(Former) Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs
A. Conclusions of the committee
(open)I should first like to thank the Rapporteur of the Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee, Mr Blum, for his excellent report.
This well-documented report provides a picture and a very full inventory of the highly sensitive issue of urban security.
We in Europe are indeed seeing an increase in urban violence, resulting from an unhappiness that coincides with factors connected with the rise in unemployment, young people’s feeling that they have nothing to do, and, in particular, problems of integration and social exclusion.
B. Proposed amendments to the draft recommendation
(open)Amendment A (to the draft recommendation)
Replace paragraph 9.2.7 by the phrase “introduce policies for the integration of immigrants”.
Amendment B (to the draft recommendation)
Add a new paragraph after paragraph 9.2.7 worded as follows: “encourage intercultural and inter-religious dialogue”.
C. Explanatory memorandum, by Mr Ducarme
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Reporting committee: Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee (Doc. 11685).
Committee for opinion: Committee on the Environment, Agriculture and Local and Regional Affairs.
Reference to committee: Reference No. 3166 of 23 January 2006.
Opinion adopted by the committee on 2 October 2008.