Activities of Luisa MORGANTINI related to 2008/2318(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
One year after Lisbon: the EU-Africa partnership at work (debate)
Amendments (8)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital -A a (new)
Recital -A a (new)
-Aa. whereas the EU-Africa strategy could have been an inclusive, bottom-up and participatory process of developing a partnership of equals but the pressure to adopt it at the Lisbon Summit prevented citizens of both continents from being adequately included,
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas there has been minimal involvement of civil society, particularly on the African side, in the development and implementation of the Joint Strategy, therefore resulting in a lack of ownership of the strategy by civil society in both continents,
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commissions and the Member States of the EU and the AU to complete as a matter of priority this institutional architecture by developing the parliamentary and civil society components that should drive and sustain the process by giving it transparency, ownership and democratic legitimacy;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls on the European Commission to develop appropriate capacity building tools for African civil society organisations specifically aimed at enhancing their capacity to engage with the strategy´s implementation;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the European Union and the African Union to start a serious reflexion aimed at clarifying the potential contradiction between the Pan-African approach of the Strategy and the existing different relationships with Northern African countries, Sub-Saharan countries and South Africa; also asks for clarification on the future of the Cotonou agreement and of the ACP as a group;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Considers, as regards the partnership on trade and regional integration, that under the right conditions, increasing trade is an essential driver of economic growth, provided trade policies are coherent with development objectives;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Insists, as regards the partnership on the MDGs, that even with more and better aid it will be difficult to meet these goals, and therefore urges EU Member States to uphold the commitments they recently restated at the Doha Conference on Financing for Development, as well as at the Accra High-Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness, particularly as regards the volume of their aid, policy coherence, ownership, transparency and division of labour between donors;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Calls on the European Commission and Member States to create a specific financial instrument for the implementation of the strategy; stresses that such an instrument should provide additional funding and should not take money away from existing instruments; underlines the importance of joint EP- PAP parliamentary scrutiny of such a new instrument;