Awaiting committee decision
2017/2027(INI) EU political relations with Latin America
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2017/09/11
Lead committee dossier: AFET/8/07845
Legal Basis RoP 052
Next event: Indicative plenary sitting date, 1st reading/single reading 2017/09/11
Role | Committee | Rapporteur | Shadows |
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Lead | AFET | LÓPEZ Javi (S&D) | DE GRANDES PASCUAL Luis (EPP), TANNOCK Charles (ECR), NART Javier (ALDE), COUSO PERMUY Javier (GUE/NGL), URTASUN Ernest (Verts/ALE) |
Opinion | DEVE | GUERRERO SALOM Enrique (S&D) |
Legal Basis RoP 052
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2017/09/11
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2017/03/16
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Documents
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2017/2027(INI)
2017/03/29
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68 amendments...
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that
Amendment 10 #
3. Considers that since the European Union is the largest donor of aid to the LAC region, withdrawing it
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Considers that since the European Union is the largest donor of aid to the LAC region, withdrawing it, including aid to middle-income countries, would be a backward step that would impede the region’s future development; calls on the Commission and Council to make an unambiguous commitment with LAC (particularly MSME) to leave no one behind and alleviate the impact on countries that have recently achieved middle-income status or are in a process of transition towards it;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new) 3a. Takes the view that in the current regional and global context, the EU should deepen its relations with LAC by focusing on greater cooperation in all areas with the aim of establishing a bilateral relationship at the highest level;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to identify the instruments available and endow them with sufficient resources to help LAC to address the challenges facing it
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to identify the instruments available and endow them with sufficient resources, t
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to identify the best instruments available and endow them with su
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 4. Calls on the Commission to identify the instruments available and endow them with sufficient resources to help LAC to address the challenges facing it and to
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new) 4a. Considers it unsustainable that Latin America loses more money every year in servicing external debt than it receives in official development assistance; supports, therefore, the initiative taken by Latin American countries to create a framework agreement for sovereign debt restructuring facilitated by the United Nations;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5. Deplores the cuts to humanitarian aid to the areas most in need of it (Northern Triangle of Central America, Haiti and Colombia) and areas particularly affected by the impact of climate change and natural disasters;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that 175 million people are living in poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC); notes that inequality is the main obstacle to the region’s development; stresses that
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 5.
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new) 5a. Condemns the action taken by the governments of some countries which have refused to accept international humanitarian assistance, thereby making it impossible for those countries’ most basic needs to be addressed; calls on the HR/VP to urge the relevant authorities to allow the entry of such assistance and to put forward an assistance plan for each country;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the objective need to step up efforts to combat corruption and impunity, to ensure
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need to step up efforts to combat corruption, tax fraud and impunity, t
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need to step up efforts to combat corruption, tax fraud and impunity, to ensure the separation of powers and equal
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the urgent need to step up efforts to combat corruption and impunity
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need to step up efforts to combat corruption and impunity, to ensure the separation of powers and equal access to an impartial judicial system, to address institutional weaknesses, to enhance social cohesion and to strengthen administration;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need to step up efforts to combat corruption and impunity, to ensure the separation of powers, the holding of free and transparent elections and equal access to an impartial judicial system and to strengthen administration;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 6. Stresses the need to step up efforts to combat corruption and impunity, to ensure the separation of powers and equal access to an independent, professionalised and impartial judicial system and to strengthen administration;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Notes with concern that land grabs in LAC during the past decade are linked to the agrofood-feed-fuel complex as well as climate change mitigation strategies (i.e. placing forests under the carbon- offset programme as in the case of REDD+); notes equally that rising regional and international demands for minerals and fossil fuels have led to large scale mining concessions which can impact upon land rights of communities; calls on the LAC Member States to recognise all legitimate rights to land, including informal, indigenous and customary tenure rights, in line with the FAO Tenure Guidelines, and to abide by the free, prior and informed consent of the local people affected by land deals;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that 175 million people are living in poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC); notes that inequality is
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new) 6a. Stresses that LAC has the highest rate of murdered human rights defenders of any region in the world; calls for development programmes to take account of the extreme vulnerability of human rights defenders and make an ambitious contribution to their protection; calls on the EEAS to make a greater effort to supervise the management of the funds earmarked for protecting human rights defenders;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 6 b (new) 6b. Calls for compliance with international human rights treaties, participation by the various governments in regional bodies and cooperation with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to be taken into account in developing bilateral relations;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Believes public policies opening up opportunities for the nearly 30 million young people not in employment, education or training to be fundamental; points out that the majority of victims of the high rates of violence and homicide are young people and adolescents; stresses the need to contribute, through development programmes, to preventing violence and stopping young people from being recruited by organised crime and criminal gangs;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Believes public policies opening up opportunities for the nearly 30 million young people not in employment, education or training to be fundamental; believes that health and education and training of young people are of paramount importance in order to allow development;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7.
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Believes public policies opening up opportunities for the nearly 30 million young people not in employment, education or training to be fundamental, and therefore urges the Commission to boost budget support programmes;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Believes
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 7 7. Believes public policies, private initiative and public education and training to be fundamental in order to open
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Highlights the
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Highlights the importance of looking into ways of increasing the involvement of the private sector and foreign investment, within a framework upholding human, environmental and labour rights, guaranteeing the legal certainty of investments and the principle of corporate social responsibility and in which investors sign up to and apply the United Nations principles for responsible investment;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 1. Stresses that 175 million people are living in poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC); notes that inequality is the main obstacle to the region’s development; stresses that inclusive social development is the key to addressing it; emphasises the particular situation of exclusion, violence and discrimination suffered by women and girls, who make up almost 70% of the population living under the poverty threshold;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Highlights the importance of looking into ways of increasing the involvement of the private sector
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Highlights the importance of looking into ways of increasing the involvement of the private sector, within a framework upholding human, environmental and labour rights and in which investors sign up to and apply the United Nations principles for responsible investment;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 8. Highlights the importance of looking into ways of increasing the involvement of the private sector, within a framework upholding human, environmental and labour rights and in which investors sign up to and apply the United Nations principles for responsible investment; public goods, which are essential for development, should always be granted to all by the public sector;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 a (new) 8a. Having regard to the recommendations made in the European Court of Auditors Special Report on the use of blending calls the Commission to apply on its blending programs enforceable criteria on development effectiveness principles, particularly in terms of ownership, alignment with partner countries, development and financial additionally, transparency and accountability;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 8 b (new) 8b. Calls on the EIB and other EU Member States’ Development Financial Institutions to urgently ensure that companies that receive their support do not participate in tax evasion via offshore centres and tax havens and to effectively to track and monitor the flows, debt sustainability and the added value for their projects of sustainable development;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Stresses the importance of coordinating the various public policy areas and encourages the involvement of all actors, including companies, trade unions and other civil society organisations, both at central and local level, in achieving the SDGs; public goods, which are essential for development, should always be granted to all by the public sector and redress against human rights abuses should be grant to everybody, also when such abuses are committed by corporations;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Stresses the importance of coordinating the various public policy areas and encourages the involvement of all actors,
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 9 9. Stresses the importance of coordinating the various public policy areas and encourages the involvement of all
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that economic growth and trade a
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that economic growth and trade
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new) 1a. Acknowledges the historic debt owed to LAC by EU countries, stemming from colonialist policies and the impoverishment generated by the pillaging of its human and natural resources; rejects any cooperation approach based on defence and on making official development assistance (ODA) conditional on the economic interests of European companies in LAC; welcomes the different experiences of emancipatory governments in LAC and their programmes geared to taking back control of sovereignty over their natural resources;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that economic growth and trade alone without institutional guidance and not designed to underpin social policy or prevent the widening of inequalities, are not sufficient to reduce poverty and inequality; calls for policies that contribute to achieving diversified, sustainable and suitably inclusive growth, with a strong emphasis on social issues
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that economic growth and trade alone are not sufficient to reduce poverty and inequality; calls for policies that contribute to achieving diversified, sustainable and inclusive growth, with a strong emphasis on social issues, rule of law and human rights;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that economic growth and trade alone are not sufficient to reduce poverty and inequality; accordingly, and with a view to the negotiation of trade agreements with various countries or groups of countries in the region, stresses the need to limit trade to fair, sustainable commercial practices designed to end economic asymmetries, which place human rights and human dignity ahead of mere private profit, which respect the right to regulate the economy and the right to public control of strategic sectors, and which include binding and effective clauses relating to sustainable development and human rights guarantees; calls for policies that contribute to achieving diversified,
