4 Amendments of Lola SÁNCHEZ CALDENTEY related to 2017/2027(INI)
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
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 access to an impartial judicial system and to strengthen democratic administrations; applauds, in this connection, the work undertaken by the EUROsociAL programme and calls on the Commission to step up its action geared to strengthening good governance and the fight against inequalities, including gender inequalities;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
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)
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 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
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;