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6 Amendments of Martina ANDERSON related to 2017/2052(INI)

Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
B. whereas regional cohesion policy is one of the EU’s core policies, bringing Europe together, improving its economic, social and territorial cohesion and strengthening its economy, and it is therefore key that sufficient funding for cohesion policy - at least equivalent to that of the current period - is provided for in the MFF;
2017/09/05
Committee: REGI
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
C. whereas measures should be taken to ensure that the budgetary challenge deriving from the United Kingdom’s departure from the EU does not disrupt regional policy and does not reduce the budget for cohesion in the next MFF, including by shifting to new own resources for funding;
2017/09/05
Committee: REGI
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital D
D. whereas cohesion policy has contributed significantly to economic, social and territorial cohesion, to the implementation of the Europe 2020 strategy and to achieving its goals for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; whereas the strategy should be reviewed for the post-2020 period, giving a major role to cohesion policy;
2017/09/05
Committee: REGI
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Calls, therefore, for the MFF to provide for sufficient fundsfunds that are at least equivalent to those of the current programming period for cohesion policy post-2020, striking a good balance between investments in citizens and investments for citizens and ensuring that the EU’s political goals can be reached;
2017/09/05
Committee: REGI
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that regional funding should be protected and should continue to predominantly take the form of grants rather than financial instruments, which do, however, have an important role to play in certain cases; stresses that in the event of a reduction in the EU’s budgets, greater focus on the EU’s core goals is requirunder no circumstances should the EU have its budgets reduced;
2017/09/05
Committee: REGI
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses the importance of regional policy to protect the most vulnerable regions, such as the least developed and outermost regions;stresses that under no circumstances should those regions be harmed by any reduction in the MFF;
2017/09/05
Committee: REGI