Activities of Martina MICHELS related to 2022/2046(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on upscaling the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework: a resilient EU budget fit for new challenges
Amendments (5)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates its concern as regards the significant delay in the implementation of cohesion policy for the 2021-2027 period, as well as its call for the Commission and the Member States to speed up the adoption of the partnership agreements and programmes, without undermining their quality and while respecting the EU’s political priorities and the applicable principles; reiterates the need for special consideration to be given to less-developed regions and islands in this context, as well as transition regions, which face particularly significant challenges in pulling off the socially just and balanced structural changes needed to meet climate neutrality and energy transition requirements;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Takes the view that, in light of the EU’s socio-economic situation which has been further aggravated by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and war against Ukraine, the stability pact needs to remain suspended beyond 2023, and calls for a revision of the fiscal rules of the stability and growth pact to better foster long-term sustainable public investment in the socio-ecological transition;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the necessity of providing the regions with appropriate financial means in order to deal with the waves of migration, uncertainty and widespread price hikes, affecting disadvantaged social groups and the public sector in particular, caused by the Russian aggression against Ukraine and its multifacete, COVID-19 crisis, climate crisis and econsequencomic and financial crises; emphasises the need to address the grave difficulties that the current rise in energy costs is causing for the regions, and to swiftly identify suitable financial instruments over and above the European Structural and Investment Funds to deal with them at a regional and local levels;
Amendment 23 #
4. Calls for a significant increase in the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) budget, which would help regions to anticipate and mitigate the effects of climate change, and for the scope of the EUSF to be broadened, so that it can also support more climate-resilient restoration or construction of public and private infrastructure; calls, taking all things into perspective, for an independent European fund to be set up to support regions and municipalities in their climate adaptation and resilience building projects and programmes; reiterates its call for the Commission to draw up a proposal for the establishment of such a climate adaptation fund;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that the existing possibility of transfers from the cohesion policy funds to other EU instruments of up to 5 % of the initial allocation provides for sufficient flexibility; underlines that cohesion policy funding must continue to primarily serve its long-term policy objectives and not become a source of financing to make up for shortcomings in budgetary flexibility or crisis response mechanisms within the MFF or policy failures and incoherences in other policy areas; strongly opposes the proposal of additional transfers from the cohesion policy funds put forward under the RePowerEU initiative.