5 Amendments of José Ignacio SALAFRANCA SÁNCHEZ-NEYRA related to 2011/2019(BUD)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Is convinced that with the creation of High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy post and the EEAS, the system of permanent analysis and monitoring mechanisms of the democratic parliamentary control on national and European level of the foreign policy should be put in place under the auspices of the European Parliament; such a mechanism would be instrumental to allow to meet the challenges of the democratic legitimacy of the European Union in the area of EU Foreign Policy;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the need to provide adequate support for the neighbouring South Mediterranean countries and the Eastern Partnership, to help them make the transition to democracy and build democratic institutions, including support for civil society; underlines that the increased support for the Southern Neighbourhood should be matched by a similar approach applied to the Eastern Neighbourhood within the overall budget;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates that EU relations with Latin America are underfunded, taking into account the strategic partnership between both regions and the conclusions of the Madrid Summit from May 2010, as well as the potential of Latin America as an emergent region and economic growth hub. This underfunding is specially aggravated by the deadlock of the allocation of funds from the ICI + programme, since the legal basis for the participation of several Latin American countries entitled to benefit from ICI+ has not yet been adopted; calls therefore for a swift adoption of the ICI+ legislation in 2011;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises the need to provide more flexibility and ensure better-targeted assistance, particularly aimed at civil society, respect of human rights and aspiration towards democracy, including local level, so as to promote a bottom-up approach; calls alsoin the frame of the ENP review for a comprehensive efficiency analysis of ENPI in coordination with other instruments, with the aim of making better use of financial instruments available in the EU's relations with southern and eastern neighbours and of ensuring that developmentEU assistance is used adequately in beneficiary countries based on conditionality of the more-for-more concept and differentiated according to the specific situation of each beneficiary country;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that savings need to be made given the economic difficulties and resulting budgetary restraints in many EU Member States; is convinced that targeted savings can be made by identifying overlaps and inefficiencies across all headings and flagging up areas where results are not in line with the expectations and requests of the European Parliament in order to create the necessary budgetary leverage for key political priorities including the foreign affairs priorities.