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 10. Stresses that economic growth and trade alone are not sufficient to reduce poverty and inequality; calls for policies that contribute to achieving diversified, sustainable and inclusive growth, with a strong emphasis on social issues; recalls the necessity to respect the rights of vulnerable indigenous populations of LAC countries whose needs shall be taken into consideration when negotiating EU- LAC agreements;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 10 a (new) 10a. Stresses that LAC still face important sovereign debt-related challenges; calls for a human needs- based approach to debt sustainability through the implementation of the UNCTAD principles of responsible sovereign debt transactions for both borrowers and lenders, debt audits and fair debt workout mechanism, which should assess the legitimacy and the sustainability of countries’ debt burdens and possible cancellation of unsustainable an unjust debt; welcomes, in this regard, UN´s work towards an international sovereign debt workout mechanism;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Points out that LAC
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Points out that LAC is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, a
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Points out that LAC is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, a majority of which are attributable to climate change and that countermeasures are necessary; calls on the Commission and the LAC countries to tackle the underlying causes and to take climate-resilience measures as soon as possible;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11.
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Points out that LAC is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, a majority of which are attributable to climate change; calls on the Commission and the LAC countries to tackle the underlying causes and to take climate-resilience measures; urges that all responsible of natural disasters should be punished if personal responsibilities can be envisaged, even when the author of these crimes are acting through the screen of a corporate veil, and redress for victims should always be granted;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 2 2. Takes the view that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) must be
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 11 11. Points out that LAC is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, a majority of which are attributable to climate change; calls on the Commission and the LAC countries to tackle the underlying causes and to take climate-resilience measures taking account of the principle of common but differentiated responsibility;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Calls for development programmes in LAC to guarantee women’s fundamental freedoms; points out that, according to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (CEPAL), on average 12 Latin American and Caribbean women die every day; points out that putting an end to femicide and gender discrimination must be a priority objective for the development of the region and the achievement of the SDGs;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Calls for development programmes in LAC to
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Calls for development programmes in LAC to guarantee women’s fundamental freedoms and ensure their access to job opportunities;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Calls for development programmes in LAC to guarantee
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 12. Calls for development programmes in LAC to guarantee
Amendment 66 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 12 a (new) 12a. Recalls the commitments agreed by the EU in the EU-CELAC (Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) 2013 and 2015 Action Plans regarding the eradication of violence against women, and expresses its concern about the lack of implementation of chapter 7 thereof on the promotion of gender equality; calls on the Member States and the EEAS to cooperate and allocate economic and institutional resources to assure the fulfilment of the recommendations on the promotion of gender equality agreed in the action plans, especially regarding the eradication of all forms of violence, in accordance with the Belem de Pará Convention, the Istanbul Convention and the CEDAW Convention;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 13 13. Urges for better coordination between policies and programmes supporting the LAC region, as well as the outermost regions and overseas countries and territories; calls for
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 13 13. Urges for better coordination between policies and programmes supporting the LAC region; calls for the
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Considers that since the European Union is the largest donor of aid to the LAC region, withdrawing it, including aid to middle-income countries,
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion Paragraph 3 3. Considers that since the European Union is the largest donor of aid to the LAC region, withdrawing it, including aid to middle-income countries, would be a backward step that would impede the region’s future development; calls on the Commission and Council to make an unambiguous commitment with LAC
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