10 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2020/2045(INI)
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. whereas the EU, in conducting its external aid and development policy, is guided by the fundamental principles on which it was founded: liberty, democracy, and respect for human rights and the rule of law; whereas it is essential to guarantee continuous monitoring and evaluation on the use of funds to ensure that their affects are always in line with EU law, fundamental values and objectives;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
E b. whereas EUFTs can be used with reduced transparency and limited supervision, thereby reducing accountability;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Continues to expresses concerns over the limited role of Parliament in the supervision and scrutiny of the Union contributions to the EUTFs; recalls the essential role of the Parliament in providing the EU action with democratic legitimacy and accountability; recalls Parliament’s request to monitor the activities of the Operational Committee, and calls on the Commission to provide in good time detailed information on the decisions taken in that Committee and to ensure that Parliament is represented at its meetings;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the Commission’s efforts to closely monitor and evaluate interventions, and to generate knowledge about the activities of the EUTFs and of the FRT, through a dedicated set of reports; calls the Commission to include in these report an assessment on whether the EUTFs and the FRT have met the criteria of effectiveness, efficiency, relevance, coherence and EU added value; hails these efforts to achieve greater transparency by publishing relevant data on the web pages of the EUTFs and the FRT;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that the Trust Fund for Africa represents an important tool to provide a swift, flexible and targeted response to emerging challenges and underlines that common, global challenges, such as migration and forced displacement, the impact of climate change and economic crises in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, make this flexibility and rapidity more necessary than ever; regrets, however, that despite it proved to be a flexible tool for providing assistance, its objectives are too broad; calls on the Commission to put in place mechanisms to better evaluate the extent to which it has met its objectives;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Regrets that, while the aim of the EUTF for Africa was to finance activities aimed at reaching development objectives, the EU's focus has increasingly turned to migration management;
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Reiterates its request thatStrongly condemns and is deeply concerned about the Turkish government’s use of the flows of refugees against the EU and calls for the end of this practice; urges Turkey to respect the principle of non-refoulement, in particular on the Syrian border, and that it not use the flows of refugees against the EU;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses the need to take on board the lessons learned in the establishment, management and implementation of the Trust Funds and the FRT in order to apply them to the new generation of external financial instruments; recalls, in particular, the need for a greater role of the European Parliament in exercising its rights of scrutiny and democratic accountability on funding through the EU external financial instruments;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. ERecalls that EUTFs and FRT should be seen as exceptional or truly emergency-led instruments whose added value and effects on the ground should be very well justified and carefully monitored; expects the Commission to fully make use of the possibilities afforded by the programme-based approach under the geographic pillar of the NDICI-Global Europe and IPA III, complemented by global thematic programming, rapid response funding and the large unprogrammed reserve under the NDICI- Global Europe;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29 a. Suggests that to ensure a more qualitative overview of the projects’ societal effects and human rights impacts, priority should be given to dedicating more tailored and direct funding to independent NGOs, given their role in critically monitoring and conducting evaluation of the government policies of third-country partners;