Activities of Ana GOMES related to 2011/2157(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Neighbourhood Policy (debate)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the EEAS and the Commission to provide a clear methodology and detailed benchmarks to assess the democracy record of these countries and to deliver regular sufficiently detailed reports, which should be the basis for the allocation of funds under the new performance-based approach ‘more for more’; asks for these reports to be presented annually to its Committee on Foreign Affairs, involving the Committee on Development and the Sub-Committee on Human Rights; insists on the need to systematically include civil- society organisations at all stages of the review process;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Underlines that in the ongoing processes of democratic transitions in the Arab Spring countries, the participation of women, young people, civil society and the functioning of free and independent media will be crucial and urges the EU to increase support to train and organise those actors, including by inviting them to observe elections and the functioning of democratic institutions within the EU;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Reaffirms that, for the Southern partnership, the aim should be to assist the partners in building democratic, pluralistic and secular states, namely through institutional capacity building programmes, as well as to develop mutually beneficial and ambitious trade arrangements whichthat can lead to DCFTAs, which will surely represent the first step towards a big ‘Euro-Mediterranean Economic Space’, which will also help to solve the economic problems of our neighbouring partners in the South;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses that the EU should foster synergies between European external and internal policies, particularly through the approximation of legislation aimed at job creation, poverty reduction, energy security and environmental securustainability and improvement of social protection and justice;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Deplores the deaths of migrants and asylum seekers that occurred in the Mediterranean earlier this year and calls on the EU Member States to make sure that the rights of any human beings aiming at entering the EU are fully respected in any circumstances and that particular protection is duly ensured to asylum seekers and refugees, according to international obligations;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 b (new)
Paragraph 19 b (new)
19b. Urges EU Member States to immediately ensure resettlement to sub- Saharan asylum seekers and refugees identified by UNHCR, who escaped the war in Libya and who cannot return to their countries of origin for political or security reasons and are therefore stranded in humanitarian camps in the North of Africa;
Amendment 292 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. In the context of the aftermath of the revolutions in the North of Africa, stresses the importance of providing support to transitional justice and urges all partner countries to cooperate with international justice, namely the ICC;