Activities of Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas 2015 marks the 40th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the EU and China; whereas the EU-China Strategic Partnership is of key importance to relations between the EU and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and to finding mutual answers to a range of global concerns, particularly how to combat climate change;

2015/09/22
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas China is pressing for statutory investment protection ~~backed by~~during the negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty (BIT); whereas the Commission favours investor- state-dispute settlement (ISDS) procedures ~~dur~~ing th~~e negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty (BIT)~~is regard;

2015/09/22
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the financial reform undertaken by the Chinese authorities has led to a rise in non-dollar-denominated international payments; whereas the Chinese currency has become the world’s fifth most widely used currency for international payments; whereas 25% of China’s reserves are held in euros; whereas Europe’s stock exchanges are now finally interlinked with Beijing; whereas in one week the Shanghai stock exchange recently lost the equivalent of 10 times Greece’s debts over 30 years; whereas China’s devaluation policy is cause to review EU economic policy so as to practise ecological and social protectionism at the EU’s external borders;

2015/09/22
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas, following enlargement, the EU overtook Japan to become China’s largest trading partner; whereas, at the same time, China rose from being the EU’s third trading partner to become its second largest, after the USA;

2015/09/22
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas President Xi Jinping launched the ‘Chinese Dream’, which is aimed at crevitalising the Chinese nation inside and outside the PRC by strengthening the power monopoly of the CPC, re- ideologising the party, the state and society and increasing the authority of the party leaderating a modern, wealthy and powerful China so as to maintain social stability for a population faced with growing problems of employment, housing and pollution;

2015/09/22
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas China’s family planning policy has caused a rapid ageing process among the population since the 1980s, with over 200 million citizens now over 60 years old; whereas, furthermore, the relaxation of the one-child policy has not succeeded in halting the serious dearth of women, as Chinese society continues to attach greater importance to the birth of male children;

2015/09/22
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas environmental degradation in China has taken dramatic proportions ~~and requi~~; whereas ~~powerful and targeted government action~~an ambitious and legally binding agreement cannot be reached at COP 21 without Chinese engagement;

2015/09/22
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. whereas ~~in the wake of the Ukraine crisis~~the war-mongering policy implemented by the European Union and the USA in dealing with the Ukraine crisis contributed to the rapprochement between Russia and China and stepped up their mutual relations in an unprecedented way;

2015/09/22
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital O

O. whereas dialogue with the Chinese Ggovernment ~~acknowledges~~is important in ensuring the recognition of the importance and even the universality of human rights~~, but prefers to present this as an aspiration rather than a binding norm for the present~~;

2015/09/22
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital R

R. whereas ~~Tibetans express their cultural identity through the Lhakar movement (‘white Wednesday’) by wearing only Tibetan clothes, sp~~the US government has provided financial and political support to the Dalai Lama for many years, a fact that has no beakring on~~ly Tibetan and eating only Tibetan food each Wednesday~~ the situation of Tibetans in China;

2015/09/22
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses the ~~need for EU Member States to speak with one voice to the Chinese Government, particularly in view of Beijing’s present diplomatic dynamism; deplo~~importance of common ground and sustainable and respectful dialogue with China on international and economic issues, including the respect and promotion of human rights and universal values, above and beyond historical and political disputes ; regrets the lack of profound debate ~~and close coordination at EU level~~ regarding Member States’ membership of the AIIB;

2015/09/22
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Underlines the Chinese interest in strategic infrastructure investments in Europe; concludes, with regard to Beijing’s demand for ISDS procedures as an essential element of a BIT, that Brussels should reciprocally demand that provisions be included in the BIT that guarantee better access for and fairer treatmeCriticises the emergence of free trade and investment agreements and bodies for the settlement of disputes between EU Member States and multinationals, which undermine democracy and the sovereignty of ~~EU companies on the Chinese market~~peoples and encourage social dumping;

2015/09/18
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Notes that President Xi Jinping is trying to give a new ~~attractive~~ face to Chinese politics through an attitude of openness and to impress world leaders by projecting both accessibility and powerful self- confidence; points out, however, that President Xi is not the new attractive face of Chinese politics for; calls on President Xi to make arrangements for ongoing dialogue with the country’s civil rights activists, lawyers, journalists, bloggers and academics, who find their freedom curbed ~~in a way not seen since decades~~;

2015/09/18
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Observes that~~, although~~ the targets of the anti- corruption campaign extend to the highest political level , these seem to be limited to the allies of President Xi’s main rivals in the CPC; considers that this fierce ongoing anti-corruption campaign is, at the same time, serving to win back popular trust in the CPC, to discipline bureaucracy and to eliminateand that serious efforts to combat corruption and bureaucracy must be encouraged and must not be limited to the allies of President Xi’s main rivals in~~side~~ the CPC;

2015/09/18
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

~~16. Draws Beijing’s attention to the indispensable role of the US and the EU with regard to China’s modernisation goals, given its support for Putin against the West;~~deleted

2015/09/18
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. ~~Notes that a strong~~Calls for efforts to be made to lessen the current contradiction ~~exists~~ between the official Chinese aspiration to the universality of human rights and the worsening human rights situation;

2015/09/18
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. ~~Criticis~~Deplores the fact that in China freedom of religion is not a right, but a matter for the state, which sets the limits of what is permissible; supports the ~~resistance of Chinese churches against the government’s renewed~~principle of a secular strate~~gy of ‘sinicisation’ of Christianity; condemns, in particular,~~; condemns the ongoing anti- Christian campaign in the province of Zhejiang, during which dozens of churches were demolished and more than 400 crosses removed in 2014; ~~shares the concerns of churches about other provinces where there is a strong Christian presence;~~

2015/09/18
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. ~~Protests against the marginalisation of Tibetan culture by the CPC and u~~Urges the Chinese authorities to respect the freedom of expression, association and religion of the Tibetan people and also urges the United States to stop interfering in the China-Tibet conciliation process;

