6 Amendments of Tiziana BEGHIN related to 2016/2064(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the main aim of projects financed under the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) should be to create growth and a dynamic labour market in Europeinclusive growth, development and a dynamic, inclusive and non- precarious labour market in Europe that preserves the dignity of workers, and hence to enhance the well-being of EU citizens;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to help SMEs and micro- enterprises to tap into funding more easily, so as to increase their capacity to implement projects and afford them better access to advisory services and technical support; recommends that SMEs and micro-enterprises should be given access to information on the funding that is available;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to engage more actively in consultation at local level, especially in cooperation with national investment banks; believes that the EFSI should focus in particular on business startup projects and projects to reduce unemployment, without funding only large projects, which in many cases are not a suitable means of meeting the objectives set;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Believes that the EFSI should be used primarily to fund businesses that have adopted a code of practice on safeguarding the dignity of workers and protecting the environment;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers it disappointing that the Commission’s assessment of the EFSI has failed to record the number of jobs created to date under the Fund; recommends that a careful and accurate analysis should be carried out so that the necessary changes may be made;
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Member States to lay down more clear-cut investment priorities and to draw up projects in collaboration with the European Investment Advisory Hub; calls on the Commission to work in closer cooperation with Member States in the European Semester process in order to help them begin as soon as possible to implement the recommendations, in particular by carrying out economic and social reforms, thus removing national barriers to investmentgeared to safeguarding the social and cultural heritage and landscape of local areas, and, to this end, to draw up relevant projects in collaboration with the European Investment Advisory Hub.