9 Amendments of Alicia HOMS GINEL related to 2021/2079(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the islands’ physical disconnection from the mainland acts as a permanent impediment in many areas, including the labour market, access for island products to neighbouring external markets, education, health care, business, water and energy supply and waste management facilities; whereas this geographical disconnection adds important difficulties to the green transition towards a climate-neutral economy of such territories;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G b (new)
Recital G b (new)
G b. whereas specific and disproportionate pressures on asylum and reception systems in some Member States with ultra-peripheral territories are faced; whereas these require coordinated solutions at European level;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas the outermost regions and islands are particularly at risk from natural disasters, such as volcanic eruptions, forest fires and storms; whereas this is the case of the island of La Palma (Spain), which since 19 September has suffered the effects of a volcanic eruption burying more than a thousand hectares of land and housing and caused multiple economic, social and environmental damages in the area;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls that insularity creates structural problems of dependence on maritime and air transport, with additional costs for importing and exporting goods, as well as for passenger transport; stresses that, in the case of archipelagos, these difficulties are multiplied by a double and sometimes triple insularity;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that isolation owing to insularity means a dependence on mainland markets and increases the cost of certain goods and services, such as waste management;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that island economies are oriented towards the primary and tertiary sectors and that hyper-specialisation weakens the economic fabric by making it more vulnerable to economic slowdowns; is concerned about long-term developments which in many EU islands can create an economy that is based solely on tourism; highlights the necessity of deconcentrating tourism from the summer season to other less-demanded months and to diversify the economy of islands by strengthening their secondary sector;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Calls on the Commission to examine the need to improve the European Solidarity Fund in order to adapt it to new realities and threats such as natural disasters or effects of climate change among others, in order to deal more realistically with the consequences of these phenomena;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)
Paragraph 13 b (new)
13 b. Calls on the Commission to swiftly address the importance of adapting the existing emergency mechanisms to deal with the increasingly severe natural disasters such as the eruption of the volcano on the island of La Palma (Spain), an unprecedented social and economic challenge requiring a proportionate response to the damages caused;