6 Amendments of Karsten LUCKE related to 2022/2046(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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-1. Stresses the role of the European Union as a global player, especially in view of development policy and humanitarian aid, where it is a crucial actor providing stability and collectively the biggest donor in the world; emphasises that this role can only be fulfilled with the appropriate financial means, which must be increased due to the shifted geopolitical realities;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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1. Regrets that the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework (MFF) lacks a sufficiently endowed Heading 6 and, therefore, the available margins have been limited and shrinking since the first year, including an early depletion of the cushion, even beyond responding to emerging challenges and priorities; highlights that the Russian invasion of Ukraine is having global consequences and is generating unprecedented needs for EU external action, both in neighbouring countries and worldwide, as a result of; stresses that the consequences of the Russian war in Ukraine, among others the food, energy and economic crises, which are undermining progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals worldwide;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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2. Calls on the Commission to adopt, in early 2023, an ambitious MFF revision proposal that substantially increases the resources for Heading 6; urges the Member States to agree to a significant increase in ceilings; highlights that only seven years are left to achieve Agenda 2030 and regrets that according to the SDG Report 20221a, the global average of the SDG index decreased slightly for the second consecutive year; reiterates that the EU should play a crucial role in the implementation of the SDGs as well as in supporting its partner countries in their efforts; _________________ 1a https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2022/Th e-Sustainable-Development-Goals- Report-2022.pdf
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
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3. Notes that the global humanitarian funding gap continues to grow; underlines that sustainable investments in disaster risk reduction are urgently needed today in order to prevent shocks and crises in the short, medium and long term; stresses that the humanitarian aid instrument must receive significantly more funding in the revised MFF to match the EU’s ambition to be a leading humanitarian donor in view of the many simulations crises in the world;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
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4. Highlights the need for flexibility mechanisms to have sufficient funding to respond to crises, without hampering efforts to achieve transparency and democratic accountability; is concerned by the uneven mobilisation of the Solidarity and Emergency Aid Reserve (SEAR); calls for more predictability in meeting internal and external emergency needs by separating the SEAR into a Solidarity Reserve for needs within the EU and an Emergency Aid Reserve for external action, or by ring- fencing the share dedicated for external crises for the entire year;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
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5. CUnderlines that inequalities between countries and people are dramatically increasing, making the need to transform economies and infrastructures in a just and sustainable way even more imperative; calls for the MFF revision to provide additional funds to the Neighbourhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) – Global Europe instrument, particularly to reinforce the budget lines most in demand recently and to meet the additional needs caused by the Russian war against Ukraine without diverting money from other geographic regions, where it is urgently needed to achieve the SDGs especially SDG 1 and SDG 10 given their strategic importance for the implementation of the other goals;