Activities of Tineke STRIK related to 2019/2213(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Guidelines for the 2021 budget – Section III
Amendments (10)
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on the EU to increase its financial contribution to UNRWA in 2021, with a view to allowing the Agency to carry out its critically important mandate;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Recalls that the Paris Agreement compels parties to “make financial flows consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions and climate- resilient development”; calls for the insertion of the do-no harm principle in the next MFF, in line with the political declarations of all three institutions; stresses that projects financed by the EU budget shall be screened to determine if they have an environmental or climate impact and if so, shall be subject to climate and environmental, including biodiversity, proofing with a view to minimise detrimental impacts and maximise benefits on climate and environment;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2 c. Deplores the continued destruction and confiscation of EU-funded humanitarian assistance in the West Bank; notes that according to EU sources, Israeli authorities demolished or seized 97 structures worth €480.000 in 2019, that had been built with EU or Member States’ funds; notes that this constitutes a 90% increase compared to the previous year; is concerned by the lack of resolve of the EEAS and the Commission, as highlighted by the European Court of Auditors, to secure compensation from the Israeli authorities, as requested by the European Parliament in its resolution of September 2018; requests the Commission to deduct in the next draft budget under which EU-Israel programmes are funded the amount corresponding to the cost of demolished EU-funded projects ;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2 d. Stresses the need for proper indicators and a specific methodology, as well as regular monitoring, to analyse the impact of the EU budget on gender equality; stresses the need of a specific increase in the budget to ensure the presence of gender advisers in EU delegations and CSDP missions and operations;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 e (new)
Paragraph 2 e (new)
2 e. Believes that the EU should strictly refrain from assistance through budget support in countries which grossly fail to meet international standards in the field of human rights and democracy or which fall short from demonstrating their commitment to fighting corruption;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2 f. Reiterates its call for a profound and comprehensive review of its relations with Egypt, notably its assistance programme; as stressed in its resolution of October 2019, considers that the human rights situation in Egypt requires a serious revision of the Commission’s budget support operations and calls for EU assistance to be restricted to primarily supporting civil society;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
2 g. Recalling the Treaty obligation of the EU institutions to respect the principles of the United Charter and international law in their external dealings, calls on the Commission to ensure that its programmes that benefit countries that are occupying third territories, strictly exclude the latter from their activities; in this regard, calls on the Commission to develop horizontal policy guidance for ensuring that EU funding to countries related to situations of occupation or annexation, is in line with international law;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates its support for funding dedicated to supporting human rights worldwide, with a particular focus on the protection of human rights defenders; stresses in this regard the need to continue the Human Rights Defenders Mechanism (Protectdefenders.eu) and to increase the funding dedicated to it; highlights the importance of election observation missions, notably by local civil society groups, and calls for an appropriate level of funding;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Reiterates its call on the Commission to ensure that the next MFF fully complies with the objective to keep global warming to under 1,5 °C and to halt and reverse biodiversity loss, and stresses the urgent need for another quantum leap in political and financial efforts in order to achieve those objectives;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges the Commission to present a differentiated budget nomenclature for the new external financing instruments, notably by including at least one budget line for each third country receiving significant amounts of EU assistance; stresses that in the context of a more streamlined set of instruments, the budget structure needs to be sufficiently detailed to allow Parliament to carry out its budgetary functions effectively and fulfil its oversight role.; calls for more transparency regarding the use of EU funds and for regular exchanges between the European Parliament and the Commission that would allow the European Parliament to evaluate in detail the use of the budget;