4 Amendments of Bernhard ZIMNIOK related to 2021/2106(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Notes that the replacement of the Development Cooperation Instrument with the Global Europe Instrument coincides with a dramatic reversal of the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and with rapid aggravation of the global climate crisiand urgent need to ensure proper conditions for the delivery of development-aid from the EU Member States, via the EU-Commission, in order to ensure that third countries adhere all applicable international rules, protecting their populations and especially ensure that they are allowed to be returned home and be reunited with their families; insists that in the implementation of the Global Europe Instrument, maximum efficiency in the response to these incomparably important challengeproblems must be sought;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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2. Recalls that the Global Europe Instrument’s spending target of 20% for human development and social inclusion is a minimum target; calls for substantially higher expenditure in this area, given the crucial importance of health, education, nutrition, water, sanitation and hygiene for the realisation of human rights and of a life in dignity for all, the devastating impacts of the COVID pandemic and the human rights- based approach laid down in the Global Europe - NDICI regulation, the implementae need to ensure that only: realistic; viable; sustainable; transparent; and accountable development-interventions are funded with the focus on ensuring a basic availability of the cornerstones of civilized living, such as power supply and infrastructure; and only providing clearly definable and measurable aid- interventions of which Parliament will scrutinisea tangible nature with full respect of local culture(s) and tradition(s);
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
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Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
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5. Stresses that choices of aid modalities should always be based on realistic assessments of the likely efficiency of possible options, supported by evidence; points to the salience of this in the rapidly expanding area of private sector cooperation, where the evidence base is limited and should carefully be broadened and deepened in order to facilitate optimal use of official development assistance (ODA)e need for optimal use of official development assistance (ODA) with the view to start reducing the overall amount distributed via the administrators at the EU-Commission;