4 Amendments of Daniël van der STOEP related to 2013/2145(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Welcomes the EU Member States' reconfirmation of all the Official Development Assistance (ODA) commitments into which they have entered individually and collectively, including that to raise the level of ODA to 0.7% by 2015; reminds the Member States that in addition to reconfirming their commitments, they shcould honour them; reiterates its own firm support for the 0.7% target and its determination to contribute to its attainment;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
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3. Deeply regrets the fact that the 2014 ceiling for the Global Europe heading in the draft MFF is significantly lower than the corresponding ceiling for 2013 and that this generates pressurestress for the members of the Committee on Development who want to spend endless amounts of money to unnecessary projects which are bound to fail; recognises that savings should even so not be made on the backs of particularly vulnerable people and that the prospects for honouring of ODA commitments must not be undercut; affirms that the 2013 levels of the development and humanitarian expenditure must therefore be maintained;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
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6. Recognises that through numerous links in today's interconnected world, the costs of failures to effectively address deep development and humanitarian needs, as well as the costs of insufficient climate action, will have to be borne also by the EU itself; points out that development assistance and humanitarian aid, as well as climate financing, which should be additional to ODA, are therefore necessary investments in the longer-term security and well-being of our own societies.