2015/09/18
Committee: AFET

2015/2003(INI)

Javier COUSO PERMUY, Pablo IGLESIAS, Sabine LÖSING, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. ~~Advocates~~Opposes the negotiatingon of a bilateral investment agreement between the EU and Taiwan~~, given that Taiwan is, at regional level, the best gateway and springboard to China for EU businesses~~;

2015/09/18
Committee: AFET

2014/2228(INI)

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Believes that the United States is the EU's key strategic partner~~Regrets the subordinate role to United States’ foreign affairs policies that the EU plays; stresses that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the most significant recent EU-US project and will ~~reinvigorate the transatlantic partnership as a whole, beyond its trade aspects; emphasises that its successful conclusion is of high geopolitical importance at a moment whe~~ensure the US hegemonic power in decline in the current multilateral context and will consolidate the EU geopolitical subordination theo US i~~s pivoting to Asia and concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership; underlines that the TTIP will have a positive impact on jobs and growth for the two economies, which have both been hit by the crisis~~nterests, beyond its trade aspects; underlines that the TTIP will benefit mainly big transnational corporations and will have a negative environmental, economic and social impact for workers and peoples in the EU and the US, which have both been hit by the systemic crisis, and also on the rest of the world;

2015/03/02
Committee: AFET

2014/2228(INI)

Javier COUSO PERMUY, Pablo IGLESIAS, Sabine LÖSING, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Highlights that the conclusion of the TTIP ~~creates the prospect of a broad economic space, which would include third countries with which the EU and the US have close trade and economic relations~~will be a significant attempt to impose a global model of free trade and investments; calls on the EU and the US to immediately suspend the current negotiations on a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership; is convinced that they should henceforth focus their trade policy on ensuring that multilateral trade relations at all levels are sustainable and equitable;

2015/03/02
Committee: AFET

2014/2228(INI)

Javier COUSO PERMUY, Pablo IGLESIAS, Sabine LÖSING, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)

3c. Is convinced that one of the main aims of the TTIP is to reinforce corporation powers over international and national law; underlines the need to dismantle the excessive power held by the transnational corporations; in this sense calls for a binding international code for corporations that obligates them to respect human rights;

2015/03/02
Committee: AFET

2014/2228(INI)

Javier COUSO PERMUY, Pablo IGLESIAS, Sabine LÖSING, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that the EU's energy supply largely depends on foreign sources; ~~emphasises the considerable contribution the TTIP could make to the EU's energy supply diversification and to its energy security by, inter alia, lifting licensing requirements for US~~considers that the conclusion of the TTIP narrows the access of the European Union to its more reliable and natural energy suppliers; is highly concerned about the environmental consequences of the TTIP related to the expansion of fracking, offshore oil drilling and gas explortsation;

2015/03/02
Committee: AFET

2014/2228(INI)

Javier COUSO PERMUY, Pablo IGLESIAS, Sabine LÖSING, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6

6. ~~Welcom~~Deplores the ~~fact that the Commission is taking steps aiming to improve the transparency of the~~secrecy and lack of transparency of the Commission during the TTIP negotiations.

2015/03/02
Committee: AFET

2011/0261(CNS)

Younous OMARJEE, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Jacky HÉNIN

Proposal for a directive
Recital 11

(11) In the interest of equal treatment, a single tax rate should apply ~~within each category of transactions, namely~~for trade in financial instruments other than derivatives, on the one hand, and for the purchase/sale, transfer, conclusion and modification of derivatives agreements.

2012/03/08
Committee: ECON

2011/0261(CNS)

Younous OMARJEE, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Jacky HÉNIN, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2

2. This Directive shall apply to all financial transactions, on condition that at least one party to the transaction is established in a Member State ~~and~~or that a financial institution established in the territory of a Member State is party to the transaction, acting either for its own account or for the account of another person, or is acting in the name of a party to the transaction.

2012/03/08
Committee: ECON

2011/0261(CNS)

Younous OMARJEE, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Jacky HÉNIN

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 4 – point a

a) primary market transactions referred to in point (c) of Article 5 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1287/2006, except for the issue and redemption of shares and units of undertakings for collective investments in transferable securities (UCITS) as defined in Article 1(2) of Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and the Council and alternative investment funds (AIF) as defined in Article 4(1)(a) of Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and the Council;deleted

2012/03/08
Committee: ECON

2011/0261(CNS)

Younous OMARJEE, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Jacky HÉNIN

Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 4 – point d a (new)

d(a) transactions involving payment for goods imported or exported, travel-related transactions carried out by private individuals, transactions involving the transfer of sums earned in the form of wages or salaries and transactions carried out as part of humanitarian, development or international aid activities.

2012/03/08
Committee: ECON

2011/0261(CNS)

Younous OMARJEE, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Jacky HÉNIN

Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point c a (new)

c(a) foreign exchange market transactions which are primarily speculative in nature.

2012/03/08
Committee: ECON

2011/0261(CNS)

Younous OMARJEE, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Jacky HÉNIN

Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point a

a) 0.12% in respect of the financial transactions referred to in Article 5;

2012/03/08
Committee: ECON

2011/0261(CNS)

Younous OMARJEE, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Jacky HÉNIN

Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point b

b) 0.012% in respect of financial transactions referred to in Article 6.

2012/03/08
Committee: ECON

2011/0261(CNS)

Younous OMARJEE, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Jacky HÉNIN

Proposal for a directive
Article 11 a (new)

Article 11(a) Income from the financial transaction tax Income received from the financial transaction tax shall be exclusively used for the funding of policy in the fields of welfare, education, research, health, culture, the environment and renewable energy sources.

