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14 Amendments of Markus FERBER related to 2013/2134(INI)

Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
A. whereas the economic, social, financial and sovereign debt crises have not yet abated and twhe objective ofreas a more balanced and integrated Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) remains an unattained ambitionimportant objective;
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
B. whereas the Commission’s country- specific recommendations (CSRs) contain some useful insights, but on the whole fail to convince in terms of the balance of the policy prescriptions across policy areas;
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
C. whereas urgent action is required in many areas, inter alia in restoring lending to the real economy and SMEs, in fighting tax fraud and aggressive tax planning,evasion and in seeking effective European solutions to unemployment and thus also significantly enhancing the social dimension of EMU;
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
D. whereas the democratic legitimacy of economic governance in the European Semester requires real and dedicated respect for parliamentary prerogatives at European and national level against the trend of an increasingly de- parliamentarised and intergovernmental culture of economic-policy making at EU level;deleted
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission’s recognition that ‘deficit’ countries need to boost their competitiveness and that ‘surplus’ countries need to boost their demand, and that this calls for a deep revision of the prevailing policy stance;
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to submit as a matter of urgency the legislative proposal on new financial incentives supporting Member States in the implementation of structural reforms, including a Competitiveness and Convergence Instrument (CCI) based on the Community method as a first step towards a European fiscal capacity;deleted
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to include in the scope of a CCI financial support to structural reforms in areas that block economic dynamism and efficiency such as the reforms of the national justice systems, technically supported by the EU Justice Scoreboard;deleted
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission to develop a genuine European industrial policn even more competitive social market economy and a coherent European external trade policy, based on reciprocity and shared minimum standards, in particular in social and environmental matters; believes that it is only by intelligently managing its interface with ‘globalisation’ that Europe can guarantee growth, jobs and, for several Member States, the recommended progressive reallocation of resources away from non-tradable sectors into tradable sectors;
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Commends the Commission’s recognition that there is a need for greater attention to be paid to the distributional impact of reforms, and calls on the Commission to carry out a thorough ex- ante assessment of the social impact of all the new recommended reforms and to derive all the necessary conclusions from previous recommendations, including those made to Member States under financial assistance programmes;
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to submit legislative proposals to complete the EMU through a social pillar, as the national automatic stabilisers are blocked in the Member States where they are most needed; stresses that a social scoreboard is needed as a building block of this pillar;deleted
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Agrees that the ECB’s action has ‘decisively contributed to the stability of the euro area’, limiting speculation on sovereign debt; considers, however, that insufficient growth and high (and still growing) levels of private and public debt in many Member States mean that ‘a carefully managed process of deleveraging’ is required; calls on the Commission, therefore, to quicklyo deliver its 2-pack commitments to Parliament in order to deepen the analysis on the partial substitution of national debt issuance through joint issuance in the form of a redemption fund and eurobills;
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
18. UrgWelcomes the Comsubmission to submit aof a Commission legislative proposal to create a Single Resolution Mechanism (including a Single European Authority and an industry financed Single European Fund), which is essential for completing the Banking Union; urges the Council to rapidly conclude negotiations with Parliament on the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive and on the Banking Recovery and Resolution Directive (to be negotiated in parallel);
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
19. Calls for direct banking recapitalisation by the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) to be available as soon asonly when all the pillars of the Banking Union – namely the Single Supervisory Mechanism and the Deposit Guarantee and Recovery and Resolution frameworks – are in place; given the urgency of having a Single Resolution Fund to accompany the SSM, supports the immediate frontloading of the ESM to feed the SRF, with a reimbursement period by industry; believes that the ESM facility must reinforce the EU budget and be managed under the Community method;
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Council to conclude the negotiations for the Financial Transaction Tax and to include in its agenda, as a matter of urgency, the convergence of tax systems within the EU;deleted
2013/07/17
Committee: ECON