6 Amendments of Anneli JÄÄTTEENMÄKI related to 2010/2300(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recalls that, according to the Lisbon Treaty, poverty reduction and eradication is the EU's primary development policy objective; emphasises that poverty has multiple dimensions such as human, economic, socio-cultural, gender, environmental, and political, which all need to be tackled by the EU development policy;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Shares the view that budget support can help in building mechanisms to fight corruption; stresses the importance of assisting the public authorities and parliaments in beneficiary countries to promote transparency and good governance and to fight corruption;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Emphasises the importance of the effectiveness of EU development aid; calls on developing EU-level independent evaluation systems and a complaints mechanism open to those affected by EU aid, as well as supporting in-country accountability mechanisms;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates that budget support should be spent in pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals and to principles such as partnership, aid effectiveness and policy coherence for development, and not for any politically strategic reason or in furtherance of the economic, security- policy or geostrategic interests of the donors; emphasises that it must be given within a long-term predictable time frame and must not be tied to harmful economic- policy conditions such as privatisation, cuts in the public sector or trade liberalisation;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. States that the effectiveness of development-policy measures in the partner countries must be checked on the basis of local criteria; stresses that needs must remain a crucial criterion for the allocation of EU development aid;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises the crucial and compulsory role of policy coherence in the implementation of a high-impact development policy; states that budget support may have as little positive effect as any other development-policy instrument so long as development-unfriendly concepts are pursued in other policy areas; such as environment, energy, climate, trade, agriculture, and foreign and security policy; therefore urges reviews of EU trade policy – in particular reformulation of the mandates for negotiations on economic partnership, association and other bi- regional agreements – as well as EU foreign and security policy, with a view to promoting development; calls on more systematic efforts to mainstream climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction measures;