11 Amendments of Anneli JÄÄTTEENMÄKI related to 2011/2019(BUD)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas as a result of the economic crisis the EU Member States have had to take difficult decisions and make cuts in their own budgets;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines that the European Union as a global player has the responsibility to contribute to the maintenance ofpromote peace and stability, economic development and respect for fundamental values and human rights throughout the world;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Warns that the EU risks international marginalisation if its foreign policy remains underfunded; underlines, however, that there is room for making more efficient use of the existing resources by better targeting assistance funds to areas where the EU can bring added value such as democracy, good governance, rule of law and education;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Considers that, at a time when the EU Member States have had to make cuts in their own budgets, savings should also be found in the EU budget;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the need to provide adequate yet conditional support for the neighbouring South Mediterranean countries, to help them make the transition to democracytic governance and build democratic institutions, including support for civil society; reminds, however, that there is also a need for a continued and balanced yet conditional support for the eastern dimension of the ENP/ENPI;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates that EU relations with Latin America are underfunded, taking into account the strategic partnership between both regions, as well as the potential of Latin America as an emergent region and economic growth hub. This underfunding is specially aggravated bygrets the deadlock of the allocation of funds from the ICI + programme, since the legal basis for the participation of several Latin American countries entitled to benefit from ICI+ has not yet been adopted;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Is convinced that increased budgetary resources are necessary but not sufficient to guarantee the effectiveness of EU external action – greaterbudget discipline is necessary but also flexibility and rapidity in disbursing financial assistance are also required; calls therefore for greater flexibility between headings and above such headings in the financial perspective; is in favour of a revision of the financial perspective that would enable the EU to react rapidly to crises, taking full account of political priorities;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises the need to provide more flexibility and ensure better-targeted assistance, particularly aimed at civil society, including local and regional level, so as to promote a bottom-up approach; calls also for a comprehensive efficiency analysis of ENPI in coordination with other instruments such as EIDHR, with the aim of making better use of financial instruments available in the EU'’s relations with southern and eastern neighbours and in cross-border cooperation as well as of ensuring that developmentlete assistance is used adequately in beneficiary countries;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls for better and more targeted use of EIDHR funds and stresses that the EU should strengthen its support to civil society actors since supporting civil society is imperative for the democratic development and the advancement of human rights outside EU’s borders; underlines the need to further consider ways to make EIDHR more proactive and considers the European Endowment for Democracy an interesting initiative;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Regrets that conflict prevention has not received enough political weight and attention within the EU and is of the opinion that innovative ways to make use of the existing legislative and financial instruments, including IfS, EIDHR and development assistance, should be elaborated to advance conflict prevention in third countries;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Regards the enlargement of the EU as a key area in EU’s foreign policy spectrum and is of the opinion that in order to avert that the candidate countries and the potential candidate countries fall behind, sufficient level of IPA funding needs to be maintained; considers nevertheless that the IPA funding needs to be critically reviewed in areas where the implementation level of IPA funds is low;