16 Amendments of Catherine GRÈZE related to 2010/2037(INI)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that achieving the Millennium Development Goal requires above all a radical change of policy in industrialised and developing countries in order to address the structural causes of poverty such as unfair world trade rules, unbearable debt payment and unfair distribution of wealth including in developing countries;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Believes that the fight against poverty requires policy reform in view of establishing global fair and equitable trade rules, measures to foster access to land, water and the resources of biodiversity as well as measures to foster a policy of local support for sustainable smallholding agriculture;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on all Member States actively to crack down on tax havens and tax evasion, illicit financial flow within the G20 and UN framework, and to promote greater transparency andautomatic disclosure of profits made and taxes paid by multinationals in a country- by - country reporting by multinationals; system to enable developing countries to keep their own resources for the development of their countries';
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the EIB to review its policy on offshore financial centres on the basis of more stringent criteria than the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) listing for the definition of prohibited and monitored jurisdictions, and to ensure its implementation and provide annual reports on progress;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on all Member States to apply an interest-free debt moratorium on debt repayments until 2015 for developing countries and to make renewed efforts to write off debts of LDCsfor debt cancellation at least for LDC countries, as they are odious debts contracted by the dictators against the interest of their population and insist that any debt write off should not be counted as ODA;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Stresses that there is a need to an effective global response to the problem of climate change where industrialised countries should take their responsibility and take the lead in combating greenhouse gases effects, which threatens MDG goals if not addressed;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls on the EU to transform its fisheries partnership agreements so that they are fully coherent with EU development policy and take full account of social and economic development requirements in local communities; considers that the best way to do this is to create a distinction between the costs of access for the EU fleet (which should be covered by ship-owners and represent a fair part of the value of the catches) and the sectoral support provided by the EU to the third country through partnership agreements (for research, control, etc); such support must be long- term in nature and coherent with EU development policy objectives, in particular poverty alleviation;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a.Calls on the EU to take concrete action against poverty by adopting a coherent policy between Trade, Development Cooperation and its Common Agricultural and fisheries policies to avoid direct or indirect negative impacts on developing countries economy;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the EU and developing countries to promoteut in place the right policy for free access to health and education;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls on the EU to improve poor people's access to affordable medicines by showing flexibility in applying theproactively implementing the August 2003 flexibility agreement on TRIPS (trade- related aspects of intellectual property rights) in its trading relationships with developing countries;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26a. Expresses its deep concern about the current farmland acquisition (particularly in Africa) by government-backed foreign investors, which, if not handled properly, threatens to undermine local food security and lead to serious and far-reaching consequences in developing countries;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26b. Urges the UN and the EU to seriously address the adverse impacts of farm land acquisition, of (such as expropriation of small farmers and unsustainable use of land and water), at the occasion the UN high level meeting on MDGs in September, by recognising the right of the population to control farmland and other vital natural resources and by adopting guiding principles in this line;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Calls on the World Bank and IMF to allocate a fairer share of voting rights to underrepresented nations ensuring that borrowers and lenders have equal voting shares in the short term, and that lending shall not undermine principles of ownership as committed to in Paris and Accra;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Deplores that for the past 3 decades many public intervention instruments in the agricultural commodities sector, such as state marketing boards, have been dismantled as a result of IMF led structural adjustment programmes and that this policy has reduced the capacity of states to regulate the market; calls for regulatory measures, including price control to prevent that speculation undermines food availability and leads to insecurities for farmers;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Calls on the IMF to direct a higonsiders that the reform of Bretton Wood institutions are necessary aiming at reviewing IMF and world Bank conditionalities and calls therefore for a new financial architecture, which includes developing countries' representation through their proportion of its loans to LDCrespective regional organisations in order to address their legitimate sustainable development concerns;