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Asylum and migration management regulation and crisis and force majeure regulation

Pieņemtie on 24/02/2021
Atsauce: 
SOC/669-EESC-2020-05705
Referral: 
COM(2020) 610 final 2020/0279 CODCOM(2020) 610 final 2020/0279 CODCOM(2020) 613 final 2020/0277 COD
Rapporteur: 
Dimitris DIMITRIADIS (Employers - GR I / Greece)

The EESC stresses that ensuring balance in dealing with asylum applications should not have to be the responsibility of individual Member States alone, but should be managed by the EU as a whole. It recognises the importance of the proposals having the legal status of a regulation – as opposed to a Directive. The EESC is pleased that the regulations invoke the principles of solidarity and fair sharing of responsibility, but this burden is not sufficiently balanced. Solidarity needs to be binding, in the form of mandatory relocations.

EESK atzinums: Asylum and migration management regulation and crisis and force majeure regulation

A New Pact on Migration and Asylum

Pieņemtie on 27/01/2021
Atsauce: 
SOC/649-EESC-2020
Referral: 
COM(2020) 609 final COM(2020) 609 final
Rapporteur: 
José Antonio MORENO DÍAZ (Workers - GR II / Spain)
Co-rapporteur: 
Cristian PÎRVULESCU (Diversity Europe - GR III/Romania)

In this opinion, the EESC stresses that the EU needs to strike the right balance between effective and realistic migration management that is humane and sustainable, while ensuring security and control of its external borders. It must send a clear message that migration can be better managed collectively. It notes that the proposals accompanying the PMA are important but insufficient for the development of the common European framework for migration management, which would be both effective and in line with the EU's values and objectives.

EESK atzinums: A New Pact on Migration and Asylum

EU and Africa: Making an equal development partnership a reality based on sustainability and common values (own-initiative opinion)

Pieņemtie on 18/09/2020
Atsauce: 
REX/527-EESC-2020
Rapporteur: 
Dimitris DIMITRIADIS (Employers - GR I/Greece), Dilyana SLAVOVA (/Bulgaria), Thomas WAGNSONNER (Workers - GR II/Austria) (Employers - GR I / Greece)
  • The common foundation of any EU political engagement leading to an equal development partnership with Africa shall be based on a multidimensional approach, articulating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the respect of Universal Human Rights (UHRs) - including fundamental rights, the right to a healthy environment and the freedom to conduct a business.
  • The EESC advocates promoting a decent life and good prospects, creating a middle class and supporting equal partnerships by strengthening sustainable social-liberal democratic structures in Africa.
  • The EESC highlights that the EU strategy on Africa must focus on Development and welcomes the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA).
  • The EESC reiterates the important role of organised civil society in the up-coming ACP-EU Partnership Agreement.

    EESK atzinums: EU and Africa: Making an equal development partnership a reality based on sustainability and common values (own-initiative opinion)

    Neighbourhood, Development and Cooperation instrument

    Pieņemtie on 12/12/2018
    Atsauce: 
    REX/508-EESC-2018
    Referral: 
    COM(2018) 460 final 2018/0243 CODCOM(2018) 460 final 2018/0243 CODCOM(2018) 462 final 2018/0245 NLE
    Rapporteur: 
    Cristian PÎRVULESCU (Diversity Europe - GR III / Romania)

    This proposal is part of the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) outlined in the European Commission’s Communication ‘A modern Budget for a Union that Protects, Empowers and Defends – The Multiannual Financial Framework for 2021-2027’. On 14 June 2018 the European Commission presented the budget for the external action of the European Union, which includes and the Neighborhood, Development and International Cooperation Instrument (NDICI) and the European Instrument for Nuclear Safety.

    EESK atzinums: Neighbourhood, Development and Cooperation instrument

    A new impetus for the Africa-EU Partnership (Communication)

    Pieņemtie on 14/03/2018
    Atsauce: 
    REX/495-EESC-2017
    Referral: 
    JOIN(2017) 17 final
    Rapporteur: 
    Mihai MANOLIU (Romania)

    L’année 2017 sera décisive pour le partenariat entre l’Europe et l’Afrique. Dans un paysage mondial en mutation rapide, l’Afrique connaît de profonds changements économiques, politiques et sociaux, et l’importance qu’elle revêt pour les dimensions intérieure et extérieure de la sécurité et de la prospérité de l’Europe est de plus en plus évidente. L’Europe et l’Afrique ont tout à gagner d’un renforcement de leurs liens politiques et économiques, mais elles ont aussi beaucoup à perdre si elles n’agissent pas.

    EESK atzinums: A new impetus for the Africa-EU Partnership (Communication)

    Renewed partnership with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (Communication)

    Pieņemtie on 07/12/2017
    Atsauce: 
    REX/485-EESC-2017-EESC-2017-00788-00-00-AC-TRA
    Referral: 
    JOIN(2016) 52 final
    Rapporteur: 
    Brenda KING (United Kingdom)

    The Commission recently published a Communication on a Renewed Partnership with the ACP Group of countries. ACP-EU relations are currently governed by the Cotonou Partnership Agreement that will expire in 2020, therefore the Commission has published recommendations on what the future structure should be. Last year the EESC already drafted a general opinion on the post-Cotonou framework; this new opinion will have to answer specifically to the Commission's communication.

     

    EESK atzinums: Renewed partnership with African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (Communication)

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    The core role of trade and investment in meeting and implementing the sustainable development goals (own-initiative opinion)

    Pieņemtie on 07/12/2017
    Atsauce: 
    REX/486-EESC-2017
    Rapporteur: 
    Jonathan PEEL (United Kingdom)
    Co-rapporteur: 
    Christophe QUAREZ (Workers - GR II/France)

    The 2030 UN Agenda, or the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals, will be one of the top global priorities over the next 15 years, yet it received very little mention in the Commission Communication "Trade for all". Trade is specifically mentioned with regard to nine SDGs (but only once in the MDGs). UNCTAD estimate that, to meet the 17 goals and the 169 targets, at least an extra US$2.5 trillion a year will need to be found - effectively from the private sector. This opinion would seek to look into this further and aim to evaluate how much of that will need to come through trade and investment.

    EESK atzinums: The core role of trade and investment in meeting and implementing the sustainable development goals (own-initiative opinion)

    Proposal for a new European Consensus on Development: "Our World, our Dignity, our Future” (Communication)

    Pieņemtie on 26/04/2017
    Atsauce: 
    REX/484-EESC-2017
    Referral: 
    COM(2016) 740 final
    Rapporteur: 
    Ionuţ SIBIAN (Diversity Europe - GR III / Romania)
    Co-rapporteur: 
    Mihai MANOLIU (Romania)

    The 2030 Agenda, the new global framework for sustainable development agreed by the UN in 2015, needs to be reflected in EU's development policy, the major orientations of which are set out in the 2005 European Consensus on Development ("the Consensus").

    To this end, the Commission issued Communication COM(2016) 740, "Proposal for a New European Consensus on Development: Our World, Our Dignity, Our Future" in November 2016.  Interinstitutional negotiations are expected to result in its endorsement in the form of a Joint Statement by the Council, the European Parliament and the Commission, in May 2017.

    EESK atzinums: Proposal for a new European Consensus on Development: "Our World, our Dignity, our Future” (Communication)

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