2012/03/08
Committee: ECON

2011/0261(CNS)

Younous OMARJEE, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Jacky HÉNIN

Proposal for a directive
Article 12

Other taxes on financial transactions Member States shall not maintain or introduce taxes on financial transactions other than the FTT object of this Directive or value-added tax as provided for in Council Directive 2006/112/EC.Article 12 deleted

2012/03/08
Committee: ECON

2011/0261(CNS)

Younous OMARJEE, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Jacky HÉNIN

Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1

Member States shall adopt and publish, by 31 December 20132 at the latest, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive. They shall forthwith communicate to the Commission the text of those provisions and a correlation table between those provisions and this Directive.

2012/03/08
Committee: ECON

2011/0261(CNS)

Younous OMARJEE, Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON, Marie-Christine VERGIAT, Patrick LE HYARIC, Jacky HÉNIN

Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2

They shall apply those provisions from 1 January 20143.

2012/03/08
Committee: ECON

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A

A. whereas the UN system, with the legitimacy that stems from its global membership, ~~continues to~~must be central for shaping and enhancing global decision- making and facing global challenges through effective multilateralism based on international law, the principles enshrined in the UN Charter as well as the common commitment to the implementation of the goals adopted at the UN World Summit 2005,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Recital B

B. whereas, according to the Treaty of Lisbon, the European Union will now be represented in external relations and international fora by a single entity, the Vice-President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy (‘the Vice- President/High Representative’) supported by a new EU diplomatic service; whereas the Treaty of Lisbon has also brought changes to the prerogatives of the Union’s external policies such as the principle that development policy should comply with the Union’s external action,deleted

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON, Helmut SCHOLZ, Sabine LÖSING

Proposal for a recommendation
Recital C

C. whereas ~~increasing and uncontrolled nuclear proliferation~~nuclear power poses an ever greater threat to the ~~free~~ world; whereas ~~the reinforcement of all three pillars of the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), namely non-proliferation, disarmament and cooperation on the civilian use of nuclear energy, will~~a gradual and of necessity reciprocal relinquishment of nuclear power in both the military and the civil spheres is a sine qua non, and must be central at the upcoming NPT Review Conference,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Recital D

D. whereas, by supporting the Millennium Declaration on development in the year 2000, the European Union undertook to halve the incidence of extreme poverty worldwide by the year 2015, while concentrating its efforts on the progress of the eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), and whereas these are minimum and conspicuously imperfect objectives, and achieving them cannot in itself be regarded as cause for satisfaction,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Recital E

E. whereas a new impetus ismust be given by the institutional innovations on the gender architecture within the UN system in order to achieve a holistic and coherent approach to gender mainstreaming and women’s empowerment,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Recital F

F. whereas negotiations on a comprehensive and legally binding international post-2012 agreement on climate change should result in an agreement in Mexico City in December 2010; whereas climate change may exacerbate the potential for conflicts over natural resources; and whereas the peoples’ summit on climate justice to be held in Cochabamba on 19-22 April 2010 is an initiative that should be taken into account in these negotiations,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a

(a) to strengthen, through enhanced dialogue with key partners, effective multilateralism in order to build a stronger UN; to foster the ~~common, coherent and consistent~~ EU approach at the UN that third parties expect, that is to say an approach that is coherent, consistent and, above all, mindful of the common interest,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point b

(b) ~~to continue~~ to project itself within the UN system as an honest broker between different membership groups in order to promote common understanding and greater cohesion across the three pillars of the United Nations; to actively promote and systematically address the importance of ~~effective~~a multilateralism that is respectful of the sovereign equality of states in its bilateral dialogues;,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point c

(c) to push for solutions that allow the Union’s empowered external role and increased responsibility to be more visible for the UN Member States, especially with regard to the allocation of adequate speaking time and the right of initiative at the UNGA; to make comprehensive use of all European external action tools to perform effective and coherent EU actions at the UN and to ensure that the EU Delegation to the United Nations in New York is adequately equipped to cope with its enhanced role, particularly in terms of staff,deleted

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point d

(d) to ensure that the Union’s values and interests are represented in an effective and coherent way in the UN system; in this context, to strive to ensure that nominations from EU Member States for important UN posts, which have been agreed amongst EU Member Sgeneral interest of the peoples of the world tatkes~~, receive the Union’s full support; to project itself as a cohesive force that is able to deliver, especially on significant votes, in order to arrive at unified positions~~ priority over all else in the UN system,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point e

(e) to establish, ~~in cooperation with the new US administration~~with all the Member States, a common agenda of short and long-term goals with regard to multilateral issues within the UN framework,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point f

(f) to seek a more substantive dialogue with ~~emerging~~all global and regional players~~, like China, India and Brazil,~~ with the aim of finding common solutions to global challenges within a multilateral framework that is respectful of the sovereign equality of states,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point g

(g) to improve~~, given the EU’s new potential for internal coordination and external representation, the Union’s long- term planning specifically with~~ the Union’s long-term planning specifically with regard to social and environmental issues, and also with a view to pregpar~~d to~~ing for major upcoming UN events such as the MDG Review and the NPT Review Conference in 2010, as well as the reviews of the Human Rights Council and the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) in 2011, and the Mexico climate summit,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point h

(h) to take a lead in the current debate on global governance and to ensure th~~at clear bridges exist between the work of the G20 and the UN, as the~~e primacy of the UN, the only legitimate ~~body~~framework for global action;,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point i

(i) to urge the Vice-President/High Representative to build a more cohesive position among EU Member States on the reform of the UN Security Council and to advance this position at the UN; to emphasise that an EU seat in the Security Council remains a long-term goal of the European Union, provided this is achieved without detriment to the influence and weight of EU Member States within this body,deleted

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point j

(j) to step up efforts to democratise and revitalise the UN General Assembly in concerted action with ~~key partners by translating suggestions from the Ad Hoc Working Groups and recommendations by UN officials such as the President of the 64th UNGA into concrete steps~~civil society in order to be able in the long term to enhance the Assembly’s role, authority, performance and efficiency, ~~as well as to increase the transparency of its work,~~

