5 Amendments of Antoni COMÍN I OLIVERES related to 2021/2106(DEC)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Recalls the need to define a strategy for “building back better and greener” to link the COVID-19 response to the ecological transformation required by the Green Deal;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the Global Europe Instrument’s spending target of 20% for human development and social inclusion is a minimum target; calls for increasing the fiscal space to protect human development investments and substantially higher expenditure in this area, given the crucial importance of health, education, social protection, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene for the realisation of human rights, addressing inequalities, with special attention to women and children, and of a life in dignity for all, the devastating impacts of the COVID pandemic and the human rights-based approach laid down in the Global Europe - NDICI regulation, the implementation of which Parliament will scrutinise; notes, however, that with the NDICI, the European Commission has effectively limited the European Parliament’s control and scrutiny role, thereby limiting transparency and accountability;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that Parliament resolutions shall help guide Union cooperation and intends to follow the Commission’s application of this; welcomes the success of Team Europe to contribute to positive attitudes concerning joint action; calls on the Commission to extend its ambition for a better coordinated approach to the multilateral system;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Underlines the crucial importance of promoting and reinforcing the establishment of social protection mechanisms in developing countries;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that choices of aid modalities should always be based on realistic assessments of the likely efficiency of possible options, supported by evidence; points to the salience of this in the rapidly expanding area of private sector cooperation, where the evidence base is limited and should carefully be broadened and deepened in order to facilitate optimal use of official development assistance (ODA); calls on the Commission to consider countries’ debt situations when implementing projects in developing countries, and to favour grant-based funding as the default option;