4 Amendments of Jordi SOLÉ related to 2017/2044(BUD)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Draws attention to recent worrying political developments in the Western Balkans that require the Union's urgent attention to avoid progress achieved in the past decades being put into question; rejects, therefore, the proposed cut of almost EUR 90 million to support for political reforms in the region under the Instrument for Pre-Accession assistance (IPA); supports the reduction of funding for Turkey under the "Support for economic, social and territorial development" line; believes however that an increase in EIDHR funding should be earmarked for Turkey in order to support civil society directly.
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Opposes the drastic reductions of financial contributions from the external financial instruments ENI, IPA, PI and DCI to Erasmus+, despite the fact that youth exchange programs can be considered as one of the most successful long-term investments into cultural diplomacy and mutual understanding, and calls rather for an increase of these contributions;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the fact that the proposed appropriations for the Instrument contributing to Stability and Peace (IcSP) return to their pre-2017 levels and are further strengthened in view of new capacity building tasks which should result from the ongoing revision ofits role as the Union's only instrument for civilian conflict prevention; urges Member State to consider implementing the Union's new capacity building tasks for military actors within the appropriate legal framework, which is the CFSP; calls therefore on the Commission to withdraw its 5 July 2016 legislative amendment to the IcSP regulation;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance of stimulating cooperative defence research, development, acquisition, and maintenance in Europe for addressing key capability shortfalls at a time when international developments increasingly require Europe to step up its efforts on defence; fully supports the idea of increased allocation for the Preparatory Action on defence researchpooling and sharing arrangements between Member States; calls on the Commission to start enforcing the 2009 defence procurement directive; urges Member States and the Commission to focus on methods which increase efficiency of national defence spending instead of diverting Union budget funds from existing programs such as Erasmus+, the European Regional Development Funds or the Connecting Europe Facility;