5 Amendments of Christofer FJELLNER related to 2017/2083(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas extreme poverty in Sub- Saharan Africa has fallen from 56 percent of the population in 1990 to 43 percent of the population in 2012;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas 33there is large variation in economic development and economic growth of the countries of Africa, including 33 out of the 49World's least- developed countries are in Africas well as countries almost on par with some of the Union's Member States;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas exports from Africa are dominated by unprocessed products, and whereas a high proportion of these exports are covered by trade preference arrangements and have done nothing to boost industrialisation in the countries concerned;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Urges the EU, in its trade policy, to negotiate, implement and where necessary re-negotiate self-standing, WTO compatible Economic Partnership Agreements with varying degrees of asymmetry based on partner countries different levels of economic development;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges the EU always to take account of the different levels of development among African countries and to support measures which enhance production and processing capacity, particularly in agriculture;regional integration and their integration into global value chains: