4 Amendments of Beata KEMPA related to 2021/0227(BUD)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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1. Draws attention to the fact that the COVID pandemic is dealing a heavy blow to developing countries, with already poor and vulnerable people taking the hardest hits and progress towards Sustainable Development Goals in many cases being replaced by regress; underlines the need to continue supporting developing countries in terms of access to COVID-19 vaccines; stresses that this is key to saving life, building human capital and stimulating economic recovery in such countries; considers that the current crisis is exacerbating inequalities throughout the world and that without access to vaccines, the gulf will become even wider;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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2. Stresses that development assistance together with substantial debt relief and further development of international tax cooperation is badly needed to shore up public finances, avert damaging austerity measures and prevent that spending on COVID vaccination crowds out other crucial expenditure; calls on the European Commission to define a comprehensive European debt relief strategy towards developing countries; stresses, however, that debt relief is an ad hoc measure and that in the longer term there is a need to support developing countries in implementing systemic reforms so that they can address their immediate and urgent health, education and social protection needs while at the same time avoiding insolvency;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
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3. Points out the urgency of scaling up funds for health care, food security and nutrition, education, and social protection and gender equality and to reinforce the People - Global Challenges line from the Emerging challenges and priorities cushion; stresses that human development should be prioritised in geographical lines;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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4. Calls on the Commission to ensure that it will be able to convincingly demonstrate adherence to the NDICI regulation’s provisions on expenditure for social inclusion and human development, gender, climate, biodiversity and migration objectives and full respect of the requirement that 93% of the NDICI expenditure shall qualify as official development assistance; insists on the need to increase ODA, in particular to least developed countries, so as to contribute to fulfilment of the EU’s and its Member States’ collective pledges;