Activities of Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 c (new)

– having regard to the interim resolution of 2 December 2021 on the execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Selahattin Demirtaş v Turkey (No. 2),

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas Türkiye remains a candidate for EU accession, a NATO ally and a key trade and economic partner, as well as a key ~~partne~~actor on migration;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas Türkiye has been gradually moving further away from the EU’s values and normative framework, as exemplified by a number of measures curtailing fundamental freedoms and human rights as well as by its actions against international law and good neighbourly relations;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. ~~Acknowledges the~~Takes note of partial measures taken in recent months by the Turkish authorities to prevent the re-exportation to Russia of goods covered by EU sanctions~~, but urges them to go further in order to ensure that Türkiye stops being a hub for entities and individuals that wish to~~; underlines the paramount importance of preventing the circumvention of EU sanctions and urges Türkiye to ensure the full respect of those sanctions, in particular taking into account the free circulation of products, including dual- use goods, within the EU-Turkey Customs Union; highlights, its expectation that Turkey will avoid becoming a safe haven for Russian capital and investments, thus clearly circumvent ~~such~~ing EU sanctions;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Evin INCIR, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Considers that, in terms of human rights and the rule of law, the desolate picture painted in its resolution of 7 June 2022 on the 2021 Commission Report on Turkey remains valid, and reiterates the content of that resolution; fully endorses the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe of 12 October 2022, and the related report by its Monitoring Committee, on the honouring of obligations and commitments by Türkiye; calls on Türkiye to fully implement all judgements of the European Courts, including the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in line with Article 46 of the European Convention on Human Rights, as well as the payment of just satisfaction awarded by the ECtHR, an unconditional obligation deriving from Türkiye’s membership of the Council of Europe;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Andreas SCHIEDER, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8a. Reiterates relevant ECtHR decisions and calls on the Turkish Government to immediately stop the violation of the human rights of the Cypriot citizens and stop depriving them of the enjoyment and exercise of their property, religious and other human rights stemming from the constitutional order of the Republic of Cyprus and the acquis communautaire, as well as the fundamental principles and values of the EU;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Andreas SCHIEDER, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8b. Calls on Türkiye to cooperate with relevant international organizations, especially the Council of Europe, in preventing and combatting illicit trafficking and the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage within Turkey and the occupied part of Cyprus; stresses the importance of pursuing dialogue with relevant international organisations and the EU on the preservation of cultural and religious heritage;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11a. Calls on Türkiye to ensure the full and non-discriminatory implementation of the EU-Turkey Statement of 2016 and the EU - Türkiye Readmission Agreement vis-à-vis all Member States, including the Republic of Cyprus; firmly objects to any instrumentalisation of migrants by the Turkish Government; Regrets, that as a result of it, a continuing high increase in asylum applications has been registered in Cyprus over the past years and recalls Türkiye’s obligation to take all the necessary measures to halt the existing illegal migration routes and prevent the creation of new sea or land routes for illegal migration from Türkiye to the EU; notes that pending the full and effective implementation of the EU-Turkey Readmission Agreement, existing bilateral readmission agreements and provisions in similar agreements and arrangements with EU Member States, should be adequately implemented; underlines that cooperation in the area of justice and home affairs with all EU Member States remains essential;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11b. Regrets that as a result of Türkiye’s instrumentalization of refugees a continuing increase in asylum applications was registered in Cyprus in 2022; notes that pending the full and effective implementation of the EU- Turkey Readmission Agreement vis-à-vis all Member States, existing bilateral readmission agreements and provisions in similar agreements and arrangements with EU Member States, should be adequately implemented; underlines that cooperation in the area of justice and home affairs with all EU Member States remains essential;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note, after a confrontational period, Türkiye’s recent steps towards normalising relations with several countries, such as Armenia, Egypt, Israel and the Gulf states, but remains concerned by the fact that Türkiye’s foreign policy still clashes in many aspects with EU interests and, far from growing closer to the EU, it has further diverged in the last year, reaching a record low of alignment with just 7 % of common foreign and security policy decisions; deplores, in this respect, Türkiye’s overall destabilising role in many areas of concern for the EU and in its neighbourhoods (such as in the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and South Caucasus and its role in conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Libya), which threatens regional peace, security and stability; is extremely concerned by, and strongly condemns, Türkiye’s illegal activities and threats of military action against EU Member States, in particular Greece and Cyprus, in the Eastern Mediterranean;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. ~~Welcomes~~Takes note, after a confrontational period, Türkiye’s recent steps towards normalising relations with several countries, such as Armenia, Egypt, Israel and the Gulf states, but remains concerned by the fact that Türkiye’s foreign policy still clashes in many aspects with EU interests and, far from growing closer to the EU, it has further diverged in the last year, reaching a record low of alignment with just 7 % of common foreign and security policy decisions;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Continues to urge Türkiye to unequivocally commit to good neighbourly relations, international agreements and to the peaceful settlement of disputes in line with international law, having recourse, if necessary to the International Court of Justice and to refrain from any unilateral action or threats;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Evin INCIR, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)

12b. Reaffirms its call expressed in its resolution of 15 April 2015, and once again encourages Turkey to recognise the Armenian Genocide, thus paving the way for a genuine reconciliation between the Turkish and Armenian peoples; calls on Türkiye, in this regard, to refrain from any anti-Armenian propaganda and hate speech, and to fully respect its obligations to protect Armenian and other cultural heritage;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Welcomes the overall de-escalation of tensions observed in the eastern Mediterranean in recent times, particularly in the wake of the February earthquakes, and expresses its hope that a possible new era in Türkiye’s foreign policy might yield positive results in the bilateral relations between Türkiye and all EU Member States; reiterates its long-standing support for a solution to the Cyprus problem on the basis of a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation and reaffirms its positions on the matter expressed in its resolution of 7 June 2022; mains fully aware that any positive dynamics can be easily reversed at any moment due to Turkey’s continuing destabilised actions in the region over the past years and while the underlying issues remain unresolved; calls on Turkey to respect the sovereignty of all EU Member States, over their territorial sea and airspace as well as their sovereign rights, including inter alia the right to explore and exploit natural resources, in accordance with EU and international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which is part of the EU acquis; expresses its full solidarity with Greece and the Republic of Cyprus; continues to call Turkey to show genuine collective engagement to the settlement of the delimitation of exclusive economic zones (EEZs) and the continental shelf in both the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean, in good faith and in line with international law and the principle of good neighbourly relations, and to refrain from any unilateral illegal actions or threats; condemns, in this regard, the harassment by Turkish warships of research vessels performing surveys within the EEZ delimitated by the Republic of Cyprus; reaffirms the right of the Republic of Cyprus to enter into bilateral agreements on its EEZ and to explore and exploit its natural resources in full compliance with international law; supports the invitation extended to Turkey by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus to negotiate in good faith and in line with international law the maritime delimitation between their respective coast lines, or to have recourse to the International Court of Justice, and calls on Turkey to accept Cyprus’s invitation; reiterates the EU’s readiness to use all instruments and options at its disposal, including those under Article 29 TEU and Article 215 TFEU, in order to defend its interests and those of its Member States, as well as to uphold regional stability;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Regrets the fact that the Cyprus problem remains unresolved and reiterates its call on Türkiye, to commit and contribute to a comprehensive settlement in line with United Nations Security Council relevant resolutions; reiterates its support for a fair, comprehensive and viable settlement of the Cyprus problem, including of its external aspects, within the UN framework and in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions, international law and in line with the EU acquis and the principles on which the Union is founded; deeply regrets that Türkiye has abandoned the agreed UN framework; condemns in this regard statements by Turkish President and by the leader imposed by Turkey upon the Turkish Cypriots, calling for a two-state solution in Cyprus; calls on Türkiye to abandon this unacceptable proposal for a two-state solution; strongly condemns any action to facilitate or assist in any way the international recognition of the secessionist illegal entity in the occupied areas of Cyprus and stresses that such actions severely damage efforts to create an environment conducive to resuming settlement talks under the auspices of the United Nations; Welcomes and supports the proposals of the President of the Republic of Cyprus which aim at breaking the stalemate in the settlement process and calls for a more active engagement by the EU in this regard; urges the European Council to appoint an EU envoy to support future peace talks within the UN- centred framework; urges the Government of Türkiye to engage constructively in resuming UN-led negotiations; calls on the Turkish Government to return to dialogue based on the UN format, which represents the only viable path towards reconciliation;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13a. Praises the important work of the United Nations-facilitated bi-communal Committee on Missing Persons (CMP); it recalls Türkiye that this is a major long- standing humanitarian issue that severely perpetuates the suffering of the Greek- Cypriot and Turkish-Cypriot missing persons and of their relatives; calls on Türkiye to conduct a meaningful and effective investigation for the ascertainment of the fate or whereabouts of the Greek-Cypriot missing persons - in line with the 2001 judgment on the interstate application of Cyprus against Turkey - delivered by the European Court of Human Rights, and to grant CMP full access to all relevant archives and military areas to be followed up by concrete actions and further expedited;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13b. Further calls on Türkiye to withdraw its troops from Cyprus and refrain from any unilateral action which would entrench the permanent division of the island and to refrain from action altering the demographic balance on the island through a policy of illegal settlements; condemns the fact that Türkiye continues to violate UN Security Council resolutions 550(1984) and 789(1992), which call on Türkiye to transfer the area of Varosha to its lawful inhabitants under the temporary administration of the UN, by the partial reopening of Varosha and by supporting the opening of the town of Varosha to the public; takes the view that those illegal actions undermines mutual trust and hence the prospect of a resumption of talks on a comprehensive solution to the Cyprus problem and calls on Türkiye to reverse these actions and avoid any other unilateral actions that could raise further tensions on the island, in compliance with the call of the UNSC; expresses in this regard serious concern over the recent, new illegal activities in the fenced off area of Varosha for the opening of a new part of the beach;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13b. Reiterates its call on the Turkish Government to halt its plans for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, which is located in a region prone to severe earthquakes, therefore posing a major threat not only to Türkiye, but also to the Mediterranean region; asks the Turkish Government to involve the governments of its neighbouring countries in relation to any further developments in the Akkuyu venture; to facilitate an experts’ mission of the International Atomic Energy Agency for inspection of the facility after the devastating earthquakes; to align its legislation with relevant EU acquis on nuclear safety and proceed with cross- border cooperation with neighboring states; to accede to the UN Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Trans-boundary Context and the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 g (new)

13g. Remains deeply concerned about the restrictions faced by the enclaved Greek Cypriots in the free and unhindered exercise of their rights to education and freedom of religion;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 h (new)

13h. Condemns the repeated attempts by Türkiye to intimidate and gag Turkish Cypriot journalists and progressive citizens in the Turkish Cypriot community, thus violating their right to freedom of opinion and expression;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Andreas SCHIEDER, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 i (new)

13i. Regrets Türkiye’s continuing refusal to comply with aviation law and establish a channel of communication between air traffic control centres in Türkiye and the Republic of Cyprus, the absence of which entails real safety risks and dangers as identified by the European Aviation Safety Agency and the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations; takes the view that this could be an area where Türkiye could prove its commitment to confidence- building measures and calls on Türkiye to collaborate by fully implementing EU aviation law;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Reiterates its firm conviction that Türkiye is a country of strategic relevance in political, economic and foreign policy terms, a key partner for the stability of the wider region and a vital ally, including within NATO, and reaffirms that the EU is committed to pursuing the best possible relations with Türkiye based on dialogue, respect and mutual trust in line with international law and good neighbourly relations;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Reiterates its firm conviction that Türkiye is a country of strategic relevance in political, economic and foreign policy terms, a key ~~partne~~actor for the stability of the wider region and a vital ally, including within NATO, and reaffirms that the EU is committed to pursuing the best possible relations with Türkiye based on dialogue, respect and mutual trust;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Recalls its position, as expressed in previous resolutions, on the introduction of an initiative in the Council for all EU Member States to halt the licensing of arms exports to Türkiye in accordance with Council Common Position 2008/944/CFSP;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15a. Regrets that the current Customs Union will not achieve its full potential until Türkiye fully and effectively implements the Additional Protocol in relation to all Member States including the Republic of Cyprus in a non- discriminatory manner, which is a prerequisite for the opening of the negotations for the upgrading;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Evin INCIR, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Stresses that visa liberalisation will be possible once all the criteria have been fully and effectively met in a non- discriminatory manner towards all Member States;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Andreas SCHIEDER, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Reiterates its call on Türkiye to comply with the EU declaration issued on September 21, 2005 and to fulfil its obligation of full, non-discriminatory implementation of the Additional Protocol to the EC-Turkey Association Agreement vis-a-vis all Member States, including the Republic of Cyprus; regrets that Türkiye has still not made progress towards the normalisation of its relations with the Republic of Cyprus; reiterates that recognition of all Member States is a necessary component of the accesion process, of Customs Union and every agreement between the EU and Türkiye and calls for progress without any further delay;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 c (new)

16c. Deeply regrets the conversion of the Hagia Sophia historical-religious monument into a mosque without prior dialogue, which could violate the UNESCO Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage to which Türkiye is a signatory; calls on Türkiye’s Government to reconsider and reverse this decision in order to fully respect the historical and cultural character of cultural and religious monuments and symbols, especially UNESCO world heritage sites; recalls that Hagia Sophia is a place open for all communities and religions and calls on UNESCO to take proper actions in order to safeguard this World Heritage Site;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2205(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Re~~affirms its support for~~calls the need for Türkiye to fulfil its legal obligations under the EU - Türkiye Customs Union and deplores the continuous violations of the current framework; Regrets that the current Customs Union will not achieve its full potential until Türkiye fully and effectively implements the Additional Protocol in relation to all Member States including the Republic of Cyprus in a non-discriminatory manner, which is a prerequisite for the opening of the negotiations for the upgrading; Reaffirms its position that an upgraded customs union with a broader, mutually beneficial scope, ~~which~~ could encompass a wide range of areas of common interest, including digitalisation and Green Deal alignment; insists that such a modernisation would need to be based on strong conditionality related to human rights and ~~the afor~~fundamental freedoms, respect for international law and good neighbourly relations, and that it can only be envisaged upon Türkiye’s full implementation~~ed principles~~ of the Additional Protocol to extend the Ankara Agreement towards all Member States without reserve and in a non-discriminatory fashion; stresses that both parties must be fully aware of this democratic conditionality from the outset of any negotiations, as Parliament will not give its consent to the final agreement if no progress is made in thisose fields; remains ready to advance towards visa liberalisation as soon as the Turkish authorities ful~~fil the six outstanding benchmark~~ly and effectively meet all criteria in a non-discriminatory manner towards all member-states;

2023/06/26
Committee: AFET

2022/2172(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Aurore LALUCQ, René REPASI, Costas MAVRIDES, Margarida MARQUES, Csaba MOLNÁR, Pedro MARQUES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Calls on the Commission to come forward urgently with a new own resource linked to the measures recently introduced to redistribute the energy sector's surplus, namely the solidarity levy for the fossil fuel sector and the cap on market revenues for electricity generators and intermediaries that use inframarginal technologies; proposes that this new own resource consists of a share of the revenues generated by these levies; recommends that the proceeds of this new own resource are used to finance relief and income support measures for households across the Union;

2022/12/19
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the EU labour market has proved particularly resilient, with an additional two million people in employment, leading to a record low unemployment rate of 6.2 % in 2022; whereas according to the Commission’s autumn economic forecast the public sector was a key contributor to the increase in employment; whereas despite labour market tightness wage growth has remained moderate and has failed to keep up with inflation, implying real wage losses of, on average, 8% between Q4 2020 and Q2 2022 in the Euro Area according to ECB research13a; whereas the unemployment rate is expected to increase slightly in 2023 (6.5 %), before marginally coming down again in 2024 (6.2 %); _________________ 13a https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/date /2022/html/ecb.blog221125~d34babdf3e.e n.html

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Paul TANG, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas inflation has a differentiated impact across income groups, with low-income groups suffering proportionally more especially as inflation is mainly driven by price developments in essential goods that cannot be substituted and make up a relatively larger share of the consumption basket of low-income households; whereas such differentiated impacts cause a veritable cost-of-living crisis for parts of the population that poses challenges to social cohesion;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

