Activities of Sophie MONTEL related to 2016/2004(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Guidelines for the 2017 Budget - Section III (A8-0036/2016 - Jens Geier) FR
Amendments (17)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the 2017 budget will have to face a context of fragile economic recovery jeopardised by the situation in emerging markets and, geopolitical tensions; and absurd economic decisions taken by European countries and in particular in the Eurozone ;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
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Recital B
B. whereas the 2017 budget will be affected by the ongoing refugee crisis caused by the irresponsible attitude of the German government ;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the Union budget has proven to be a crucial resourcecompletely inefficient in tackling recent crises and responding to needs that had not been anticipated during the negotiation of the MFF 2014-2020by blind European leaders, such as the migration and refugee crisis or geopolitical that should have been at the center of attenstions in the European neighbourhood producing a number of serious emergencies, while in the Union a continuous lowering of investment levels has led to an investment gap as soon as 2012. National budgets were a natural tool to deal with all these issues, but they were irresponsibly constrained by a German- led coalition of orthodox economic hawks ;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 2
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 3
3. Notes the Commission’s European Economic Forecast (Autumn 2015), which indicates a modest recovery despite an aggressive monetary policy that strongly weakened the currency while oil prices were going into historically low levels ; adds that this catastrophe in spite of extraordinarily good conditions signs the failure of the euro and the austerity that accompanies it ; stresses, however, that this recovery remains worryingly weak and too slow for a prompt return to full employment to be achieved, with long-term and very long- term unemployment on the rise; notes, furthermore, the appearance of new challenges, such as the slowdown in emerging market economies and global trade, with particular pressure arising from volatility on Chinese markets, the need to tackle the refugee crisis, and persisting geopolitical tensions;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 4
4. Notes, additionally, the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey for 2016; strongly believes that boosting investment, including a coordinated increase in public investment with a focus on the Europe 2020 targets, is a proper policy response with a view to a more balanced economic policy; believes that those two elements should be taken into consideration in the preparation of the draft budget for 2017 insofar as this should help identify priorities within an economic context; calls, consequently, for more synergies between the Union dimension of the European semester for economic policy coordination and the Union budget;, after several years of misguided and destructive policies, that are still to this day putting countries on their knees, and Greece is the perfect example of such criminal mistakes; believes that those two elements should be taken into consideration in the preparation of the draft budget for 2017, despite its relative insignificance and therefore capacity to change the course of European economies and insofar as this should help identify priorities within an economic context.
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 5
5. WelcomRefuses, in this context, the Commission’s efforts to enhance the use of the European Structural and Investment Funds in support of key priorities highlighted in the country-specific recommendations, and supports the proposal to use Union funding programmes for the Commission’s Structural Reform Support Serviceinstead wishes that countries get their money back to fund whichever priorities they deem important for the future of their country ;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 6
6. RegretWishes that the trend in the Union budget thast in recent years has been a collateral victim of Member States’ fiscal consolidation efforts aimed at complying with their obligations under the Stability and Growth Pact, which have led them to consider their contribution to the Union budget as a burden and to treat it as an adjustment variableimpacted by Member States’ austerity policies be accentuated, as national budgets only are legitimate in democracies ;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 7
7. Highlights the fact that the Union has had to face numerous crises in recent years; recalls that a solution has still not been found for the Europe-wide migrant and refugee crisis, which escalated in 2015 with a sudden and massive increase in the numbers of refugees and migrants travelling to the Union to seek asylum, which has further impacted on the internal crisis; underlines that the Union budget should be used as part of a European solution to overcome these emergencieo face this threat, national States were disarmed by years of European reverie made up of a borderless world and an ideology promoting mass migration of labor forces as the regulator of imbalances that currencies could no longer be; calls for the end of Schengen and the return of national borders;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 8
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 9
9. Considers the European Youth Initiative (YEI), in particular, to be a fundamental contribution to the Union’s priority objective for jobs and growth, and therefore reiterates its commitment to continued funding for this programme with a view to scaling it up and thereby offering a greater number of young people the prospect of effectively entering the labour market by receiving a good quality offer of employment, continued education or apprenticeship; recalls the commitment made by the three institutions to ‘ensure appropriate funding via an Amending Budget in 2016, by making use of all available means provided for in the MFF, and primarily of the Global Margin for Commitments’; notes that the figures for implementation indicate full success in terms of absorption capacity; calls on the Commission to present its evaluation of the YEI at the latest by the end of April 2016, and at all events in time for the inclusion of a prolongation of the programme in the EU budget 2017, while also laying the groundwork for the search for a permanent source of funding for the YEI as part of the revision of the MFF; to be a waste of money : the decisive scale to deal with youth unemployment and formation is much more local. The best to deal with it would therefore be to give back their money to national states.
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 10
10. Is alarmed by increasing poverty, particularly among children; recalls its report advocating the establishment of a child guarantee in order to lift children out of poverty and avoid their being socially excluded7that is entirely the EU's fault and its misguided economic policy ; considers education, childcare, health services, housing and security to be basic needs to which every European child has the right; __________________ 7 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0403. Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0403.
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 11
11. AcknowledgeFinds absolutely ridiculous the mobilisation of significantmeager budgetary means spread over 2015 and 2016 to address the migration and refugee, crisis both internally within the borderless and defenseless Union and externally in refugees’ countries of origin; stresses, however, that substantial additional financial meno matter how much of the people's money will be thrown into the face of refugees, the problem will not cease until the flows of migrants are required to address this crisis, asstopped, which in turn is only possible with a return to national borders ; warns that the increase in numbers of refugees and migrants cannot be considered a temporary phenomenon; highlights that longer-term solutions should be sought, not only in the annual budgetary procedure, but also in the upcoming interim revision of the MFF, the flows will not cease by themselves, and migrants that come here will stay, it is delusional to think that once the situation in Syria will be better these migrants will go back there;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 13
13. WelcomDenounces the principle and objectives of the EUR 3 billion Refugee Facility for Turkey, and calls on each Member State to take on its share, but raises the question of how the Union contribution should be made available within the respective ceilings of the Union budget for 2016 and 2017; deplores the fact that Parliament was not properly involved in either the setting-up of the facility or the mobilisation of the Union’s contribution, as shown by the Commission’s announcement of its intention to finance the Union contribution by redeployment from the recently adopted Union budget for 2016 and by pre-empting the margins of the 2017 budget; considers these actions to be clear infringements of Parliament’s rights as an arm of the budgetary authority : the country's stance on the refugee crisis is not clear as it seems to have benefitted a lot from this situation and we can question whether it was not favored by Turkey; warns moreover, that the links between turkey and the Islamic State should prevent us from giving Turkey any money; calls on each Member State to reestablish its national borders to protect themselves from this submersion ;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 14
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 17
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
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Paragraph 22
22. Reiterates its position in favour ofOpposes any in-depth reform of the system of Union own resources, and gives the highest political importance to the work of the High Level Group on Own Resources created as part of the MFF 2014-2020 agreement; expects the Commission and the Council to take on board the final outcome, which is expected by the end of 2016, including any new candidate for own resources; recalls that the leading idea behind the own resources reform is to make the Union budget more stable, more sustainable, more predictable, and more autonomous, whildea of the Union having "own resources"; the collection to taxes is historically linked to the assent of the people to the sovereignty and legitimacy of the entity that collects it; acknowledges that the European Union benefits from no such legitimacy and therefore calso alleviatingls to the burdend of excessive spending from national budgets and improving transparency for the citizensits usurpation of sovereignty;