5 Amendments of Catherine GRÈZE related to 2011/2019(BUD)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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1. Points up the fact that, without additional sources of funding, the Member States will be unable to honour the commitments entered into in connection with the Millennium Development Goals; advocates establishing a European tax on financial transactions with a view to funding global public goods, i.e. poverty eradication and climate change; recalls that innovative financing for development is not designed to be a substitute for ODA, but is complementary; reiterates its conviction that the introduction of a FTT should therefore be linked with a more binding commitment of all member countries to achieve the 0.7% objective of ODA spending;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
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3. Urges that expenditure committed to mitigate the impact of climate change on developing countries come from an additional financial injection and not be the result of reclassifying funds originally allocated for development purposesReiterates its conviction that environment issues must be better mainstreamed and financed throughout all external policies, as the environment, natural resources and healthy ecosystems play an essential role to human development and eradication of poverty; supports in this context the proposal to increase the thematic programme on environment and natural resources as a step to fulfil EU's commitments taken at the climate conference in Cancun in 2010; but urges that expenditure committed to mitigate the impact of climate change on developing countries come from an additional financial injection and not be the result of reclassifying funds originally allocated for development purposes; recalls that for this principle to be secured, separate accounting for climate finance is needed; reiterates that in order to make climate funding effective, there is a need to better mainstream climate change concerns into EU development cooperation, while enforcing Policy Coherence for Development;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
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4. Considers that the emerging economies - India, China and Brazil - should no longer be reliant on official development assistance, given that poverty in those countries can be combated with own resources generated by high-growth economies; urges the EU, during the phasing-out period, to target its assistance on capacity-building for the establishment of tax collection, social security and other redistribution systems, while combating equally against tax havens, tax evasion and illicit capital flights, so as to enable countries to raise their domestic revenues, which should lead to the reduction of poverty and of aid dependency;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
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7. Takes the view that, owing to the efforts of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, substantial progress has been made in combating these evils; regards the amount allocated to the Global Fund for this purpose as insufficient, however; but recalls that both the horizontal and vertical approaches are necessary and complementary; therefore, urges the EU and Member States to support in developing countries the improvement of basic health systems to be accessible to everyone;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 11