Activities of Ulrike LUNACEK related to 2009/2213(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The EU strategy for relations with Latin America (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the EU strategy for relations with Latin America PDF (207 KB) DOC (114 KB)
Amendments (26)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
- having regard to its resolution of 11 October 2007 on the murder of women (feminicide) in Mexico and Central America and the role of the European Union in fighting the phenomenon1,
Amendment 2 #
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 forhas yet to be framed, while both regions toare continueing to deepening and improvinge thisat partnership,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas one of the key objectives of the biregional strategic partnership ishould be regional integration, with the conclusion of subregional and bilateral partnership agreements alongside strategic partnerships in order to redress the growing economic, social and trade imbalances within and between the different countries and regions,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas a strategic partnership only makes sense if it has the potential to develop a bilateral model which frees Latin America from its role as a provider of natural resources and a site for the relocation from Europe of polluting industrial facilities,
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas a strategic partnership should have the potential to respond to today’s major challenges, such as the combating of climate change and impunity on the one hand, and the fight to preserve ecosystems, ensure freedom from human rights violations and, lastly, guarantee respectful living, on the other;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas, according to ECLAC (2009), the current crisis in Latin America is worse than the debt crisis of the 1980s, and this three-pronged (economic, financial and environmental) crisis has so far been exacerbated both by trade policies and by financial and investment policies,
Amendment 17 #
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 Europeamust be based on giving fresh impulse to endogenous sustainable development with the aim of raising social and environmental standards, while at the same time avoiding any exacerbation of the existing three-pronged crisis, which means ruling out unsustainable solutions such as increasing exports with the ever- greater pressure this places on ecounterpartsystems,
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomesTakes note of 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 36 #
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 representative democracy, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms, freedom of expression, the constitutional state and the rule of law, respect for the rules of the game, legal certaintyequal rights for men and women, including reproductive and sexual orientation rights, rights of ethnic minorities or majorities, freedom of expression, the constitutional state and the rule of law, respect for the rules of the game, guarantees of a life free from violence, legal certainty for all citizens and access to justice for all men and women, and the rejection of all forms of dictatorship and authoritarian rule;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
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 pe need for an ambitious programme to ensure respect for all rights of citizens living in Europe and Latin America, to enforce the European Union's Chartnership area by around 2015 in the areas of politics, economics, trade and social and cultural affairs which will guarantee sustainable development for both region of Fundamental Rights and the conventions of the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights, as well as strengthening civil society and minorities;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 45 #
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, 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 Limathe pillaging of natural resources, organised crime, impunity and gender- based violence;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recommends that a Euro-Latin American Charter for Peace and Security 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 threatchallenges facing the members of the biregional strategic partnership;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges that the fight against climate change and global warming should remainbe a 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;
Amendment 64 #
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, with a view to avoiding the future use of solutions that have a critical impact on the environment and local people, such as huge hydroelectric projects, and to facilitating the shift away from economies based on the use of hydrocarbons as an energy source;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
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,and 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, on the basis of the principles of quality development, no impunity, citizen involvement and ecosystem conservation;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Reiterates that education and investment in human capital are the foundation of social cohesion and socio- economic development, and calls for decisive action, backed up by adequate funding, to be taken against illiteracy, the rate of which remains high in some countries in the region, in particular among girls and women, and for access to be provided to non-fee-paying public education at primary and secondary levels, which is currently restricted owing to a lack of the necessary budgetary resources in some countries; in this context supports the project drawn up by the OEI 'Educational goals 2021: the education we want for the generation of the bicentenaries';
Amendment 80 #
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 asPoints once again to the need to give a fresh emphasis and resolute, material and financial support to the recent creuperation 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 partnershipmemory and to truth, reparation and non- repetition initiatives existing or planned in various countries, and to pay particular attention to current campaigns against human rights violations and impunity;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Calls for resolute action to combat violence against women, in particular the murder of women (feminicide), which is the most extreme form of discrimination against women, to be made a cornerstone of biregional relations; calls on the relevant institutions within the strategic partnership to provide appropriate financial and technical support for policies to prevent and provide protection against violence against women, to increase the budgets of bodies responsible for investigating murders, and to foster more effective institutional coordination in these areas at all levels of government;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. WelcomesCalls for 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 Bank, and to focus more closely on enabling the majority of the population to practise respectful living, and, to this end, also recommends that the Eurosocial, URB-AL and EUrocLIMA programmes be renewed and stepped up;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
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;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
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;
Amendment 102 #
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, alternative solutions should be sought - without losing sighand that the negotiations for partnership agreements must not be abandoned in favour of free trade agreements, recalling that oif the overall strategic vision - in order not to isolate those countries that wish to establish closer political, commercial and social relations with the EUlatter lack the two other pillars (political dialogue and cooperation), they become instruments of specific economic interests and thus run counter to the EU's declared objective of regional integration;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Supports the Latin America Investment Facility (LAIF) proposed by the Commission as a tangible expression of the EU’s commitment to consolidating regional integration and inter-connectivity in Latin America, thus facilitating the supply of local markets with local products and the improvement of urban and interurban public transport; notes that an amount of EUR 100 million has been set aside from the Community budget for the period until 2013, without prejudice to other possible additional contributions and subsidies from the Member States; insists that the LAIF needs to acquire mechanisms for ensuring a better distribution of the available resources, with priority for those countries and sectors which have hitherto had least access to it and including a portion devoted to microcredits;