7 Amendments of Ska KELLER related to 2015/2353(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for adequate financing in order to implementncrease the coherence of the Commission’s ambitious trade policy agenda with the EU's global action goals, contributing to the stability and prosperity of the EU and third countries;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes that the migration and refugee crisis has revealed significant shortcomings in the consistency of EU action in the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood and in Sub-Saharan Africa; calls on the Commission to seize the opportunity of the MFF revision to launch a fundamental reform of the policy strategy towards the EU’s partners with a view to increasing its impacpolicy coherence for development and tackling migration causes effectively; underlines that the funding of programs for the mitigation of the refugee crisis should not be deduced from Official Development Assistance (ODA) spending;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission to assess and improve the various initiatives under the Partnership Instrument supporting SME internationalisation, in relation to private and Member State initiatives, with a view to ensuring complementarity and European added-value; underlines that such funding needs to be assessed against compliance with ILO and Human Rights standards;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the increasing recourse to guarantees and financial instruments outside the EU budget to respond to multiple crises despite budgetary constraints; deplores the various cuts in Heading 4 in order to provide funding for the newly created Trust Funds for Syria and Africa and the Turkey Facility; insists that such funding instruments must adhere to the established criteria of aid effectiveness, such as ownership and alignments, remain an exception and should eventually be included in the budget;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers the European Guarantee Fund for External Actions to be an efficient and effective mechanism for provisioning for risks related to EU lending operations in third countries; urges that more lending be made available to support SMEs and in support of the development of social and economic infrastructure in the regions most affected by the migration and refugee crisis is subject to prior sustainability impact assessment;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that the valuable support under the EU’s Macro-Financial Assistance mechanism to partner countries facing severe economic difficulties must be reflected in the EU budget; suggests that, in the longer term, the integration of the MFA instrument into the European Neighbourhood Program Instrument should be contemplated, in order to increase coherence of EU action;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for sufficient resources under Heading 5 in order to conduct assessments of trade agreements, in particular with regards to their contribution to the fight against poverty and adverse impacts on sustainable development and Human Rights, and ensure that the obligations of the EU and its trading partners in this regard are implemented and enforced.