Activities of Tomas TOBÉ related to 2023/0264(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024
Amendments (4)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas the gap between humanitarian needs and resources is increasing; whereas according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Financial Tracking Service, only 57 % of funding needs were met in 2022; whereas global humanitarian funding continues to rely heavily on a very limited number of donors, with the ten largest humanitarian donors providing more than 80 % of all funding; whereas the need to expand the resource base for humanitarian action is acute;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with great concern that humanitarian aid remains the most strained instrument under Heading 6; warns that ad- hoc solutions through budgetary reinforcements from other funding sources or redeployments and recommitments are not sustainable; calls on the Commission to establish and maintain a solid baseline for predictable and principled humanitarian aid as the trend of growing emergencies is unlikely to slow down; reminds that humanitarian needs in Ukraine will not be covered by the Ukraine Facility proposed in the MFF revision; requests an increase of 1 billion euro to the HUMA budget line, which anticipates the needs predicted by main humanitarian actors and takes into account that the EU humanitarian budget in 2022 reached EUR 2,62 billion after several reinforcements and that similar needs remain for 2024; underlines the urgent need for increased efforts to broaden the resource base for humanitarian action, drawing on the resources of traditional, emerging and potential donors, the private sector as well as other stakeholders; stresses also that there is a need to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the humanitarian system and to increase efforts to reduce humanitarian needs; welcomes in this regard the Council Conclusions of 22 May 2023 on addressing the humanitarian funding gap;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Insists that the Commission must guarantee that EU funds are not allocated or linked to any form of terrorism and/or religious and political radicalization while ensuring notably that individuals or groups affiliated, linked to, or supporting terrorist organisations are excluded from Union funding; reiterates its position that salaries of education civil servants responsible for drafting and teaching school textbooks paid by Union funds, must be made conditional on full compliance with UNESCO standards of peace and tolerance; is concerned about antisemitism, hate speech and incitement to violence taught in Palestinian school textbooks, funded by the EU; stresses that conditionality of EU financial assistance in the educational sector needs to be duly considered; underlines the importance of proper training of Palestinian teachers, in line with UNESCO education standards.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Is extremely alarmed by the deepening food insecurity in developing countries, with 345 million people facing acute food insecurity in 2023; calls on the Commission to step up efforts to support partner countries in developing resilient and sustainable agri-food systems, enhancing local food production, and investing in interventions for food security to accelerate progress towards SDG 2; calls on the Commission to continue to provide support to Ukraine on humanitarian mine action, to enable the resumption of agriculture in contaminated areas, as well as to help Ukraine export agricultural goods, in order to alleviate the devastating consequences that Russia's war of aggression is having on global food security;