Activities of Patrice TIROLIEN related to 2012/2002(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Future of EU development policy - 2015 - European Year for Development (debate)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas globalisation, a major source of wealth, particularly in middle-income countries, has not, however, contributed sufficiently to reducing insecurity or indeed poverty, a stark demonstration of which is the increase in absolute number of hungry and malnourished people in the world including in many middle-income countries,
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. Whereas any attempt to broaden the ODA definition designed to include the ‘Whole of the Union’ and ‘ODA+’ approaches recently proposed by the European Commission, as well as non-aid items such as financial flows, military spending, debt cancellation, particularly cancellation of export credit debts, money spent in Europe on students and refugees needs to be rejected,
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E c (new)
Recital E c (new)
Ec. Whereas many middle-income countries, notably Small Island Developing States (SIDS) rely on economies which remain fragile and vulnerable to the major adjustments demanded by economic globalization, as well as climate change and natural disasters,
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5d. Calls on the Commission to set, for the implementation of the differentiation concept, vulnerability criteria in the common programming guidelines of the new DCI and the 11th EDF currently under discussion, and to take into account the reality of poverty, human development and inequalities inside a country, and not only the national GNI;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 j (new)
Paragraph 10 j (new)
10j. Firmly reminds the Commission and the Member States that ODA has to remain the backbone of the European development cooperation policy aiming at eradicating poverty; therefore, underlines that if innovative sources of development financing are to be widely promoted, they must be additional, used in a pro-poor approach and cannot be used to replace ODA in any circumstances;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 f (new)
Paragraph 11 f (new)
11f. Recalls that, when it comes to the proposal for the 11th EDF, any new political orientation following the adoption of the Agenda for Change, must be compatible with the spirit and the letter of the Cotonou Agreement;