D a. whereas inflation and economic forecasts are operating under the conditions of heightened uncertainty, with key risks, especially to growth, continuing to be pitched to the downside; whereas such uncertainty compels the EU and Member State governments to remain vigilant and to take rapid action if risks materialise;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1 a. Notes that the European Systemic Risk Board has issued a warning on 22 September 2022 calling for heightened awareness with regards to financial stability risks resulting from sharply falling asset prices; is concerned that rising mortgage rates and the deterioration in debt servicing capacity due to a decline in real household income may cause further distress for families and for financial markets;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Stresses that while the primary objective of the European Central Bank (ECB) is to maintain price stability, the primary objective of the Union as a whole should be to minimise the impact of current turbulences on the real economy, thereby defending the wellbeing of its citizens and preserving its production structure and the international competitiveness of its companies; underlines, in this regard, the importance of adequate and coordinated fiscal, structural and regulatory policies that complement the ECB’s monetary policy actions, which are also capable of supporting household incomes and providing targeted support to companies suffering from supply bottlenecks and high energy costs; notes that further increases of the ECB’s key policy rate or quantitative tightening may further contract economic activity;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Welcomes the European Commission’s call on Member States to deliver targeted measures to offset the impact of high energy prices on vulnerable households and companies; agrees with the European Commission in stressing that such measures should maintain incentives for energy savings; recalls that Member States find themselves in starkly diverging positions regarding the fiscal space available to them; notes that this situation entails the risk of furthering divergence between Member States as the energy crisis continues;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Paul TANG, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)

2 b. Notes the increased need for fiscal space in most Member States; underlines that in periods of increasing interest rates, Member States should also consider raising more revenues on higher earners or on industries and firms that are highly profitable; notes how a healthy balance between government revenues and expenditures is also necessary to reduce legacy debt and to build up buffers in times of economic recovery;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)

2 c. Calls for the general escape clause under the Stability and Growth (SGP) pact to remain activated as long as Member States are recovering from the crises caused by the pandemic and the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine; notes that the policy leeway created by the general escape clause is necessary to allow Member States to strengthen their competitiveness as well as their economic and social resilience under the current circumstances and within the constraints of the SGP in its current form;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 – point a

(a) the six-pillar structure, ~~ensuring~~which was developed as part of the ordinary legislative procedure and hence under the full involvement of the European Parliament and that ensures that Member States give adequate consideration in their reform and investment agendas to all the relevant dimensions for making EU economies and societies more prosperous, sustainable, inclusive, competitive and resilient;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Welcomes the recent conclusion of negotiations establishing the possibility for Member States to introduce REPowerEU chapters to the NRRPs and, thereby, to access loans and additional grants to support the implementation of measures that cut dependence on Russian fossil fuels and accelerate the energy transition; invites Member States to prepare and submit such REPowerEU chapters swiftly; stresses that a lasting increase of public and private investment beyond such crisis instruments is needed in order to be able to address current and future challenges and to achieve the EU policy objectives related to the digital and green transitions;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)

8 b. Believes that future reforms of the European Semester should draw on the lessons learned as part of Next Generation EU and the RRF, especially as regards more transparent and democratic processes relating to the definition of policy objectives, the conduct of policy coordination as well as in relation to the collaborative approaches to the definition of reforms and investment projects that were pioneered between the European Commission and Member States; considers that such reforms should also incorporate lessons learned from the temporary establishment of the Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) instrument;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)

11 a. Stresses that the revised regulatory framework must ensure that Member States have sufficient leeway to deliver decisive crisis-resolution measures when they are needed; is of the opinion that implementation of such measures should not require the suspension of regulatory provisions by means of escape clauses; notes that, in the future, the activation of escape clauses should remain a measure of last resort;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Paul TANG, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)

11 b. Highlights the need for common criteria that ensure, despite more country- specific flexibility in debt reduction, that all Member States are assessed according to the same standards, are treated equally, and that policy outcomes are predictable; notes that such common criteria should include criteria for the definition of Member States’ debt reduction paths; stresses that debt reduction should be delivered in a growth-friendly way and that underlying regulatory criteria should be defined in relation to Member States’ output and expenditure growth;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 c (new)

11 c. Welcomes the European Commission’s intention to focus fiscal surveillance on Member States’ net expenditure, a parameter that is under the full control of national governments; notes, however, that the calibration of which types of expenditure are included and exempted from the envisaged net expenditure indicator will require careful deliberation; is of the opinion that, next to the types of expenditure specified by the European Commission in its communication of 9 November 202213b and which already provide for a degree of structural adjustment of the indicator, investments in the resolution of macroeconomic imbalances as part of the Macroeconomic Imbalances Procedure should be exempt from the net expenditure indicator; calls for the provisions relating to the accounting of investment expenditure in the calculation of Member States expenditure laid out in the European Commission communication on flexibility in the Stability and Growth Pact of 13 January 201513c to be applied also in the calculation of net expenditure in the envisaged revised framework for EU economic governance; considers this necessary to achieve consistency and to ensure that the definition of the net expenditure indicator under the envisaged revised framework is able to grant more desirable flexibility to Member States and not less; _________________ 13b In its communication of 9 November 2022, the European Commission proposes to exempt interest expenditure as well as cyclical unemployment expenditure from the calculation of the net expenditure indicator. 13c COM (2015) 12 final

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 d (new)

11 d. Notes that the Commission's Communication puts debt sustainability analyses (DSAs) at the centre of the fiscal rules and suggests using them to determine multi-year fiscal-structural plans; expresses concerns that DSAs would not be able to project future debt developments with certainty; underlines that the usage of DSAs still requires estimating unobservable variables, thereby undermining transparency and hampering ownership and predictability, and thus leaving space for discretion; stresses that the result of a DSA may create self-fulfilling prophecies, by encouraging investors to buy/sell bonds of the respective Member States, thereby influencing outcomes; observes that since there is not one unique set of assumptions, they should be aligned with the objectives of the EU-Treaties as regards growth and convergence, and they should be agreed upon in a political process, ideally by the European Parliament and the European Council;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Notes that the Commission's communication acknowledges the potential inconsistencies between the application of the fiscal rules and the recommendations under the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP), and provides for the inclusion of reforms and investments required to correct the imbalances under the MIP in the national plans; regrets that the Communication does not encompass any instrument that allows for the correction of such inconsistencies;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)

13 a. Stresses that large parts of the success of the RRF are due to the mobilisation of financial support for reforms and investments undertaken by Member States; notes that the European Commission’s proposals for a revised EU economic governance framework seek to incentivise compliance by way of sanctions that apply automatically in the case of non-compliance;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 b (new)

13 b. Recalls that the RRF is expected to end in late 2026; recalls that there is a near-undisputed consensus on the need for a degree of fiscal centralisation for currency unions, such as the Economic and Monetary Union, to be viable in the long-run, which was most recently reiterated by the International Monetary Fund13d; _________________ 13d International Monetary Fund, DP/2022/014, Reforming the EU Fiscal Framework - Strengthening the Fiscal Rules and Institutions

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 c (new)

13 c. Considers that a permanent fiscal capacity at EU level could, if designed appropriately, play a crucial role in maintaining sufficiently high levels of strategic investment, resolving the inconsistencies between the application of the fiscal rules and the MIP, and ensuring an appropriate fiscal stance at the aggregate level; calls for the timely establishment of a permanent instrument of a significant volume to succeed the RRF prior to its expiration at the end of 2026; considers that such an instrument should comprise both an investment and a stabilisation function;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 d (new)

13 d. Considers that such an instrument should support national reform and investment initiatives towards common EU priorities, especially in the context of the social-ecological transformation and with regard to MIP-related measures for which Member States lack the fiscal space at national level under the applicable fiscal framework;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 e (new)

13 e. Considers that such an instrument should provide macroeconomic stabilisation through support for counter- cyclical fiscal policies, notably by making support available on a permanent basis for actions of the type included under SURE; highlights that such a stabilisation function is vital also to ensure the appropriateness of the fiscal stance at aggregate level;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Recalls that the better law-making agreement reiterates that the European Parliament and the Council are to exercise their powers as co-legislators on an equal footing and that the Commission therefore needs to treat them equally; stresses that the European Parliament should therefore be fully involved in the reform of the economic governance framework as well as the future conduct of economic governance in the EU, including in the establishment and management of fiscal instruments; stresses the role and responsibility of national parliaments;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2150(INI)

Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marek BELKA, Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, René REPASI, Csaba MOLNÁR, Marc ANGEL, Joachim SCHUSTER, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Pedro MARQUES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14 a. Recognises the need for sufficient public revenue to ensure the sustainability of public finances in times of pressing investment needs and frequent economic shocks; highlights the various observations made by the European Commission as part of the European Semester on the tax mix; considers as necessary a shift from labour and consumption taxation towards the taxation of environmentally harmful practices, speculative behaviours, the windfall and/or excess profits of multinational corporations, and capital; stresses that further action to counter tax avoidance and evasion in the EU and in global fora is a necessary complement to the reform of the EU economic governance framework;

2023/01/11
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)

C c. whereas current estimates show that the EU must invest an extra EUR 350 billion a year to achieve its 2030 climate targets;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. whereas the prices of energy commodities, food, and other raw materials have reached unprecedented high levels and continue to be the source of economic instability in the EU’s economy;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

C b. whereas the EIB will support the REPowerEU Plan with an additional EUR 45 billion in loans and equity financing over the next five years;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)

C d. whereas a more integrated Capital Markets Union would ease the work of the EIB to unlock investment, boosting and diversifying investments in the real economy, in particular in SMEs, and triggering further cross-border equity investment and trade;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1 b. Notes the persistent investment gap in the EU and the increased need of countercyclical investment as the EU enters its fourth year of crisis through the pandemic and the subsequent Russian invasion of Ukraine; in this regard, welcomes the EIB’s crucial role as a main tool in the EU’s investment policy to act where private financing is missing; calls on the EIB to assure the maximum level of additionality in real economy investment with the aim of fostering sustainable growth as well as social and regional cohesion when deciding over future financing;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Welcomes the EIB’s investment of EUR 72.4 billion of financing in 2022 and the bank’s focus on the EU’s long-term challenges of competiveness, productivity, climate change, a just transition that leaves nobody behind, sustainability, social cohesion and digital transformation;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Aurore LALUCQ, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Welcomes the new Cohesion Orientation noting that the EIB should devote the majority of its resources to the promotion of economic, social and territorial convergence and that cohesion should be the overarching priority of its investment strategy; stresses the importance of the EIB’s advisory services role in preparing and implementing projects for clients with low administrative capacity; and in this context to help firms adapt towards changing EU policy goals especially those related to climate and digitalisation;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4 a. Notes the EIB's affirmation that challenges with access to finance for mid- caps in cohesion regions “are more structural”; calls on the EIB to address these structural barriers by adapting its approach so that SMEs and mid-caps in cohesion regions can also fully benefit from EIB financing;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)

4 b. Believes that the EIB needs to do more to adapt towards the very different social and economic scenarios in the diverse regions of the EU in order to increase the attractiveness of its funds comprehensively; in particular, expects the EIB to do more to address systemic deficiencies thus allowing all EU regions to benefit from EIB financial assistance;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)

4 c. Reaffirms its position that the EIB needs to assure a broader geographical and sectoral allocation of its investments and to focus on adapting its methods for the areas where it is failing to do so by especially, intensifying its dialogue with local, social, economic and governmental actors when establishing regional and sectoral strategies;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 d (new)

4 d. Reaffirms its position that the EIB can and needs to do more to address systemic deficiencies that prevent certain regions or countries from taking full advantage of EIB financial opportunities, inter alia by strengthening its efforts to expand its loan activities by providing technical assistance, capacity-building and advisory support, especially in innovation, digitalisation, infrastructure, SME support and projects aimed at generating high-quality employment, and by prioritising projects that reduce inequalities and promote social diversity and inclusion;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)

8 a. Notes the ongoing levels of high inflation and in this regard asks the EIB to assess the possible increased financial needs of ongoing projects;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Highlights the fact that support to SMEs and mid-caps must be increased further from current levels, particularly in the context of high energy prices ~~and~~, rising raw material costs and growing borrowing costs; stresses that SMEs often have limited administrative resources and so benefit from having financing channels that are easy to access;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Reiterates its call on the EIB to complement efforts to build a data-driven society, with a particular focus on SMEs’ competitiveness and to focus its investment in this field towards bridging digital divides both within the EU, as well as between the EU and other technologically more advanced world regions;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16 a. Notes that the EIB’s approach vis- à-vis small businesses needs a revision because of its customary reluctance to fund projects with a significant risk component or to deploy mechanisms that would compensate for this problem;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Stresses the need for the EIB to have a strong focus on start-ups and projects directed at tackling the growing problem of youth unemployment in the context of creating secure and high- quality jobs;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18 a. Notes the Commission’s proposal to work with the European Investment Bank and other InvestEU implementing partners to seek ways to scale up support to investment in the net-zero industry supply chain, including via the setting up of blending operations;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Encourages the EIB to use its operations to facilitate the implementation of the goals of the Green Deal, ~~particularly because~~aiming at an inclusive and fair climate transition; furthermore calls for these goals to be combined with the affordability and security of food which has deteriorated worldwide in the context of the ongoing war in Ukraine;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Notes the role that the EIB can play when it comes to investment in deep offshore renewables, specifically towards the design of instruments that could help get such projects closer to the market; in this background, welcomes the investment done in offshore floating wind farms in the French ‘Port-la-Nouvelle’ harbour and hopes that this investment can serve as a model for the rest of the Mediterranean region;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Welcomes the introduction of the EIB’s new transport lending policy in July 2022 and calls for its swift implementation; recalls the need for a higher level of investment towards the decarbonisation of the maritime and aviation system;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Aurore LALUCQ, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23 a. Asks the EIB to give particular attention when it comes to funding decisions relevant to insular and peripheral regions in view of their struggle to comply with requirements relevant to the green deal while simultaneously maintaining and increasing their connectivity with the rest of the EU;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4 a (new)

Social Elements

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)

23 b. In line with the principles established in the European Pillar of Social Rights, and in view of the current EU housing crisis, expects an increase in EIB financed operations in the area of social housing; furthermore asks the EIB to keep up its focus on women economic empowerment and gender equality when targeting new financing;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)

23 c. Notes the shortage in specialised labour in most of the EU and in this vein believes that the areas of education and skills are not provided the needed priority;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 d (new)

23 d. Is concerned about the systemic weakening of healthcare systems in many Member States of the EU and the ongoing medicine shortage in the EU which includes basic medicine such as paracetamol and antibiotics; further recalls the general scarcity of medicine products and medical equipment experienced during the COVID pandemic; in this context calls on the EIB to evaluate the possibilities to further invest in this sector with the aim to tackle the structural European deficiency in the health sector;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Aurore LALUCQ, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Welcomes the fact that EIB Global supported EUR 9.1 billion in global investment outside the EU in 2022; expects EIB investments in non-EU countries to be fully aligned with EU and EU external action policies particularly when it comes to due diligence requirements related to environmental, social and corporate governance and the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals; specifically calls on the EIB to strengthen further its procedures and practices in respect to human rights and good governance violations emanating through projects it finances, directly or through intermediaries, and to prioritise on the protection of local communities and their environment; questions the EIB’s actions in light of recent reports in the media that the EIB is failing to act on evidence of fraud and corruption in a €48mn worth of investments the EIB made into a now bankrupt Kenyan construction company, and calls on the EIB to clarify how it evaluates financial and reputational risk when deciding whether to launch an investigation;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Underlines that enhancing local presence and increasing cooperation with the EU delegations was a key driver in the establishment of EIB Global; reiterates its calls for additional staff on the ground, particularly in view of contracting more employees from the countries where the financing is taking place; supports the EIB’s approach to open regional offices in Africa and employ local applicants in these offices with the aim of adapting its requirements to local needs;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)

