6 Amendments of Eduard KUKAN related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the EU is faced with multiple challenges that affect global stability and security and that can only be tackled with long-term and holistic external actions; recalls the ambition of EU leaders as expressed in the Rome Declaration to strive towards a Union that is ‘big on big issues and small on small ones’; calls for the multi-annual financial framework (MFF) to make this a reality by substantially increasing external action appropriations (Heading 4), thereby making common foreign policy a core EU function;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that increased funding is needed for an effective European response to modern challenges and to tackle Europe’s new priorities, which are reflected in the EU Global Strategy and the renewed European Neighbourhood policy, including development aid, human rights violations, bagood governance, security threats and armed conflicts, and natural disasters and climate change as well as the refugee and migratory challenges caused by these issues; stresses that the EU also needs to boost its institutional capacity in order to have greater influence in foreign and security policy;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls the importance of enhanced flexibility that allows for the mobilisation of additional resources to respond to unforeseen situations and use of uncommitted resources in following years; stresses, however, that increased flexibility should not be achieved at the expense of long-term policy objectives; calls for a considerable strengthening of the flexibility mechanisms (‘special instruments’) under the MFF while at the same time strengthening the strategic political guidelines;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. TSupports use of innovative forms of financial cooperation, such as blending grants and loans from international and European financing institutions, including the European Investment Bank; takes the view that the existing EU Trust Funds should also prove their added value in their ability to mobilise additional funding; notes that a simple relabeling or restructuring of existing EU funding for political purposes does not represent increases per se, and creates an additional layer of complexity in terms of democratic oversight and budgetary scrutiny; emphasises the need for increased parliamentary scrutiny of activities under EU Trust Funds and the EU Facility for Refugees in Turkey;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Maintains that EU external financing instruments are essential for effective EU external action in particular in the European Neighbourhood (European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI)) and pre- accession countries (Instrument for Pre- accession Assistance II); calls for enhancing coherence and coordination between the external financing instruments; points out that the ENI should take account of the increased emphasis on democratisation, stabilisation, peace processes, post-crisis reconstruction and resilience;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls for closing the gap between the EU strategic political priorities and the external financing instruments;