8 Amendments of Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER related to 2018/0166R(APP)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Stresses the need to substantially increaseabolish appropriations for EU external action under the new multiannual financial framework (MFF) while preserving the EU’s values-based foreign policy; welcomes the modest real-term funding increase proposed by the Commission, which needs to be preserved in the interinstitutional negotiationsby abolishing the so-called ‘EU foreign policy’, whose origins lie in the Lisbon Treaty, an act of treachery adopted by using parliamentary channels to cancel the results of the French and Dutch referenda of May and June 2005;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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1. Notes that the proposal for a Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) reflects a new approach to foreign and development policy; recalls that sustainable economic development, good governance and peace and security are essential for achieving the goal of eradicating poverstresses that the aim of this approach is to reinforce the political role of the VP/HR by providing him/her with a financial ‘armed wing’, relegating the Member States, in their diplomatic action, to the role of merely supplementing the EEAS; rejects this policy, which applies a federalist plan, implemented in the context of a Lisbon Treaty which must be regarded as illegitimate, as it was based on an abuse of authority which was used to cancel by parliamentary means the results of the French and Dutch referendums in the spring of 2005 rejecting the Constitutional Treaty;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
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Amendment 20 #
2. Notes that the new financing needs resulting from the deterioration of security conditions in the European Union's neighbourhood and the increase in migration flows to the western countries of the Union are reflected in the mobilisation of new funds; notes that these new challenges must be added to existing sustainable development goals;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
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4. Recognises the need for enhanced flexibility; insists, however, that funds used under the proposed ‘emerging challenges and priorities’ cushion cannot be used to serve other objectives such as migration management and security, and that enhanced flexibility cannot come at the expense of reduced possibilities for the European Parliament to exercise its political steering and scrutiny rightsjects any enhanced budgetary flexibility that strengthens automatically the powers of the bureaucratic and illegitimate body that is the Commission;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
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3. Considers that the NDICI appears to contain the elements for a more pragmaticundermines the role of the Member States in planning and implementation ofing the Union's development cooperation policy and reiterates its position that a single instrument ; stresses that the NDICI therefore this policy is necessary and will allow for better cooperation with partner countries and stakeholdersransfers political decision-making to the bureaucracy of the Commission and of the EEAS, which is inefficient and divorced from reality;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
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5. Reiterates its support forjects the integration of the European Development Fund (EDF) in the EU budget, with provision also being made for the total additionality of the funds thus transferred; stresses the opportunity that the NDICI represents for boosting the development of the sub-Saharan region through a more targeted neighbourhood policy. ; stresses the urgent need to boost the development of the sub-Saharan region through a more targeted, completely overhauled, security and development policy based on projects that combine, with the full involvement of national authorities, the funding of civilian/military security forces, public infrastructure and financial guarantees for private investment in viable operations.