Pursuant to
Rule 114(1) of the Rules of Procedure of the European Parliament, Véronique DE
KEYSER (PES, BE), on behalf of the PES Group, has drafted a proposal for
a recommendation on the European Union-Brazil Strategic Partnership.
In the context
of the progressive establishment of a Euro-Latin-American Partnership Area by
2012 with Brazil, MEPs present a series of recommendations to the Council,
which can be summarised as follows:
- the
EU-Brazil Strategic Partnership should form part of the bi-regional
approach to and the global view of relations between the European Union,
Latin-America and the Caribbean;
- political
dialogue should direct the Partnership as a whole, at all levels;
- the
Strategic Partnership should provide real added value in relation to
current bilateral agreements between the EU, Brazil and Mercosur;
- the central
issues on which the Partnership's political agenda and dialogue will
focus should be the promotion of peace and security, democracy, climate
change, energy security and sustainable development, and the fight
against poverty and exclusion;
- both
Partners should seek to bring their positions closer together by means
of closer cooperation with the United Nations, by encouraging
multilateralism;
- in terms of
peace and security, the main issues to tackle are disarmament, non-proliferation
and control of weapons, organised crime and specifically drug
trafficking, money laundering, trafficking in small arms, light weapons
and ammunition, trafficking in human beings, and terrorism;
- the Partners
need to make progress with the debate on social cohesion and migration,
which must become a central point of cooperation;
- dialogue
should also tackle sectoral policies on transport, food security,
science and technology, information society, employment and social
issues, regional development, culture and education, etc;
- the
Partnership should also encourage the provision of regular information
to the European Parliament and the Euro-Latin-American Parliamentary
Assembly.