15 Amendments of Ernest URTASUN related to 2017/2027(INI)
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the LAC region has undergone significant changes in the past decade, such as the elevation of a large part of the population to the middle class through active social policies and the overall consolidation of democracy, but also the end of the commodities super-cycle that made millions of people vulnerable togreater redistribution of the wealth generated in the countries in the region, allowing for improved access to education, health and decent housing, and the overall consolidation of democracy; whereas, however, commodities exports mean that millions of people are still at risk of falling back into poverty;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas in many countries the foundations of the success enjoyed in recent decades are being challenged by new political majorities, which are putting those achievements at risk and could lead to a return to poverty and inequality, for example in Brazil and Argentina;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
Cb. whereas gender inequalities are still huge on both continents, whereas levels of violence against women are still shockingly high, and whereas reproductive rights are extremely limited in some countries, which criminalise and punish women who have abortions for health reasons, owing to a danger to life, or following rape;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the LGBTI community continues to suffer extremely high levels of violence and discrimination in some countries in both regions, in many cases suffering as a result of discriminatory legislation;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)
Recital C d (new)
Cd. whereas the situation of human rights defenders is constantly deteriorating in many countries in the region, and the various human rights dialogues involving civil society established on the basis of existing bilateral agreements have not led to a reduction in those high levels of impunity; whereas there is therefore a need for the existing instruments to be reviewed;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C e (new)
Recital C e (new)
Ce. whereas the scenario that is emerging in the new international context is one in which multilateralism and international law are in decline; whereas Latin America and the EU are now extremely important regions when it comes to developing a shared agenda to counteract that trend;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)
Recital F a (new)
Fa. whereas the presence of the EU, not only via cooperation projects, but also through European companies, is very important for the national economies of the countries of Latin America; whereas its activities must be subject to clear rules and mandatory monitoring, to make it possible to identify and prevent situations relating to tax avoidance, environmental damage, exhaustion of resources, land- grabbing, breaches of human rights linked to the security services and payments to organised crime;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out that over the past few years both Latin America and the EU have experienced difficulties relating to the management of their sovereign debt; calls on the EU to support the Latin American initiative within the UN to establish a multilateral sovereign debt restructuring mechanism, and welcomes the resolutions by the General Assembly that address the issue from the perspective of promoting development, democracy and human rights and establish new basic principles for the implementation of the mechanism;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Expresses concern at the situation in Brazil following the institutional coup carried out against President Rousseff, and at the corruption cases affecting President Temer following the allegations made by Brazil’s Prosecutor General, which have placed him at the centre of a bribery scandal; expresses extreme concern at the proposal by the current government in Brazil to table a constitutional amendment to postpone elections until 2020; calls on the EU and on the Member States not to normalise their relations with Brazil until the constitutional situation in the country has returned to normal;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Emphasises that it is vital to have binding rules to govern the activities of European businesses and investors in Latin America, as well as of Latin American businesses and investors in Europe, and points out that such rules should be laid down and monitored in the framework of bilateral agreements;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for the chapters on financial services, establishment and investment in bilateral trade agreements to tighten up the rules concerned by means of binding provisions; takes the view that new provisions should be introduced, such as the automatic exchange of tax information and the lifting of bank secrecy, where fraud, tax avoidance or money laundering is suspected;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Welcomes, in that regard, the Inter-American Convention on the Prevention, Punishment and Eradication of Violence Against Women (‘Belém do Pará Convention’) of 1994, and calls for the secretariat of its follow-up mechanism, MESECVI, to be given a more significant role; welcomes, furthermore, the entry into force in 2016 of the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention, which has the same aims; calls on countries in both regions that have not yet done so to sign up to the latter convention, and takes the view that its secretariat, alongside MESEVCI, is the right body to monitor bilateral work on combating femicide and violence against women in particular;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Highlights the importance of the opening ofprioritising, within the negotiations foron the modernisation of the EU-Mexico Global Agreement, the progress made in the negotiationestablishment of binding rules with permanent monitoring mechanisms to combat impunity and organised crime; calls for the modernisation of the EU-Chile Association Agreement, and the speeding up of the EU-Mercosur negotiations,EU-Mercosur Agreement to include binding mechanisms to assess and monitor the social and environmental impact of the agreements; and calls for the ratification of the EU-Central America Association Agreement by all national parliaments of the EU Members States;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Stresses the importance of the recent adheccession of Ecuador to the Multi- Party Agreement with Colombia and Peru, and invites Bolivia to join as well, and; welcomes the implementation of the Schengen short-stay visa waiver for Peru and Colombia, all of which contributes to enhancing the EU’s economic and cultural ties with theose countries;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Highlights how important it is that all countries in both regions monitor and support the UN Intergovernmental working group on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights;