13 Amendments of Kriton ARSENIS related to 2011/2047(INI)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Insists that access to basic social services, in particular to health and education, which are crucial sectors for reaching the MDGs and for facilitating sustainable growth, must remain a cornerstone for EU aid;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Underlines that tackling inequality – including gender – reinforces the human rights based approach championed in the European Consensus on Development and leads to faster poverty reduction;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates its position that the collective target of devoting 0.7% of the Union’s Gross National Income (GNI) to ODA by 2015 must be met; urges the Commission and Member States to find new sources of development funding; opposes anyunderlines that a financial transaction tax could raise billions of Euros, part of which could be directed to development aid; opposes any alteration or broadening of the definition of ODA, as set by the OECD;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Reiterates that the EU should channel its aid into the LDCs with special attention to the situation of women, children and people with disabilities;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Supports efforts to promote industrialsustainable economic development, provided that social and environmental standards are observed;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Emphasises that the provision of basic social services is crucial to pro-poor growth; calls for 20% of all EU assistance to be earmarked for basic social services, as defined by the OECD, with a special focus on free and universal access to primary health care and basic education;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Reiterates its view that the EU must support partner countries in developing fair, transparent and effective tax systems to generate the revenues needed for social protection and pro-poor policies;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Acknowledges that the development of the private sector in developing countries is crucial to creating employment opportunities, delivering services and enhancing wealth creation; stresses that, in keeping with the pro-poor agenda, EU development aid should focus on encouraging recipient countries to create an environment conducive to the development of small, medium-sized and micro- enterprises and on the removal of barriers to formalisation, access to capital and affordable credit and that services and capacity-building should be targeted in particular on poorer entrepreneurs;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Welcomes the proposal to focus development cooperation on sustainable renewable energy; insists that access to energy for the poor and in connection with the provision of public services and local development must be prime objectives of EU-supported projects;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. SupportsRecognizes that tackling climate change and achieving key development objectives are mutually supportive goals; emphasizes the need for more systematic efforts to mainstream ecosystem-based climate change adaptation and mitigation and disaster risk reduction measures and the need to ensure that all EU development projects do not oppose global climate change mitigation efforts;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Reiterates its position that mainstreaming cannot replace the provision of new and additional resources which the EU and other donors have promisedcommitted towards developing countries affected by climate changemitigation efforts and adaptation needs;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Reiterates its position that the EU should focus its development assistance on ensuring food security for developing countries and promoting sustainable, local, small-scale and organic agricultural production; emphasises the need to ensure, in particular, access for small farmers to the means of production (land, seeds, credit, consultancy and advisory services), to processing and marketing opportunities and to local and cross-border markets;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Insists that the EU should also address the root causes of food insecurity, including food-price speculation and, ‘land grabbing’ and seed monopolies; reiterates that the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy must take into account the Treaty obligation of PCD and incorporate the principle of ‘do no harm’ to developing countries as a further core objective;