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point k

(k) to contribute to implementing ~~the~~ a genuinew gender architecture as well as relevant institutional innovations with a view to creating a more coherent composite entity as soon as possible that works towards promoting gender equality and the protection and empowerment of women, including in conflict and post- crisis situations; to make it its mission to set an example in this field and to ensure equality within the European Union, including within the Commission,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point l

(l) to ~~fully support the efforts of~~ask the UN Secretary General to ~~better~~ redefine the notion of the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), ~~to successfully implement R2P with~~placing the ~~UN system and to stress its importance in preventing conflicts~~emphasis on the co-responsibility of sovereign states for preventing conflict and avoiding all interference,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point m

(m) to contribute to enhancing UN peacekeeping capacities in order to diminish the risk of overstretching and to promote the incorporation of the peacebuilding concept into peacemaking action; to take a lead in finding a new horizon for UN peacekeeping by emphasising civilian-military synergies and by improving coordination between various regional partners, in particular between the EU and the African Unioninsist that the UN continue to be strictly the only framework for peacekeeping initiatives and to condemn any so-called peacekeeping initiative taken without the agreement or against the advice of the UN,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point n

(n) to improve, within the framework of the EU-UN partnership, joint deployments in UN-mandated peace missions; to encourage the respective UN bodies to further strengthen international and regional peacemaking partnerships, especially in order to ensure the best possible use of limited resources,deleted

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point o

(o) to strive for a ~~coherent EU position and actions with regard to th~~n appropriate review of the PBC in 2011; to support efforts to expand the role of the PBC in facilitating and ensuring the sustainability of peace agreements and to strengthen its advisory role vis-à-vis the Security Council,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON, Sabine LÖSING

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point p

(p) to work coherently, consistently and efficiently with EU Member States towards achieving a successful outcome of the 2010 NPT Review Conference; to commit to the aim of ~~complete~~gradual nuclear disarmament in line with UN Security Council resolution 1887 endorsing the goal of a nuclear- weapons-free world once the conditions are met; to deepen its dialogue with all nuclear powers to pursue a common agenda aimed at progressive reduction of the nuclear warheads stockpile whilst improving the means for verification; to support the US administration in its declared commitment to global nuclear disarmament encouraged by President Obama’s vision ofbased on strict reciprocity between all states at all stages, with the aim of achieving in the long term a world without nuclear weapons,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point q

(q) to strengthen cooperation and coordination with key partners in the fight against terrorism on the basis of full respect for international law and human rights, and to support the UN’s multilateral counter-terrorism efforts ~~as well as the effective implementation of its Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy~~while respecting the sovereignty of states and human rights, including those relating to personal data; to cooperate closely when ~~the~~ever lives ~~of hostages are at risk~~are at stake; to reject any attempt to use the terrorist threat for interventionist purposes with no other aim but to serve the interests of European elites;

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point r

(r) to ~~exercise leadership in strengthening the effectiveness of UN development assistance since the current fragmentation may lead to progressive~~combat resolutely any attempt at marginalisation of the UN as a primary actor in development; to insist on a more coherent UN programming and operational framework to help ~~maximise the impact of UN development assistance~~ensure that its development assistance has a real and beneficial impact in terms of the interests of all nations,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point s

(s) to reassert the principle that development aid policy ~~should~~must be designed in the framework of an equitable partnership with recipient countries and with absolute concern for social and environmental justice,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point t

(t) in preparation for the MDG Review Conference, to reconfirm its commitment to the MDG targets to be reached by 2015; to urge all partners to do the same, pointing to the fact that donors are falling short on their 2005 pledges on annual aid flows and that overall progress has been too slow for most of the goals to be met by 2015, which are in any case minimal; to call as a matter of urgency for the MDGs to be completed and, in particular, for cancellation of the Southern countries’ debt and recognition of the environmental debt of the Northern countries vis-à-vis the Southern countries to be included in them,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point u

(u) to insist ~~not to use MDG funds to tackle~~ that the MDGs should be revised ambitiously and withe consequences of climate change for the poor; instead, to mobilise additional funds to reach goals where progress has been extremely limited, such as on MDG5 (maternal health); to focus attention on reaching particularly important MDGs;cern for the general interests of the world, and that additional funds should be allocated to fighting climate change; stresses in this context the usefulness of the Ecuadorian Government’s Yasuni-ITT initiative and of the international community’s common financial contribution mechanism, which is based on the UN principle of shared responsibility for environmental problems,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point v

(v) to urge the Vice-President/High Representative to spdeakl with ~~one voice on behalf of all EU Member States when addressing human rights issues, and also to call on each Member State to emphasise those unified EU positions in order to give them more weight~~human rights in an impartial fashion, and not to give way to political bias,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point y

(y) to ~~strongly advocate that the UNGA continue~~encourage the UNGA to address country -specific situations in impartial resolutions while working to avoid the use of ‘No Action Motions’,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point aa

(aa) to strive to ~~empower more wo~~give women the same responsibilities as men so they can fulfil their vital role in contributing to sustainable peace, security and reconciliation as well as to promote their participation in mediation and conflict resolution, also in view of the upcoming 10th anniversary of UNSC Resolution 1325; to encourage th~~ose~~e European Union and its EU Member States ~~who have not ye~~to become more active in this respect and to produce national action plans (NAPs) to implement the resolution;

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a c

(ac) to promote athe debate with regard to the forthcoming Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP16) in Mexico in December 2010 ~~and to start building consensus on the adoption of a new~~with the aim of establishing a binding international agreement on climate change for the period post-2012; to promote in this framework the Bolivian initiative of a peoples’ summit for climate justice, which will be a key point in this debate,

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2010/2020(INI)

Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a d

(ad) to avoid the organisational and structural mistakes of COP15 in Copenhagen, which failed to deliver an international binding agreement, by suggesting specific voting rules, based on significant majorities, in order to facilitate progress in the negotiationsstate the need to set up a United Nations body for the environment;

2010/03/01
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the war in Afghanistan constitutes aggression and violates international law; and whereas the international community has implicitly recognised that nine years of war and international involvement have n~~ot succeeded in~~either eliminat~~ing~~ed the Taliban insurgency ~~and bringing~~nor brought peace and stability to the country – quite the contrary,

