4 Amendments of Xabier BENITO ZILUAGA related to 2015/2342(INI)
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the insufficient size of Heading 4 and the Emergency Aid Reserve in particular has led the Commission to resort to satellite budgetary mechanisms, such as trust funds and the Facility for Refugees in Turkey, to top up the funding available; notes that this aim has not always been met with full success; trust funds, by their inter-governmental nature, make it difficult to implement a common, democratic migration policy, and encourage a dynamic of ‘he who pays the piper calls the tune.’ Current policy entrusts countries such as Turkey with role of buffer state and ‘border guardian’ on behalf of other countries. Turkey is just one example. This policy stigmatises people in a situation of forced mobility as a threat, while they are victimised by a multitude of global phenomena (inequality between centre and periphery, climate change, international conflicts, etc.) that have given rise to a tragic humanitarian crisis.
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Deplores that the new satellite mechanisms result in bypassing the budgetary authority and undermine the unity of the Union budget; stresses that the creation of funding instruments outside the EU budget must remain an exception; urges for such instruments to be brought under Parliament's oversight and calls for guidelines for their incorporation into the EU’s budget and the scope of its powers.
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that refocusing the EU’s external financing instruments towards security, peace building and conflict resolution, migration and border management poses new challenges in relation to the initial objectives and principles of these instruments; calls for the introduction of a common migration policy for the EU as a whole, with sufficient budgetary resources, addressing the factors (poverty, wars, climate change) causing forced displacement; urges for the safe movement of people to be ensured by means of safe corridors; calls for social integration mechanisms to be set up in countries of destination for people in a situation of forced mobility.
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes, however, the Commission proposal for a new European External Investment Plan, with a new focus on investment to promote economic and social development in the EU Neighbourhood and Africa; expresses doubts, however, as to whether the proposal is ambitious enough to fully harness the EU’s borrowing and lending potential; calls for a review of the MFF and the structure of the budget to make the latter more ambitious, by providing it with additional income streams and a more progressive fiscal capacity with a view to addressing the humanitarian crisis caused by the forced movement of persons, and the other crises Europe faces.