4 Amendments of Isabelle THOMAS related to 2015/2210(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the Council's position with regard to the 2016 budget has been to reduce commitments by EUR 563.6 million and payments by EUR 1.4 billion, once again underestimating the EU's real payment needs, running counter to the plan put forward by the Commission to settle unpaid bills;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the adoption of the regulation on the European Fund for Strategic Investments, and emphasises the role Parliament has played in minimising redeployment from Horizon 2020 and the Connecting Europe Facility; reiterates its commitment to reducing cuts during the annual budgetary procedure;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Regards it as essential that the plan should succeed and will therefore monitor its implementation very closely, in particular any move to shift investment expenditure and public debt off State balance sheets.
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Points out that a deficit in the EU budget is illegal and the Council’s budgetary proposals are therefore insincere; notes that the latter institution is making the EU budget an adjustment variable of national budgets and that this consolidation of national budgets by delaying payments for project initiators is counterproductive economically and financially; takes the view that the exclusion of Member States’ contributions from the calculation of the structural deficit would allow for a more accurate reading of the budgetary efforts made by the Member States;