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas security conditions have deteriorated, ~~along with the popular consensus the coalition’s presence enjoyed at one stage,~~

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas the ~~main~~official objective of the EUPOL Afghanistan mission is to contribute to the establishment of an Afghan police system in accordance with international standards,

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Urges, therefore, NATO and all coalition forces in Afghanistan to return to a situation whereby they provide their own military supply chain, as soon as practicable, and to withdraw at the earliest possible date;

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. ~~Fears that these errors have fuelled the resurgence of the Taliban in over half the country, exacerbating the deterioration in security;~~deleted

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Believes, too, that this, plus the poor performance of international aid and of the Afghan government in delivering it, and the increased use of lethal force by coalition troops, has further alienated ordinary Afghans;deleted

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31a. Deplores the fact that these mistakes have fuelled a resurgence by the Taliban in more than half the country and have aggravated a security situation already worsened by the maintenance of the military presence and the increased use of lethal weapons by the coalition troops;

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Recognises that the only possible solution is a political one, and that negotiations with the Taliban – which should take place against the backdrop of a ceasefire – lie at the heart of this process, with the aim of forming a government of national unity which can put an end to the civil war that has raged in the country for almost three decades;deleted

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Firmly believes that the EU’s three main prerequisites for the peace process must be an Afghan commitment to banishing Al Qaeda from the country, the elimination of poppy cultivation, and the will to establish respect for fundamental human rightsNATO must withdraw its troops as soon as possible;

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

34. Believes, too, that ~~all other issues should be left to the will and capacity of the Afghan people themselves;~~ the Afghan people are sovereign and must be able to exercise their democratic rights entirely independently;

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Stresses the ~~key role of Pakistan in the process, as there is no incentive for the Taliban to undertake any serious negotiations as long as the Pakistan border remains open to them~~important role that Pakistan can play in the peace process;

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39

39. Stresses~~, however,~~ that for peace to be allowed to take root in Afghanistan ~~will require all it~~, the USA, the EU and all Afghanistan’s neighbours will have to agree to a common position of non-interference;

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

40. Calls on the EU to support the peace process unreservedly, allowing the Karzai Government full autonomy in its choice of dialogue partners, ~~but insisting that the Afghan Constitution and respect for fundamental hum~~and withdrawing its troops, but insisting that respect for the UN Charter and r~~ights~~esolutions should form the overall legal and political framework for the peace process;

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43

43. Points out that the EU Member State military presence in Afghanistan has the objective of combating the threat of international terrorism and tackling the fight against drug cultivation and trafficking;deleted

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44

44. ~~Stresses that this presence is totally unrelated to recent plans by the Afghan Government to exploit its potentially vast mining and minerals industry;~~deleted

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45

45. Stresses, too, that these resources on Afghan territory belong exclusively to the people of Afghanistan, and that ‘protection’ of these assets can never be used as an excuse for the permanent presence of foreign troops on Afghan soil;

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47

47. Stresses that Afghanistan must be provided with a police force capable of ensuring a minimal standard of security ~~able to permit a subsequent withdrawal of the foreign military presence from the country~~;

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49

49. Believes that the vagueness of EUPOL’s remit and the uncertainty of its achievements to date depreivent it ~~from acquiring the legitimacy it deserves~~of any legitimacy;

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50

50. ~~Notes from~~Is disturbed by the ISAF sofigurces indicating that of the 94 000 men in the Afghan National Police almost 90% are illiterate, 20% are drug users, and over 30% go missing after a year, not to mention the 1 000 or so killed in service every year;

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53

53. Is ~~equally disturb~~shocked to learn of the poor financial controls being applied to these private companies, and cites a 2006 joint US Defense and State Department report, whose findings are still valid today, which found that the police force in Afghanistan was incapable of carrying out routine law enforcement work and that no effective field training programme existed; ~~acknowledges General McChrystal’s attempts, during his tenure, to exercise some degree of control over the private foreign militias operating with impunity in Afghanistan;~~

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55

55. Proposes that a large-scale training programme be launched and placed, in the first instance, under NATO command, and that EUPOL and national police mission staff be integrated into this new training mission, thereby eliminating duplication, waste and fragmentation;deleted

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2217(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58

58. Opines that a large, well-resourced military force should, subsequently, have found it easy to sustain this opium-free situation through local agricultural development projects, protected by its troops against the Taliban and local warlords;deleted

2010/10/07
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the European Union must adopt a s~~trategic~~olidarity-based and socially and ecologically sustainable view of its relations with its southern neighbours and move beyond cooperation driven solely by considerations pertaining to security ~~and migration~~, migration, and by commercial strategies that constantly aim for maximum profit, taking no account of the interests of the people,

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) ~~is a means of boosting the regional and multilateral dimension of Euro-Mediterranean relations, opening up fresh prospects for the establishment of an area of peace, security and prosperi~~must set itself the aim of eradicating poverty and ensuring an equitable distribution of wealth and a dignified life, in a peaceful, socially and environmentally healthy society, for the 800 million people in the region,

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the neighbourhood policy conducted with the Mediterranean countries has its limitations and, by placing the emphasis on bilateral relations, ~~is proving imbalanced and unable to contribute to a shared process of significant reform in the region~~free trade and outsourcing of the management of migration flows, is proving imbalanced and unfair, and is contributing significantly to the dismantling of state power,

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. having regard to the significant disparities between European Union Member States and Mediterranean third countries and the ~~worrying structural problems of a socio-economic and institutional nature~~current economic, social and ecological crisis, which calls for ~~strong~~appropriate responses in the ~~shared~~general interest of ~~all the states participating in the UfM~~the peoples of the Euro- Mediterranean region and the peoples of the world,

