8 Amendments of Clare DALY related to 2020/2041(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that, while there are a number of dynamic middle income countries on the African continent, its economic development is still relatively weak in comparison to other parts of the world; stresses that many of its countries will therefore face almost insurmountable challenges caused by the COVID-19 crisis and the effects of climate change; stresses the primary sources of entrenched poverty in the region are: climate change, unsustainable, exploitative and crushing repayment conditions on aid and loans, punishing tariff regimes and the effects of having to compete on the global agricultural goods market against heavily subsidised products from global North countries, the regressive reforms pushed by the World Bank on the agriculture sectors of these countries so they are forced to grow plantation crops for export and import food domestic use food from abroad, the exploitation of natural resources by foreign mining corporations and fossil fuel companies;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the announcement from the G20 on a temporary moratorium on debt repayments for the weakest developing countries as a first step in the good direction; calls the Commission, international donors and members’ states to go further and to consider an extension of the moratorium, in view of a full debt cancellation; calls the EU to work towards abolishing the debt burdens of developing countries in order to roll back on rich countries undue control and power over poor and restore sovereign control over economic policy at the national level;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that due to the legacies of colonialism, neo-liberal trade policies and economic reforms pushed on these countries by global North governments and major multilateral institutions such as the World Bank and the IMF, the European Union still has important economic ties with African states, and that China has intensified its economic engagement in Africashall respect article 208 of TFEU that states that the Union shall take account of the objectives of development cooperation in the policies that it implements which are likely to affect developing countries;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls the Commission to support the democratisation of the World Bank, the IMF and the WTO, and allow global South countries - who are the world’s majority - to have a fair and equal representation in these institutions so they can have a real say in the formulation of policies that affect them;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Calls on the Commission to stop supporting the Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) project which gives no guarantees against incentives to race to the bottom for third country partners, would accentuate the vast presence of multinational companies in Africa which are maximizing economic relations with western countries even further, to the detriment of intra-regional trade, potentially hampering continental integration by facilitating profits for multinationals already present in most African countries and encouraging them to concentrate their activities in the most competitive, will in the end help create a large African market, but with relatively few African products traded;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Recalls that the criteria of "reciprocity" for trade agreements with the ACP countries led to a reduction or even the abolition of customs duties on their imports, to no longer introducing new export taxes, thereby depriving States of tax revenue and exposing the fragile agricultural and industrial sectors to competition from subsidized European products and therefore aggravating social poverty, the EU development aid policy is therefore repairing the damage that its trade policy has helped to create;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7 b. Calls the EU to ensure - through debt cancellation and stopping illicit tax flows - that countries have the financial freedom to give subsidies to their farmers in order to allow emerging agricultural businesses to grow strong enough to supply their own people and facilitate stronger inner-African trade in agricultural goods;