154 Amendments of Jean-Luc MÉLENCHON
Amendment 1 #
2016/0205(NLE)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
The Committee on Foreign Affairs calls on the Committee on International Trade, as the committee responsible, to recommend that Parliament give itsdecline to consent to the proposal for a Council decision on the conclusion of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada of the one part, and the European Union and its Member States, of the other part.
Amendment 48 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
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;
Amendment 62 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas China is pressing for statutory investment protection backed byduring the negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty (BIT); whereas the Commission favours investor- state-dispute settlement (ISDS) procedures during the negotiations on a bilateral investment treaty (BIT)is regard;
Amendment 65 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
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;
Amendment 68 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
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;
Amendment 74 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
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;
Amendment 88 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
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;
Amendment 90 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas environmental degradation in China has taken dramatic proportions and requi; whereas powerful and targeted government actionan ambitious and legally binding agreement cannot be reached at COP 21 without Chinese engagement;
Amendment 125 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas in the wake of the Ukraine crisisthe 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;
Amendment 131 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital O
Recital O
O. whereas dialogue with the Chinese Ggovernment acknowledgesis 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;
Amendment 150 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas Tibetans express their cultural identity through the Lhakar movement (‘white Wednesday’) by wearing only Tibetan clothes, spthe US government has provided financial and political support to the Dalai Lama for many years, a fact that has no beakring only Tibetan and eating only Tibetan food each Wednesday the situation of Tibetans in China;
Amendment 182 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
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; deploimportance 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;
Amendment 222 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
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 marketpeoples and encourage social dumping;
Amendment 248 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
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;
Amendment 268 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
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 inside the CPC;
Amendment 376 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 399 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Notes that a strongCalls 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;
Amendment 424 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. CriticisDeplores 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 renewedprinciple of a secular strategy 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;
Amendment 434 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Protests against the marginalisation of Tibetan culture by the CPC and uUrges 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;
Amendment 471 #
2015/2003(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. AdvocatesOpposes 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;
Amendment 3 #
2014/2228(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the United States is the EU's key strategic partnerRegrets 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 wheensure the US hegemonic power in decline in the current multilateral context and will consolidate the EU geopolitical subordination theo US is 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 crisisnterests, 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;
Amendment 48 #
2014/2228(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
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 relationswill 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;
Amendment 59 #
2014/2228(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
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;
Amendment 64 #
2014/2228(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
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 USconsiders 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;
Amendment 89 #
2014/2228(INI)
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. WelcomDeplores the fact that the Commission is taking steps aiming to improve the transparency of thesecrecy and lack of transparency of the Commission during the TTIP negotiations.
Amendment 46 #
2011/0261(CNS)
Proposal for a directive
Recital 11
Recital 11
(11) In the interest of equal treatment, a single tax rate should apply within each category of transactions, namelyfor trade in financial instruments other than derivatives, on the one hand, and for the purchase/sale, transfer, conclusion and modification of derivatives agreements.
Amendment 73 #
2011/0261(CNS)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2
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 andor 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.
Amendment 81 #
2011/0261(CNS)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 4 – point a
Article 1 – paragraph 4 – point a
Amendment 94 #
2011/0261(CNS)
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 4 – point d a (new)
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.
Amendment 106 #
2011/0261(CNS)
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point c a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1 – point c a (new)
c(a) foreign exchange market transactions which are primarily speculative in nature.
Amendment 131 #
2011/0261(CNS)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point a
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point a
a) 0.12% in respect of the financial transactions referred to in Article 5;
Amendment 132 #
2011/0261(CNS)
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point b
Article 8 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point b
b) 0.012% in respect of financial transactions referred to in Article 6.
Amendment 163 #
2011/0261(CNS)
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 a (new)
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.
Amendment 164 #
2011/0261(CNS)
Proposal for a directive
Article 12
Article 12
Amendment 178 #
2011/0261(CNS)
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 1
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.
Amendment 179 #
2011/0261(CNS)
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
Article 17 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2
They shall apply those provisions from 1 January 20143.