26 a. Asks the EIB to evaluate better its effectiveness when it comes to financing for SMEs and mid-caps in Africa whereby the relatively small size of projects seems to be often a hurdle towards access to finance; calls for an evaluation of a possible design of instruments that facilitate investment by EU SMEs in third countries, and increase their access to finance, including with respect to smaller projects; notes the importance of the EIB’s role in creating a level playing field for SMEs based in Member States whose national development banks do not have the capacity to promote investment in third countries;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)

27 a. Points out to the essential role of direct financing in countries from where the bulk of irregular migration into Europe originates in the perspective of slowing down forced economic immigration from these regions and of contributing further to the development and economic empowerment of these communities;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Stresses the importance of consistency and efficiency in development finance and calls on the EIB to place greater emphasis on mobilising domestic resources and for a general increase of its commitment in less developed countries;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Welcomes the launch of the Development Finance Institutions Transparency Index in 2023 and that fact that the associated report ranks the EIB at a similar level to peer development finance institutions in a number of areas, including financial intermediaries and environmental, social and governance and accountability to communities; calls for clear and comprehensive information to be shared with other EU institutions, the European Parliament in particular;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Regrets the fact that women remain underrepresented in senior positions and in the core areas of activity at the EIB; recalls its position that more needs to be done to improve both its gender and geographical balance in this context;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)

31 a. Queries whether the EIB has the needed human resources in light of the ongoing expansion of its functions and responsibilities;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Irene TINAGLI, Aurore LALUCQ, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Expresses once more its serious concerns about allegations regarding harassment, the working environment and working conditions at the EIB; notes the March 2022 ruling by the General Court on a harassment case in the EIB [KF vs EIB (T-299/20)] in which the decision of the EIB President that no harassment took place was annulled; recognises that efforts have been made by the EIB to address these and other relevant staff issues; urges the EIB to ensure that a policy of zero-tolerance towards all types of harassment is effectively implemented, including preventive and protective measures and proper and reliable complaint and victim support mechanisms; urges the EIB’s management to engage in genuine dialogue with staff representatives in order to address their concerns; deplores the fact that no trade union is recognised at the EIB and that the staff delegation has no power to act in the case of negotiations; calls on the EIB management to observe at the very least core ILO values such as freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining; is concerned that the apparent dysfunctional relationship between the EIB’s management and its staff might have a negative impact on the Bank’s operations;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Margarida MARQUES, Aurore LALUCQ, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Takes note of the EIB’s new anti- fraud policy and underlines the importance of inclusive cooperation when developing key anti-fraud policy tools; ~~not~~welcomes that the EIB has adopted and published the EIB Group Policy towards weakly regulated, non-transparent and non-cooperative jurisdictions and tax good governance, which is complimentary to the EIB Group Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting the Financing of Terrorism Policy;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2062(INI)

Alfred SANT, Aurore LALUCQ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)

33 a. Requests that an outside review of the cost effectiveness of the EIB’s investment efforts during the last ten years be carried out, not least from the perspective of whether and how the EIB’s operations created significant value added that was directly relevant to the European Union’s growth and consolidation policies;

2023/03/29
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)

— having regard to the Commission proposal of 24 November 2015 for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 in order to establish a European Deposit Insurance Scheme (COM(2015)0586),

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)

— having regard to the Commission communication of 16 December 2020 on tackling non-performing loans in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic (COM(2020)0822),

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 b (new)

— having regard to The Five Presidents’ Report of 22 June 2015 entitled ‘Completing Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union’,

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)

— having regard to the ECB recommendation of 15 December 2020 on dividend distributions during the COVID- 19 pandemic,

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 28 a (new)

— having regard to the European Supervisory Authorities’(ESAs)' ‘Joint Committee Report on Risks and Vulnerabilities in the EU Financial System’, JC 2022 09 of March 2022,

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 29

— having regard to the declaration signed by the Chair of Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs, and the respective coordinators for six political groups (EPP, S&D, RE, Greens, ECR and The Left) of 7 December 2022 on the European deposit insurance scheme,

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 30 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 25 March 2021 on strengthening the international role of the euro,

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 30 b (new)

— having regard to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision standards on the Prudential treatment of crypto-asset exposures, of December 2022,

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the Banking Union (BU) currently consists of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM); whereas although the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive4 (DGSD) sets out ~~high~~ minimum standards in the area of deposit protection, the BU remains unfinished ~~because the~~while lacking the establishment of its third pillar – the European deposit insurance scheme (EDIS) – ~~has not yet been establish~~exposing the financial sector to risks that could be avoided; _________________ 4 Directive 2014/49/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 April 2014 on deposit guarantee schemes (OJ L 173, 12.6.2014, p. 149).

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

A a. whereas an agreement was reached on the creation of a backstop for the Single Resolution Fund (SRF), but its actual implementation is still missing;

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the Russian aggression against Ukraine and its economic and social consequences ~~will have~~has a direct and indirect impact on the EU banking sector;

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

D a. whereas, despite the challenges caused by the pandemic and the war in Ukraine, the aggregate non-performing loans (NPL) ratio fell further to 2.29% in the third quarter of 2022; whereas this was supported by credit moratoria and renegotiation of credit with customers;

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)

D b. whereas fifteen years after the financial crisis, the ‘too big to fail’ and ‘too interconnected to fail’ problems remain insufficiently addressed;

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas the finalisation of the anti- money laundering (AML) package should strengthen AML rules, establish a European supervisory authority for AML purposes and ensure a consistent and effective implementation of these rules;

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)

I a. whereas the banking system lacks effective tools to tackle problems consumers are facing, such as artificial complexity or the exclusion of vulnerable groups from using basic services;

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)

I b. whereas the European banking sector largely remains the main provider of financing of companies, in contrast with other jurisdictions, where capital markets account for a considerable share of financing to companies;

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

2022/2061(INI)

Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Katarína ROTH NEVEĎALOVÁ, Costas MAVRIDES, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA

Motion for a resolution
Recital I c (new)

I c. whereas the development of a CMU requires the establishment of common rules and effective tools that reduce the internal market fragmentation, facilitate access to alternative financing means, and prevent capital flight and tax avoidance schemes;

2023/02/20
Committee: ECON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 e (new)

26 e. Condemns the suspected sabotage on the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea on 26 September and demands that the Union takes effective measures to protect European critical infrastructure, valuable supply chains and democratic institutions from hybrid threats; calls on the EU to put in place effective monitoring and surveillance systems for critical infrastructure such as pipelines and fibre optics cables to ensure the prevention and rapid detection of attacks; welcomes the proposed update of the EU Maritime Security Strategy in the Strategic Compass and stresses the importance of including the protection of undersea infrastructure, such as pipelines and fibre optics cables, as a priority;

2022/10/10
Committee: AFET

Margarida MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Marek BELKA, Marc ANGEL, René REPASI, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Csaba MOLNÁR, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Recalls that the ECB strategy review reconfirmed the medium-term orientation of inflation targeting; calls on the ECB to faithfully target this medium- term horizon; Calls on the ECB to monitor attentively price developments and its consequences. Highlights the need to inform about where neutral interest rate is setting;

2022/10/14
Committee: ECON

Margarida MARQUES, Paul TANG, Evelyn REGNER, Aurore LALUCQ, Marek BELKA, Marc ANGEL, René REPASI, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Csaba MOLNÁR, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Costas MAVRIDES, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Welcomes the Governing Council’s decision to take further steps to include climate change considerations in the Eurosystem’s monetary policy framework; Welcomes the launch of the scoreboard for green bonds;

2022/10/14
Committee: ECON

Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4

Regulation (EU) 2021/241
Article 19 – paragraph 3 – point c a (new)

(ca) whether the measures are expected to contribute to eradicating energy poverty and mobility poverty and to phasing out the reliance on fossil fuel energy;

2022/09/29
Committee: BUDG ECON

2022/0164(COD)

Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ

Proposal for a regulation
Article 1 – paragraph 1 – point 4

Regulation (EU) 2021/241
Article 19 – paragraph 3 – point k a (new)

(ka) whether the consultation process as referred to in Article 18(4)(q) related to the measures referred to in Article 21c(1) is adequate and the pertinent input from the relevant stakeholders is properly reflected in the substance of the REPowerEU chapter, and as well their specific roles for the implementation and monitoring;

2022/09/29
Committee: BUDG ECON

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7

— having regard to the relevant resolutions by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, including the interim resolution of 2 December 2021 on the execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Kavala against Turkey, the interim resolution of 2 December 2021 on the execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Selahattin Demirtaş v Turkey (No. 2), ~~and~~ the interim resolution of 2 February 2022 on the execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Kavala against Turkey and the interim resolution of 16th September 2021 on the execution of the judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in Cyprus v. Turkey,

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

— having regard to the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council on Cyprus, including resolution 550 (1984) of 11 May 1984 on secessionist actions in Cyprus and resolution 789 (1992) of 25 November 1992 which consider attempts to settle any part of Varosha by people other than its inhabitants as inadmissible, and call for the transfer of that area to the administration of the United Nations, urging all concerned in the Cyprus question to commit themselves to the confidence-building measures set out in the resolution,

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 26 November 2020 on escalating tensions in Varosha following the illegal actions by Turkey and the urgent need for the resumption of talks,1a _________________ 1a Texts adopted, P9_TA(2020)0332.

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 15 April 2015 on the centenary of the Armenian Genocide ,1a _________________ 1a OJ C 328, 6.9.2016, p. 2.

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Giuliano PISAPIA

Motion for a resolution
Citation 9 b (new)

— having regard to Article 46 of the European Convention on Human Rights, which states that the contracting parties undertake to abide by the final judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in any case to which they are parties, and therefore to the obligation of Turkey to implement all judgments of the European courts, including the ECtHR,

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Giuliano PISAPIA

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas Turkey, ~~besides being~~ as candidate for EU accession, is ~~a key partner in relation to the economy, trade and migration, as well as a strategic partner~~expected to respect and uphold the Copenhagen criteria, to uphold the highest standards of democracy, respect of human rights and the rule of law, to comply with the international law and international conventions acceded to by the EU, to pursue and maintain good neighbourly relations with the EU and all its Member States indiscriminately and to peacefully settle all disputes having resource, if necessary, to the International Court of Justice;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas, in the aftermath of recent tensions between the EU and Turkey, particularly ~~in relation to the situa~~following its provocative actions in the Eastern Mediterranean, the European Council ~~offered to nurture a more positive dynamic in EU-Turkey relations by~~ express~~ing~~ed readiness to engage with Turkey in a phased, proportionate and reversible manner in a number of areas of common interest, provided a sustainable de-escalation, a constructive engagement in a dialogue based on international law and other conditionalities established in previous European Council conclusions;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas being a candidate country presumes a willingness to progressively a~~pproach~~lign in all aspects the values, interests, standards and policies of the EU; whereas an analysis of the EU’s reports in recent years reveal that Turkey’s distance from the EU’s values and its normative framework is still considerable and is even growing in fundamental areas such as the rule of law ~~and human right~~, the respect of human rights and good neighbourly relations;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

C a. Whereas Turkey does not intend to follow the EU sanctions imposed to Russia following its illegal invasion to Ukraine;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Reiterates its concern about the persistent distance between the EU and Turkey, despite it being a candidate country, in terms of values and standards, and the continuing lack of political will to have good neighbourly relations with the EU Member States and to carry out the necessary reforms to address, in particular, the serious concerns about the rule of law ~~and~~, fundamental rights that continue to negatively affect the accession process; considers that without clear progress in this field, Parliament cannot envisage any resumption of accession negotiations with Turkey, which have effectively been at a standstill since 2018; recalls that the accession process is and will remain a merit-based process fully dependent on the objective progress achieved by each country;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Evin INCIR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes, ~~howe~~that over, th~~at there has been a slight improvement over the past year in overall EU-~~e past year EU- Turkey relations have not improved; notes that Turkey relations, w~~hich have on average remained stable, as enhanced cooperation and dialogue on a number of issues have coexisted with regular conflicts~~ith several Member States, in particular with Greece and Cyprus have remained challenging with a rise in tensions in the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean, undermining regional stability and security; expresses its hope that this pattern of ‘conflictual cooperation’ can be overcome and replaced with a more positive dynamic;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Reiterates its firm conviction ~~that Turkey~~for the development of a mutually beneficial cooperative relationship with Turkey, as it is a country of s~~trategic~~ignificant relevance in political, economic and foreign policy terms, a ~~partner that is key~~n important partner for the stability of the wider region, ~~and an ally~~ with which the EU wishes to pursue the best possible relations; ~~welcomes, in this view~~deplores the fact that Turkey remains a source of instability; welcomes, the recent statements expressed at the highest level by the Turkish authorities about the recommitment of the Turkish Government to the EU path, but urges the Turkish authorities to put their words into action and demonstrate this commitment with specific facts and decisions; Recalls the European Council's position to engage with Turkey in a phased, proportionate and reversible manner, under the condition that the latter would stop its provocations against EU and its Member States and the there is tangible improvement in the area of fundamental freedoms and rule of law; it is of the position that these conditions have not been yet met;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Giuliano PISAPIA, Evin INCIR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Recalls that the allocation of EU funds is conditional on the respect for the rule of law, democratic values, human rights, European and international law; due to Turkey's backsliding in all these areas, reiterates its position that all the funds allocated under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA III) and relevant programmes of the NDICI - Global Europe instrument to be directly managed by the EU in order to support Turkey's civil society, human rights defenders and journalists, and to increase opportunities for people-to-people contacts, academic dialogue and media platforms for journalists with the objective of protecting and promoting democratic values and principles, human rights and the rule of law and that no actions organised by the Turkish state should get financed by the EU budget as long as the situation does not significantly improve;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Insists that the crucial area of fundamental rights and freedoms, which is at the core of the accession process, cannot be disconnected and isolated from overall relations with the EU and stresses that for Parliament, it remains the main obstacle together with the need to respect international law and good neighbourly relations to further progress on any positive agenda that could be offered to Turkey;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Giuliano PISAPIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Insists that the crucial area of fundamental rights and freedoms, which is at the core of the accession process, cannot be disconnected and isolated from overall relations with the EU and stresses that for Parliament, it remains one of the main obstacles to further progress on any positive agenda that could be offered to Turkey;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Deplores the fact that the Venice Commission recommendations on the status of religious communities in Turkey have yet to be implemented; reiterates its call on Turkey to respect the importance of the Ecumenical Patriarchate for Orthodox Christians all over the world, to recognise its legal personality and the public use of the ecclesiastical title of the Ecumenical Patriarch; stresses the need to eliminate restrictions on the training, appointment and succession of clergy, to allow the reopening of the Halki Seminary and lift all obstacles for its proper functioning;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Evin INCIR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6 b. Strongly condemns the decision by the Turkish authorities to convert Moni tis Choras/Chora Church and Hagia Sophia, a World Heritage Monument into mosque, in violation of the UNCESCO Convention concerning the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, to which Turkey is signatory member; Urges the Turkish government to reverse its decisions and protect the multicultural character of the country; deplores the lack of protection of Panagia Soumela Monastery which has been put forward for inclusion to the UNESCO World Heritage Monuments list and believes these actions undermine the trust between the Turkish government and the religious communities in the country;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Evin INCIR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6 c. Regrets that the Treasury has appealed favourable decisions for the restitution of properties according to the Law on Foundations and most of the appeals against rejected claims are still pending either before local courts or at ECHR; notes with concern the hate speech and crimes against minorities, as well as the acts of vandalisms and the destruction of minority worship places and cemeteries; urges the Turkish authorities to effectively prosecute the offenders and to properly protect all religious minorities; regrets that a new electoral regulation for non-Muslim foundations, following its annulment in 2013, is still to be published, which has created serious problems to proper administration of these foundations, as no elections can take place; notes that despite a ruling from an administrative court to overrule the decision to annul the electoral regulation, the Ankara Regional Court of Appeals ruled that it is up to the Council of State to decide;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 d (new)

6 d. Reiterates the need for Turkey to fully implement all recommendations of the Council of Europe Resolution 1625(2008) with particular emphasis on the restitution of property rights of the Greek Orthodox population and its foundations on the islands of Imvros and Tenedos; inheritance rights and adopt all necessary positive discrimination measures for assisting the repatriation of all minority families who wish to return to the islands; underlines the need to preserve the bicultural character of the islands;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Nikos ANDROULAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)

