Pino Arlacchi

Presse release, 10-11-2011

Committee: Budgetary Control

Current arrangements for managing EU funds in Afghanistan are inadequate. If certain preconditions were met, direct EU budget support to Afghanistan would be more appropriate, as it could achieve sustainable, long-term-oriented results, said the Budgetary Control Committee on Thursday.

Following a critical report by Pino Arlacchi (S&D, IT), entitled "New strategy for Afghanistan", the Budgetary Control Committee decided to look into the budgetary control of EU funds in Afghanistan, where there is a high risk of fraud and corruption.

(AGI) - Bruxelles, 15 lug. 2011 - Per Pino Arlacchi il graduale ritiro dall'Afghanistan avviato dalle truppe dell'Isaf non deve indurre a pericolosi ottimismi. "C'e' il rischio", ha spiegato il vicepresidente della delegazione del Parlamento europeo per le relazioni con l'Afghanistan, "che il progressivo disimpegno delle forze alleate diffonda nell'opinione pubblica l'erronea sensazione che la situazione sia ormai sotto controllo".

BRUSSELS, June 28 (Itar-Tass) — Struggle with drugs trafficking from Afghanistan is the main subject of an international conference in the European Parliament that will be attended by the director of Russia’s Federal Service for Control over the Circulation of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances /FSKN/, Viktor Ivanov.

The conference is titled ‘The Implementation of a New Strategy for Afghanistan’ has been organized by the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats.

(AGI) - Bruxelles, 23 giu. 2011 - La svolta di Obama sull'Afghanistan e' un fatto rilevante, ma l'Italia non deve abbandonare il suo impegno nel Paese, soprattutto dal punto di vista degli investimenti economici. E' l'opinione espressa da Pino Arlacchi, presidente del gruppo europarlamentari per l'Afghanistan, e relatore sulle strategie dell'Ue. "Herat in particolare - sottolinea Arlacchi - e' una zona ricca di risorse petrolifere e naturali nella quale i cinesi stanno investendo moltissimo. Noi invece siamo in ritardo". "Nel suo recente viaggio in Italia - ricorda - il governatore Daud Shah Saba ha invitato le nostre aziende a impegnarsi in quei territori, si tratta di una occasione da non perdere".

Agence Europe, 17 December 2010

THE DAY IN POLITICS

Brussels, 16/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - A large majority of MEPs (507 for, 77 against and 4 abstentions) adopted the report by Pino Arlacchi (S&D, Italy) on a new EU strategy for Afghanistan, calling for reform of international aid, the elimination of the poppy crop, better coordination for the training of Afghan police forces and support of the peace process. The vote at the EP committee on foreign affairs in early November had taken the most controversial proposals out of the report, such as the description of western forces deployed in the country as occupation forces. Nonetheless, the report by the Socialist MEP still aroused considerable debate before the vote on Wednesday 15 December. A ban on the use of UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), considered by Arlacchi as contrary to the peace process and used to “decapitate” the Afghan insurgency, was among the proposals most fiercely challenged.