1 Amendments of Corina CREȚU related to 2011/2073(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Asks for the EU budget to support actions designed to anticipate disasters, prepare for them, avert them and react more quickly to them, as well as those enabling greater flexibility in launching development measures as a means of emerging from crisis situations; finds it regrettable that concrete progress on the link between emergency aid, rehabilitation and development remains limited despite the many political commitments made in recent years; calls therefore for more resources to be deployed to guarantee continuity of aid in the transition phase between emergency and development, and for thought to be given to achieving greater flexibility and complementarity of the existing financial mechanisms, including the resources of the European Development Fund (EDF); calls for particular care for children but also expectant mothers and mothers of young children with regard to the provision of food, clothing, evacuation and transportation as well as medical facilities in order to avoid unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, as priority areas under the existing financial mechanisms;