9 a. Reiterates relevant ECtHR decisions and calls on the Turkish Government to immediately stop the violation of the human rights of the Cypriot citizens and stop depriving them of the enjoyment and exercise of their property, religious and other human rights stemming from the constitutional order of the Republic of Cyprus and the acquis communautaire, as well as the fundamental principles and values of the EU;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Giuliano PISAPIA

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12 a. Calls on Turkey to cooperate with the EU and the Council of Europe and its relevant bodies on deep and urgent reforms in these areas and in addressing their key recommendations, and fully implement all judgements of the European Court of Human Rights in line with Article 46 of the ECHR, as well as the payment of just satisfaction awarded by the ECtHR, an unconditional obligation deriving from Turkey’s membership of the Council of Europe;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)

15 a. Calls on Turkey to cooperate with relevant international organizations, especially the Council of Europe, in preventing and combatting illicit trafficking and the deliberate destruction of cultural heritage within Turkey and the occupied part of Cyprus; stresses the importance of pursuing dialogue with relevant international organisations and the EU on the preservation of cultural and religious heritage;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Commends the efforts made by Turkey to continue hosting the largest refugee population in the world; welcomes, in this regard, the continued provision of EU funding for refugees and host communities in Turkey, and expresses its commitment to sustain this support in the future; calls on Turkey to ensure the full and non-discriminatory implementation of the EU-Turkey Statement of 2016, including vis-à-vis the Republic of Cyprus, as well as to resume the readmission of returnees from the Greek islands interrupted in March 2020, and Turkey’s obligation to take any necessary measures to prevent new sea or land routes for irregular migration opening from Turkey to the EU, and its will to cooperate with neighbouring states as well as the EU to this effect and with fundamental rights as part of its implementation process;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Commends the efforts made by Turkey to continue hosting the largest refugee population in the world; welcomes, in this regard, the continued provision of EU funding for refugees and host communities in Turkey, and expresses its commitment to sustain this support in the future; underlines the need to respect fundamental rights of refugees and migrants and condemns any efforts to instrumentalise them; calls Turkey to fully implement the Joint EU- Turkey Statement and the EU - Turkey Readmission Agreement towards all Member States, as well as existing bilateral readmission agreements and provisions, following its unilateral decision to suspend them in March 2020;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Evin INCIR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21 a. Strongly condemns the Turkish military intervention in Syria, which violates international law and undermines the stability and the security of the whole region; calls on Turkey to end its illegal occupation of Norther Syria and Afrin and reiterates that security concerns cannot justify military action in a foreign country;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21 a. Stresses that visa liberalisation will be possible once all the criteria have been fully and effectively met in a non- discriminatory manner towards all member-states;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21 b. Calls on Turkey to commit to the peaceful resolution of the conflict in Libya under the auspices of the UN, to stop its efforts to derail the Berlin process, to withdraw all foreign fighters and to fully adhere to the arms embargo imposed by the UN Security Council; regrets that Turkey has denied the personnel of EUNAVFOR MED Irini to inspect ships travelling from Turkey to Libya and recalls that EU; recalls that all candidate countries should align their foreign policy with the EU’s foreign and security policy and not to actively work against it; Strongly condemns the signature of the two Memorandums of Understanding between Turkey and Libya on the delimitation of maritime zones and on comprehensive security and military cooperation, which are interconnected and in clear violation of the sovereign rights of EU Member States, the international law and the UN Security Council resolution imposing an arms embargo on Libya;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)

21 b. Regrets that the current Customs Union will not achieve its full potential until Turkey fully and effectively implements the Additional Protocol in relation to all Member States including the Republic of Cyprus in a non- discriminatory manner, which is a prerequisite for the opening of the negotiations for the upgrading;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Nikos ANDROULAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 c (new)

21 c. Reiterates its call on Turkey to comply with the EU declaration issued on September 21, 2005 and to fulfil its obligation of full, non-discriminatory implementation of the Additional Protocol to the EC-Turkey Association Agreement vis-à-vis all Member States, including the Republic of Cyprus, regrets that Turkey has still not made progress towards the normalization of its relations with the Republic of Cyprus; reiterates that recognition of all Member States is a necessary component of the accession process, of Customs Union and of every agreement between the EU and Turkey and calls for progress without any further delay;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Acknowledges that Turkey can pursue its own foreign policy in line with its interests and goals, but expects this policy to be defended through diplomacy and dialogue based on international law and, as a candidate country, ~~to be increasingly aligned with that of the EU~~not to go against the interests of the EU and its Member States, to fully respect the sovereign rights and to stop all provocative actions and rhetoric against EU Member States and to be increasingly aligned with that of the EU; deplores Turkey's decision not to impose any sanctions to Russia following the illegal invasion of Ukraine;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Regrets that as a result of Turkey’s instrumentalization of refugees a continuing increase in asylum applications was registered in Cyprus in 2021; notes that pending the full and effective implementation of the EU- Turkey Readmission Agreement vis-à-vis all Member States, existing bilateral readmission agreements and provisions in similar agreements and arrangements with EU Member States should be adequately implemented; underlines that cooperation in the area of justice and home affairs with all EU Member States remains essential;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Evin INCIR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Deplores the negative and destabilising role of Turkey, threatening regional peace and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean, Middle East and South Caucasus and its role in conflicts in Syria, Iraq and Libya;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22 b. Recalls the need for Turkey to fully fulfil its obligations under the EU - Turkey Customs Union; deplores the continuous violations of the current framework and the calls to boycott on EU Member States; recalls in this sense that the current Customs Union has not yet achieved its full potential as long as Turkey does not implement the Additional Protocol to extend the Ankara Agreement towards all EU Member States without any reserve and in a non discriminatory fashion and does not resolve all existing trade irritants; believes that a modernisation of the current customs union could be beneficial for both parties and could be the basis for renewed EU - Turkey relation, underlines however that no negotiations should be started before Turkey fully implements the current framework towards all EU Member States, unconditionally and irrespectively; reiterates that any future framework should be based on strong conditionality related to human rights, fundamental freedoms, respect of the international law and good neighbourly relations; highlights in this respect that it seems unrealistic to envisage any modernisation of the Customs Union at this moment, given the current situation of human rights inside the country and its destabilising and revisionist foreign policy;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Nikos ANDROULAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22 b. Deplores Turkey’s continuing refusal to comply with aviation law and establish a channel of communication between air traffic control centres in Turkey and the Republic of Cyprus the absence of which entails real safety risks and dangers for the European passengers as identified by the European Aviation Safety Agency and International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations and call on Turkey to collaborate by respecting the EU aviation law; takes the view that this could be an area where Turkey could prove its commitment to confidence-building measures and calls on Turkey to collaborate by fully implementing EU aviation law;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. ~~Welcomes the~~Deplores that despite efforts to decrease inthe tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean during the past year, ~~but~~these were not sustained due to Turkey's actions and remains fully aware that ~~these~~ positive dynamics could be reversed at any moment while the underlying issues remain unresolved; condemns, in this regard, the continuous harassment and hindrance by Turkish warships of research vessels from performing surveys on the potential route of the East Med Pipeline, which is an energy project of EU Common Interest (PCI), within the EEZ/continental shelf of Member States; calls on Turkey to respect the sovereignty of all EU Member States over their territorial sea and airspace as well as their sovereign rights, including inter alia the right to explore and exploit natural resources, in accordance with EU and international law, including the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which is part of the EU acquis; supports the invitation by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus to Turkey to negotiate in good faith and in line with international law the maritime delimitation between their relevant coasts, or have recourse, to the International Court of Justice, and calls on Turkey to accept Cyprus’ invitation;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. ~~Welcome~~Deplores that despite initial indications towards the decrease in tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Aegean Sea during the past year, ~~but remains fully aware that these positive dynamics could be reversed at any moment while the underlying issues remain unresolved~~it was not materialised because of the continuous Turkish provocations; strongly condemns the revisionist rhetoric and actions against the Greek sovereignty over specific islands in the Aegean Sea as it is stated in recent statements of Turkish officials and Ministers and in two letters of the Turkish Permanent Representative to the UN in July and September 2021;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23 a. strongly condemns continuous Turkey's illegal activities in Greek and Cypriot waters as well as its violations of the Greek national airspace, including overflights of inhabited areas and its territorial sea which violate both the sovereign rights of Greece and the international law; reiterates its regrets that the casus belli declared by the Turkish Grand National Assembly against Greece in 1995 remains valid and is repeated in relation to the possible extension of the Greek territorial waters in the Aegean Sea; express its full solidarity with Greece and the Republic of Cyprus; reiterates its call on Turkey to sign and ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which is part of the EU aquis; urges Turkey to engage in peaceful negotiation for the delimitation of the Exclusive Economic Zones and the continental shelf in both the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean, in good faith, fully respecting international law and the principle of good neighbourly relations, having recourse if necessary to the International Court of Justice;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23 a. Continues to urge Turkey to unequivocally commit to good neighbourly relations, international agreements and to the peaceful settlement of disputes, having recourse, if necessary to the International Court of Justice and to refrain from any unilateral action or threats;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)

23 b. expresses its concern on the illegal Turkish fishing activities within Greek territorial waters in the Aegean Sea and the unregulated and unreported fishing activities of Turkish fishing fleets in international waters in the Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 c (new)

23 c. Reiterates that the European Council of 1 and 2 October 2020 recalled to Turkey that the EU will use all the instruments and the options at its disposal, including of imposing a sanctions’ regime on Turkey , in accordance with Article 29 TEU and Article 215 TFEU, in order to defend its interests and those of its Member State; recalls the Council Conclusions of 14 October 2019 calling the Member States to take strong national positions regarding their arms export policy to Turkey on the basis of the provisions of Common position 2008/944/CFSP, including the strict application of criterion 4 on regional stability and calls to consider the introduction of an initiative in the Council for all EU Member States to halt arms export licensing to Turkey in accordance with this Common Position; reiterates its call in that respect, on the VP/HR for as long as Turkey continues with its current illegal, unilateral actions in the Eastern Mediterranean that run counter to the sovereignty of any EU Member State and international law, makes revisionist claims against the sovereign rights of EU Member States and threatens their territorial integrity, to introduce an initiative in the Council for all EU Member States to halt arms export for all types of military equipment, including weapons, weapons for dual-use goods and know-how, to Turkey in accordance with the Common Position;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. ~~Deplo~~Regrets the fact that the ~~unresolved conflict in Cypru~~Cyprus problem remains unresolved and reiterates its ~~a major obstacle to EU-Turkey relations; reaffirms its view that the only sustainable solution to the Cyprus issue is that of~~call on Turkey, to commit and contribute to a comprehensive settlement in line with United Nations Security Council relevant resolutions; reiterates its support for a fair, comprehensive and viable settlement onf the ~~basis of a bi-communal, bi-zonal federation with a single international legal personality and political equality, in accordance with~~Cyprus problem within the UN framework and in accordance with the relevant UNSC resolutions, international law and oin ~~the basis of respect for~~line with the EU acquis and the principles on which the Union is founded; deeply regrets that Turkey has abandoned thise agreed UN framework; condemns in this regard statements by Turkish President and Turkish Cypriot leader, imposed by Turkey upon the Turkish Cypriots, calling for a two-state solution in Cyprus;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)

24 a. Reiterates its call on the Turkish Government to halt its plans for the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, which will be located in a region prone to severe earthquakes, therefore posing a major threat not only to Turkey, but also to the Mediterranean region; recalls that Russia and Turkey signed a Cooperation Agreement providing for the construction of the Akkuyu nuclear power plant and therefore asks for the inclusion of the construction of Akkuyu nuclear plant in the EU sanctions list against Russia following the later's military invasion of Ukraine; requests, accordingly, that the Turkish Government join the Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (Espoo Convention), which commits its parties to notifying and consulting each other about major projects under consideration that are likely to have a significant adverse environmental impact across borders; asks the Turkish Government, to this end, to involve or at least consult the governments of its neighbouring countries in relation to any further developments in the Akkuyu venture;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 b (new)

24 b. Strongly condemns the partial illegal reopening of Varosha , which undermines mutual trust and therefore the prospect of the resumption of direct talks on the comprehensive resolution of the Cyprus issue, by changing the situation on the ground for the worse, exacerbating division and embedding the permanent partition of Cyprus; warns against any change of the status quo in Varosha in violation of the UNSC resolutions; calls on Turkey to reverse this action and avoid any other unilateral action that could raise further tensions on the island, in compliance with the recent call of the UNSC; calls on Turkey to withdraw its troops from Cyprus, to transfer the Varosha area to its lawful inhabitants under the temporary administration of the UN in accordance with UNSC Resolution 550 (1984) and to refrain from actions altering the demographic balance on the island through a policy of illegal settlements;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 c (new)

24 c. Praises the important work of the bi-communal Committee on Missing Persons (CMP) and calls on the Turkish authorities to advance their efforts to provide the CMP proprio motu and without delay with all information at their disposal relating to burial sites and any other places where remains might be found, including information in military archives;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 d (new)

24 d. Condemns the repeated attempts by Turkey to intimidate and gag Turkish Cypriot journalists and progressive citizens in the Turkish Cypriot community, thus violating their right to freedom of opinion and expression;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES, Nikos ANDROULAKIS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Insists that democracy, the rule of law and fundamental rights and the need for good neighbourly relations in line with international law should remain at the heart of EU-Turkey relations under any framework; reaffirms its support for keeping the accession process and its value-based approach as the main framework for EU-Turkey relations, as it is still the most powerful tool to exercise normative pressure and sustain the democratic and pro-European aspirations of Turkish society; nevertheless remains open to the possibility of both sides reviewing, in a realistic manner, the appropriateness of this framework and its ability to function, or, if necessary, exploring other possible models for future relations;

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2250(INI)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Notes that the current state of ‘conflictual cooperation’ in EU-Turkey relations is prone to producing unsatisfactory results; calls for a rebalancing of the relationship by building on the solid grounds for cooperation driven by mutual interests, and also by building confidence to address the lack of trust; ~~believes that an orderly dispute settlement mechanism may be beneficial in such an overall framework and calls on the Commission to explore the creation of such a mechanism;~~

2022/03/09
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Citation 4 a (new)

— having regard to its previous resolutions on Azerbaijan, in particular of 20 May 2021on prisoners of war in the aftermath of the most recent conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan 1 and of 10 March 2022 on the destruction of cultural heritage in Nagorno-Karabakh 2,[1] OJ C 15, 12.1.2022, p. 156. [2] OJ C 347, 9.9.2022, p. 198.

