Activities of Santiago FISAS AYXELÀ related to 2012/2002(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Future of EU development policy - 2015 - European Year for Development (debate)
Amendments (5)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes the Commission’s intention to promote ‘inclusive and sustainable growth in the service of human development’, but emphasises that, from a development perspective, this new instrument should have no objective besides that of the economic and social advancement, and the fight against inequality, of the most deprived;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that the Commission makes poverty a central issue in its new policy of ‘differentiation’; observes, however, that 70 % of people whose income is below the poverty threshold live in middle-income countries, many of whom are vulnerable, and hence deplores the fact that the poor in those countries continue to be deprived of the benefits of economic growth;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Requests the Commission, therefore, to negotiate a roadmap for the gradual reduction of Official Development Assistance (ODA) with middle-income countries; also requests that this gradual reduction is always carried out taking into account the principle of aid predictability;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Considers it essential thatappropriate to evaluate the need for an international conference to be held with the BRICS countries which would focus, on the one hand, on the future financing of the MDGs, and, on the other hand, promote triangular cooperation arrangements involving one northern country donor, one emerging country and one developing country;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Would like the Agenda for Change to specify the important and independent role of civil society and regional and local authorities and civil society, not only in implementing development programmes and projects, but also as fundamental players in the process of developing development policies;