BETA

7 Amendments of Tiziana BEGHIN related to 2017/2083(INI)

Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Ca. Whereas the number of young people aged 15-24 in Africa, which is expected to rise to 246 million, will represent a resource economic development all over the continent;
2017/09/06
Committee: INTA
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Cb. Whereas fair and responsible trade and investments can help creating the 18 million new jobs per year needed in sub- saharan Africa to absorb the growing labour force;
2017/09/06
Committee: INTA
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the Commission to support African countries integration in global and regional trade through critical infrastructures building, access to energy, access to financial services and business training;
2017/09/06
Committee: INTA
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to help African countries develop and integrate regional value chains to allow different countries to contribute to the production of intermediate and finalised products;
2017/09/06
Committee: INTA
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to put in place and promote investments in skills development, technical and vocational training and higher university education addressed to the African youth;
2017/09/06
Committee: INTA
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Calls for the European Union and African States to work together to develop a strategy to increase Africa's agricultural competitiveness addressing rural development issues, constraints linked to sanitary and phytosanitary measures and access to micro-financing with a view to boosting intra-continental trade in agricultural goods, protecting the livelihoods of small farmer holders and ensuring food security;
2017/09/06
Committee: INTA
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the EU to support Africa’s ambitions of creating a genuine intra- African market andand its Member States to support existing regional integration initiatives, including a CFTA, through the tool of Aid for Trade, which should help facilitate the establishment or development of domestic productive capacity, reduce income inequality in Africa and assist with economic diversification and technology transfers; asks the Commission to avoid taking steps which might hinder these ambitions;
2017/09/06
Committee: INTA