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Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the EU’s eastern partners remains under threat from unresolved regional conflicts, including some that are sustained by the Russian Federation in contradiction with its international commitments to uphold the international legal order;deleted

2017/09/19
Committee: AFET

Mario BORGHEZIO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point f

(f) to ask the Commission together with the European Investment Bank to propose arrangements for the implementation of a new European Investment Plan for Ukraine and other Eastern Partnership countries that have made the most progress on reforms towards gradual economic and political integration with the European Union, by increasing the lending capacity of the European Investment Bank from the current EaP levels of EUR 1.6 billion per year and by taking into account EEIP provisions in carrying out its investment mandate; to request as a first step in this regard the establishment of a separate investment window in the form of a trust fund for Ukraine based on the best practices of multi-donor instruments, stressing that this trust fund should focus on private and public investments, in particular on social and economic infrastructure and those aimed at boosting investment absorption capacity, and on the coordination of IFIs and international donor support on the ground;deleted

2017/09/19
Committee: AFET

Mario BORGHEZIO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point i

(i) to commit to working jointly on increased mobility between the EU and partner countries; to support Moldova, Georgia and Ukraine in implementing the visa liberalisation agreement and to ensure that suspension mechanisms are not triggered in the future, notably though close cooperation in the areas of police and customs to safeguard against security threats, criminality and overstays; to open visa dialogues with Armenia, to encourage progress by Azerbaijan in the implementation of Visa Facilitation and Readmission Agreements (VFA/RA) with a view to opening a visa dialogue in the future, and to finalise negotiations on VFA/RA with Belarus for the benefit of its citizens, should these countries make significant progress in the area of fundamental values and meet the precise conditions defined in visa liberalisation roadmaps;deleted

2017/09/19
Committee: AFET

Mario BORGHEZIO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point p

(p) to ensure that the outcomes of the November 2017 Summit also address~~, where possible,~~ the security threats, including and above all from Islamic terrorism, that affect the sovereignty, unity, territorial integrity and political, social and economic development of the partners and of the region as a whole;

2017/09/19
Committee: AFET

Mario BORGHEZIO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point q

(q) to commit to sustaining the unity of action among EU Member States in maintaining collective pressure on Russia, in particular through strengthened targeted restrictive measures, to solving the conflict in Ukraine through genuine implementation of the Minsk agreements, to re-establishing Ukraine’s full sovereignty in Crimea, and that of Georgia in South Ossetia and Abkhazia and of Moldova in Transnistria, and to putting an end to the additional threats of state-sponsored assassinations, cyber warfare, disinformation and other types of destabilisation;deleted

2017/09/19
Committee: AFET

Mario BORGHEZIO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point t

(t) to consider an attractive ‘EaP+’ model for associated countries, based on the highest possible common denominator, that would include joining the customs union and Schengen area, further EU internal market access, participation in other EU programmes, increased involvement in the CSDP, as well as more immediate measures such as additional unilateral tariff preferences, the abolition of roaming tariffs between the partners and the EU and the development of high-capacity broadband; to open the ‘EaP+’ model to other EaP countries once they are ready for such enhanced commitments;deleted

2017/09/19
Committee: AFET

Mario BORGHEZIO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 – point u

(u) to consider, for non-associated countries, new means of supporting civil society, the academic and independent media communities and young people, including through additional funding and mobility partnerships;deleted

2017/09/19
Committee: AFET

Mario BORGHEZIO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point ad

(ad) to ~~welcome the Commission proposals to provide the partners with~~insist, when it comes to macro- financial assistance ~~while insisting~~, on strict and effective conditionality attached to the proposals, notably in terms of upholding the rule of law (including an independent judiciary), ensuring good governance (including combating corruption effectively) and defending human rights; to call on the Commission to make systematic provision for this conditionality in future proposals for such assistance; to provide Parliament and the Council with a detailed and transparent written report every six months on the progress made in these three areas for partners already benefiting from such assistance;

2017/09/19
Committee: AFET

8 Amendments of Mario BORGHEZIO related to 2017/2130(INI)

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