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the UfM’s two major innovations, namely its institutional set-up (co-presidency, joint permanent committee and secretariat) and operational focus (integration projects), must function equitably, effectively and transparently, and must be grounded in a different political project from the Barcelona Process that takes account of the failure of the capitalist system and its social and environmental consequences,

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the UfM’s secretariat needs to become the structure’s linchpin, whereas its effectiveness will depend on the ability of its staff to work in~~dependentl~~ harmony with civil society and whereas the presence of a senior Israeli official and a senior Palestinian official cooperating within an international organisation at regional level is unprecedented and gives grounds for hope,

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital J

J. whereas Mediterranean regions are directly affected by ~~transnational issu~~issues of general interest such as water management, pollution, ~~road and maritime networks and migration flows~~transport networks, the protection of migrants, climate change, and whereas local and regional authorities play a key role in facilitating the development of ~~sustainable spatial planning policies and the implementation of practical project~~ecologically and socially viable policies that are appropriate to local characteristics,

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital M

M. having regard to the need to avoid any duplication or overlap of existing political instruments or institutional levels, to ensure ~~consistency among the numerous~~the creation of new instruments for Euro-Mediterranean cooperation and to ~~build on the achievements of~~move beyond the Barcelona Process,

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital N

N. having regard to the recent entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, on the one hand, and the ongoing debate about the operation and financing of the UfM, on the other, which make it essential for the European Parliament to monitor developments connected with the UfM as closely as possible in order to help ensure the outright success of the Barcelona Summitongoing debate about the operation and financing of the UfM,

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls on the heads of state and government within the UfM, who will meet in Barcelona on 7 June 2010, to do their utmost – after two difficult years – to make this meeting a success~~, with a view to setting up the UfM’s institutions and implementing major project~~ for the people, by reviewing their project and moving beyond the Barcelona Process;

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Calls on the governments of the UfM member countries to establish an ongoing and open political dialogue characterised by mutual respect and understanding, and reaffirms its desire to see the promotion of democracy, the general interest and respect for human rights and individual and collective freedoms made the central focus of that dialogue;

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Is of the opinion that political tensions and regional conflicts in the Mediterranean basin must not hinder tangible progress towards multilateral cooperation in specific sectors, and that it is through the implementation of major integration projects that the UfM will help to develop a climate of trust conducive to pursuing ~~common security goals in a spirit of solidarity and peac~~the goals it should have of climate and social justice, peace and quality of life;

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 - point 1

- providing the secretariat with the necessary resources to operate effectively and ~~independently~~under the responsibility of the elected representatives of the sovereign Euro- Mediterranean peoples;

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 - point 3

- ensuring joint representation of EU participants (the Member States, the Council and the Commission) in accordance with the Lisbon Treaty, while at the same time fostering active participation by all the Mediterranean third countries;deleted

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 - point 4

~~- stepping up coordination with EU projects and programmes approved by the specialised ministerial conferences;~~deleted

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 - point 5

- allowing ‘variable-geometry’ cooperation arrangements open to countries wishing to work together on projects of common interest, on condition that they are not carried out under pressure or against the interests of all the Euro-Mediterranean peoples;

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 - point 6

- ensuring smooth cooperation between the secretariat and the European Commission, and clearly defining their respective remits along with an enhanced role for Euro- Mediterranean members of parliament;

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 - point 7

- ensuring the UfM’s democratic legitimacy in such a way that decisions are taken in a transparent manner, and that the European Parliament, the EMPA and the national parliaments are systematically involved in the decision-making processes;

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Considers it essential to ~~guarantee, increase and mobilise project funding through a c~~redefine the funding of the UfM as quickly as possible, taking inspiration fromb in~~ation of public and private funds; in this context:~~novative mechanisms such as the Bank of the South in Latin America;

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 - point 1

~~- calls on the UfM’s members to allocate project funding commensurate with the issues at stake, and expects an historic commitment from participants at the Barcelona Summit;~~deleted

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 - point 2

- emphasises that, in the period leading up to the end of the 2007-2013 financial perspectives, any financial contributions made by the Union should not affect existing or planned Euro-Mediterranean regional projects; underlines the need to increase substantially the funds allocated to the UfM in the EU’s forthcoming financial perspectives for 2014-2020;deleted

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 - point 3

- welcomes the steps taken by financial institutions at national, European (EIB- FEMIP, EBRD) and international (World Bank) level which are already active in the region, emphasises the need to identify synergies in connection with major projects, and proposes that a Euro- Mediterranean investment and development bank be set up to consolidate the North-South parity basis on which the UfM operates;deleted

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 - point 4

- welcomes the recent launch of investment funds for the financing of UfM projects, including the InfraMed fund for infrastructure projects, and calls on the various stakeholders to encourage the development of similar initiatives;deleted

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Encourages efforts to improve the economic and legal environment in third countries, making it a priority to set up viable and credible sub-regional financial institutions able to attract foreign investment; also calls for:deleted

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 - point 1

~~- the drafting of a common investment protection charter for Mediterranean third countries in order to harmonise and enhance such protection and encourage investment;~~deleted

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 - point 2

~~- the establishment of an insurance and financial guarantee system for investors, based on the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and tailored to the Euro-Mediterranean context;~~deleted

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. ~~Views it as regrettable that socio- economic and commercial aspects, such as direct foreign investment, employment, the informal economy and poverty reduction,~~Criticises the fact that aspects which are as just as important as the eradication of poverty were overlooked in the Paris declaration, and calls for this to be remedied at the Barcelona Summit;

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Emphasises the strategic importance of issues such as agriculture, food security, water and ~~rural~~balanced and viable development in Euro-Mediterranean countries, and calls for cooperation in the farming sector to be made a political priority; encourages the UfM member countries to ~~work on harmonising their position~~leave the WTO and move towards an ecologically viable agricultural policy which is in the cointexrest of ~~WTO negotiations and to move towards greater convergence among Euro- Mediterranean agricultural policie~~all; emphasises the need to relocate a certain number of production areas;

