Activities of Bernhard ZIMNIOK related to 2021/2252(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the future European Financial Architecture for Development
Amendments (30)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereasOECD claims that the pre- pandemic SDG annual funding gap in developing countries of USD 2.5 trillion is expected to increase by 70 % post-COVID- 19, to USD 4.2 trillion (EUR 3.7 trillion)6 ; _________________ 6 OECD report of 10 December 2020 entitled ‘Global Outlook on Financing for Sustainable Development 2021: A New Way to Invest for People and Planet’.
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that any development aid granted to developing countries, is made strictly conditional upon the effective implementation of return and readmission agreements;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas achieving the SDGs and the goals of the Paris Agreement and addressing other acute global challenges requiresmay benefit from a joint engagement at international level;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas policy coherence and close cooperation between all official development finance institutions, their government shareholders and all existingdevelopment partners is urgently needed; whereas the successful mobilisation of further capital, both private and public, in addition to official development assistance (ODA) and other existing forms of development finance, is criticaladvisable as the funding for development-aid will decline and hence what is provided must be implemented as effectively as possible;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Recalls that EU Member States are the world's largest donor of development aid; therefore stresses the importance of ensuring that EU taxpayers are able to have access to all information relating to how and on what projects their money is being spent in developing countries; insists that the corrupt use of EU funding should result in an immediate suspension of payments;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas EU companies and financing institutions operating in developing countries during the last decade have increasingly faced unfair competition from global players that operate outside the mprimarily due to stifling EU regulatilateral development finance systemons, forcing private capital to implement left-wing policies in the developing world;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the policy-first-driven EuropeanEU financial architecture for development (EFAD) should be guided by the principles and objectives set out in the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Paris Agreement and the Addis Ababa Action Agendaby the donors, the Member States, and their priorities in order to build strong, resilient and successful nation states and together ensure a stabile and prosperous Europe;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. strongly iInsists that EFAD must strengthen the strategic partnerships between the European Union and its global development partners; especially in light of the coming reductions in funding, reiterates that such partnerships should always be based on mutual respect and dignity, shared interestsfull financial transparency and ability to influence all aspects of the intervention- implementation and -evaluesation;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the interconnection between development and security; highlights the role that development plays in preventing c of the Member States and the need for conditionfalicts, ensuring durable exits from conflicts and bolstering crisis management; insists on the importaty as defined by the European Parliament in the resolution of 25 November 2020 on improving development effectiveness and the efficiencey of further developing a well-tailored development-security nexusaid (2019/2184(INI)); in particular point 62 ;
Amendment 65 #
4. Emphasises that the role of a collective, coherent EU approach, which could be effective in hdevelopment aid is not to install the same system that is used in one or more of the donor nations, but to provide the ability for developing to foster the expansion of social protection systems in developing countriesnations to decide and craft their own future drawing on collective global experiences and well grounded in their culture;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that consistency across all EU financing instruments, for the donations from the Member States as well as initiatives and strategies is crucial in order to maximise the EU’s global response to sustainable growimpact of the support as th,e development and peacebudget will shrink over the coming decades;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. iIs alarmed at how the COVID-19 pandemic hwas expoused in order to try to raised the long-standing structural driversdevelopment budget and not focus on the rebuilding of thealth inequaliti Member States;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. bBelieves that EFAD and the long- awaited EU SDG strategy mustcould reflect and facilitate a coordinated and coherent set of internal and external EU policies and commitments; regrets, in that context, that the Commission has not yet developed an integrated and holistic SDG implementation strategy, governed by conditionalities, based on the fact that development budgets will decrease in the years to come, so as to ensure maximum benefit for the shrinking number of aid- interventions administered by the Commission in third countries;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recognises the urgent need to enhance and improve the institutional set- up of the Commission, reduce heavy bureaucratic coordination and strengthen institutional flexibility by re-establishing the European Agency for Reconstruction and providing this new agency, the European Agency for Development, with a global mandate for the administration of all development-related interventions funded by the Member States and with the responsibility to manage the shrinking development funding available to the Commission for external use;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Insists that mechanisms for ensuring9. Proposes that policy coherence for sustainable development must be enshrined in EFAD and used more systematically and efficishould be implementlyed by allthe relevant EU institutions and all Member States, including at the highest political level;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on the Commission to put forward a powerful EU policy direction and to further align the EU development financial institutions’ activities within the new open architecture; is of the opinion that the programming process must fully cover the use of EU budgetary guaranteeroposal for what thematic and geographical areas within development shall be favoured within the new budgetary constraints of the coming years;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. WelcomNotes the setting-upcreation of EIB Global, a dedicated development branch within the EIB Group, which has been operational since 1 January 2022;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Reiterates that institutional control and scrutiny of EU funding fosters democratic debate and helps to boost the credibility of the EUMember State funding, administered by the EU, is a necessity in order to ensure maximum impact of funds committed; calls for obligations ensuring appropriate visibility of the implementation of EFAD and calls on the Commission to take action where those obligations are not met;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. insists that the Member States honour their commitment to spend 0.7 % of their gross national income on ODA; underlines the important role of ODA as a catalyst for change and a lever for the mobilisation of other resources; stresses the importance of the EU’s commitment to mobilise resources for climate action and the EIB’s role in making progress in this areaNotes the urgent need of the Member States to drastically reduce their funding for ODA, as new challenges have arisen to ensure peace, prosperity and innovation possibilities within the Member States;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28