13 Amendments of Eleftherios SYNADINOS related to 2017/2027(INI)
Amendment 3 #
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1. Stresses that 175 million people are living in poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC); notes that inequality is the mainone of the primary obstacles to the region’s development; stresses that inclusive of the region, behind corruption and impunity; believes that social development ison the key to addressing itwidest possible basis is the fairest solution;
Amendment 6 #
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2. Takes the view that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must be the foremostone of the objectives of cooperation between LAC and the EU; calls on the Commission and the EEAS to cooperate with the LAC countries to agree efficient and fair institutional strategies with which to achieve the SDGs, while fully respecting the will of the peoples of Latin America;
Amendment 8 #
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3. Considers that since the European Union is the largest donor of aid to the LAC region, withdrawing it, including aid to middle-income countries, would be a backward step that would impedemight have an adverse impact and result in the financial programming of these states being restructured, thereby affecting the region’s future development; calls on the Commission and Council to make an unambiguous commitment with LAC (particularly MSME) to leave no one behind and alleviate the impact on countries that have recently achieved middle-income status or are in a process of transition towards it; recognises that these commitments require political decisions and that it is frequently difficult to justify fully ongoing payments to middle-income third countries, given the wide range of challenges arising within the Union itself;
Amendment 15 #
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4. Calls on the Commission to identify the best instruments available and endow them with sufficientitable resources to help LAC sufficiently to address the challenges facing it and to prepare itself for a possible future reduction in official development assistance (ODA); notes that the mechanisms and instruments are not limited to direct financial assistance alone but may also include technocratic support and added know-how;
Amendment 18 #
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5. Deplores the cuts toIs alarmed at the effects on the vulnerable local population of reducing humanitarian aidssistance to the areas most in need of it (Northern Triangle of Central America, Haiti and Colombia);
Amendment 22 #
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6. Stresses the objective need to step up efforts to combat corruption and impunity, to ensure thde facto as well as de jure separation of powers and equal access to an independent, unconstrained and impartial judicial system and generally to strengthen administration;
Amendment 36 #
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7. Believes public policies opening up genuine, sustainable and durable opportunities for the nearly 30 million young people not in employment, education or training to be fundamental;
Amendment 40 #
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8. Highlights the importance of looking into ways of increasing the involvement of the private sector, within a framework upholding human, environmental and labour rights and in which to the extent that investors sign up to and apply the United Nations principles for responsible investment;
Amendment 46 #
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9. Stresses the importance of coordinating the various public policy areas and encourages the involvement of all actors, including companies, trade unions and other civil society organisations, both at central and local level, in achieving the SDGs;
Amendment 50 #
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10. Stresses that economic growth and trade alone without institutional guidance and not designed to underpin social policy or prevent the widening of inequalities, are not sufficient to reduce poverty and inequality; calls for policies that contribute to achieving diversified, sustainable and suitably inclusive growth, with a strong emphasis on social issues;
Amendment 57 #
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11. Points out that LAC is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, a majority of which are attributable to climate change and that countermeasures are necessary; calls on the Commission and the LAC countries to tackle the underlying causes and to take climate-resilience measures as soon as possible;
Amendment 65 #
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12. Calls for development programmes in LAC to guarantee women’s fundamental rights and freedoms;
Amendment 68 #
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13. Urges for better coordination between policies and programmes supporting the LAC region; calls for the political commitments made at the EU- LAC regional summits to be fully honoured, and, to that end, for the necessary financial resources to be provided.