7 Amendments of Stelios KOULOGLOU related to 2015/2353(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the massive scale of the global needs for humanitarian aid and for disaster risk reduction, disaster preparedness and the building of resilience in developing countries; also notes the upward pressure on these needs stemming from effects of conflicts and wars, human rights violations, economic and social inequality, bad governance and corruption, as well as climate change and competition for scarce resources; insists that the EU’s financial means for responding to humanitarian and development issues require strengthening, and is convinced that this is also essential for the defence of the EU’s own interests, including its security in a broad sensefulfilling the principle of policy coherence for development;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recognises the need for security- related expenditure in the current efforts to comprehensively address the security/development nexus and deliver on Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16jects any use of development aid for non-development objectives, which are clearly stated in TFEU article 208; believes that promoting peace, security and justicegood governance and rule of law in developing countries is crucialnecessary for poverty reductionand inequality reduction, and at long term the eradication of poverty; emphasises that the funding concerned, which does not constitute Official Development Assistance (ODA), must come from other instruments than the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI) or the European Development Fund (EDF);
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Recalls that untying aid is a necessary condition for opening up opportunities for developing country socio-economic actors; calls for boosting the use of developing country procurement systems as the first option for aid programmes in support of activities managed by the public sector to enhance local private sector;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Notes that according to the OECD, in-donor refugee costs (expenditure on refugees' transport, food, shelter and training) spent during the first twelve months of stay can be reported as ODA; equally notes that many EU countries include all the costs relating to asylum seekers, regardless of whether they are granted refugee status or not, as refugee costs; is concerned that this practice has a huge opportunity cost against effective development aid programmes which aim at combating root causes of migration in developing countries; calls, therefore, on the EU and its member states not to report refugee costs as ODA;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Urges the EU and its Member States to stop inflating aid, and exclude inflated aid items from ODA reporting: refugee costs, imputed student costs, tied aid, interest on loans and debt relief;