34 Amendments of Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON related to 2009/2213(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas one of the key objectives of the biregional strategic partnership is a regional integration, with the conclusion of subhich fully respects the regional and bilaintegral partnership agreements alongside strategic partnershiption organisations set up on both sides and the political projects upheld by their component states,
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the EU’s immigration policy is causing grelegitimate concern in Latin America and agreements need to be reached that take into account the Euro-Latin American partners’ legitimateoverall interests onf this very sensitive subjecte peoples of both regions,
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
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 Summiecologically and socially just sustainable development,
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
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 sharedthe values, interests and concerns of all and in the interests of the peoples of both regions;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the new possibilities offered by the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty to be used for the benefit ofto adapt the biregional strategic partnership to the new political situation and to the needs of the sovereign peoples making up the two regions;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
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;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
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 partnershipsocial and environmental threats and risks of war facing these peoples;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges that combating climate change and global warming should remain abecome 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 targetsendorses 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;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
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;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Reiterates its proposal forProposes the creation of a Euro- Latin American global interregional partnership area based on a 'WTO–Regionalism’ compatible model in two stagemutually supportive cooperation in the interest of the peoples of both regions;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
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;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. PropoStresses that a biregional political dialogue be opened with new triangular approaches on issues, spheres and mate 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 comprisand regions of the world ing the United States, Latin America and the European Uniongeneral interest of its peoples;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
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, alternaall 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;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
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 madeInsists that the funding by the EIB to financeof 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;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
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 partnershipimprove this partnership and tailor it to the needs of the sovereign peoples of the two regions,
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas this biregional strategic partnership has achieved significantnotable 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,
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
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 billbut, to date, it has also and above all been the biggest plunderer and polluter of the region,
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
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,
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomDeplores 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;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes the political changes that have occurred in both regions and points to the need to follow developments so tharedirect the EU’s Latin American policy can be redirected and adapted it to the new circumstances if necessary;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses the importance of the principles and values that underpin the biregional strategic partnership, such as pluralist and representativeof 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 gameenvironment, legal certainty and the total rejection of all forms of coups d’état, paramilitarism, dictatorship and authoritarian rule;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
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;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Recommends, with a view to concerted action, coordinating the positions of both regions on the question of how to achieve the millennium development goals in the run-up to the high-level session of the United Nations scheduled for September 2010t 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;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
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;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
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 partnershipas 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;
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Vice-President/High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, the Council and the CommissionCouncil and the Commission, the General Secretariat and General Assembly of the UN, the General Secretariat of UNASUR, the ALBA-TCP Political Council, and to the governments and parliaments of the Member States and of all the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, the Euro-Latin American Parliamentary Assembly, the Latin American Parliament, the South American Parliament (UNASUR – the Union of South American Nations), the Central American Parliament, the Andean Parliament and the Mercosur Parliament.