6 Amendments of Sophie MONTEL related to 2015/2342(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the financial response to the exceptional influx of refugees has been an ad hoc one and has demonstrated that the Union budget and the multiannual financial framework (MFF) 2014-2020 lack the necessary resources and flexibility for a rapid and comprehensive approach to a major external crisis, for which States are the only actors with the necessary capacity and legitimacy;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the insufficient size of Heading 4 and the Emergency Aid Reserve in particular has led the Commission to resort to satellite budgetary mechanisms, such as trust funds and the Facility for Refugees in Turkey, to top up the funding available; noteconsiders that this aim has not always been met with full successe mobilisation of these instruments is unacceptable;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Deplores that the new satellite mechanisms result in bypassing the budgetary authority and undermine the unity of the Union budget; stresses that the creation of funding instruments outside the EU budget must remain an exception;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that refocusing the EU’s external financing instruments towards security, peace building and conflict resolution, migration and border management poses new challengequestions in relation to the initial objectives and principles, the initial principles and the legitimacy of these instruments;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes, however,Categorically rejects the Commission proposal for a new European External Investment Plan, with a new focus on investment to promote economic and social development in the EU Neighbourhood and Africa; expresses doubts, however, as to whether the proposal is ambitious enough to fully harness the EU’s borrowing and lending potentialrecalls that, although favourable to cooperation with developing countries, foreign policy is an area reserved for States;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. WelcomeCondemns the Commission proposal on the revision of the MFF, in particular with regard to endowing the EU budget with larger crisis instruments; expects the proposed revision of the financial rules to reconcile the necessary flexibility and accountability.