7 Amendments of Antoni COMÍN I OLIVERES related to 2020/2116(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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1. Reaffirms that the right to migrate is a human right; calls on the Commission to promote development and humanitarian policies that protect the human and social rights of all migrants, wherever EU action is deployed and irrespective of their legal status; recalls that the Treaties provide that the Union is founded on the respect of human rights and dignity, and therefore considers that the EU migration policy cannot entail human rights violations that weaken the position of the EU in the international arena and the credibility of its foreign policy;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
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2. Recalls that EU development cooperation must have as its main objective the reduction and eradication of poverty and that ite improvement of human security; believes that EU development cooperation must be based on partner countries’ development agendas, following a needcontext-specific needs, population vulnerability assessments and a rights- based approach, and not on EU domestic interests;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
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3. Takes note of the EU’s New Pact on Migration and Asylum; expresses its regret that the proposed measures are insufficient to ensure respect for migrants’ human rights and is especially worried about the externalisation of EU border management and migration control; considers that agreeing on a common migration policy that respects human rights and distributes the burden assumed by the Member States that receive the vast majority of asylum applications is a critical matter for the EU, and that failing to do so will entail a structural threat to the viability of the European integration project;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
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4. Insists on the need for humanitarian corridors and safe and legal migration pathways from neighbouring and developing countries into the EU; stresses that the mere containment of irregular migration does not lead to its effective reduction and only forces migrants to take more dangerous routes;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
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6. Expresses its deep concern about the possible misuse of development funds for border control purposes, including those of the EU Emergency Trust Fund for Africa (EUTF), and the suspected human rights violations linked to the EUTF in Libya, Ethiopia and Niger; considers that these facts prove the need for projects funded by the EUTF to include detailed risk assessments, specially concerning potential violations of human rights, as well as protocols that should foresee the situations that would entail the suspension of a project;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
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7. Deplores the lack of transparency of the EUTF and the fact that Parliament is not involved in its scrutiny; considers that, given their expertise in humanitarian and development affairs, civil society organizations should play a more active role in the identification of needs, should have a say in the formulation of programs and should engage in discussions on how to measure the success of development projects; considers that security projects funded by the EUTF should always focus on people’s right to feel safe in their environment, take into account the needs of the different groups that make up the population of partner countries -with a special regard for minority groups and women- and previously assess their impact on fragile and conflict-affected situations, rather than simply promoting the implementation of foreign policy agendas of EU Member States; regrets that barely 1.5% of the total worth of the EUTF for Africa is allocated to fund regular migration schemes; calls on the Commission to comprehensively review the implementation of the EUTF to ensure that it falls in line with development and humanitarian objectives;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
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8. Reiterates that the NDICI budget dedicated to migration should be used to address the root causes of migration and not to control migratory flows or fund external border management.; recalls that tackling the root causes of migration is the only way to achieve effective regulation of migration flows;