4 Amendments of Thierry MARIANI related to 2021/0227(BUD)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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3. Notes that the majDeplores the exorbity of external actionant and unprecedented level of spending is concentrated under the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument – Global Europe (NDICI-Global Europe), andmounting to EUR 89.4 billion for the years 2021-2027, as well as the sums devoted at the same time to the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA III) and insists on supporting agreed priorities under those external financing instruments, including those decided during the NDICI-Global Europe high level geopolitical dialogu, totalling EUR 14.2 billion; considers such instruments to constitute a challenge to the independence of the Member States in terms of external policy; calls for a halt to all new accession procedures as a matter of principle;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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4. Emphasises the need to increase funding forConsiders that the amounts allocated to the Western Balkan countries aund er the countries of the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood to support reforms and recovery from the COVID-19 crisiMFF 2021-2027, amounting to EUR 9 billion, are particularly high and have done nothing to dissuade the recipient countries from stepping up their relations with external powers;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
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5. Welcomes strongerCondemns the particularly large amounts to be earmarked for Turkey under the MFF 2021-2027, amounting to EUR 5 billion; condemns the vague and changing nature of the conditionality relacriteria; noteds to democracy, human rights and rule of law under the modernised IPA III; calls on dedicated budget lines forhat Turkey, in stepping up its acts of aggression and provocation against a number of Member States of the European Union, is failing to respect the said criteria in any way; calls for a halt to the process of Turkish accession, along with an end to all payments to Turkey, under both IPA III, which should support Turkish civil society and the 2016 agreement on migrants;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
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7. Highlights the importance of building a strong common security and defence policy) and enhancing cooperation in defence and security matters through the European Defence Fund, a key contributor to the Union’s strategic autonomyStresses that a genuine European security and defence cooperation policy can only result from cross-border cooperation projects and warns against any plans to impose qualified majority voting in this area;