Activities of Heidi HAUTALA related to 2017/2044(BUD)
Legal basis opinions (0)
Amendments (3)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the Union has an increasingly ambitious trade agenda, as outlined in the ‘Trade for all’ strategy; stresses that the funding for Aid for Trade initiatives should be increased and sufficient resources should be allocated to DG Trade of the Commission to enable it to carry out the increasing number of activities and to increase the coherence of the Commission’s trade policy agenda with the Union's global action goals and the requirement of policy coherence for development;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Recalls that in the 2017 budget, the DCI-human development budget line was reduced compared to the initial multi- annual planning;notes that the Commission stated that this was merely a backloading exercise and not a cut to the programme:considers it therefore important to preserve a substantial increase of the human development budget line in comparison to last year's budget;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that a higher funding level of the Macro Financial Assistance is required to ensure that all future requests for loans or grants can be accommodated; in the longer term, the integration of the MFA instrument into the European Neighbourhood Program Instrument should be contemplated, in order to increase coherence of Union action;