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

14. Calls for civil society, the social partners and the numerous professional and socio-professional networks developed as part of the Euro-Mediterranean partnership to be consulted regularly and involved in the UfM’s activities and projects; ~~encourages the establishment of a Mediterranean business leaders’ forum and a Euro-Mediterranean economic and social council;~~

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2215(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Calls on the Council, the Vice- President of the Commission/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and the Commission to take the necessary steps to ~~ensure coherent EU participation in the UfM, and~~achieve the establishment of a new UfM, so that a socially and ecologically just policy can be implemented and in order to involve Parliament in framing EUuropean policy;

2010/03/31
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas one of the key objectives of the biregional strategic partnership is a regional integration, w~~ith the conclusion of sub~~hich fully respects the regional ~~and bila~~integra~~l partnership agreements alongside strategic partnership~~tion organisations set up on both sides and the political projects upheld by their component states,

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital I

I. whereas the EU’s immigration policy is causing ~~gre~~legitimate concern in Latin America and agreements need to be reached that take into account the ~~Euro-Latin American partners’ legitimate~~overall interests onf th~~is very sensitive subject~~e peoples of both regions,

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital K

K. whereas innovation ~~and~~, knowledge , environmental planning and the fair distribution of wealth are fundamental instruments for eradicating poverty~~, combating~~ and hunger and attaining ~~sustainable development, as was noted by the most recent Ibero-American Summi~~ecologically and socially just sustainable development,

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Reiterates that support for the various regional integration processes in Latin America is a basic principle for the biregional strategic partnership and trusts that this biregional strategic partnership will lead to closer coordination of positions on crisis situations and issues of world importance, on the basis of ~~shared~~the values~~, interests~~ and concerns of all and in the interests of the peoples of both regions;

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for the new possibilities offered by the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty to be used ~~for the benefit of~~to adapt the biregional strategic partnership to the new political situation and to the needs of the sovereign peoples making up the two regions;

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Asks that the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy should ensure the unity, consistency and effectiveness of the Union's external action in relation to Latin America with the support of the European External Action Service (EEAS) and by playing an active part at the forthcoming EU-Latin American and Caribbean Summit in May 2010 in Madrid;deleted

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Calls in particular on the High Representative and the Council to set clear guidelines on the best way of working closely together in order to ~~foster effective multilateralism and~~ strengthen the United Nations' peacekeeping and peace consolidation capacities, particularly in the face of the military pressure exerted by the USA and its allies, such as Colombia, and of the danger to territorial security represented by the effects of climate change, and to tackle common threats to peace and security, within the framework of international law, including illicit drugs and arms trafficking, organised crime and terrorism, as decided in Lima;

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Recommends that a Euro-Latin American Charter for the Peace and Security of the peoples of both regions be adopted that, on the basis of the United Nations Charter and related international law, would include strategies and guidelines for ~~joint~~ political ~~and security~~ action in order to deal with the ~~common threats facing the members of the biregional strategic partnership~~social and environmental threats and risks of war facing these peoples;

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Urges that combating climate change and global warming should ~~remain a~~become a genuine priority on the political agenda between the EU and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, and ~~that additional efforts be made to meet the Copenhagen targets~~endorses the initiative of the Bolivian government concerning the Peoples' World Conference on Climate change and Mother Earth's Rights (Cochabamba, Bolivia) seeking to promote a world referendum of peoples on climate change, to map out an action plan towards the creation of a Climate Justice Tribunal and to define action and mobilisation strategies for the defence of life in the face of climate change and for the rights of ecosystem preservation;

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Recommends opening an innovative dialogue on energy ~~and energy supply and saving in order to combat climate change and move towards sustainable energy consumption~~, on the need to abandon fossil energy and develop renewables, on rationalising energy supply and on the search for energy saving in order to combat climate change and move towards world environmental planning with a view to promoting peoples’ quality of life; endorses, to that end, the Yasuní ITT initiative proposed by the Ecuadorian government, whereby the 850 million barrels of oil in the Yasuní Park, a nature reserve containing some of the greatest biodiversity in the world, could be left untouched;

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. ~~Reiterates its proposal for~~Proposes the creation of a Euro- Latin American global interregional partnership area based on ~~a 'WTO–Regionalism’ compatible model in two stage~~mutually supportive cooperation in the interest of the peoples of both regions;

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. In order to complete the first phase, firmly supports the resumption of negotiations on the EU-Mercosur Association Agreement, the conclusion of negotiations on the EU-Central America Association Agreement and the multi-party trade agreement between the EU and the countries of the Andean Community, before the Madrid summit, the revision of the 2003 political and cooperation agreement with the Andean Community and the deepening of the existing Association Agreements with Mexico and Chile;deleted

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Welcomes the efforts towards social cohesion made in recent years by the European Commission, the IDB, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Banka large number of Latin American governments, and recommends that the Eurosocial, URB- AL and EUrocLIMA programmes be renewed and stepped up in the general interest;

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. ~~Propo~~Stresses th~~at a biregional political dialogue be opened with new triangular approaches on issues, spheres and mat~~e importance of the UN framework for developing political dialogue between the staters ~~of common interest embracing EU-LAC-Asia, EU-LAC-Africa and EU-LAC-US, moving towards a Euro-Atlantic area compris~~and regions of the world ing the ~~United States, Latin America and the European Union~~general interest of its peoples;

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Stresses that the subregional partnership agreements currently being negotiated should ~~be concluded but warns that, where there are unbridgeable differences of opinion, alterna~~all be revised to bring about mutually supportive spoluitions should be sought - without losing sight of the overall strategic vision - in order not to isolate those countries that wish to establish closer political, commercial and social relations with the EUcal cooperation, caring for the interests of peoples while respecting the environment and the integrity of sovereign states;

