Activities of Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN related to 2015/2044(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Financing for development (A8-0143/2015 - Pedro Silva Pereira) ES
Amendments (12)
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas ODA loans could increase debt vulnerabilities of developing countries;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K b (new)
Recital K b (new)
Kb. whereas many developing countries continue to be debt distress, and new debt vulnerabilities are emerging which make a modernized and more effective debt restructuring framework necessary;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls to protect the development focus and nature of ODA including a transparent and accountable reporting system;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Commends efforts in developing a new statistical measure that focuses on sustainable development, and stresses the need of including poverty, gender and age markers as statistical tools to measure the impact of aid activities;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for the EU and its Member States to take effective actions to actively crack down on tax havens, tax evasion and illicit financial flows; supports the setting-up of an intergovernmental body for tax cooperation under the auspices of the UN with effective participation of developing countries, rather than seeing OECD as the only relevant forum;
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Calls to not undermine the policy space of those countries to take development-related decisions that are suitable for their own national context and respond to the demands of their populations;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Call for a human needs based approach to debt sustainability through a binding set of standards to define responsible lending and borrowing, 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;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls for a review of international organisations’ programmes and instruments of financial assistance for development in order to align them with the new SDGs; urges, notably, the European Investment Bank, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank to increase low-income countries’ levels of access to their concessional facilities and to gear their resources more closely to the needs of developing countries, including through mutually effective pro-poor lending facilities without imposing any conditionality to the developing countries that could undermine their sovereignty on macro-economic policy;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Calls for women being recognised as development actors and enablers, therefore, insist on the need to adopt gender budgeting principles and methodologies, in order to address the different needs and interests of women and men so gender equality and women empowerment is boosted;
Amendment 267 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Encourages the adequate representation of developing countries in global economic governance that is gender-balanced;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 c (new)
Paragraph 26 c (new)
26c. Recalls that international trade agreements should not undermine poor people’s livelihoods and should instead support the gender equality agenda;
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 d (new)
Paragraph 26 d (new)
26d. Calls for policy areas that impact upon development, including trade, security, migration, energy, environment and climate change, agriculture and fisheries policy, to respond to Policy Coherence for Development and be aligned with development objectives.