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10 Amendments of Frank VANHECKE related to 2009/2171(INI)

Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
E. whereas industrialisation is partly to blame for climate change, and industrialised nations are mainly responsible for the economic and financial crisis, yet the cost of tackling them in developing countries runs to hundreds of billions of dollars a year,deleted
2010/03/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
F. whereas both EU donors and developing country governments are failing to meet their spending benchmarks for health and education,
2010/03/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
G. whereas the developing world faces an urgent shortage of qualified health personnel and whereas many skilled workers, in health and other sectors, are not returning home to benefit their own communities; whereas the European blue card will result in a further brain drain from developing countries, with all the detrimental effects which it entails,
2010/03/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
I. whereas 90% of EU citizens are in favour of development cooperation, although the downturn threatens to weaken this support,deleted
2010/03/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
N. whereas the poorest countries are severely underrepresented in international institutions and global fora,deleted
2010/03/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Urges all developing countries to foster independent parliaments, able to contribute effectively to deepening democracy by freely exercising their legislative, budgetary and scrutiny functions; at the same time, draws attention to the enormous importance of a judicial system which operates independently and is properly developed;
2010/03/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. Urges all rich countries, especially EU states, to keep their spending promises as regards aid, i.e. at least 0.7% of GNI by 2015;deleted
2010/03/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for substantial funding to tackle the effects of climate change and the global economic crisis in developing countries but insists that these funds must be additional to current development aid;deleted
2010/03/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
29. Believes that the EU should take account of human rights and governance criteria when drawing up trade agreements with developing countries and should not hesitate to apply sanctions when states fail to respect their governance obligations; deplores the fact that the clauses dealing with human rights and good governance (the 'essential element' clauses) have to date in many cases remained ineffective, although both now and in the past numerous manifest and persistent violations have occurred;
2010/03/24
Committee: DEVE
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
32. Supports more democratic representation of developing countries in global institutions;deleted
2010/03/24
Committee: DEVE