Activities of Alf SVENSSON related to 2010/2269(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on migration flows arising from instability: scope and role of EU foreign policy
Amendments (9)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the EU has a major role to play in making migration a lever for development; takes the view that coherent, development-oriented action can help to tackle the root causes of migratory flows, while migration can help to boost economic growth and social empowerment as well as stimulating governance reform in countries of origin;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recognises the crucial role played by the diaspora in promoting development in countries of origin; calls for closer cooperation between institutions in developing countries and EU Member States with a view to engaging more fully with the diaspora as a major component of civil society;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the stepping-up of efforts aimed at reducing the negative effects of the brain drain; emphasises the importance of promotingEncourages efforts such as the promotion of circular migration, regulatingon of recruitment practices and supporting for capacity-building, in order to reduce the negative effects of brain drain;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the important role played byof the Global Forum on Migration and Development, which provides a structured framework for the promotion of enhanced dialogue and cooperation between both governmental and non-governmental actors, including civil society;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States to adopt aput into practice fair and transparent procedures to facilitate migrants‘ access to employment coupled with decent working conditions, health care provision and social protection; urges the Commission to take into consideration the policy recommendations adopted at the Africa-EU Senior Officials Meeting on Migration, Mobility and Employment (15- 17 September 2010);
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the European Union to take bolconsider steps to adjust the financing instruments for its external action so as to make it possible to enhance the positive effects of migration in terms of promoting human development and democracy in fragile states;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recommends increasing theEmphasises the importance of the allocated financial resources allocated for strengthening the ‘migration-development nexus’, and the improvingement of the complementary and timely mobilisation of the EU's various financing instruments for its external action;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for clarification of the respective roles of the European External Action Service and DEVCO, and for coordination between them; demands thaturges DEVCO to play a leading role in the programming phase in respect of migration policy;