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Loucas FOURLAS, Eva KAILI, François ALFONSI, Martin SONNEBORN, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Demetris PAPADAKIS, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12

~~— having regard to the United Nations Security Council resolutions Nos. 822 of 30 April 1993, 853 of 29 July 1993, 874 of 14 October 1993, and 884 of 12 November 1993,~~deleted

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Citation 12 a (new)

— having regard to the United Nations resolutions on the ongoing war in Ukraine, namely the ES-11/1 and ES-11/2 of March 2022, ES-11/3 of April 2022 and ES-11/4 of October 2022,

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Citation 14 a (new)

— having regard to the European Convention on Human Rights, ratified by Azerbaijan in 2002,

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Loucas FOURLAS, Eva KAILI, François ALFONSI, Martin SONNEBORN, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Demetris PAPADAKIS, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 17 January 2019 on Azerbaijan, notably the case of Mehman Huseynov[1], and to other resolutions on Azerbaijan, in particular those concerning the human rights situation and the rule of law,

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the ~~conflict~~Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and the war between Armenia and Azerbaijan hasve resulted in tens of thousands of casualties, immense destruction and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people while the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has not been resolved yet;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas deadly military confrontations between Azerbaijan and Armenia continue to erupt periodically; as the ceasefire agreement of November 2020 has been violated multiple times; whereas the latest Azerbaijan’s military aggression of September 2022 has resulted in the occupation of 220 km2 of Armenian sovereign territory, the killing of hundreds of soldiers, and actions that represent war crimes and crimes against humanity such as the extrajudicial execution of Armenian prisoners of war, raping of women, and torture of civilians;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas ~~deadly military confrontations between Azerbaijan and Armenia~~the trilateral statement of 9 November 2020 has not been fully implemented and the ceasefire continues to ~~erupt periodically~~be repeatedly violated;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas Russian peace-keepers deployed in the region have been unwilling and unable to prevent further attacks from Azerbaijan, and their presence has been decreasing steadily, especially after the beginning of the Russian criminal war of aggression against Ukraine;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Klemen GROŠELJ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the EU is committed to promoting a South Caucasus region that is secure, stable, peaceful and prosperous, basing its action on the promotion of democracy, rule of law and the respect for human rights; whereas Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine has serious security implications for the region; whereas the Treaty signed between Azerbaijan’s President, Ilham Aliyev, and the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, the day before the begin of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine has brought the relations between these two countries to the level of a fully-fledged alliance;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas ~~the~~ high-level meetings were held in Brussels between President Aliyev and Prime Minister Pashinyan, mediated by President Charles Michel~~, resulted in encouraging developments~~;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas a sustainable normalisation of relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan requires that all violence cease and that all the root causes of conflict be addressed in particular guaranteeing the rights and security of all the population of Nagorno-Karabakh;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas Azerbaijan is a ~~reliable and trustworthy~~ supplier of fossil fuels to the EU and whereas it is becoming increasingly important in this role;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas Azerbaijan’s record in terms of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is still ~~unsatisfactory;~~ dramatic with the government continuing to crackdown on critics and dissenting voices and the space for independent activists, NGOs, journalists, human rights defenders and political opposition being virtually extinguished;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital H

H. whereas Azerbaijan’s record in terms of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms is still ~~unsatisfactory~~very negative;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas, in defiance of the First Article of the Azerbaijani Constitution and the law on freedom of assembly, the Azerbaijani authorities have imposed a ban on street protests by opposition and civil groups; whereas the citizens’ rights to free assembly are severely suppressed by the police and routinely end with the arrests of activists, in particular, those belonging to the political opposition;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)

Hb. whereas Russia´s war of aggression against Ukraine has had implications for the South Caucasus and has further complicated the security situation in the region;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict has significantly hampered the development and stability of the whole South Caucasus region; is convinced that a sustainable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan cannot be achieved through military means but requires a comprehensive political settlement in accordance with international law, including the principles enshrined in the UN Charter, the 1975 OSCE Helsinki Final Act and the OSCE Minsk Group’s Basic Principles; reaffirms that, in order to be effective, a comprehensive peace treaty must include provisions that guarantee the integrity of the Armenian sovereign territory, the safety of Armenian population residing in Nagorno-Karabakh and other conflict- afflicted areas, and the prompt and safe return of refugees and internally displaced people to their homes;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict which over the years has caused immense suffering and destruction has significantly hampered the development and stability of the whole South Caucasus region; is convinced that a sustainable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan cannot be achieved through military means but requires a comprehensive political settlement in accordance with international law, including the principles enshrined in the UN Charter, the 1975 OSCE Helsinki Final Act and the OSCE Minsk Group’s 2009 Basic Principles; recalls that the root cause of the conflict, which is the situation and security of the Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh and the status of the formerly autonomous region, remains unresolved;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Strongly condemns the ~~clashes that erupted on 12 September~~latest large- scale military aggression by Azerbaijan in September 2022 against multiple targets in the sovereign territory of Armenia which constituted a serious breach of the ceasefire and contradicted earlier commitments, including those made in the framework of EU-mediated talks; Condemns military incursions over non- delimited border since May 2021, urges the return of all forces to positions held before 12 May 20221 and ~~their consequences for the peace process~~stresses that the latest September aggression has no link to the long-lasting conflict over Nagorno- Karabakh; denounces any attempts at undermining the peace process and urges all conflict parties to refrain from further use of force; reiterates that the territorial integrity of Armenia and Azerbaijan must be fully respected and underlines the EU’s readiness to be more actively involved in settling the region’s protracted conflicts;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Urges Armenia and Azerbaijan to fully implement the tripartite ceasefire agreement of 9 November 2020; ~~calls on Armenia and Azerbaijan to avoid using inflammatory rhetoric and to implement measures to prepare their respective populations for peaceful coexisten~~insists on the urgent need to refrain from any hostile rhetoric or actions that may be perceived as inciting hatred or outright violence or as supporting impunity, or that risk undermining the efforts to establish and promote an atmosphere conducive to trust and reconciliation, cooperation and sustainable peace;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Urges Armenia and Azerbaijan to fully implement the tripartite ceasefire agreement of 9 November 2020; calls on Armenia and Azerbaijan to avoid using inflammatory rhetoric that undermines the peace process and to implement measures to prepare their respective populations for peaceful coexistence; condemns Putin- style's rhetoric by Azeri President Alyiev, who described the Armenian political leadership as fascist in the aftermath of the September 2022 attack;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Stresses that the legal status of Nagorno-Karabakh should be determined and accepted by both Armenia and Azerbaijan in order to secure the lasting settlement of the conflict; in this context underlines the need for such negotiations to take place under the mandate of the OSCE Minsk Group with active participation of its co-chairs and in close cooperation with the EU;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls that the EU’s passive stance during and immediately after the 2020 war gave other regional actors, such as Russia and Turkey, the opportunity to gain influence; strongly supports, therefore, the initiative taken by the President of the European Council Charles Michel to convene and mediate bilateral meetings of the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Brussels and encourages the work of the EU’s special representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia; urges the governments of both countries to fully engage in the drafting of a comprehensive and mutually acceptable peace treaty and welcomes in this regard the meeting of the foreign affairs ministers of both countries on 30 September in Geneva;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Takes note of the initial progress made on the process of border delimitation and encourages both sides to continue the work; welcomes the agreement to deploy a civilian EU mission to ~~build trust and contribute to the border commissions;~~ monitor the situation in the border regions of Armenia and Azerbaijan, to support confidence- building by monitoring adherence to the ceasefire and to support the work of the border commissions; welcomes Armenia’s willingness to facilitate the mission on their territory and calls on Azerbaijan to allow the presence of EU monitors on its side of the border as well; calls on the EU to consider prolonging and strengthening the mission as it contributes to increase security in the region while at the same time increases visibility of the EU in the region;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Takes note of the initial ~~progress made~~discussions on the process of border delimitation; welcomes the agreement to deploy a ~~civilian EU~~n EU monitoring mission to build trust and contribute to the border commissions; recalls that only Armenia accepted to host the monitoring mission on its side of the border; calls on the Council and the EEAS to increase the resources and personnel allocated to the monitoring mission, and to extend its mandate for all the time needed to find a solution that guarantees the territorial integrity of Armenia;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Welcomes the humanitarian assistance provided by the EU for the conflict-affected population in and around Nagorno-Karabakh and its assistance for humanitarian demining in the areas affected by the conflict; calls on the Commission to increase EU assistance to people in need, including in Nagorno- Karabakh, facilitate the implementation of more ambitious confidence-building measures and enhance people-to-people contacts between citizens on both sides of the border;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Condemns the footage that has appeared depicting the torture, mutilation and killing of an Armenian servicewoman and unarmed Armenian prisoners of war by Azerbaijani armed forces; calls for a full and impartial investigation of the videos to identify those responsible and hold them accountable for their actions;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Encourages increased bilateral contacts between the political authorities of Armenia and Azerbaijan; as well as between their civil societies and therefore calls on the Commission to support civil society organisations in Armenia and Azerbaijan that genuinely contribute to reconciliation;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. ~~Recognises the strategic~~Takes note of the role played by Azerbaijan as a provider of fossil fuels to the EU ~~and welcomes its willingness to~~but stresses that the EU external action, including its agreements with third countri~~bute even more to the EU’s objectiv~~es, should be based on EU core values, in ~~terms of security and diversification of energy supply and climate neutrality~~particular the respect for democracy, rule of law and human rights;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. ~~Welcom~~Notes the new mMemorandum of uUnderstanding on a Strategic Partnership in the Field of Energy between the EU and Azerbaijan signed by President Aliyev and Commission President von der Leyen in Baku on 18 July 2022, which lays the groundwork for future cooperation on green energy; regrets, however, that the Memorandum was signed without any conditionality based on the respect of fundamental freedoms, democracy and human rights and contributes to the EU dependence for energy supply, again, on a country that does not fully respect the European values and principles it has itself subscribed to, inter alia, as a member of the Council of Europe, the OSCE and the Eastern Partnership;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Klemen GROŠELJ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

~~12. Emphasises Azerbaijan’s potential as a producer of renewable energy;~~deleted

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Takes note of the progress made on the negotiation of a new bilateral cooperation agreement and calls on the negotiating parties to envisage enhanced cooperation outside the energy sector in the new agreement with particular attention on human rights, rules of law, democracy and good governance;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Takes note of the progress made on the negotiation of a new bilateral cooperation agreement and calls on the negotiating parties to envisage enhanced cooperation outside the energy sector in the new agreement, particularly with regard to rule of law, democracy and human rights;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. ~~Welcomes the significant~~Takes note of the trade flows between the EU and Azerbaijan and ~~the high level~~ of EU investment in Azerbaijan;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on EU institutions to ensure that any deepening of relations between the EU and Azerbaijan ~~remains~~must be conditional on the country making substantial , effective and tangible progress on respect for the core values and principles of democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Is strongly concerned about the pressure put upon citizens exercising their constitutional rights in Azerbaijan; calls on the government of Azerbaijan to respect the rights of its citizens, including the right to peaceful assembly;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Deeply regrets the current state of press freedom in Azerbaijan; expresses its concern at the new law on media adopted in December 2021; calls for a swift review of that law in accordance with the recommendations included in the opinion of the Venice Commission of 17-18 June 2022; urges Azerbaijan to stop persecuting bloggers ~~and journalist~~, journalists and media organisations;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. ~~Strongly insists that~~Urges Azerbaijan to cease all persecution and repression of political opposition activists, students, human rights defenders and civil society organisations and representatives; reiterates its position that the release of all political prisoners is an indispensable condition for a new Partnership Agreement between the EU and Azerbaijan;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)

18a. Notes with regret the fact that Azerbaijan has not fully complied with the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Underlines the importance of gender equality and the representation of women at all levels of ~~government~~social and political life;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)

19a. Deeply regrets Azerbaijan’s failure to fully implement the Council of Europe’s Framework Convention on the Protection of the National Minorities, ratified by Azerbaijan, which violates Azerbaijan’s commitment to protect the rights of the ethnic minorities such as Lezgins, Talysh, Armenians, Kurds and others;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20a. Is strongly concerned that the draft Law On Political Parties may further limit the freedom of association of Azerbaijanis by making it more difficult to register political parties; urges the Azerbaijani authorities to consult with international experts, including the OSCE/ODIHR and the Venice Commission of the Council of Europe, and take into account their feedback on the draft law;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)

20b. Condemns the censorship on the access to information in Azerbaijan and calls on the authorities to improve access to the internet and communications coverage;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Expresses its concern at the persistent lack of independence, impartiality and effectiveness of the judiciary as well as transparency of its decisions;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. ~~Takes good note of~~Regrets the limited progress made by Azerbaijan on the prevention ofand fight against corruption; calls on Azerbaijan to address the lack of an effective system of asset disclosure for members of parliament, judges and prosecutors;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Condemns the persecution of political opponents and calls for elections in accordance with international standards and in respect of Azerbaijan’s commitments as an OSCE participating state;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)

22b. Emphasizes the need to make any further cooperation between the EU and Azerbaijan, conditional on the country´s respect for international standards and its international commitments, in particular related to democracy, human rights and the rule of law;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 c (new)

22c. Underlines that good governance and respect for international law and standards are paramount to achieve long- lasting peace with Azerbaijan´s neighbours and in the wider region;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Klemen GROŠELJ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. ~~Strongly w~~Welcomes Azerbaijan’s ~~repeated~~official support for the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine as well as the humanitarian aid provided to Ukraine during the ongoing war; takes note that just one day before the criminal aggression perpetrated by Russia on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin signed a wide-ranging agreement with his Azerbaijani counterpart, Ilham Aliyev, deepening their diplomatic and military cooperation. and bringing the relation among the two countries to the level of an alliance; is worried by the ambiguity created by the signing of this agreement and calls on President Aliyev to clarify exactly what it entails;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2231(INI)

Isabel SANTOS, Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. ~~Strongly welcomes Azerbaijan’s repeated~~Notes the lack of support, shown by Azerbaijan to the resolutions voted in the UN General Assembly on Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine and in support ofor the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine ~~as well as~~; welcomes however the humanitarian aid provided to Ukraine ~~during the ongoing war~~by Azerbaijan;

2022/11/17
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Loucas FOURLAS, Eva KAILI, Martin SONNEBORN, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Demetris PAPADAKIS, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Costas MAVRIDES, Andrey KOVATCHEV

Motion for a resolution
Citation 15 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 15 April 2015 on the centenary of the Armenian Genocide,

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Loucas FOURLAS, Eva KAILI, Martin SONNEBORN, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Demetris PAPADAKIS, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Costas MAVRIDES, Andrey KOVATCHEV

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas periodical deadly military confrontations between Azerbaijan and Armenia continue; whereas the 9 November 2020 ceasefire agreement, introduced after the 44-day war ~~trigger~~started by Azerbaijan in 2020, has been violated several times resulting in more casualties; whereas in his several statements, including in the most recent speech delivered at «an event organized on the occasion of Victory Day» on November 8 2022, President Aliyev admitted that Azerbaijan had started the war in 2020, stated that ''on the whole, the international attitude towards the 44-day war was positive” and once again threatened to use force against Armenia;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas periodical deadly military confrontations between Azerbaijan and Armenia continue; whereas the 9 November 2020 ceasefire agreement, introduced after the 44-day war triggered by Azerbaijan in 2020, has been violated several times resulting in more casualties; whereas the latest Azerbaijan’s military aggression of September 2022 has resulted in the occupation of 220 km2 of Armenian sovereign territory, the killing of hundreds of soldiers, and actions that represent war crimes and crimes against humanity such as the extrajudicial execution of Armenian prisoners of war, raping of women, and torture of civilians;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Loucas FOURLAS, Eva KAILI, Martin SONNEBORN, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Demetris PAPADAKIS, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict has not been yet resolved and requires a comprehensive solution; whereas two years after the signing of the ceasefire statement in November 2020, which ended the 44-day war, humanitarian issues are still pending; whereas Armenia has handed all the minefield maps at its disposal; whereas Azerbaijan has been using the demand for the maps to artificially delay the return of Armenian POWs; whereas there are still 33Armenian POWs illegally kept in Baku and sentenced to imprisonments of 4 to 20 years;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Loucas FOURLAS, Eva KAILI, Martin SONNEBORN, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Demetris PAPADAKIS, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas during the military aggression by Azerbaijan in September 2022 civilian objects and infrastructure in the three provinces of the Republic of Armenia, namely Gegharkunik, Syunik, and Vayots Dzor, came under shelling of Azerbaijani forces, which left 7600 persons displaced, including1437 children;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the alleged Russian readiness to guarantee the security of Armenia has proven non-existing as demonstrated by the lack of response to the Azerbaijan’s continuous attacks even in the light of the Armenian attempt to resort to the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO); whereas democratic parties and the civil society in Armenia started to question the country’s membership in the CSTO; whereas Russian peace-keepers deployed in the region were unwilling and unable to prevent further attacks from Azerbaijan, and their presence has been decreasing steadily, especially after the begin of the Russian criminal war of aggression against Ukraine;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas EU-Armenia relations are based on common values, such as democracy, the rule of law, human rights and fundamental freedoms, and a shared interest of Armenia’s engagement in economic and political reforms as well as regional cooperation, including in the framework of the Eastern Partnership; whereas the final aim of the Union should be to support Armenia in its process of reforms and to support the EU- membership aspiration of the country and its people;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital F

