16 Amendments of Bernhard ZIMNIOK related to 2020/2118(INI)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic hassituation is expected to greatly exacerbated the existing debt problems of developing countriesacross the world;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas improved coordination is needed of international efforts to promote an efficient and resilient humanitarian- development-peace nexustransformation of the United Nation and its organizations is needed to promote an efficient, cost effective and resilient ability to provide aid;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomDeplores the EU’s global response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which demonstrates its ambition to lead and show solidarity with all partner countries; points out, however, that current funds are essentially reallocated from other budget lines and that the challenge of aid front-loading has to be tackled; calls, therefore, for substantial new funds to be mobilised to assist developing countries worldwide in fighting the direct and indirect consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic; stresses that making safe vaccines available globally in a fast and affordable manner must be one of the first sput all others before the citizens of the Member Stateps;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Insists that the momentum gained from the common Team Europe approach in terms of joint analysis, joint programming and joint implementation must translate into a new standard for cooperation in the fields of humanitarian aid and development policy, both in law and in practiceon a moratorium on all support to non-EU members and use the funds available in order to ensure Member States' resilience in view of the economic losses brought about by the lock down methods employed across most European nations;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that global extreme poverty is expected to rise dramatically in 2020 for the first time in over 20 years, with the COVID-19 pandemic compounding the forces of conflict and climate change and having a particularly hard impact on informal and migrant workers (who some claim represent one quarter of the global workforce), the tourism sector and Latin American and Caribbean economies; highlights, against the backdrop of this extreme crisis, the importance of universal social protection; asks the Commission to work out strategies with partner countries for the economic recovery and job creation and for improving social security systems;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for the revision of proposed or existing strategies with the aim of further strengthening health systems in partner countriesmaking radical changes in how EU administers the aid provided by the Member States in regard to health systems in partner countries once this aid can be provided again, after the moratorium on aid has ended, in particular as regards preparedness for pandemics and the organisation and management of health systems, including the provision of universal healthcare, health monitoring and information, training of medical staff, diagnostic capacity and medicine supply;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the need to catch up on routine immunisation programmes as soon as possible and to provide adequate funding for initiatives such as Gavi, the vaccine Alliance, and CEPI, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations; calls on the Commission to ensure that the EU global response to the COVID-19 pandemic does not undermine EU funding for other vital health programmes, including the Minimum Initial Services Package for sexual and reproductive health and programmes targeting the health of women and pregnant women; urges all countries and the Commission; suggests that countries may consider to continue to provide services related to sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) as well as routine immunisation services, while ensuring the safety of communities and health workers; however stresses that this is their own internal affairs and not for Europe to dictate the terms and scope of their interventions;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Supports the important work of the WHO and points out its central role as the leading and coordinating authority on the COVID-19 response,Is highly critical of how the WHO has managed so far in terms of the COVID 19 situation and demands a major revision of how the WHO and the UN operates so that the whiole recognising the need for its reform after the acute crisis has been managedUN organization can be drastically reduced, made more transparent as well as efficient and fully accountable;
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Highlights the especially severe consequences of COVID-19 lockdowns and the collateral damage that has been suffered by women, girls and childrthe citizen,s in particular the rise in gender-based violence, but also the exposure of women to COVID-19 due to their disproportionately high representation in the global health workforce; calls for action to counterbalance the disproportionate care burden borne by women and any potential roll-backs in safety, health, emancipation, economic independence and empowerment, and education, through specific programmes such as the spotlight initiative and by re- focusing European support; calls for meaningful participation of women in the decisions that impact their health and working lives; underlines the need to include the gender perspective in the EU’s COVID-19 response, to advocate for inclusive decision-making bodies and collect sex- and age-disaggregated data for gender analysithe EU Member States and how funds allocated for aid and development now must be rechannelled to the Europeans that need support such as children, the elderly, people with disabilities, women and men who have lost their jobs and/or businesses;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. IsNotes with a certain concerned that, since the beginning of the COVID-19 crisissituation, many governments in EU Member States have used the claim of emergency to justify placing restrictions on democratic processes and the civil space and to oppress minoritiepolitical opponents; draws attention to the growing negative impact of COVID-19 on all human rights, democracy and the rule of law and calls, therefore, for the strengthening of aid, political dialogue and support for institution-building in all these fields, with particular attention to human rights defendersfree speech in Europe;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has led to unprecedented numbers of pupils missing out on months of schooling, constituting a major set-back to efforts in the education sector especially with regard to girls’ and women’s education; urges; suggests that governments to use school closures only as a measure of last resort in the fight against the pandemic; presses for education to be kept as a spending priority in EU development policy and for due consideration to be given to the social function of schools; urges governments, in this context, to prioritise support for the most marginalised children and their families; recommends that EU countries share their approaches to keeping up teaching even in times of crisis and asks the EU and its Member States to exploit the potential of remote and digital learning in their international support programmes;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the importance of assisting andthe affected nations to exchanging best practice with partner countries in in their region in order to identifying vulnerabilities, building up prevention and crisis response mechanisms as well as protecting critical infrastructure in order better to deal with future systemic shocks of all kinds;
Amendment 319 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19