Amendment 2 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the UN system, with the legitimacy that stems from its global membership, continues tomust 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,
Amendment 6 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 10 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas increasing and uncontrolled nuclear proliferationnuclear 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, willa 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,
Amendment 11 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital D
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,
Amendment 13 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital E
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,
Amendment 15 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Recital F
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,
Amendment 17 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a
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,
Amendment 18 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point b
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 effectivea multilateralism that is respectful of the sovereign equality of states in its bilateral dialogues;,
Amendment 21 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point c
Paragraph 1 – point c
Amendment 23 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point d
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,
Amendment 28 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point e
Paragraph 1 – point e
(e) to establish, in cooperation with the new US administrationwith all the Member States, a common agenda of short and long-term goals with regard to multilateral issues within the UN framework,
Amendment 29 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point f
Paragraph 1 – point f
(f) to seek a more substantive dialogue with emergingall 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,
Amendment 30 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point g
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 pregpard toing 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,
Amendment 31 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point h
Paragraph 1 – point h
(h) to take a lead in the current debate on global governance and to ensure that clear bridges exist between the work of the G20 and the UN, as thee primacy of the UN, the only legitimate bodyframework for global action;,
Amendment 34 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point i
Paragraph 1 – point i
Amendment 38 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point j
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 stepscivil 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,
Amendment 39 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point k
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,
Amendment 41 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point l
Paragraph 1 – point l
(l) to fully support the efforts ofask the UN Secretary General to better redefine the notion of the principle of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), to successfully implement R2P withplacing the UN system and to stress its importance in preventing conflictsemphasis on the co-responsibility of sovereign states for preventing conflict and avoiding all interference,
Amendment 43 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point m
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,
Amendment 44 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point n
Paragraph 1 – point n
Amendment 45 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point o
Paragraph 1 – point o
(o) to strive for a coherent EU position and actions with regard to thn 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,
Amendment 48 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point p
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 completegradual 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,
Amendment 54 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point q
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 Strategywhile respecting the sovereignty of states and human rights, including those relating to personal data; to cooperate closely when theever lives of hostages are at riskare 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;
Amendment 58 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point r
Paragraph 1 – point r
(r) to exercise leadership in strengthening the effectiveness of UN development assistance since the current fragmentation may lead to progressivecombat 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 assistanceensure that its development assistance has a real and beneficial impact in terms of the interests of all nations,
Amendment 61 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point s
Paragraph 1 – point s
(s) to reassert the principle that development aid policy shouldmust be designed in the framework of an equitable partnership with recipient countries and with absolute concern for social and environmental justice,
Amendment 62 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point t
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,
Amendment 63 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point u
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,
Amendment 70 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point v
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 weighthuman rights in an impartial fashion, and not to give way to political bias,
Amendment 76 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point y
Paragraph 1 – point y
(y) to strongly advocate that the UNGA continueencourage the UNGA to address country -specific situations in impartial resolutions while working to avoid the use of ‘No Action Motions’,
Amendment 80 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point aa
Paragraph 1 – point aa
(aa) to strive to empower more wogive 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 thosee European Union and its EU Member States who have not yeto become more active in this respect and to produce national action plans (NAPs) to implement the resolution;
Amendment 83 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a c
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 newwith 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,
Amendment 86 #
2010/2020(INI)
Proposal for a recommendation
Paragraph 1 – point a d
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;
Amendment 19 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
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 not succeeded ineither eliminatinged the Taliban insurgency and bringingnor brought peace and stability to the country – quite the contrary,
Amendment 31 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas security conditions have deteriorated, along with the popular consensus the coalition’s presence enjoyed at one stage,
Amendment 58 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the mainofficial objective of the EUPOL Afghanistan mission is to contribute to the establishment of an Afghan police system in accordance with international standards,
Amendment 206 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
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;
Amendment 219 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
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
Amendment 223 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
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
Amendment 230 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
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;
Amendment 232 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
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
Amendment 240 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
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;
Amendment 251 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
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;
Amendment 260 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
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 themimportant role that Pakistan can play in the peace process;
Amendment 269 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
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;
Amendment 276 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
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 humand withdrawing its troops, but insisting that respect for the UN Charter and rightsesolutions should form the overall legal and political framework for the peace process;
Amendment 293 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
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
Amendment 300 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
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
Amendment 305 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
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;
Amendment 312 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
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;
Amendment 325 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
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 deservesof any legitimacy;
Amendment 330 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Notes fromIs 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;
Amendment 340 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Is equally disturbshocked 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;
Amendment 348 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
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
Amendment 364 #
2009/2217(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
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
Amendment 18 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the European Union must adopt a strategicolidarity-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,
Amendment 22 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
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 prosperimust 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,
Amendment 31 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
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 regionfree trade and outsourcing of the management of migration flows, is proving imbalanced and unfair, and is contributing significantly to the dismantling of state power,
Amendment 40 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
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 naturecurrent economic, social and ecological crisis, which calls for strongappropriate responses in the sharedgeneral interest of all the states participating in the UfMthe peoples of the Euro- Mediterranean region and the peoples of the world,
Amendment 50 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
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,
Amendment 54 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
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 independentl 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,
Amendment 56 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas Mediterranean regions are directly affected by transnational issuissues of general interest such as water management, pollution, road and maritime networks and migration flowstransport 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 projectecologically and socially viable policies that are appropriate to local characteristics,
Amendment 72 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
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 numerousthe creation of new instruments for Euro-Mediterranean cooperation and to build on the achievements ofmove beyond the Barcelona Process,
Amendment 74 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
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,
Amendment 77 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
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;
Amendment 85 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
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;
Amendment 95 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
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 peacthe goals it should have of climate and social justice, peace and quality of life;
Amendment 107 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 - point 1
Paragraph 4 - point 1
- providing the secretariat with the necessary resources to operate effectively and independentlyunder the responsibility of the elected representatives of the sovereign Euro- Mediterranean peoples;
Amendment 112 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 - point 3
Paragraph 4 - point 3
Amendment 115 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 - point 4
Paragraph 4 - point 4
Amendment 117 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 - point 5
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;
Amendment 121 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 - point 6
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;
Amendment 123 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 - point 7
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;
Amendment 133 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers it essential to guarantee, increase and mobilise project funding through a credefine the funding of the UfM as quickly as possible, taking inspiration fromb ination of public and private funds; in this context:novative mechanisms such as the Bank of the South in Latin America;
Amendment 135 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 - point 1
Paragraph 6 - point 1
Amendment 137 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 - point 2
Paragraph 6 - point 2
Amendment 142 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 - point 3
Paragraph 6 - point 3
Amendment 150 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 - point 4
Paragraph 6 - point 4
Amendment 153 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 156 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 - point 1
Paragraph 7 - point 1
Amendment 159 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 - point 2
Paragraph 7 - point 2
Amendment 172 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
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;
Amendment 179 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Emphasises the strategic importance of issues such as agriculture, food security, water and ruralbalanced 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 positionleave 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 policieall; emphasises the need to relocate a certain number of production areas;
Amendment 215 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
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;
Amendment 223 #
2009/2215(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
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, andachieve 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;
Amendment 5 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 44 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 83 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 120 #
2009/2213(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 121 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 123 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
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 #
2009/2213(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 127 #
2009/2213(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 128 #
2009/2213(INI)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 129 #
2009/2213(INI)
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.