F. whereas Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine has had implications for the South Caucasus and has further complicated the security situation in the region; whereas the Treaty signed between Azerbaijan’s President, Ilham Aliyev, and the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, the day before the begin of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine has brought the relations between these two countries to the level of a fully-fledged alliance;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital F a (new)

Fa. whereas despite Azerbaijani authorities releasing some Armenian prisoners of war, an undisclosed number of them, both military and civilians, are still detained in Azerbaijan in unknown conditions;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that the Nagorno- Karabakh conflict, which over the years has caused immense suffering and destruction, has significantly hampered the socio-economic development and stability of the whole South Caucasus region; is convinced that a durable and sustainable peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan cannot be achieved through military means but requires a comprehensive political settlement in accordance with international law, including the principles enshrined in the UN Charter, the 1975 OSCE Helsinki Final Act and the OSCE Minsk Group’s 2009 Basic Principles; reaffirms that, in order to be effective, a comprehensive peace treaty must include provisions that guarantee the integrity of the Armenian sovereign territory, the safety of Armenian population residing in Nagorno-Karabakh and other conflict- afflicted areas, and the prompt and safe return of refugees and internally displaced people to their homes;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Strongly condemns the large-scale military attack by Azerbaijan in September 2022 against multiple targets in the sovereign territory of Armenia, the brutality that characterised the attack, and its consequences for the peace process; reiterates that the territorial integrity of Armenia and Azerbaijan must be fully respected and ~~underlin~~encourages the EU~~’s readiness~~ to be more actively involved in settling the region’s protracted conflicts;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Urges Armenia and Azerbaijan to fully implement the tripartite ceasefire agreement of 9 November 2020 and to urgently implement measures to prepare their respective populations for peaceful coexistence; calls on the Azerbaijani authorities to avoid using inflammatory rhetoric which threatens to undermine the peace process, as it happened with the use of a Putin-style rhetoric by Azeri President Alyiev, who described the Armenian political leadership as fascist in the aftermath of the September 2022 attack;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Recalls that the EU’s passive stance during and immediately after the 2020 war gave other regional actors, such as Russia and Turkey, the opportunity to gain influence; strongly supports, therefore, the initiative taken by the President of the European Council Charles Michel to convene and mediate bilateral meetings of the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan in Brussels and encourages the work on the ground of the EU’s special representative for the South Caucasus and the crisis in Georgia; urges the governments of both countries to fully engage in the drafting of a comprehensive and mutually acceptable peace treaty and welcomes in this regard the meetings of the foreign affairs ministers of both countries;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Takes note of the initial discussions on the process of border delimitation; welcomes the agreement to deploy a ~~civilian EU~~n EU monitoring mission to build trust and contribute to the border commissions; recalls that only Armenia accepted to host the monitoring mission on its side of the border; calls on the Council and the EEAS to increase the resources and personnel allocated to the monitoring mission, and to extend its mandate for all the time needed to find a solution that guarantees the territorial integrity of Armenia;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Continues to be concerned about the fate of Armenian prisoners, both military and civilian, detained during and after the conflict and still held by Azerbaijan and welcomes the release of some of them; demands that in accordance with international humanitarian law and the third Geneva Convention, Azerbaijani authorities treat Prisoners of war humanely in all circumstances; calls for the immediate and unconditional release of all the remaining detainees, including those captured during the recent military confrontations~~, and that they be treated in accordance with international humanitarian law~~;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Condemns in the strongest possible terms the footage that has appeared depicting the torture, mutilation and ~~killing~~extrajudicial executions of an Armenian servicewoman and unarmed Armenian prisoners of war by Azerbaijani armed forces; calls for a full and impartial investigation of the videos to identify those responsible and hold them accountable for their actions;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Loucas FOURLAS, Eva KAILI, Martin SONNEBORN, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Demetris PAPADAKIS, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Costas MAVRIDES, Andrey KOVATCHEV

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Supports the normalisation of relations between Armenia and Turkey and welcomes the progress achieved so far; calls for the speedy implementation of agreements reached by the special representatives; calls on both sides to engage in the process in good faith and without preconditions; recalls that the previous attempt of normalisation of relations between Armenia and Turkey through the signing of 2009 protocols failed because of Turkey's unilateral support for Azerbaijan and conditioning the opening of border and establishment of diplomatic relations with Armenia on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict; deplores the signals coming from the Turkish authorities that the current process is closely coordinated with Azerbaijan and emphasizes its calls on Turkey not to repeat the mistake of the past and to take concrete steps in the ongoing process with Armenia;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Welcomes the early parliamentary elections of 2021 which confirmed the strength of democracy in Armenia and the support of its people for the reform agenda; encourages the government to continue implementing reforms, despite the difficult international context and the challenges Armenia is facing; calls on the Commission and the Council to increase its political and diplomatic support to Armenia also in light of the assertiveness of its neighbours; reiterates that the EU is the largest donor supporting Armenia’s reform process;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

15. Underlines the important role of civil society in the shaping and implementation of key reforms; advocates for a thorough EU support for Armenian civil society;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Peter van DALEN, Klemen GROŠELJ, François ALFONSI, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Underlines the importance of media freedom, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly for preserving a vibrant democracy; welcomes the improvements in media freedom in Armenia as reported by the World Press Freedom Index 2022 that ranked Armenia at the 51st place while it was at the 63rd place in 2021; encourages the national authorities to continue to implement reforms for improving media freedom in the country; is concerned by the presence of disinformation and harsh rhetoric;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2230(INI)

Loucas FOURLAS, Eva KAILI, Martin SONNEBORN, Fabio Massimo CASTALDO, Demetris PAPADAKIS, François-Xavier BELLAMY, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)

21a. Welcomes the visit of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to Armenia in October 2022 and the IAEA support for ensuring that Armenia’s nuclear program is safe and secure; welcomes also Armenia's commitment to "Rays of Hope" initiative and its positive example in achieving "CancerCare4All”, as stated during the above-mentioned visit;

2022/11/24
Committee: AFET

2021/2183(INI)

Javi LÓPEZ, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Giuliano PISAPIA, Sven MIKSER, Juozas OLEKAS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)

— having regard to its resolution of 7 October 2021 on the State of EU cyber defence capabilities,

2021/10/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2183(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 27 a (new)

— having regard to the Charter of the United Nations and the Helsinki Final Act of 1975 of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe,

2021/10/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2183(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Citation 27 b (new)

— having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS),

2021/10/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2183(INI)

Javi LÓPEZ, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Giuliano PISAPIA, Sven MIKSER, Juozas OLEKAS, Costas MAVRIDES, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Citation 29 b (new)

— having regard to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, paying special attention to SDG 16 that aims to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development,

2021/10/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2183(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Notes that 2020 was dominated by the COVID-19 pandemic, which exposed our dependencies vis-à-vis the rest of the world; stresses that the EU must learn lessons from this with a view, in particular, to increasing its resilience and strategic autonomy; stresses that energy security is an important component in achieving strategic autonomy;

2021/10/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2183(INI)

Javi LÓPEZ, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Giuliano PISAPIA, Sven MIKSER, Juozas OLEKAS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Stresses that the Strategic Compass must make it possible to strengthen the Union’s capacity to act as an increasingly credible strategic partner and a global actor for peace; stresses that this exercise must be regularly updated, must set out an ambitious and operational course – with a timetable for the implementation of decisions and monitoring mechanisms – and must enable the Union to have a coherent defence policy, a common strategic culture, a capacity to anticipate threats and provide a rapid and coordinated reaction and a capacity for autonomous resilience, to be able to mobilise resources on the basis of solidarity when a Member State is threatened and requests them, and ultimately to ~~play a part in~~ensure the protection of European citizens, interests and values;

2021/10/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2183(INI)

Javi LÓPEZ, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Giuliano PISAPIA, Sven MIKSER, Juozas OLEKAS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Underlines the crucial need to boost intelligence support for EU security and defence policy; underlines that the work of EU IntCen and EUMS INT is dependent on the willingness of Member States to share information: calls to increase its financial and technical resources; agrees with the analysis made by EC President SOTEU 2021 address that the EU needs to improve intelligence cooperation; welcomes the proposal to consider setting up an EU Joint Situational Awareness Centre, a crucial tool to improve strategic foresight and the EU strategic autonomy; calls for exploring the possibilities to set up an EU intelligence agency;

2021/10/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2183(INI)

Javi LÓPEZ, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Giuliano PISAPIA, Sven MIKSER, Juozas OLEKAS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Recalls that the Union is currently deploying 11 civilian missions and six military missions and operations; recalls that only three of the military missions are executive missions; notes that these missions and operations are suffering the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has limited their effectiveness; suggests that the budget, planning and equipment of EU CSDP missions and operations be assessed in the light of the lessons learnt from COVID-19;

2021/10/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2183(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)

14a. Regrets the overall destabilising role of Turkey in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Nagorno Karabakh, that threatens regional peace, security and stability in the regions; is extremely concerned by, and strongly condemns, the illegal activities and threats of military action against EU Member States, notably Greece and Cyprus, carried out by Turkey in the Eastern Mediterranean and its new announced illegal activities within Cypriot and Greek maritime zones; Deplores the fact that despite the efforts for de- escalation, Turkey continues its unilateral provocative actions, violating international law and the sovereign rights of EU Member States in the area; reiterates the Union’s readiness to use all instruments and options at its disposal, including in accordance with Article 29 TEU and Article 215 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), in order to defend its interests and those of its Member States, as well as to uphold regional stability;

2021/10/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2183(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Csaba MOLNÁR, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 b (new)

14b. Calls for the EU to play a significant role in the Mediterranean, having become an actor with the ability to guarantee the stability of the region, including in relation to energy security, inter alia, by defending Projects of Common Interest in the field of energy, combating organised crime, terrorism and irregular migration and take all appropriate measures for preventing the instrumentalisation of migration from third countries against EU Member States;

2021/10/29
Committee: AFET

2021/2183(INI)

Javi LÓPEZ, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Attila ARA-KOVÁCS, Giuliano PISAPIA, Sven MIKSER, Juozas OLEKAS, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Is deeply concerned about the low force generation for operations and missions, and urges the Member States to address this matter as soon as possible and give CSDP missions and operations the necessary personnel and capabilities to fulfil their mandates; considers that third- country participation in CSDP operations and missions must always be in line with European interests and values; calls on the EU to provide staff in missions and operations with appropriate equipment and training to become more alert and more resilient under less permissive conditions;

2021/10/29
Committee: AFET

2020/2122(INI)

18 b. Underlines the importance of protecting consumer rights, namely regarding unfair terms and practices, banking fees, the transparency of products costs, profitability and risks; notes that the Banking Union still lacks effective tools to tackle problems consumers are facing such as unfair commercial practices and artificial complexity; calls, in this respect, on the European Banking Authority to devote more focus in fulfilling its mandate on properly collecting, analysing and reporting on consumer trends, and also on the review and coordination of financial literacy and education initiatives by the competent authorities; calls further on the Commission to scrutinise the unfair clauses and practices employed by the banking sector, in consumer contracts and to ensure the effective and swift implementation by all Member States of the Directive 93/13/EEC on unfair terms by using all means in place;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2122(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Csaba MOLNÁR, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Stresses the benefits of banking consolidation in addressing the overcapacities and fragmentation of the banking sector, taking into account each MS specificities; remains concerned, nonetheless with the existence of “too-big- to-fail” institutions; stresses furthermore the benefits of protecting diversity/plurality of financial sectors in building up systemic trust and maintaining the financial stability;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2122(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)

20 a. Stresses the importance of supervisory guidance recommending conservative policies on dividends and share buy-backs for financial institutions, attending to the need to maintain sufficient capitalisation;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2122(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Csaba MOLNÁR, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Is concerned that as Member States sell increasing amounts of sovereign bonds, their share in banks’ balance sheets grows, potentially aggravating the doom loop; ~~consider~~stresses that the creation of Next Generation EU ~~will~~can provide ~~high-qualit~~a truly European safe assets;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2122(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Csaba MOLNÁR, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22 a. Takes the view that these high quality European Safe Assets will diversify the pool of safe assets available in the EU, providing an opportunity for banks to reduce the exposure of their balance sheets to national sovereign debt and contributing to strengthen the international role of the euro;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2122(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Csaba MOLNÁR, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. ~~Not~~Welcomes the efforts of the SSM to provide guidance and clarity to banks for self-assessing and appropriately reporting environmental and climate change-related risks; stresses that further supervisory pressure is required for financial institutions to disclose appropriately climate-related and environmental risks; considers the SSM climate risk stress test an important step in evaluating banks’ practices and identifying concrete areas of improvement;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2122(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Csaba MOLNÁR, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Notes the EBA’s role in leading, coordinating and monitoring the EU financial sector’s fight against money laundering and terrorist financing; welcomes the ECB’s efforts over the past two years to enhance exchange of information between the SSM and AML/CFT supervisors to better take into account AML aspects in prudential supervision measures;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2122(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pedro MARQUES, Csaba MOLNÁR, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Welcomes the fact that while the SRB was not required to take resolution action in 2020, it nevertheless collaborated with the SSM regarding close-to-crisis cases; appreciates the advancement of the current resolution planning cycle, and reiterates that ~~MREL~~proportionate MREL setting represents one of the key elements in enhancing banks’ resolvability while ensuring broader financial stability;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2122(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Csaba MOLNÁR, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Considers it necessary to have in place an EU ~~liquidation~~comprehensive regime for banks for which the SRB assesses that there is no public interest in resolution;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2122(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pedro MARQUES, Csaba MOLNÁR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 a (new)

30 a. Stresses that the “sale of business” strategy should be prioritised by the SRB as a way to minimise value losses in resolution and liquidation; considers therefore that access to the SRF and the national deposit guarantee schemes (NDGSs) should be facilitated, as a way to minimise tax payer contributions and destruction of value, and ensure financial stability;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2122(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Csaba MOLNÁR

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Considers it necessary to review the public interest assessment in order to allow resolution tools to be applied to a broader group of banks, namely for middle-sized banks;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2122(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Csaba MOLNÁR, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

35. ~~Not~~Stresses the importance of depositors across the Banking Union enjoying the same level of protection of their savings; takes note of the Commission proposal to further strengthen citizens’ confidence in the protection of deposits by introducing an EDIS;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2122(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Notes the Commission’s launch of the review of the CMDI framework~~, including the option of a hybrid EDIS~~;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2122(INI)

Costas MAVRIDES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pedro MARQUES, Margarida MARQUES, Csaba MOLNÁR, Joachim SCHUSTER

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)

36 a. Calls for further steps towards a time-bound work plan on all outstanding elements needed to complete swiftly the Banking Union and deliver a fully-fledged EDIS;

2021/05/27
Committee: ECON

2020/2117(INI)

Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Raphaël GLUCKSMANN, Paolo DE CASTRO, Agnes JONGERIUS, Miroslav ČÍŽ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Underlines that the post-COVID-19 recovery is a unique opportunity to set the agenda for sustainable growth; calls on the Commission, therefore, to ~~present~~speed up its review of the 15-point action plan on TSD chapters ~~without delay~~so it can be implemented in all ongoing negotiations without exception; expects the review to address the enforceability of TSD commitments as a matter of urgency, as it is not currently included; recalls, in this regard, the non- paper from the Netherlands and France on trade, social economic effects and sustainable development11 ; suggests that, as a minimum, recent advances in enforceability should be applied to EU trade policy, namely the ability to tackle any non-compliance by partners through unilateral sanctions, including the introduction of tariffs or quotas on certain products or the cross- suspension of other parts of an agreement; __________________ 11 Non-paper from the Netherlands and France on trade, social economic effects and sustainable development, accessed at ‘the Netherlands at International Organisations (permanentrepresentations.nl)’.

