9 Amendments of Dominique BILDE related to 2018/2166(DEC)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomesTakes note of the results of 30 years of Erasmus, engaging 9 million students in mobility activity since 1987; stresses the strong European added value of the programme and its role in delivering as a strategic investment in Europe’s young people; points out, however, that the Erasmus programme and its successor Erasmus +, in terms of student mobility, affect a maximum of only 7% of one age group, and is alarmed at the lack of representation of the working classes in this programme;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Is alarmed at the goals established by the Paris Declaration in 2015 regarding the Erasmus+ inclusion objectives for refugees and migrants; points out that the Erasmus+ programmes are supposed to benefit primarily nationals of the states participating in the programme, in particular young Europeans;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. NoteRegrets the start of the implementation phase of the European Solidarity Corps (ESC) even though this programme has no clear added value, with 2500 placements offered to the young people; regrets that the initial decision to allocate Erasmus+ budget to the ESC was taken through, which, moreover, was taken by means of an implementing act;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is alarmed by the low take-up and insufficient geographical coverage of the Erasmus+ Student Loan Guarantee Facility; urges the Commission and European Investment Fund to put in place an implementation strategy to maximise the Facility’s effectiveness; stresses the importance of the Erasmus+ programme being more accessible to young citizens of participating states who come from a modest social background, in particular young Europeans living in rural areas;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is worried byNotes the still low project success rates under the Europe for Citizens programme and the Creative Europe Culture sub-programme (20% and 15% respectively in 2017); stresses that a more adequate levels of financing is decisive to tackle this unsatisfactory resultsis sceptical that the Europe for Citizens programme and its successor, the Rights and Values programme, offer added value, in view of their clear ideological bias, as expressed in particular in the Europe for Citizens work programme for 2019;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Is alarmed by some of the actions implemented in particular in the cross- sectoral strand of the Creative Europe programme as noted in the 2017 Annual Report of the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency, in particular as regards support for the 'less experienced Desks' situated in Kosovo, Ukraine and Tunisia, amongst others; calls for these events outside the European Union to be strictly limited;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Is alarmed by the extension of European programmes, in particular the Creative Europe programme which this year welcomed Kosovo, to EU candidate countries or those associated with the neighbourhood policy, in particular as regards the impact of such extension on the European identity of these programmes and their budgetary balance;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Highlights the role of EACEA in implementing the three culture and education programmes, expresses however its concern about the EACEA internal control weakness identified by an audit on the Erasmus+ and Creative Europe grant management; calls on EACEA to put in place the necessary corrective actions, in order to guarantee the highest quality of EACEA implementation of the culture and education programmes; encourages EACEA to oversee the expenditure relating to missions outside the European Union in connection with the programmes under its auspices;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes the first results of the implementation stage of the Cultural and Creative Sectors Guarantee Facility, with the initial signing of 280 contracts with the financial intermediaries; looks forward for a steady progress of the Facility operational phase.; points out that loan guarantees must respond to objective market failures and must not create a deadweight effect by supporting companies or entities that would, in any case, have obtained a loan from a financial institution;