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. ~~Welcomes the signing in November 2009 of a memorandum of understanding between the EIB and the Inter-American Development Bank and supports the efforts made~~Insists that the funding by the EIB ~~to finance~~of projects in Latin America~~, whilst pointing out that, if it is to fulfil its objectives, the EIB requires more funds and contributions from both the EU and its Member State~~ respect the rules of democratic transparency and that the payment of such funding be conditional on high social and environmental requirements;

2010/02/19
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the biregional strategic partnership between the EU and Latin America is crucial, and it is important for both regions to ~~continue deepening and improving this partnership~~improve this partnership and tailor it to the needs of the sovereign peoples of the two regions,

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas this biregional strategic partnership has achieved ~~significant~~notable progress since its first summit in 1999, in particular the creation of the EuroLat Assembly - the parliamentary arm of the biregional strategic partnership - at the Vienna summit, but there are still some steps that need to be taken and challenges that need to be faced,

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital G

G. whereas the EU is indeed the main donor of development aid, the main investor and the second largest trading partner in Latin America - and the main trading partner in Mercosur and Chile - ~~and, since the biregional strategic partnership was launched in 1999, it has financed projects and programmes worth a total of more than EUR 3 bill~~but, to date, it has also and above all been the biggest plunderer and polluter of the region,

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas recovery from worldwide recession will still be slow in 2010; whereas, although Latin America has withstood the crisis better than other advanced economies and average growth there in 2010 will reach almost 3 %, recovery will be very uneven and growth levels will not be high enough to produce a significant improvement in social conditions for its population, which still has far less social protection than its European counterpartonly be possible by rejecting the capitalist system once and for all, and establishing a system in which wealth is shared out fairly among the people and produced in a way that does not harm the environment, which belongs to us all,

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. ~~Welcom~~Deplores the Commission communication ‘The European Union and Latin America: Global Players in Partnership’~~, which is designed to identify, assess and put forward operational proposals aimed at achieving a full biregional strategic partnership~~;

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes the political changes that have occurred in both regions and points to the need to ~~follow developments so tha~~redirect the EU’s Latin American policy ~~can be redirected~~ and adapted it to the new circumstances ~~if necessary~~;

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses the importance of the principles and values ~~that underpin the biregional strategic partnership, such as pluralist and representative~~of pluralist democracy, respect for human rights and the fundamental freedoms of all men and women, freedom of expression, the constitutional state and the rule of law, respect for the ~~rules of the game~~environment, legal certainty and the total rejection of all forms of coups d’état, paramilitarism, dictatorship and authoritarian rule;

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Reaffirms that the ultimate goal of the EU-Latin America biregional strategic partnership is the creation of a Euro- Latin American global interregional partnership area by around 2015 in the areas of politics, economics, trade and social and cultural affairs which will guarantee sustainable development for both regions;deleted

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Reiterates that the future EEAS must ensure that the EP has valid interlocutors in the EU's delegations - above all in key regions such as Latin America - so as to guarantee full cooperation with Parliament;deleted

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Calls for the ~~continuation and deepening of a constructive~~ dialogue on migration issues in the Euro-Latin American area~~, with both~~ to reject the ‘Return Directive’ adopted by the European Parliament on 18 June 2008 once and for all, and to start afresh in a constructive manner and in the interests of both the peoples of the countries of destination and those of the countries of origin and transit;

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. In order to complete the second stage, and with a view to reaching a global interregional partnership agreement by around 2015, calls for legal and institutional support and full geographical coverage to be provided for the various strands of the biregional strategic partnership, and for common provisions and rules of general scope to be established that facilitate the exercise of the various freedoms so as to create as broad a partnership as possible by deepening both the integration agreements within Latin America and the EU’s partnership process with the various countries and regional groupings;deleted

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Recommends, with a view to concerted action, coordinating the positions of both regions on the question of how to ac~~hieve the millennium development goals in the run-up to the high-level session of the United Nations scheduled for September 2010~~t as quickly as possible to attain the millennium development goals, which should under no circumstances be seen as ends in themselves, but rather as a swiftly attainable step along the way to the fair distribution of wealth;

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Trusts that the opening of a ~~serious and rigorous~~ dialogue on topics linked to science, technology and innovation may boost the creation of a Euro-Latin American area of innovation and knowledge;

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Welcomes the initiatives to promote and exchange knowledge and best practice in the field of law, such as the recent creation of a Centre for Legal Research, Development and Innovation for Latin America, welcomes the setting-up of the Group of 100 and takes the view that such initiatives may provide an extraordinarily useful tool to support the efforts ~~made by the Commission to build the biregional strategic partnership~~as regards adaptation and innovation that the Commission will need to develop as part of a biregional strategic partnership that tallies with the social aspirations of the sovereign peoples of Latin America and the governments they have elected;

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Reiterates its proposal for the creation of a Europe-Latin America and Caribbean Foundation, a public-private institution whose primary purpose would be to prepare for the summits, follow up on the decisions and political courses of action adopted at the summits, and act as a forum for dialogue and coordination in the periods between summits for all the political, institutional, academic and civil society bodies working to strengthen Euro-Latin American relations, including the EuroLat Assembly;deleted

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Stresses that the Foundation’s budget should be limited but sufficient for it to carry out its tasks, financed by contributions from those EU and Latin American States that are members of the Foundation, the EU budget, and own resources generated by the Foundation itself or which are made available to it by public or private sponsoring bodies with connections to the Euro-Latin American area;deleted

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Proposes that the following be created, under the supervision and coordination of the above Foundation: a Migration Observatory for the Euro-Latin American area, responsible for permanently and closely monitoring all issues connected with migratory flows in this area; a Biregional Centre for Conflict Prevention responsible for the early detection of causes of potential violent and armed conflicts, and seeking how best to prevent them and stop them from escalating; and a Biregional Centre for Disaster Prevention - particularly in the wake of the tragic situation in Haiti following the devastating earthquake of 12 January 2010 - to devise common strategies and an emergency warning system aimed at reducing mutual vulnerability to natural disasters arising from climate or technological change;deleted

2010/02/26
Committee: AFET

2009/2213(INI)