Activities of Steeve BRIOIS related to 2016/2098(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Annual report on the control of the financial activities of the EIB for 2015
Amendments (8)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes note of the signature by the EIB in 2015 of EUR 77.5 billion (of which EUR 69.7 billion within and EUR 7.8 billion outside the Union) in new operations in the areas of innovation, SMEs, infrastructure and environment, as well as support for refugee housing and investment in regions affected by the refugee crisis; also takes note that in 2015, EFSI financed 126 projects amounting to EUR 7.5 billion and mobilising EUR 50 billion of investments;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls for European Investment Bank funding to be wholly used in the EU Member States and for it not to be used to finance reception facilities for illegal migrants; recalls that our fellow citizens, and in particular young people, are currently suffering mass unemployment, casualisation of the labour market and rising social inequalities, and that consequently they shall be the sole beneficiaries of EU funds;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. AcknowledgNotes that the major EIB shareholders, i.e. Germany, France, the UK, Italy and Spain, received more than 50 % of financing in 2015, while the new Member States received less than 20 %; asks the EIB and the Commission to provide more technical assistance to those Member States having a lower share in total EIB financing, if they so request;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. WelcomesTakes note of the level of financing of the objectives of economic and social cohesion (EUR 17 634 billion) and rural and urban regeneration (EUR 5 467 billion);
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recognises that the quality of the loan portfolio remains high thanks to the prudent risk management policies pursued; requestasks the EIB, however, to increase its risk appetite while maintaining a high loan portfolio level, the sole aim being to help SMEs that, despite having a viable business model, find it difficult to obtain financing;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the EIB to increase its share of financing of economic and social cohesion as well as of the urban objectives; calls, moreover, for the development of special financial instruments for macroregional strategies;
Amendment 67 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) to make access to EIB financing simpler for beneficiaries, such as SMEs, that cannot afford the costs involved in complex administrative procedures.