12 Amendments of Frank VANHECKE related to 2010/2037(INI)
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Expects the June 2010 European Council to agree on an ambitious and united EU position ahead of September's UN MDG meeting and to lead to new, results- oriented, additional, transparent and measurabletransparent commitments;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on all Member States to commit to allotting significantly more resources to development cooperation and emergency aid under the next Financial Perspective and European Development Fund;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls on all Member States to increase significantly the amount of aid provided through budget support, particularly via MDG contracts, but insists democracy, human rights, governance and other essential criteria are met and that there is more and better monitoring and auditsInsists democracy, human rights, governance and other essential criteria are met and that there is more and better monitoring and audits; calls for a manifest and persistent violation of the 'essential element' clause by a government necessarily to have real consequences for European development aid for that country;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the EU to put an end to agricultural export subsidies and other harmful aspects of our farm policy as soon as possiblePoints out that the EU has already decided, within the framework of world trade negotiations, to phase out the remaining agricultural export subsidies and that this is already the case for cereals, including wheat and barley; also points out that new research has shown that the phasing out of export subsidies is precisely to the disadvantage of the poorest countries and that only big agricultural producers such as Brazil benefit from it;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on developing countries to spend at least 15 % of national budgets on health carePoints out that many developing countries, above all in Africa, attach little importance to the development of a comprehensive system of health care, let alone to a competitive salary for medical personnel and that, furthermore, a disproportionate amount of the money available is still being spent on medicines in place of prevention; calls, therefore, on developing countries to spend at least 15 % of national budgets on health care and primarily to pay attention to building up an army of medical personnel with doctors and nurses with recent, relevant training and teaching material which is tailored to the situation in the countries;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the EU and developing couPoints out that it is estimated that tens of thousands of health workers from Africa emigrate abroad every year, and that this only further aggravates the already very critical situation in which medical personnel and health care in general find themselves; considers that the European Blue Card actively contributes to promote free access to health and educationthis trend; points out that such a brain drain is also a consequence of the fact that the training of many African health workers is based on teaching content that is derived from training centres in the West, which means that their knowledge is better geared to the situation in Europe or America than in Africa;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. CallPoints onut the EU and partner governments to increase investment in farming and food securityat many developing countries are seriously neglecting their agriculture, and therefore calls on those countries to ldevels that guarantee freedom from hunger for all, looking particularly at urgent hunger needs, small-scale farming and social protection programmesote far more of their national budgets to agriculture and to implement a comprehensive agricultural development policy; points out in this connection that a study by the UN food agency has shown that Congo could easily feed 700 million people, 10 times its population, but that it is a net importer of every conceivable type of food;