4 Amendments of Pablo IGLESIAS related to 2014/2205(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that, under Article 208 TFEU, the primary objective of EU development cooperation is to reduce and eradicate poverty; highlights the fact that development cooperation must be guided by that objective and not by geostrategic or economic interests; refuses to accept that development cooperation should be subordinate to external and security policy; opposes the use of EU instruments to pressure partner governments and local authorities to take measures in favour of multinational and EU-companies which are not in the interest of the sustainable development of the partner countries;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Notes that direct jobs in Multi- National Companies (MNC) accounts for only 3.4 percent of global employment in year 2000 and their role for job creation is often overstated; notes that domestic micro and small enterprises accounts for the bulk of employment in developing countries; deplores that export subsidies for agricultural products and free trade agreements like EPAs seriously harm the development of the domestic private sector; demands to allow developing countries to protect their domestic markets and for the abolishment of export subsidies in EU regulations;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is dismayed that because of public procurement contract awards and debt servicing, inter alia, 61 % of official development assistance goes back to donor countries1 ; calls for an increase in real aid and for sustainable building of regional/local value chains; __________________ 1 ActionAid (2005): Real Aid An Agenda for Making Aid Work, p. 4.
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the EU and its Member States to support developing countries in garnering their resources, e.g. through national tax systems, and in combating illicit financial flows and corruption, as a result of which developing countries lose at least € 660-870 billion a year2 ; calls for the ownership principle to be resolutely acted on; calls for effective international rules against tax avoidance and evasion; __________________ 2 Eurodadurges the EU Commission to make the interests of developing countries a priority i.e. in the "Action Plan on efforts to combat tax evasion and tax fraud" e.g. in impeding effectively tax avoidance and tax frauds by EU-companies in developing countries; __________________ 2 Eurodad: Giving with one hand and taking with the other - Europe's role in tax-related capital flight from developing countries, p.6.