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Raphaël GLUCKSMANN, Paolo DE CASTRO, Agnes JONGERIUS, Miroslav ČÍŽ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Points out that high up-front costs, which will only repay themselves over time, and a lack of know-how and equipment are currently preventing developing countries from ‘going green’; demands that the Commission use all trade instruments and development cooperation policies at its disposal to increase financial support, technical assistance, technology transfers and digital penetration in order to empower developing countries and enable them to achieve sustainable resilience and to better implement due diligence across the supply chain;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Raphaël GLUCKSMANN, Joachim SCHUSTER, Margarida MARQUES, Agnes JONGERIUS, Costas MAVRIDES, Miroslav ČÍŽ, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Is convinced that the EU is too dependent on a limited number of suppliers for critical goods and services, especially for medical and pharmaceutical goods; insists that the EU should overcome these undesirable dependencies via a mix of policies to incentivise companies to stockpile, diversify sourcing strategies and promote nearshoring, - which could create new trading opportunities for partners in the Eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods - and reshoring where necessary;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Raphaël GLUCKSMANN, Paolo DE CASTRO, Agnes JONGERIUS, Miroslav ČÍŽ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)

16a. Welcomes the proposal by several government leaders for an international treaty on the pandemic response and calls for this to include a strong trade pillar; underlines that the international trade framework must foster cooperation and put into place both structural and rapid response mechanisms to help governments overcome the challenges associated with health emergencies; maintains that progress needs to be made in the areas of transparency on available stocks, global supply networks, production capacities and product pricing of essential health products, the implementation and development of exemptions for public health security in the intellectual property rights framework, increasing the global mobility of essential services, protecting and fostering the resilience of SMEs, and developing an intersectional approach to tackle the negative impact of health crises on gender equality, income equality, and the position of minorities;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Raphaël GLUCKSMANN, Paolo DE CASTRO, Agnes JONGERIUS, Miroslav ČÍŽ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)

16b. Calls to establish a new Committee on Trade and Health on the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference in order to prepare guidelines on how governments can implement existing exemptions and flexibilities in international trade law to increase public health security, which mechanisms must be put in place to improve the global response to health emergencies and to lay the groundwork for a trade pillar for the negotiations on a future international treaty on the pandemic response;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2117(INI)

Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Raphaël GLUCKSMANN, Paolo DE CASTRO, Agnes JONGERIUS, Miroslav ČÍŽ, Joachim SCHUSTER, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Emphasises that international trade policy must play a proactive role in this endeavour by facilitating trade in raw materials, alleviating shortages of qualified and experienced personnel, solving supply chain problems and revisiting the global framework for intellectual property rights for future pandemics; insists, in this regard, on a constructive dialogue about a temporary waiver of the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) in order to ensure that countries do not face retaliation over COVID-19 related patent infringements during the pandemic; calls on the Commission to re-evaluate the TRIPS+ commitments in EU trade agreements in light of lessons learned, and to improve the work on increasing the effectiveness of IPR flexibilities such as, but not limited to, compulsory licensing in the context of bilateral negotiations and dialogue;

2021/04/20
Committee: INTA

2020/2114(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Marek BELKA, Paolo DE CASTRO, Costas MAVRIDES, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Underlines that the ~~rules-based~~fair, inclusive, rules-based and non-discriminatory multilateral trading system has been a key driver of global trade liberalisation, which has powered economic growth, job creation, improvement of living standards, income growth and the promotion of sustainable economic development, therefore strengthening prosperity, peace and security; recalls the importance of incorporating a gender perspective into the promotion of inclusive economic growth and to promote women’s empowerment that is key to the eradication of poverty; underlines importance of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement objectives as well as social, environmental and human rights; notes furthermore its role in fostering a predictable trade environment through the development of more transparent and fair trade rules and regulations; believes, however, that there is a need and motivation to rebuild trust in multilateral institutions in the face of global challenges and shifting world power dynamics;

2022/01/27
Committee: INTA

2020/2114(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Marek BELKA, Paolo DE CASTRO, Costas MAVRIDES, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Regrets the growing tendencies towards protectionism and trade weaponisation that have developed in parts of the global economy; welcomes the strengthening of the EU’s trade enforcement efforts and the development of a toolbox of autonomous trade instruments to respond to these emerging challenges; notes the aim at a reformed and well-functioning multilateral rulebook with an effective functioning dispute settlement system at its core in the World Trade Organization (WTO); stresses the need, however, to remain fully engaged in efforts to reinvigorate the World Trade Organization (WTO) with a view to increasing its effectiveness, inclusiveness, transparency and legitimacy as the cornerstone of a liberalised global economy and to deal with the challenges posed by non-market economies; recalls the need for all WTO members to commit to modernize and equip the WTO with tools to address the trade challenges of the twenty-first century, including digital revolution, green, fair and sustainable transition, and to carry the reform agenda forward aiming at agreeing on a concrete work plan by the next MC12;

2022/01/27
Committee: INTA

2020/2114(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Marek BELKA, Paolo DE CASTRO, Costas MAVRIDES, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3

3. Notes the need to work closely with like-minded partners, and to engage with all members of the WTO t~~hat are committed to a positi~~o bring forward a positive agenda for reform; points out that a successful reform will require engaging with all parties involved a~~genda for reform~~nd taking into account their valid concerns when agreeing on a compromise solution; recognises that historically it has been EU- US cooperation that has been the main driving force for progress within multilateral trade negotiations, and therefore welcomes the positive statements on WTO reform made by the current US administration, ~~which sh~~and encourages the US to follow through on this with concrete proposals which could provide a basis for renewed engagement on actionable outcomes; supports a forward- looking transatlantic agenda based on common interests and shared values, aiming to achieve meaningful WTO reform, including ~~of dispute settlement;~~its monitoring, negotiating and dispute settlement functions; regrets the stalemate at the WTO Appellate Body, which is depriving the global trading system of an enforceable dispute settlement system; urges all WTO members to engage on solutions to restore a fully functioning and independent Appellate Body.

2022/01/27
Committee: INTA

2020/2114(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Marek BELKA, Paolo DE CASTRO, Costas MAVRIDES, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Welcomes the WTO’s close collaboration the World Health Organisation and other international organizations ensuring that trade plays a positive role in addressing the pandemics and subsequent crisis and in supporting the recovery of the global economy; urges the conclusion of an ambitious initiative in the area of trade and health, eliminating trade and regulatory restrictions that affect the distribution of and boosting the capacity to produce active ingredients, medicines, vaccines, treatments and equipment, and on transparency and global cooperation in times of crisis including temporary TRIPS waiver, in order to maintain the resilience of supply chains in the current context but for future crises as well; welcomes the purpose to strengthen pandemic prevention, preparedness and response capacity of the WTO;

2022/01/27
Committee: INTA

2020/2114(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Marek BELKA, Paolo DE CASTRO, Costas MAVRIDES, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Stresses that democratic, legitimate, accountable and transparent global governance should feature greater participation of parliamentary bodies, as directly elected parliamentarians can function as a crucial link between citizens and the multilateral system; emphasises the importance of the work of the joint European Parliament and Inter- Parliamentary Union parliamentary conference on the WTO; underlines the need to ensure that parliamentarians have better access to trade negotiations and are involved in the formulation and implementation of WTO decisions; reiterates the need for all WTO members to enhance the exchange with stakeholders including civil society and business organisations and community and calls on improved cooperation with other international organisations such as the ILO, the UN system, the OECD and the IMF.

2022/01/27
Committee: INTA

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital B (new)

B. whereas in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis, the successive reforms of the EMU focused on risk reduction but failed to introduce risk- sharing elements;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital D (new)

D. whereas the current governance framework presents conceptual and practical weaknesses that lead to rules overly complex, weak enforcement, lack of ownership and of incentives to pursue symmetrical counter-cyclical policies and it did not succeed to reduce divergences between in the EU nor to protect or stimulate growth enhancing public investment;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital E (new)

E. whereas gross public investment was severely cut following the financial and sovereign debt crisis, and in many Member States net public investment is even negative implying that the current fiscal framework leads to too recessive consolidation measures and facilitates the decline of public investment during the periods of fiscal consolidation;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital F (new)

F. whereas there are significant investment funding gaps that should be addressed: €470 billion a year until 2030 to meet EU environmental objectives 20a; €142billion a year for social infrastructure such as hospitals or schools 21a ; along with €190 billion a year to stabilise the stock of public capital 22a; _________________ 20aEuropean Commission, “SWD(2020) 98 final - Identifying Europe’s recovery needs”, 27.5.2020, p.14-16. 21aThis estimation only cover health and long-term care (EUR 70 billion), education and life-long learnings (EUR 15 billion) and affordable housing (EUR 57 billion). Source: FRANSEN, L., BUFALO, G., REVIGLIO, E., “Boosting Investment in Social Infrastructure in Europe - Report of the High-Level Task Force on Financing Social Infrastructure in Europe”, 2018, 116p. 22aEuropean Commission, “SWD(2020) 98 final - Identifying Europe’s recovery needs”, 27.5.2020, p. 18-20

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital H (new)

H. whereas the pandemic is causing an unprecedented exogenous shock with large asymmetric impacts, weighting negatively on the EU economic outlook and enlarging divergences between Member States;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital I (new)

I. whereas the pandemic has amplified pre-existing inequalities and poverty and has demonstrated the importance of European social model and its existing social safety nets;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital L (new)

L. whereas public debt levels at the beginning of the pandemic were high, the unprecedented economic recession, the unprecedented national fiscal measures taken in response to the pandemic and the need to support a sustainable and inclusive recovery will impact public finances pushing EU debt-to-GDP to a new peak above 100% of GDP;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital M (new)

M. whereas environmental 25a and social sustainability are interconnected with long-term fiscal sustainability; _________________ 25aExtreme disaster tend to lower economic output (Botzen, Deschenes and Sanders, 2019); IMF forecasts that major weather-related disasters could have a negative impact in real GDP per capita and countries that are better equipped to address major natural disasters could more easily cushion the impact.

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital N (new)

N. whereas the crisis response of the EU 26a has strengthened the EMU and, so far, succeeded to create trust and confidence, tame financial markets volatility; underlines for this effect the importance of the issuance of EU bonds; _________________ 26a Through in particular the Recovery Package and the SURE instrument.

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Supports policies that are tailored to the stage of the pandemic, the path to the economic recovery and to countries´ individual circumstances;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Points out that for as long as differences in the pace of recovery are economically significant, fiscal policy should limit the scarring and reduce inequalities by supporting those segments of the economy and society that are at a higher risk of divergence; notes that income inequalities are likely to increase notably within young workers, women and low-skilled workers;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

7. Welcomes the policy response of governments aimed at avoiding a sharp increase in corporate insolvencies and unemployment; warns that an abrupt and uncoordinated withdrawal of support measures could lead to financial distress and recommends that more general support is replaced gradually by more targeted schemes including solvency measures; further recommends fiscal measures to facilitate job creation and reallocation namely through retraining and reskilling programmes, together with income support as needed;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 c (new)

7c. Highlights that monetary policy has been carrying the main burden of stabilisation in the past years and crisis; notes that the crisis caused by the pandemic showed that monetary policy is not enough for stabilisation purposes and fiscal policy should play an increasing role;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Stresses the importance of complementarity between monetary and fiscal policies to deliver the required support post-COVID-19, the former by preserving favourable financing conditions and the latter by supporting firms, workers and people; considers that the low interest rate environment has implications for fiscal policy; warns against a premature tightening of monetary and fiscal policy;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Underlines that structural factors ~~are likely to keep rates low in the long term; considers that macroeconomic policies should address the factors underlying secular stagnation~~such as ageing, global savings, low inflation and productivity slowdown are likely to keep rates low in the long term and the impact of Covid-19 shocks is likely to accelerate this tendency as precautionary savings are rising further and investment decisions might be delayed; considers that macroeconomic policies should address the factors underlying secular stagnation through high-quality fiscal expansion with durable repercussions on the private-sector savings-investment balance complemented with growth-enhancing reforms;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Stresses that debt service costs are expected to remain low for the foreseeable future thanks to a large share of debt burden covered by long maturities and sometimes negative yielding bonds, and primary deficits are likely to be offset by favourable interest-growth differentials; further considers that as long as the differentials are negative it ~~is possible~~will ensure the ability to sustain and progressively reduce high debt levels;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Recalls the importance of growth- enhancing policies and public investment aimed at increasing sustainable growth potential ~~and achieving the EU’s objectives~~; reiterates that future-oriented investment and expenditure has positive spill overs in the medium-to-long-term debt sustainability;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

14. Stresses the importance of pursuing a broad and transparent D~~SA in order~~ebt Sustainability Analysis (DSA) in order to support policymakers´ decision to set an appropriate country-specific path, using innovative tools and techniques such as stress tests and stochastic analysis to better reflect risks to public debt dynamics; (such as interest-growth differentials, debt composition, demographics and climate change) and the quality of public expenditure;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Pedro MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls for the renewed fiscal framework to promote sustainability and cyclical stabilisation and to improve the quality of public expenditure through sustainable investments and reforms; calls for well-defined, transparent, simple, flexible and enforceable rules embedded in a credible and democratic framework that takes into account the specificities of Member States, including the different economic structures and geographical constraints, and promote upward economic and social convergence;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Notes that the country-specific path would not be subject to applying any strict formula and the outcome should result from a discussion between each Member State and the Commission, after a consultation with the EFB in the context of the European Semester; considers that the expenditure rule should also include a correction mechanism to remove cyclical items as interest payments and cyclical unemployment benefits;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

21. Proposes, in line with the EFB, ~~‘ one~~the adoption of a general escape clause~~, triggered based on independent economic judgement’~~ proposed by the Commission supported by an opinion based on independent economic judgement in order to reduce complexity and to preserve the ability to act in case of unforeseeable circumstances;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marek BELKA, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Shares the EFB’s opinion that sustainable growth-enhancing public investments should be exempt from the expenditure rule, in particular those investments that are aligned with the EU’s long-term objectives of the NGEU; calls for a revamped fiscal framework that promotes the increase and stabilisation of growth-enhancing public investment related namely to social resilience, climate change and digitalisation;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Alfred SANT, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Reminds that meeting the objectives of the European Green Deal will require targeted and sustained fiscal effort over several decades; recalls that failing to meet these objectives would heighten significant sustainability-related fiscal risks;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Underlines that a renewed EU fiscal framework should provide fiscal space and internalize the effects of national discretionary fiscal policies while safeguarding sound public finances; stresses that coordination of the fiscal stance is of particular importance for the euro area and calls for the appropriate fiscal tools to properly coordinate national fiscal policies mitigating possible imbalances;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Considers that ~~clarity and consistency concerning the interplay between the MIP and the Stability and Growth Pact is key to ensuring that their objectives are achieved;~~ the recommendations to Member States within the MIP framework could be contradictory in some cases with the fiscal policy guidelines based on the application of the Stability and Growth Pact; therefore, it is necessary to improve clarity and consistency concerning the interplay between the MIP and the Stability and Growth Pact and to provide the EU with additional instruments to guarantee a correct aggregate fiscal stance according to the cyclical needs of the eurozone economy as a whole;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Calls for a renewed European Semester as the main economic and social policy coordination framework supporting the EU’s long-standing goals of sustainability and upward convergence with stronger national ownership; calls for a more balanced institutional role of the European Parliament in the European Semester to ensure a more rigorous democratic scrutiny ; demands for the European Parliament’s full involvement in defining the overarching goals and the guidance;, in particular the ones related to the euro area; stresses the importance of a stronger balance in policy coordination between employment and social affairs ministers and finance ministers namely in the euro area.

