15 Amendments of Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN related to 2017/2027(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that 175 million people are living in poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC); notes that inequality is the main obstacle to the region’s development; stresses that inclusive social development isdemocratisation of the economy through public control of natural resources and strategic sectors would allow inclusive social development based on ambitious policies on the redistribution of wealth and universal public services, which are the key to addressing it;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Acknowledges the historic debt owed to LAC by EU countries, stemming from colonialist policies and the impoverishment generated by the pillaging of its human and natural resources; rejects any cooperation approach based on defence and on making official development assistance (ODA) conditional on the economic interests of European companies in LAC; welcomes the different experiences of emancipatory governments in LAC and their programmes geared to taking back control of sovereignty over their natural resources;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that since the European Union is the largest donor of aid to the LAC region, withdrawing it, including aid to middle-income countries, would be a backward step that would impede the region’s future development; calls on the Commission and Council to make an unambiguous commitment with LAC (particularly MSME) to leave no one behind and alleviate the impact on countries that have recently achieved middle-income status or are in a process of transition towards it; rejects any reduction in official development assistance (ODA) for Latin America, unless it is accompanied by external debt forgiveness for the same amount;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to identify the instruments available and endow them with sufficient resources, to help LAC to address the challenges facing it and to prepare itself for a aking suitable action to align them with the principles of development effectiveness, with particular regard to appropriability, alignment with LAC countries’ development strategies, harmonisation, mutual resposnsible future reduction in official development assistance (ODA)ility and accountability, in order to support LAC in addressing the challenges arising from social inequality;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Deplores the cuts to humanitarian aid to the areas most in need of it (Northern Triangle of Central America, Haiti and Colombia) and areas particularly affected by the impact of climate change and natural disasters;
Amendment 23 #
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 administrationhrough which governments and multinational companies are violating human rights and international agreements on labour rights and environmental protection; stresses the importance of ensuring the separation of powers and equal access to an impartial judicial system and to strengthen administration and the public sector; rejects any type of intervention, whether direct or indirect, by the EU or its Member States in the internal affairs of LAC countries;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes public policies opening up opportunities for the nearly 30 million young people not in employment, education or training to be fundamental, and therefore urges the Commission to boost budget support programmes;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Highlights the importance of looking into ways of increasing the involvement of the private sector,need to ensure that, if there is private sector involvement, this takes place within a framework upholdingof respect for human, environmental and labour rights and in which investors sign up to and applythe binding and effective application of the United Nations principles for responsible investment, as well as ILO Convention 169 on the right to free prior and informed consent and consultation;
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 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses the importance of coordinating the various public policy areas and encourages the involvement of all actors, including companiepolitical and social actors, trade unions and other civil society organisations, both at central and local level, in achieving the SDGs;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that economic growth and trade alone are not sufficient to reduce poverty and inequality; accordingly, and with a view to the negotiation of trade agreements with various countries or groups of countries in the region, stresses the need to limit trade to fair, sustainable commercial practices designed to end economic asymmetries, which place human rights and human dignity ahead of mere private profit, which respect the right to regulate the economy and the right to public control of strategic sectors, and which include binding and effective clauses relating to sustainable development and human rights guarantees; calls for policies that contribute to achieving diversified, sustainable and inclusive growth, with a strong emphasis on social issues and the redistribution of wealth that will respond to the peoples’ demands and effectively combat inequality;
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;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Points out that LAC is highly vulnerable to natural disasters, a majority of which are attributable to climate change; calls on the Commission and the LAC countries to tackle the underlying causes and to take climate-resilience measures taking account of the principle of common but differentiated responsibility;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for development programmes in LAC to guarantee women’s fundamental freedomsincorporate a cross-cutting gender approach and guarantee women’s fundamental freedoms and rights, including the right to abortion and to sexual and reproductive health;