1 Amendments of Marielle DE SARNEZ related to 2012/2062(INI)
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Recalls the policy lessons learned from the Arab Spring, including the need to reversbalance previous policies focused mainly on relations with authorities and to establish an effective partnership between the EU and the governments and civil societies of partner countries; stresses the importance of creating programmes anasks the Commission and the EEAS to build supporting projects that allow for contact between civil societies in the EU and in third countries; calls on the Commiss the capacity of civil societies to participate in decision-making processes at local, regional, national and the EEAS to use the model of aninternational level (for instance via the pioneering institutionalised civil society consultation mechanism set out in the EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement as a starting-point for the development of even more inclusive mechanisms for all agreements; understands the core of the EU’s new approach as strengthening societies by means of active domestic accountability so as to support their capacity to take part in public decision-making and democratic governance processes; believes that this domestic accountability); believes that this objective should become a central pillar of the external financial instruments currently under review;