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30 b (new)

30b. Points towards the lack of ownership as one the main weaknesses of the European Semester; notes that the design of this framework must respect a set of long-term objectives and guidance at EU level, reflected in national plans, policy recommendations on a variety of policy objectives which should allow for policy choices properly reflecting national needs and priorities underpinned by an open and inclusive policy dialogue between the EU and national institutions and stakeholders;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Paul TANG, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Calls for more involvement of national macro prudential authorities and national productivity councils in the MIP process;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 a (new)

32a. Underlines the importance of ensuring a proper balance of responsibilities between the different institutions in the implementation of the EU fiscal framework; calls for a higher involvement of the European Parliament when discussing medium to long-term budgetary guidelines; in order to ensure greater transparency and accountability, it should be enhanced the involvement of the national parliaments;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Alfred SANT, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 a (new)

34a. Calls on the Commission to further reflect on the design and implementation of Macroeconomic Adjustment Programmes; is firmly convinced that the way macroeconomic adjustment programmes were implemented had serious consequences on the social fabric of the countries, led to permanent losses of output, raised serious doubt of external political interference and presented a lack of national ownership;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Pedro SILVA PEREIRA, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34 b (new)

34b. Calls on the Commission to assess the effectiveness and the added value of post-programme surveillance in those euro area Member States that are no longer subject to a macroeconomic adjustment programme; notes that Member States exiting a macroeconomic adjustment programme are also under enhance surveillance in the European Semester and, where relevant, in-depth reviews can be conducted; considers that this double surveillance does not bring any additional benefits for the process of multilateral surveillance;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2075(INI)

Margarida MARQUES, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Carmen AVRAM, Joachim SCHUSTER, Pedro MARQUES, Marc ANGEL, Marek BELKA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Recalls that the creation of the ESM outside the institutions of the Union represents a setback in the development of the Union; recalls its call for the ESM to be integrated into EU law under the Community method;

2021/04/23
Committee: ECON

2020/2071(INI)

Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Agnes JONGERIUS, Javier MORENO SÁNCHEZ, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed in the starkest possible terms the vital role played by functioning global supply chains for medical products, and in particular for medicines; emphasises that the implementation of an open, rules- based trading system is fundamental to ensuring the global availability of medicines and that our vulnerability is not repeated in future emergencies;

2020/05/18
Committee: INTA

2020/2071(INI)

Agnes JONGERIUS, Biljana BORZAN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1

1. Notes that the COVID-19 pandemic has revealed in the starkest possible terms the vital role played by functioning global supply chains for medical products, and in particular for medicines; emphasises that an fair, open, rules-based trading system is fundamental to ensuring the global availability of medicines;

2020/05/18
Committee: INTA

2020/2071(INI)

Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Agnes JONGERIUS, Javier MORENO SÁNCHEZ, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Recognises that the EU depends on a narrow set of countries for a large proportion of its imports of active pharmaceutical ingredients and chemical raw materials; stresses that this over- reliance can pose a risk when limitations in production capacity, excess demand or protectionist measures threaten the proper functioning of global supply chains and potentially undermine the availability of medicines in the EU; calls on the Commission ~~to present a long-term strategy focused on ensuring the EU’s open strategic autonomy in health~~and Member States to take the necessary legislative measures, policies and incentives to encourage the production of essential APIs and medicines in Europe to guarantee supply at all times and reduce supply dependence from third countries;

2020/05/18
Committee: INTA

2020/2071(INI)

Agnes JONGERIUS, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Biljana BORZAN, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Recognises that the EU depends on a narrow set of countries for a large proportion of its imports of active pharmaceutical ingredients and chemical raw materials; stresses that this over- reliance can pose a risk when limitations in production capacity, excess demand or protectionist measures threaten the proper functioning of global supply chains and potentially undermine the availability of medicines in the EU; calls on the Commission to present a long-term strategy focused on ensuring the EU’s open strategic autonomy in health, and the diversification of its supply chains;

2020/05/18
Committee: INTA

2020/2071(INI)

Agnes JONGERIUS, Biljana BORZAN, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)

2 a. Underlines that a complete repatriation of medical supply chains is not possible in a global economy; urges the Commission and the Member States to work with the EU’s partners, the WHO and WTO, on establishing an international framework that can prevent the breakdown of supply chains i.a. by establishing a global catalogue of essential emergency healthcare products in order to limit the resort to protectionist measures;

2020/05/18
Committee: INTA

2020/2071(INI)

Agnes JONGERIUS, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Biljana BORZAN, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Raphaël GLUCKSMANN, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3 a. Acknowledges that the EU’s recent trade agreements includes clear rules on commercial aspects of intellectual property rights, which generally acknowledge the issuing of compulsory licences in line with the TRIPS agreement; however, provisions such as data exclusivity enhanced patent protection and the protection of trade secrets, could possibly make it more difficult for many countries to invoke such clauses to their fullest effect; calls upon the Commission to give the Parliament an assessment of what role the EU free trade agreements and TRIPS can provide in this situation, including whether the Commission is considering guidelines in which voluntary licensing could be encouraged over immediate compulsory licensing;

2020/05/18
Committee: INTA

2020/2071(INI)

Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Agnes JONGERIUS, Javier MORENO SÁNCHEZ, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4

4. Emphasises that a broad network of fair and well implemented FTAs together with a functioning multilateral trading system constitute the best way of guaranteeing that multiple sources of manufacturing for essential medicines are available and regulatory standards converge globally;

2020/05/18
Committee: INTA

2020/2071(INI)

Agnes JONGERIUS, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Biljana BORZAN, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Raphaël GLUCKSMANN, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5 a. Notes that the whole world is fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, as no available medication that can fight the disease has been found yet; calls upon the Commission to coordinate with the WTO and the WHO that all countries, and in particular the developing countries, have equal access in case of any breakthrough drugs; encourages all member states to make efforts to establish a pool of patent rights for COVID-19 technologies at the WHO;

2020/05/18
Committee: INTA

2020/2071(INI)

Agnes JONGERIUS, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Biljana BORZAN, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Raphaël GLUCKSMANN, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Calls upon the Commission and the Member States to make sure that there is a constant and reliable supply of medical products; stresses that the development of medical products has to be in line with the international standards of human rights, in compliance with the Paris agreement, and that labour rights are in compliance with the ILO conventions; calls on the Commission that to maintain a level playing field in the internal market a common European approach for binding supply chain law is urgently needed;

2020/05/18
Committee: INTA

2020/2071(INI)

Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Agnes JONGERIUS, Javier MORENO SÁNCHEZ, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6 a. Highlights the importance that the European Commission takes all necessary measures to combat speculation, fraud and price abuses in the trade of essential medical substances;

2020/05/18
Committee: INTA

2020/2071(INI)

Agnes JONGERIUS, Kathleen VAN BREMPT, Biljana BORZAN, Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Raphaël GLUCKSMANN, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6 b. Emphasises the importance of European safety standards for medical products; urges the Commission to check medical products entering our internal market that they uphold to the European safety standards; calls upon the Commission to ensure that consumer protection is prioritised in the WTO negotiations on e-commerce in negotiation;

2020/05/18
Committee: INTA

2020/2071(INI)

Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Agnes JONGERIUS, Javier MORENO SÁNCHEZ, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)

6 b. Calls on the Commission to exercise leadership at global level to ensure that developing countries have guaranteed access to and supply of essential medicines, especially in emergencies;

2020/05/18
Committee: INTA

2020/2071(INI)

Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO, Agnes JONGERIUS, Javier MORENO SÁNCHEZ, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)

6 c. Stresses the importance of ensuring universal access to vaccines and medical treatment, especially in cases of emergency and for new diseases for which no treatment exists, as in the case of Covid-19; urges a close collaboration between the WHO and the WTO to ensure the supply of the vaccine once it is found; at the same time, calls on the Commission to strengthen its mechanisms for the joint procurement of medicines in order to guarantee universal access to treatment for all citizens regardless of their place of residence.

2020/05/18
Committee: INTA

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)

- having regard to the March 2018 action plan from the European Commission on Fintech,

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)

Aa. whereas the CMU should provide a regulatory environment which mitigates risks to financial stability, and adequately protects the interests of retail investors, pensioners and consumers;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)

Ab. whereas the development of a CMU goes necessarily hand in hand with the deepening of the economic and monetary union, and in particular with the completion of the banking union and the creation of a mechanism of fiscal stabilisation for the euro area as a whole; whereas the CMU must be complemented by counter-cyclical policy measures to foster aggregate demand and reduce inequalities;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Aurore LALUCQ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital A c (new)

Ac. whereas legislative harmonisation remains insufficient to create a truly European capital market if diverging national implementation, supervision, and enforcement practices remain in place;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital B

B. whereas the actions taken so far to achieve the CMU are moving in the right direction; whereas ~~much work nevertheless remains to be done in terms of the precision, effectiveness and simplification of the measures adopted~~however, progress towards achieving CMU has been limited, multiple targets have not been reached and the importance of bank lending as compared to equities has actually increased in recent years as a source of investment funds in the EU;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)

Ba. whereas most measures that have been considered and implemented aim to improve and unify capital markets relate to the professional tools and financial vehicles available to practitioners in intermediation and their clients (basically institutions, funds and high net worth individuals), the CMU needs to mobilise retail demand, which in Europe lags at well below the levels prevailing in the USA or Japan; whereas to achieve such an objective, retail investors have to experience a change in investment culture; whereas such a change will only happen when retail investors become convinced that investment in capital markets is desirable because it can be of profit to them more than say, bank deposits, while being subject to risks that are acceptable and clearly defined;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)

Bb. whereas SMEs accounted for 99.8% of all enterprises in the EU-28 non-financial business sector (NFBS), generating 56.4% of value added and 66.6% of employment in the NFBS; whereas micro SMEs accounted for 93% of the sector, small SMEs 5,9% and Medium-sized SMEs only 0,9%1a; _________________ 1aEuropean Commission ANNUAL REPORT ON EUROPEAN SMEs 2018/2019

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas one of the challenges of a CMU is to ensure equal access to financing and to investment opportunities across the European Union, which should be geographically balanced, reaching citizens and businesses in core and peripheral regions of the European Union;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)

Cb. whereas investment activities tend to remain confined by national borders, and retail investors face numerous obstacles to access opportunities outside their Member State, due to legal uncertainty, language and cultural barriers, market fragmentation and costly inefficiencies in the EU;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)

Cc. whereas the lack of a centralised mechanism with easily accessible, reliable, understandable and comparable public information is one of the reasons why companies struggle to find investors;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C d (new)

Cd. whereas the funding ecosystem for SME IPOs in the EU is underdeveloped due to information asymmetries, high costs, administrative burdens, and lack of equity culture; whereas investors find it difficult to evaluate young and small firms with a short business record thus hindering innovative openings especially by young entrepreneurs;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Recital C e (new)

Ce. whereas Fintech has the potential to suit certain needs of SMEs and retail investors by allowing decentralised ways of operating and delivering efficiency improvements;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Calls for the removal of barriers, including the simplification of legislation , where appropriate, to diversify funding sources for SMEs, in order to promote SMEs’ ability to access equity markets, and to reduce the existing debt bias; points out that the current situation makes SMEs more fragile and vulnerable;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls on the Commission to strengthen the mandatory feedback given by banks when declining SME credit applications, as a more comprehensive feedback could give the opportunity to SMEs with declined requests to adapt their business approach and to learn;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)

1b. Calls on the Commission and Member States to actively inform SMEs of the alternative financing instruments available to them;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)

1c. Welcomes the idea of establishing a European Single Access Point (ESAP) to aggregate information about companies in the EU through the interconnection of existing national and EU registers and databases of company data, as a way to support companies, in particular in smaller Member States, to attract investors; stresses that companies should be able to control the availability of their data in the ESAP;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Calls for the acceleration of the development of EU venture capital (VC) and private equity markets by increasing the availability of funding for VC investments, developing larger late-stage VC funds, tax incentive schemes for VC and business angel investments, and active IPO markets for VC-backed companies under a common, and transparent, EU level framework; underlines that these tax incentive schemes should be designed so as to be economically and socially viable and responsible;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Alfred SANT, Eero HEINÄLUOMA, Jonás FERNÁNDEZ, Marc ANGEL, Costas MAVRIDES

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Requests the realignment of the treatment of cash and synthetic securitisations, of the treatment of regulatory capital and liquidity with that of covered bonds and loans, as well as with the disclosure and due diligence requirements for covered bonds and simple, transparent and standardised (STS) securitisation;deleted

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

2020/2036(INI)

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

19. Calls for amendments to legislation to ensure access to independent advice by financial intermediaries while avoiding promotion of the institution’s own financial products and ensuring a fair marketing of financial products; agrees that the role of inducements in intermediation and distribution should be further examined to ensure that no conflicts of interest arise and that financial advice is fairly, transparently and adequately supplied to investors;

2020/07/17
Committee: ECON

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Considers that regular consultations with the European Parliament, national parliaments, arms export control authorities, industry associations and civil society are central to meaningful transparency; calls on national parliaments to exchange best reporting and oversight practices in order to enhance the scrutinising role of all national parliaments in the decisions on arms control exports; calls on COARM to enhance dialogue with civil society and consultations with Parliament and arms export control authorities; encourages civil society and academia to exercise independent scrutiny of the arms trade and calls on the Member States and the EEAS to support such activities, including by financial means;

2020/05/06
Committee: AFET

2020/1998(BUD)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Tonino PICULA, Robert BIEDROŃ, Maria ARENA, Tanja FAJON, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Juozas OLEKAS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 2

2. Regrets that the new nomenclature for the external action part as proposed by the Commission is much less detailed than the previous one, reducing transparency, predictability, accountability, scrutiny, and limiting the budgetary authority’s capacity to make budgetary choices reflecting political priorities; insists, therefore, that a more differentiated budget structure, with dedicated lines for the most important beneficiaries and sub- regions, is needed; notes that the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Development have proposed a revised nomenclature that is adapted to the new instruments, but introduces a higher level of detail by creating new budget lines within the extremely broad geographic and thematic lines proposed by the Commission; emphasises that the revised nomenclature enjoys strong support in both committees;

2020/09/23
Committee: AFET

2020/1998(BUD)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Tonino PICULA, Robert BIEDROŃ, Maria ARENA, Tanja FAJON, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Juozas OLEKAS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)

4a. Rejects the introduction of an “emerging challenges and priorities cushion” budget line, with no substantial information on the intended use of the funds under this line provided by the Commission; insists that such a blank cheque is not compatible with the principles of transparency and democratic accountability and undermines the budgetary authority's prerogatives;

2020/09/23
Committee: AFET

2020/1998(BUD)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Tonino PICULA, Robert BIEDROŃ, Maria ARENA, Tanja FAJON, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Juozas OLEKAS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Believes that it is important to continue confidence building with the Eastern Partnership countries and especially with the associated ones; underlines the importance of promoting fundamental rights, democracy and the rule of law; therefore calls for the allocations to Azerbaijan and Belarus to be limited to support to civil society and non-state actors, as well as people-to- people contacts;

2020/09/23
Committee: AFET

2020/1998(BUD)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Tonino PICULA, Robert BIEDROŃ, Maria ARENA, Tanja FAJON, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Juozas OLEKAS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)

5b. Recalls the challenges the countries of South Neighbourhood are facing especially due to the tumultuous developments in the region, including but not limited to the COVID-19 emergency and the security environment; is of the opinion that, especially following the dramatic events in Lebanon, an increased support should be foreseen;

2020/09/23
Committee: AFET

2020/1998(BUD)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Tonino PICULA, Robert BIEDROŃ, Maria ARENA, Tanja FAJON, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Juozas OLEKAS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)

5c. In order to support a peaceful resolution to the Libyan conflict proposes the creation of a dedicated budget line for "the support to the political process in Libya";

2020/09/23
Committee: AFET

2020/1998(BUD)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Tonino PICULA, Robert BIEDROŃ, Maria ARENA, Tanja FAJON, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Juozas OLEKAS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 d (new)

5d. Calls for an increased financial support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), in recognition of the essential role played by UNRWA as unique provider of vital services for millions of Palestine refugees and as an investment towards security, stability and development in the region;

2020/09/23
Committee: AFET

2020/1998(BUD)

Nikos ANDROULAKIS, Tonino PICULA, Robert BIEDROŃ, Maria ARENA, Tanja FAJON, Nacho SÁNCHEZ AMOR, Juozas OLEKAS, Demetris PAPADAKIS, Costas MAVRIDES

Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Points out that the revised nomenclature proposed by the Committee on Foreign Affairs envisages separate budget lines for the Western Balkans and Turkey; insists on the need for dedicated budget lines for Turkey in view of the highly sensitive nature of EU funding for Turkey; underlines that due to the lack of progress on democracy, the rule of law and the protection of human rights, the allocations for Turkey should be limited to the so called fundamentals, be directly managed by the EU and focus exclusively on support for civil society and people-to- people contacts with the objective of protecting and promoting democratic values and principles, human rights and the rule of law;

2020/09/23
Committee: AFET

2020/1998(BUD)