10 Amendments of Marco ZANNI related to 2016/2004(BUD)
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
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3. NotesRegrets that the Commission’s European Economic Forecast (Autumn 2015), which indicates a modest recovery; stresses, however, that this recovery remains worryingly weak and too slow for a prompt return to full employment to be achieved, while the European economic situation remains extremely difficult, 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 44 #
Motion for a resolution
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4. Notes, additionally,Regrets the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey package for 2016; strongly believes that boosting investment, including a coordinated increase in public investment with a focus, and considers the proposed policy mix of structural reform and fiscal responsibility as a reiteration onf the Europe 2020 targets,same strategy prescribed isn a proper policy response with a view to a more balancedll the previous Annual Growth Surveys, which failed to deliver any meaningful signs of economic policrecovery; 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, not to repeat the same errors, identifying instead new priorities with a different economic perspective;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
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5. WelcomeRegrets, 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 supportrongly objects the proposal to use Union funding programmes for the Commission’s Structural Reform Support Service;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
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6. Regrets that the Union budget has in recent years been a collateral victim of disastrous 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 variable; should be revised in order to remove existing constraints on Member States' ability to make full use of all the fiscal policy tools; invokes for an immediate exemption from existing budgetary rules of necessary public expenditures to deal with unsustainable levels of unemployment, absolute poverty and inequalities, and to cope with emerging security threats and refugee inflows;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
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9. Considers that the European Youth Initiative (YEI), in particular, to be a fundamentalcould be a 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 capacityunderlines however the necessity to proper evaluate the use or misuse of this set of measures and the real capacity to create new jobs; 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;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
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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 excluded7 ; considers education, childcare, health services, housing and security to be basic needs to which every European child has the right; __________________ 7is concerned about a lower than expected implementation of payment appropriations for the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD), because of delays in appointing and notifying FEAD Managing Authorities; __________________ 7 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0403. Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0403.
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
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13. Welcomes the principle andTakes note of the 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; expresses its concerns about the use of these funds by the Turkish authorities and calls for a thorough and consistent monitoring; 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;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
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20. Confirms its support for the ITER programme and is committed to securing appropriate financing for it; is concerned, however, that furtherIs concerned about delays and additional costs that may arise regarding thisfrom the ITER programme, as well as at the related potential repercussions for the Union budget; regrets, therefore, that it was unable to assess the level of the 2016 ITER appropriations against the updated payment plan and schedule; expects this revised plan to be included in the preparation of the draft budget for 2017; calls for a proper accountability mechanism that will offer a clear overview of the amount in financial resources provided for the international project and will evaluate the efficiency of their use;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
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22. Reiterates its position in favour of an 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, while also alleviating the burden of excessive spending from national budgets and improving transparency for the citizens, but without any tax increase;