19 Amendments of Arne GERICKE related to 2016/2053(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the need to rebuild the EU-ACP relationship on fresh foundations as a fair partnership between equals, respecting countries’ heterogeneity and sovereignty; stresses that the partnership must have as its objectives the United Nations SDGs, the meeting of basic needs and respect for human rights and must help to ‘[reduce] and eventually [eradicate] poverty, [an objective] consistent with the objectives of sustainable development, and the gradual integration of the ACP Group into the world economy’ (Article 1);
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the need to rebuild the EU-ACP relationship on fresh foundations asnd take it beyond what has to date been the core objective of ACP-EU cooperation and the traditional donor-recipient relationship with a view to establishing a fair partnership between equals, respecting countries’ heterogeneity and sovereignty ; stresses that the partnership must have as its objectives the United Nations SDGs, the meeting of basic needs and respect for human rights;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the need to rebuild the EU-ACP relationship on fresh foundations as a fair partnership between equals, respecting countries’ heterogeneity and sovereignty; stresses that the partnership must have as its objectives the United Nations SDGs, the meeting of basic needs and respect for human rights and promote both predictability and strategy ownership in development cooperation;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points to the significance of ACP relations, especially as regards the neighbouring African continent and the existing special relations with the African Union, which could be developed further;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for a more distinctive and clear-cut regional approach to cooperation with the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries, taking particular account of their specific regional characteristics;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Given that the three partner regions – Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific – are unalike, calls for the ACP partnership to be more strongly regionalised and placed on a differentiated institutional footing, for instance by establishing stand-alone regional strategies and, as part of that process, setting up regional subcommittees, not least within the European Parliament EU-ACP delegation;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Notes that in terms of joint positions and actions, ACP relations have continually been found wanting;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Calls for the joint institutions set up within the ACP relationship to be reformed without delay on the basis of the best cost-benefit analysis – starting with the Centre for Development of the Enterprise and the Joint Parliamentary Assembly, which should be made a genuine forum to consolidate political dialogue and promote the parliamentary values of democratic control and oversight;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Stresses the importance, from the point of view of the ACP countries, of Article 12 of the current Cotonou Agreement, which allows ACP countries to enter into dialogue on EU policies that might affect their development;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for the conclusion of a comprehensive fair trade agreement with Africa, taking account of specific regional and economic factors;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Points to the role and added value of economic relations, especially when they involve SMEs and family businesses on both sides; calls for specific measures to promote a more intensive exchange;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls for trade agreements to be concluded without delay in the form of ground-breaking ‘fair trade agreements’ and for these to be expressly regionalised in terms of the three regions and, where necessary, their subregions;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Points out that the EU and ACP countries could have a key role to play, given the combined weight of their votes, at times when agreement has to be reached in international forums in order to provide global public assets and considers this to be a genuinely promising field for future ACP relations;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Considers that there are great prospects for new cooperation on climate and energy policy, maritime biodiversity conservation, including innovative measures to combat plastic marine litter, and joint disaster relief, to be organised by setting up efficient emergency points;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites ACP countries to audit their debts with a view to their complete eliminationset up efficient tax systems enabling them to collect greater amounts of own resources, and invites them to claim reparations for the spoliation of natural resources by foreign multinationals, and for the wars that have been sparked; supports the United Nations working group on an international framework for sovereign debt restructuring;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites ACP countries to audit their debts with a view to their complete elimination, and invites them to claim reparations for the spoliation of natural resources by foreign multinationals, and for the wars that have been sparked; supports the United Nations working group on an international framework for sovereign debt restructuring; and calls for the EU to become more actively involved in setting up sustainable tax administration systems in ACP countries;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the universality of the human rights enshrined in international law, including international law on migrants and refugees, must be respected, along withfreedom of expression and freedom of religion, and the Geneva Convention, must be respected; urges countries to ratify the United Nations Convention on the protection of the rights of all migrant workers and members of their families;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Supports the decision by the United Nations to create a legal instrumenCalls on the home countries of businesses and corporate groups operating in ACP countries to do their utmost to ensure that businessesthese invariably respect human rights, in order to put an end to labour exploitation, neo-slavery, illicit capital flows and the financing of armed conflicnational laws in ACP countries, the right to compensation, and international labour rights;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the importance of putting an end to foreign interference in the internal affairs of ACP countries, and to neo-colonial policies; supports the idea of dismantling all foreign military bases.