2 Amendments of Enrico GASBARRA related to 2014/2230(INI)
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls for an EU strategy for Afghanistan that focuses on development, in particular in rural areas where the majority of the population lives; calls on the EU to prioritise poverty alleviation and to tie development aid to Afghan public employment measures to create urgently needed jobs; recognises the need to strengthen local and regional authorities, for example by promoting assistance and civic education programmes and exchanges of best practice followed by certain municipal and local authorities in Europe;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Is alarmed about the country’s high aid-dependency ratio, severe budget deficits and decline in domestic revenue; emphasises the need for development programmes to create a gradually more independent economy in Afghanistan, weaning it off dependence on foreign donors; highlights the potentially important role that the country’s neighbours can play for such development; urges the Commission and the European External Action Service to promote multilateral schemes for good neighbourly relations and establish a more uniform and coherent geopolitical framework throughout central Asia;