Activities of Joachim KUHS related to 2020/2045(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Implementation report on the EU Trust Funds and the Facility for Refugees in Turkey (continuation of debate)
Amendments (39)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Insists on the need to ensure that the objectives of the FRT are consistent with the EU’s general principles, policies and objectives, including democracy, the rule of law and human rightsdismantle the FRT;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the need to make sure strict monitoring exercises and audits are carried out to ensure compliance with the Financial Regulation; invites the Commission to scale up reporting on the FRT and asks it to ensure that these funds specifically target refugee projects and are not used for any other purposesto dismantle it as soon as possible;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses that the actions under each strand of the FRT will achieve more value for money if they are part of an integrat minimized approach;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to implement a strategy for the transition from humanitarian to development assistance and to improve the efficiency ofcancel cash assistance projects;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Notes with appreciation the efforts and measures regret the waste of funding undertaken by the EU and its Member States to support refugees in Turkey; regrets, however, the general public’s lack of knowledge about these actions.
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
E b. whereas Turkey is using the FRT to challenge and to blackmail the EU and its Member States;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the Turkey Facility is made up of two tranches of EUR 3 billion each; regrets the fact that, unlike in the first tranche 2016-2017, where the EU budgetMember States via the EU administration contributed EUR 1 billion and Member States directly provided another EUR 2 billion, in the second tranche 2018-2019 the ratio of contributions was reversed, to the detriment of existing Union projects;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Continues to expresses concerns over the limited role of Parliament in the supervision and scrutiny of the UnionMember States contributions to the EUTFs; recalls Parliament’s request to monitor the activities of the Operational Committee, and calls on the Commission to provide in good time detailed information on the decisions taken in that Committee and to ensure that Parliament is represented at its meetings;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Notes that the emerging security challengeproblems in the CAR will require well- targeted, flexible EU support under the NDICI-Global Europe to enhance peace and security, democratisation and strengthening democratic institutions in the CARlocal interventions by the concerned parties in order ensure that a process towards peace and stability can start in earnest;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. WelcomNotes the rapid and flexible reaction of the Trust Fund in support of partner countries and communities during the coronavirus outbreak, showing active engagement in the realignment and refocusing of activities, not only in the domain of health, but also in other areas, such as livelihoods, protection, education or social cohesion in Lebanon, Iraq, Turkey and Jordan;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises the importance of continuous support for refugees, internally displaced persons and, for vulnerable host communities and combatting asylum fraud, both inside Syria and in the wider region, affected by the continued conflict, by means of a mix of longer-term, predictable and rapidly deployable funding under instruments established for the 2021- 2027 multiannual financial framework (MFF) and potential contributions from the Member States as external assigned revenue, taking into account all financial instruments provided under the Financial Regulation;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Considers that the Trust Fund for Africa represents an important tool to provide a swift, flexible and targeted response to emerging challenges and underlines that common, global challenges, such as migration and forced displacement, the impact of climate change and economic crises in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, make this flexibility and rapidity more necessary than everjust one tool of many to provide a response to emerging problems;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Welcomes the generallyattempt to create a stronger degree of local ownership, by the involvement of local authorities and civil society organisations (CSOs) in projects supported by the EUTF for Africa;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Notes that the EUTF for Africa made a major contribution to attempt to strengthening resilience and implementing the humanitarian-development nexus in fragile contexts; notes further that it also fosteredttempted to create cooperation between different stakeholders, and allowed contributions from non-EU donors, which in the post- Brexit context have acquired particular importance, and increased the visibility of the issue of mass-immigration and forced displacement and the EU’s lack of response to it;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. CongratulaNotes Colombia on it´s efforts, despite its own challenges with the implementation of the peace agreement, to provide support for over 1.7 million Venezuelan migrantrefugees who have fled the oppressive regime of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela in their homeland to Colombia, in particular by granting them a 10-year temporary protection status;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the involvement of the Republic of Chile as a donor in the Trust Fund; notes that the participation of regional partners is of high value added, and has increased both local recognition and the legitimation of the EU’s engagement and cooperation;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Considers that the EU FRT has proven its valuEU´s inability to handle the mas an innovative pooling tool and important csive and protracted crisis and security threat for European nations due to the massive volumes of economic immigrants floordinating mechanism for assisting Turkey in swiftly responding to the immediate humanitarian and development needs of refugees and their host communitiesg into Europe via Turkey, that the establishment of the EU FRT can only be viewed as giving in to the threats and aggressive actions from Turkey and placing the burden on the EU taxpayers to fund the legal obligations the Turkish state has towards the minority of refugees and the majority of illegal immigrants present on Turkish territory;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Questions the legal basis for authorising the establishment of the Trust Funds in its evaluation and implementation between 2014 and 2018 in the absence of sufficient parliamentary oversight during that period;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Reiterates its deep regret that Parliament was not formally consulted or askrequested to give its approval to the creation or extension of this Facility; notes the non-transparent and undemocratic actions by the unelected administrators of the Commission and was only involved as one arm of the budgetary authority, thereby undermining thedepriving the FRT of any democratic accountability of the FRT;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Reiterates its deep regretoutrage that Parliament was not formally consulted or asked to give its approval to the creation or extension of this Facility and was only involved as one arm of the budgetary authority, thereby undermining the democratic accountability of the FRT;
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Reiterates its request that Turkey respect the principle of non-refoulement, in particular on the Syrian border, and that it not use the flows of refugees against the EUand assumes her full responsibility for the international agreements she has concluded and take full responsibility for all undertaken and planned illegal moments of third country nationals towards the EU external border and immediately cease all hostilities towards Greece;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Stresses that this aid has been misused by Mr Erdogan to blackmail the EU, which completely delegitimises this aid, as irregular migratory flows have been used as levers of power serving the geopolitical strategies of the Turkish President;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Underlines that Turkey, through a continuous instrumentalisation of the refugee crisis, is taking advantage of the RFT in order to obtain some leverage for political, economic or military concessions, to justify its aggressive behaviour towards the EU Member States and to pursue its foreign policy ambitions;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 226 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses the need to take on board the lessons learned in the establishment, management and implementation of the Trust Funds and the FRT in order to apply them to the new generation of external financial instrumentsand the last 50 years of aid and development policies funded by the Member States in order to apply them while rethinking the volumes of funds and what interventions Member States should be involved in; is of the opinion that the actions for which the taxpayers lend support must become more efficient, and the funds for aid and development must be reduced dramatically;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 246 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 261 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. In the event of any proposed greater needs in the MFF 2021-2027, advocates increasing the NDICI-Global Europe envelope through a revision of the MFF and the NDICI- Global Europe regulations, or a strengthenstates that no increasing of the relevant NDICI- Global Europe budget lines with contributions in the form of external assigned revenue; stresses that, should a need for a duly justified new Trust Fund nevertheless arise, it insists that Parliament must be fully involved from the very outsetenvelope will be possible;
Amendment 268 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Acknowledges that cooperation wiallowing the representatives of local communities, including local religious leaders, in settings affected by conflict to be in charge of any transitional justice process or similar process is crucial to foster reconciliation, dialogue and peace;
Amendment 287 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32