3 Amendments of Stanislav POLČÁK related to 2017/2044(BUD)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines the importance of cohesion policy as one of the main investment instruments of the Union budget to help reduce economic, social and territorial disparities within and between European regions; stresses its role in creating growth and jobs across the Union; understands the current need to increase expenditure into security, which is a prerequisite for achieving the goals of cohesion policy and other EU policies;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the 25,7 % rise in the level of payment appropriations under Heading 1b in draft 2018 budget; questions if those amounts are sufficient to face the payments under that heading; stresses the need to provide the Union budget with adequate level of appropriations to cover the payments for cohesion policy, in order to showprove the capacity of the Union to fulfil its commitments and add up tostrengthen its credibility; points out the serious problems the EU its credibilityurrently addressing in this area;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for greater synergies of European Structural and Investment Funds programmes with European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and other financial instruments to leverage additional financing, as well as for greater complementarities with the other Union programmes; in that context supports the EFSI extension until 2020; warns that the use of EFSI or other financial instruments must not undermine the European Structural and Investment Funds;