6 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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1. Stresses that the EU is faced with multiple challenges that affect global and regional stability and that can only be tackled by means of a genuine European foreign policy with long-term and holistic external actions; recalls the ambition of EU leaders as expressed in the Rome Declaration to strive towards a Union that is ‘big on big issues and small on small ones’; calls for the multi-annual financial framework (MFF) to make this a reality by substantially increasing external action appropriations (Heading 4), thereby making common foreign policy a core EU function;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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2. Highlights that increased funding is needed for an effective European response to modern challenges and to tackle Europe’s new priorities, which are reflected in the EU Global Strategy and the renewed European Neighbourhood policy, including development aid, human rights violations, bad governance, security threats and armed conflicts, andmeasures to achieve sustainable development targets and to underpin an international order based on respect for individual rights, human rights violations, bad governance, security threats and armed conflicts, measures to strengthen environmental, economic and social structures in partner countries, natural disasters and climate change as well as the refugee and migratory challenges caused by these issues;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
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3. Recalls the importance of enhanced flexibility that allows for the mobilisation of additional resources to respond to unforeseen situations; stresses, however, that increased flexibility should not be achieved at the expense of long-term policy objectives or existing programmes that have already proved their worth; calls for a considerable strengthening of the flexibility mechanisms (‘special instruments’) under the MFF;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
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4. Takes the view that the existing EU Trust Funds should also prove their added value in their ability to mobilise additional funding, something that has been achieved only partially to date; notes that a simple relabeling of existing EU funding for political purposes does not represent increases per se, and creates an additional layer of complexity in terms of democratic oversight and budgetary scrutiny; emphasises the need for increased parliamentary scrutiny of activities under EU Trust Funds and the EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey and the ‘joint way forward on migration issues’ between Afghanistan and the EU and for similar initiatives in future;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Maintains that EU external financing instruments are essential for effective EU external action in particular in the European Neighbourhood (European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI)) and pre- accession countries (Instrument for Pre- accession Assistance II); stresses, however, that their deployment should be conditional on respect by partner countries for basic EU values; points out that the ENI should take account of the increased emphasis on stabilisation, peace processes, post-crisis reconstruction and resilience;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance of strengthened support for the rule of law, democracy and human rights and gender equality as a cross- cutting issue in EU instruments in view of ongoing developments in the European Neighbourhood and beyond.