Activities of Emma McCLARKIN related to 2015/2104(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the role of the EU within the UN – how to better achieve EU foreign policy goals
Amendments (8)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Stresses the view that free and fair trade in itself is the most useful tool in helping developing countries to help themselves. In this regard the UN should work alongside the World Trade Organisation (WTO), as well as providing advice and guidance for developing countries, to promote a strategy for liberalising trade and investment, with the EU involved as a key player;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Believes that the conclusion of the Doha Development round is key to bringing developing countries into the global trading system and recommends that the UN use it's unique position in the multilateral agenda to ensure that those talks are a success;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that trade policy is crucialcan play a role in combating climate change, and therefore urges the EU to ensure that its trade policy decisions are in line with the imperative tocomplement the decarboniseation of global production and consumption;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that culture is a powerful instrument for European diplomatic relations, fostering EU core values and global citizenship, and that it should be incorporated consistently into the EU's external action; calls for a fruitful cooperation between the European Commission – more specifically its Directorate-General (DG) for Education and Culture and its DG for International Cooperation and Development –, the European External Action Service and the UN in areas such as cultural heritage at risk and illicit trade in cultural property, conflict prevention, the development of creative industries, the mobility of culture professionals, cultural goods and services, and education in emergencies, noting that external relations are first and foremost a Member State competence;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Continues to support the conclusions of UNCTAD's 2011 Foreign Direct Investment in LDCs report, which recommends a plan of action calling for increased investment through careful liberalisation of infrastructure sectors, the promotion of PPPs with foreign investors, encouragement of SME lending, increased provision of sound standards of treatment and protection of investments and further efforts to tackle issues of poor governance and respect for legal frameworks;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is of the opinion that should a possible permanent international court for the settlement of investment disputes should be situated within the UN system and should be based on the principles of multilateralism and of the rights and obligations of those subject to the court;between states and investors be considered useful and desirable by the international community, that one possible location could be within the UN system.
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the consolidated cooperation between the EU and UNESCO, based on the adoption of the Financial and Administrative Framework Agreement between the European Union and the United Nations (FAFA) of 2003 and the EU's participation in the UN General Assembly following the UN General Assembly resolution adopted in 2011; calls, however, for more effective EU representation within the UN, particularly in the fields of culture and education and in line with the Lisbon Treaty; stresses that a genuine EU-UN strategic partnership could be achieved by having EU representatives with voting rights on the boards of UN agencies in the areas of culture and education and by taking action jointly with UNESCO – and with UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR, UNRWA and UNWOMAN – in the form of financial cooperation and common project management, in agreement with the beneficiary partner countri, following the UN General Assembly resolution adopted in 2011, where the remit of the EU is to present the agreed position of its Member States;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the systematic integration ofNotes that the findings and recommendations on Gender Equality and Trade Policy of UN Women1 states that there exists conclusive evidence that economic development and social equality go hand in hand in addition to noting the strong correlation between gender equality and competitiveness and GDP per capita, calls therefore, for the continued use of gender inequality as a sustainability indicator into the revision of the EU Handbook on Sustainability Impact Assessments; __________________ 1 Sustainable Development Goals.