Activities of Marco VALLI related to 2018/2046(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
General budget of the European Union for 2019 - all sections (debate) IT
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the Council position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2019 PDF (1 MB) DOC (199 KB)
Amendments (17)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that Parliament's reading of the 2019 Budget fully reflects the political priorities adopted by an overwhelming majority in its abovementioned resolutions of 15 March 2018 on general guidelines and of 5 July 2018 on a mandate for the trilogue; recalls that at the core of those priorities arRecalls that at the core of the priorities for the EU budget should be: sustainable growth, innovation, competitiveness, security, the fight against climate change and the transition to renewable energy and migration, and a particular focus on young people and fight against poverty;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls for a real spending review in order to provides as more savings as possible on projects that so far have not shown a real added value;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Recalls the necessity to a strong fight against poverty and stresses the importance to make available sufficient resources to the EFS with the aim to allow Member States to implement minimum income schemes for an effective action against poverty;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Recalls the necessity to ensure solidarity and a fair sharing of responsibilities among all Member States, in particular within the framework of the revision of the Dublin regulation; regrets indeed that until now there is not an effective system of redistribution of refugees, that causes an unequal load for some Member States;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Highlights yet again the fact that SMEs are an essential part of the Union economy and play a crucial role in job creation throughout the Union; believes that there is a need to create an SME- friendly business environment, as well as to support SME clusters and networks; notes, however, with deep concern the Council cuts to the SME instrument, which send a contradictory signal to businesses in the Union; considers that the Union budget can be a key tool in making SMEs, startups and microenterprises more competitive and more innovative and in fostering the spirit of enterprise in the Union; recalls in this regard COSME and Horizon 2020;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22 a. Stresses the necessity to build a strong action against poverty across all the Member States: reinforces at this purpose the EFS with the aim to allow Member States to implement minimum income schemes;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Believes that promoting peace, security and justice in developing countries are paramount in addressing the root causes of migration and corresponding humanitarian challenges in the Southern Neighbourhood; underlines the importance of supporting good governance, democracy, the rule of law and vibrant civil society to effectively combat poverty over the long-term, and address the challenges of the climate change in developing countries; stresses the necessity to strongly support confidence building, security, the prevention and settlement of conflicts, poverty reductions and sustainable development as priorities in the southern neighbourhood as well exemplified by the situation in Libya; decides therefore to increase resources for the Development and Cooperation Instrument (DCI) and the Southern part of the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI) under its various strands, to reflect also the considerable stress under which ENI will continue to be in 2019;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Considers that Council’s cuts are unjustified and do not reflectWelcomes the repeated Council practice of foreseeing cuts for the rHeal needs; restores therefore the DB for all Commission administrative expenditure, including administrative and research support expenditure in Headings 1 to 4ding 5 and stresses the fact that all administrative expenditures related to the EU Institutions should be reduced as much as possible in order to provide savings and to avoid any waste of taxpayers' money; asks for a lower renegotiation of the current EU Institutions’ rent contracts;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50 a (new)
Paragraph 50 a (new)
50 a. Believes that savings with regard to the transitional allowances for Commissioners can be provided, in order to give a solidarity message to EU citizens and to reallocate such economic resources to initiatives and programmes in favour of taxpayers;
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
59. Maintains unchanged the overall level of its budget for 2019, in line with its resolution on it estimates of revenue and expenditure adopted by the plenary on 19 April 201810 , at EUR 1 999 144 000; incorporates budgetary-neutral technical adjustmeRegrets that the level of its budget for 2019 has been set aside at EUR 1 999 144 000, almost 2 billion, and it has not been reduced compared to 2018; regrets that Parliament’s budget for 2019 does not provide for lower appropriations compared to the budget implementations of previous years, taking also into accounts to reflect updated information which was not available earlier this year; _________________ 10hat from March 2019 the number of MEPs will be reduced due to the Brexit; notes therefore with dissatisfaction that political costs continue to rise each year; Texts adopted, P8_TA(2018)0182.
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
Paragraph 60
60. Notes that the level of estimates for 2019 corresponds to 18,53 %, which is slightly lower than that achieved in 2018 (18,85 %) and the lowest part of Heading V in more than fifteen years;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 a (new)
Paragraph 60 a (new)
60 a. Calls for a reduction of at least 15% in Members’ monthly salaries, daily allowances and economic benefits, including GEA, in order to give a strong signal to European citizens, who are facing a difficult economic, social and historical situation; invites its Bureau to review the implementing measures of the Statute for Members in order to provide as more savings as possible with regard to Members’ benefits;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 b (new)
Paragraph 60 b (new)
60 b. Calls for a complete annulation of the expenditures related to European political parties and political foundations; stresses the fact that the European political parties and political foundations should become totally reliant on own resources and cut their dependency on Parliament's budget;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 c (new)
Paragraph 60 c (new)
60 c. Believes that the EP car service should be used by Members exclusively for reaching Parliament premises from the airport/station or vice versa, and that EP minivans and minibuses should be used in this regard; recalls that Members have the opportunity to freely use rail transport in Belgium;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60 d (new)
Paragraph 60 d (new)
60 d. Regrets that the costs of the geographic dispersion of Parliament amount to several million per year, exceeding also 200million in a year; recalls that the estimate of the environmental impact of that dispersal is between 11 000 to 19 000 tonnes of CO2 emissions; calls on the Council to find a solution toward a single seat for the European Parliament in order to not waste taxpayers' money;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65
Paragraph 65
65. Recalls that on 23 October 1997, in its resolution on the general budget for 1998, the European Parliament called upon its Bureau to request the Court of Auditors to investigate Parliament’s voluntary pension scheme, which led to the issuance of the Court of Auditor’s opinion no. 5/99 dated 16 June 1999 on the “Pension Fund and Scheme for Members of the European Parliament”; calls now on the Bureau to urgently request the Court of Auditors to produce another such opinion on the pension scheme and fund in 2019; takes the view that the Decision 2005/684/CE on the Statute for Members needs to be revised, in order to amend Article 14 and bring the pension entitlements of the MEPs into line with the social security systems for ordinary citizens of individual Member States, as regards both the calculation of the amount and the age, and contribution-related requirements which entitle them to a pension; calls for a recalculation of the pensions paid out from the EU budget for former members who accrued such an entitlement prior to, and following, the entry into force of the current Statute;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66
Paragraph 66
66. recallobserves that, in a note to the Bureau dated 8 March 2018, its Secretary- General accepted that the pension fund linked to the Member’s voluntary pension scheme “will exhaust its capital well before the end of the pension obligations and possibly already by 2024”; calls therefore upon the Secretary-General and the Bureau, while respecting fully the Statute for Members, to urgently establish with the pension fund a clear plan for the Parliament assuming and taking over its obligations and responsibilities forin order to avoid that any additional cost its Member’s voluntary pensioin scheme immediately after the 2019 electioarge of EU citizens;