2 Amendments of Jean-Lin LACAPELLE related to 2021/2252(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomTakes the Council’s recognition that an enhanced European financial architecture for development (EFAD) should follow the ‘policy first’ principle and stresses that the EU’s crucial efforts in development cooperation must be consistent with other EU external activities and in line with its strategic interests, and especially with the EU’s valuview that solidarity between Member States must be prioritised, and states that the European Union is not intended to be a 'global and international player' as often said or meant to manage development aid for the entire the world; considers that development aid must mainly be provided within the normal framework of cooperation between states;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recognises that the EFAD is focused on least developed and fragile countries, especially in Sub-Saharan AfTakes the view that development aid must be subject to strict conditionality criterica, but urges that it be borne in mind that around two thirds of the EIB and EBRD’s combined external opersuch as the obligation for beneficiary countries to readmit nationals arend concentoperated i on taccession and neighbourhood countries where the EU needs to deliver okling illegal immigration; notes that, as highlighted in thewo recently launched Economic and Investment Plans for the Western Balkans as well as in the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods; calls in this regard for the EIB and EBRD’s operations and role to be strengthened reports published by the European Court of Auditors, the increase in aid provided to the Eastern Neighbourhood and Western Balkans has only bolstered high-level corruption in the countries in these areas.