3 Amendments of Nicolas BAY related to 2015/2353(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes the considerable long-term impact of EFSI on the EU budget; believes that EFSI invests in projects that are not the same as those targeted by the H2020- affected budget lines and CEF; stresses therefore that, if the EU is to reach its research and innovation targets, the unanimously agreed level of financing of these programmes needs to be fully restored; recalls, in this context, that CEF in the area of energy and telecom has high political priority for the Energy Union and the Digital Union; takes the view that the EFSI should be funded not by means of further contribution to the budget on the part of the Member States, but through an across-the-board increase in the customs duties set in the Common External Tariff;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Points out that Union funding, because it is linked to size-based parameters and not macroeconomic fundamentals and because it is designed to address structural not short-term problems, cannot offer effective protection against economic shocks, such as those triggered by the financial crisis of 2007- 2008;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. EmphasisNotes that Union funding can actually trigger and catalyse actions that Member States are unable to carry out on their own and create synergies and complementarities with Member States’ activities; encourages Member States to better explore ar, although intended as an instrument to offset imbalances between Member States, in practice magnifies those imbalances, in that the provision of funding is based on the twin principles of co-financing and conditionality; takes the view that Union funding can thus be seen as a particularly subtle means inby which the EU is not taking actionexercises control over Member State policies and spending;