Activities of Thijs BERMAN related to 2011/2019(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the mandate for the trilogue on the 2012 draft budget
Amendments (4)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Questions the Commission's performance assessment of the Development Cooperation Instrument and firmly opposes any cut in DCI funding;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that the emerging economies - India, China and Brazil - should no longer be reliant on official development assistance, given that poverty in those countries can be combated with own resources generated by high-growth economieUrges the European Commission to gradually fade out development aid in form of subsidies to emerging economies in a differentiated approach adapted to each of them, by various methods such as cofinancing and blending of loans and grants;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Rejects any attempt to merge the development cooperation and humanitarian aid budgets; considers that humanitarian aid and civil protection in non-EU countries are underfunded, especially in view of the growing number of humanitarian crises and natural disasters; takes the view that the ratio between the budget for humanitarian aid and the budget for development assistance should be about 10%;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Stresses the importance of zinc for the treatment and prevention of diarrhoea and malnutrition in order to improve the survival, growth and brain development of young children; urges the EU and the Member States to allocate the necessary funds to provide zinc supplementation in developing countries which could save the lives of 450,000 children under the age of five every year;