Activities of Ivana MALETIĆ related to 2017/2071(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Annual report on the financial activities of the European Investment Bank (debate) HR
Amendments (6)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Acknowledges the EIB’s contribution to restoring investment activity in the EU after the economic and financial crises; stresses that the EIB’s activities during the current period of recovery and credit availability must be carefully directed towards products and projects, thereby ensuring additionality; underlines that EIB’s advisory services and financing in key areas such as infrastructure financing, climate change mitigation and adaptation, urban development and SME support should continue;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that instead of playing a partly anti-cyclical role, the key priority for the EIB should be to focus on areas where markets fail and on regional development, supporting projects such as revitalization rural and other less populated, less accessible and underdeveloped areas;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that the EIB can play a positive role in reducing the negative public investment gap, but that its activities should not come into conflict with fiscal rules, as fiscal stability is a key precondition for stable and sustainable economic growth; calls on coordination of EIB’s activities in the member states with the governments’ activities, policies and objectives set in National reform programmes as well as in the Country specific recommendations;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the high degree of urgency of clarifying the impact of Brexit on the EIB in order for the bank to continue to be able to perform its role; The UK subscribed 16.11% of the EIB’s capital, accounting for EUR 3.5bn of the paid-in capital and EUR 35.7bn of the Bank’s callable capital;
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses the need for the EIB to prioritise external operations so that its activities especially focus on areas of high importance for the EU; highlights the great potential for EIB operations to improve the economic situation in Ukraine, which is facing great economic stress and instability due to the ongoing armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine, with the direct and indirect participation of Russian military and security services; stresses that more EIB’s activities are needed in southeast Europe in order to increase level of investment and support accession process;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recalls that if they are to contribute to the economic development of the EU as well as economic, social and territorial cohesion, risk transfer-based instruments cannot be risk free; stresses that the EIB and its shareholders must be fully aware of this.