Activities of Thijs BERMAN related to 2008/2050(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Follow-up of the Monterrey Conference of 2002 on Financing for Development (short presentation)
Reports (1)
REPORT on the follow-up to the Monterrey Conference of 2002 on financing for Development PDF (192 KB) DOC (101 KB)
Amendments (10)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas for the second time in history the UN is organising a World Summitthe Doha Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development, aimed at bringing together not only development but also finance ministers, as well as representatives from the international financial organisations, private banking and business and civil society, to examine the progress that has been made since the first World Summit on Financing for Development held in 2002 in Monterrey,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas, if current trends regarding Member States' ODA levels continue, Member States will not meet the collective targets to which they are committed of 0,51% (for the EU 15, i.e. the Member States part of the EU prior to the 2004 enlargement) and 0,17% (for the EU 12, i.e. the Member States which acceded to the EU on 1 May 2004 and 1 January 2007) of GNI by 2010,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas programmable aid to Africa is rising despite the general decrease of ODA in 2007,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas significant new challenges have emerged since 2002, including rising food prices, climate change and important new trends in South- South cooperation including support for infrastructure by China in Africa and lending by the Brazilian Development Bank BNDES1 in Latin America,
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the fact that the EU met its binding ODA target of the Community average of 0,39% of GNI by 2006, but notes the alarming decrease of EU aid in 2007 from EUR 47,7 billion in 2006 (0,41% EU collective GNI) to EUR 46,61 billion in 2007 (0,38% EU collective GNI) and calls upon Member States to raise ODA volumes to achieve their promised target of 0,56% of GNI in 2010;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Expresses serious concern that some Member States (especially Latvia, Italy, Portugal, Greece and the Czech Republic) are falling behind in reaching ODA commitments for 2010; calls on Member States to fulfil their ODA volumes as committed; notes with satisfaction that some Member States (Denmark, Ireland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands) are certain to reach the ODA targets for 2010, and is confident that these Member States will maintain their high levels of ODA;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Fully endorses efforts by developing countries to maintain long-term debt sustainability and to implement the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, which is of key importance to fulfil the MDGs; urges urgent international debate on the expansion of international debt relief measures to a further number of low-income and lower middle-income countries, which are now excluded from the HIPC initiative;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on all Member States to adhere to the code of conduct on debt sustainability; urges the EU to promote international efforts which aim to put in place some form of international insolvency procedures or fair and transparent arbitration procedure to deal efficiently and equitably with any future debt crisis;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Welcomes the proposals for innovative financing mechanisms put forward by the Member States and calls on the Commission to examine them against the benchmarks of ease of practical implementation, sustainability, additionality, transaction costs and effectiveness; calls for finance mechanisms and instruments that provide new funding and do not put future financial flows at risk; calls on the Commission to study other existing proposals such as the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT), which lacks a clear development component and stresses therefore that EU policies should be coherent with development policy;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the Commission to draw up an additional Climate Change Aid Fincrease the funding of climate change measures in developing countries, in particular to the Global Climate Change Alliance, but stresses the need to call for a separate climate change aid fund for Ddeveloping Ccountries, which is to be financed separately from ODA funds, andcomplementary to ODA funds, as ODA alone should not provide an adequate response to measures for climate change adaptation and mitigation in developing countries, but also for other measures for adapting and mitigating climate change by implementing a kerosene tax and/or CO2 sanauctions;