Activities of Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY related to 2015/2353(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Preparation of the post-electoral revision of the MFF 2014-2020: Parliament's input ahead of the Commission's proposal (A8-0224/2016 - Jan Olbrycht, Isabelle Thomas) ES
Amendments (6)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises the need for security- related expenditure in the current efforts to comprehensively address the security/development nexus and deliver on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16jects any use of development aid for non-development objectives, which are clearly stated in TFEU article 208; believes that promoting peace, security and justicegood governance and rule of law in developing countries is crucialnecessary for poverty reductionand inequality reduction, and at long term the eradication of poverty; emphasises that the funding concerned, which does not constitute Official Development Assistance (ODA), must come from other instruments than the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI) or the European Development Fund (EDF);
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Recalls that untying aid is a necessary condition for opening up opportunities for developing country socio-economic actors; calls for boosting the use of developing country procurement systems as the first option for aid programmes in support of activities managed by the public sector to enhance local private sector;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Notes that according to the OECD, in-donor refugee costs (expenditure on refugees' transport, food, shelter and training) spent during the first twelve months of stay can be reported as ODA; equally notes that many EU countries include all the costs relating to asylum seekers, regardless of whether they are granted refugee status or not, as refugee costs; is concerned that this practice has a huge opportunity cost against effective development aid programmes which aim at combating root causes of migration in developing countries; calls, therefore, on the EU and its member states not to report refugee costs as ODA;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Urges the EU and its Member States to stop inflating aid, and exclude inflated aid items from ODA reporting: refugee costs, imputed student costs, tied aid, interest on loans and debt relief;