18 Amendments of Louis ALIOT related to 2015/2342(INI)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas this challenge requires global solutions; whereas, however, 86% of the world’s refugees live in developing regions, with least developed countries hosting 26% of the total; whereas the million people who arrived in the EU in 2015 represented 0.2 % of the EU population, compared with much higher percentages in neighbouring countrie; whereas this substantial figure cannot be allowed to increase and whereas receiving the huge numbers of people arriving already poses serious problems;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas refugees and migrants are legally two distinct categories but in reality often people are part of large-scale mixed movements of people – with political, economic, social, developmental, humanitarian and human rights implications that cut across borders; whereas the distinction should be observed and the legal status of the two categories should not be confused;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas vulnerable people, in particular women, but also children, people with disabilities, people in need of urgent medical treatment and the elderly, who are particularly exposed to all kinds of dangers, namely violence, trafficking and abuse, should be urgently protected and granted humanitarian protection as part of their resettlementin their countries of origin;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises that the humanitarian aid system is dangerously overstretched and that it will never be sufficient to respond to forced displacement crises, in particular given the protracted nature of a majority of them; welcomes therefore the new policy framework outlined in the Commission communication on ‘Forced Displacement and Development’ of April 2016; notes the importance of promoting closer humanitarian-development links and the need to engage with different partners – governments, local authorities, civil society, including refugees themselves, and the private sector – to develop targeted evidence-based strategies to tackle this challenge; whereas the aim of all such measures should be to restrict migration to Europe in so far as possible and to provide incentives for keeping people where they are, so they can be involved in developing their countries to the full;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that children – particularly unaccompanied ones –, people with disabilities and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to abuse, including sexual and gender-based violence, even once they have reached places deemed secure; calls for these groups to be given special assistance and humanitarian protection as part of their resettlementin their countries of origin;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting to Address Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants of 19 September 2016 and the hosting of the Leaders’ Summit by the USA, as migration flows are a global responsibility which demand a global response and enhanced cooperation between all stakeholders; welcomes the outcome of these summits as the expression of a political commitment of unprecedented force, initiating the path towards a truly international sharing of responsibilities for refugees and large migration movements; regrets however the lack of specific pledges or legally binding commitments in terms of aid or reform, which are needed to close the current gap between rhetoric and reality; calls on all the parties involved to ensure continued political engagement, funding and concrete acts of solidarity in support of host countries; calls for the EU and its Member States to take the lead in international efforts, particularly as regards ensuring that the agreements – including the future compacts on refugees and on safe, orderly and regular migration – are swiftly put into practice, establishing follow-up mechanisms as neededinsists that third countries should take on a larger share of the work of receiving migrants;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines that the resettlement of forcibly displaced persons is a responsibility of the international community; considers it crucial to implement as a matter of urgency a coordinated response in third countries to grant asylum for people in need of international protection, instead of leaving the burden on the front-line states or countries neighbouring conflict zones; highlights the fact that financial support is outpaced by the scope and scale of displacement, compounded by the lack of solutions to address the root causes of this forced displacement; stresses that third countries, in particular Arab states and especially Gulf states, must take their share of refugees and migrants, all the more so because they are culturally better placed to take in large numbers of these people, with whom they share traditions and languages;
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses nonetheless the need to find political solutions to violent conflicts and to invest in early-warning and conflict- prevention mechanisms so as to reduce them in the future; calls for the EU to take a more active and effective role in the field of prevention and mediation; stresses that the response to forced displacement needs to be rights-based and take account of the population’s vulnerabilities – in particular as regards women and minors – and not be limited to humanitarian assistance but also involve development actors; stresses that this is necessary in order to prevent the departure of active, educated and skilled people who are necessary for the development of these countries;
Amendment 313 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that EU external action should be forward-looking instead of mainly reactive with changing objectives in response to new crises; recalls that the migration phenomenon stems from a complex set of causes such as a growing population, poverty, insufficient job creation, political instability and climate change; stresses that upstream development measures should be taken to prevent whole population groups being forced into exile and migration;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for the establishment of a genuine, value-based common European migration policy – with adequate legal channels for migration as a sustainable long-term policy to promote growth and cohesion within the EU – in order to set a clear framework for EU relations with third countries; welcomes the EU Action Plan against migrant smuggling (2015- 2020), which envisages closer cooperation with third countries, but undcoercive policy to tackle human trafficking and the exploitation of poverty and for more deterlmines that the implementation of a common EU legal migration policy would be instrumental ind efforts to breaking the business model of smugglers;
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 389 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes that fulfilling the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development requires that the EU and partner countries integrate well-manageefforts to end migration dynamics into their respective sustainable development strategies;
Amendment 490 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
Amendment 516 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20