21 Amendments of Jean-Luc SCHAFFHAUSER related to 2015/2256(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the EU faces diverse challenges at both globinternational and domestic level, such as sluggish growth, high levels of unemployment and intense international competitioncompetition, sometimes unfair, whether international or within the European Union itself;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas it is imperative to mobilise all potential avenues to boost the EU economy and competitiveness of companies within the European Union;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas a robust, efficient and inclusive Single Market, with enhanced governance, is a crucial instrument toentralising instrument, incapable of boosting investment andin the real economy and is therefore damaging to competitiveness and thus preserve the confidence of the business sector and consumers;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1
Subheading 1
The Single Market as an important microeconomic tool insupposedly important for boosting EU competitiveness and delivering jobs and growthenabling companies to create jobs
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that effective coordination of economic and fiscal policies must alsoMember State economic policies could encompass macro- and microeconomic coordination, and calls for the inclusion of coordination of current EU microeconomic policies in the European Semester process;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. UnderlineRegrets that the Single Market (SM) is the backbonrules are becoming omnipresent and restrictive in the guidance of Member States’ economies; highlighdoubts the economic benefits of the SM, such asparticularly the Digital SM, which is being presented as successful product and market integration, economies of scale, stronger competition, and a level playing field for 500 million citizens across the 28 Member States, provid, but which is performing disastrously and delivering greater choice and lower prices for consumersults which are the exact opposite to its stated ambitions;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the importance of advancing the SM to achieve structural economic growth in order to attract investmentat it is essential to re- examine the arrangements for the SM in light of the effect of these policies on the health of companies in the European Union, an analysis that suggests that the crisis is structural rather than cyclical, in order to avoid an imminent disaster;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is concernnot surprised that the level of implementation of European Semester recommendations for 2011-2014 was weak and even declining;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. WelcomNotes the 2015 Report on Single Market Integration and Competitiveness in the EU and its Member States; requestconsiders that the report be further developed and that it become part of the SM Governance pillar and the basis for annual evaluation of microeconomic policies; considers that the report should be systematically taken into account in Member States’ economic and fiscal evaluations and that it should feed into the specific SM section in the Annual Growth Survey, in Country- Specific Recommendatshould be analysed thoroughly and pragmatically to evaluate the results of implementing the European Commission’s and in regular restruictured compliance dialogue with the Member Stateive economic and budgetary recommendations;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Stresses that any new review process of the European Semester must allow for proper involvement of the European Parliament, national and regbut first and foremost national parliaments and all other relevant stakeholders;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Regrets that furthere implementation of the Services Directive, covering activities representing more than 45 % of the EU’s GDP and employment, is hindered by a multitude of varying national rules and regulations and that the notification procedure is often not complied with;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the modernisation of the Professional Qualifications Directive, proposing a smoother system of recognition of qualifications supporting labour mobility; highlightsIs pleased to note that the regulation of similar regulated professions still varies substantially between Member States, as do reserves of activities, thus sign of resistance from national models and balances, which obviously hamperings the labour mobility and job creationdemanded by the Services Directive in response to federalist goals and in opposition to the growing aspiration of the peoples of Europe;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 126 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Highlights that the intensity of tangible and intangible capital accumulation in the EU has been lower post-financial crisissince the appearance of the first symptoms of the systemic crisis the European Union is undergoing when compared to competitors; believes that revitalising investment is of the utmost importance in order to restore productivity and long-term growth in the EU; emphasises that the lag in public spending is especially pronounced in the area of information and communication technologies (ICT), but that such revitalisation will only happen by means of the Member States being quickly returned their territorial, economic and budgetary sovereignty, rather than of intensifying European integration;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Points to the blurring of lines between products and services; hHighlights the growing importance of business-related services and systems with integrated products and services; believes that SM regulatory frameworks need to embrace these transformative developments;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33