7 Amendments of Marco ZANNI related to 2017/2043(BUD)
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Commends the role ofUnderlines that the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) in bridging the investment gap across the EU and supports its extension until 2020; underlines its position in the on-going legislative negotiations that no further cuts should be incurred on existing EU programmes in order to finance thisfailed at filling the large investment gap in Europe and therefore it should not be extensionded;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the EU initiatives in the field of defence research, which will contribute to achieving economies of scale in the sector and thus lead to greater coordination amongStrongly condemns the creation of the European Defence Fund and opposes any use of the EU Budget for funding initiatives in the field of defence research; believes this clearly another attempt of the European union to undermine competences that belong to the sovereignty of the individual Member Sstates in the field;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the fact that the draft budget 2018 includes an additional allocation for the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), responding thus to Parliament’s previous calls for the continuation of the programme; notes, in parallel, the proposal for draft amending budget 3/2017 that integrates the provision of EUR 500 million in commitments for YEI, as agreed upon by Parliament and the Council in the 2017 budgetary conciliation; is convinced that while the proposed amounts alone will not be sufficient to tackle youth unemployment, YEI will continue to contribute to the Union’s priority objective of growth and jobs; underlines that YEI can be further improved and become more efficieUnderlines that the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) failed at tackling youth unemployment; believes that employment and social policy initiatives should come primarily from the Member States, which need therefore the full use all the fiscal and monetary tools by removing all the EU constraints;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Stresses the importance of a performance-based budgeting in order to analyse those budgetary lines which are not really yielding concrete results;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. NoteRegrets that Heading 5 expenditure is increased by 3.1 % compared to the 2017 Budget, up to EUR 9 682.4 million (+EUR 287.9 million); notes that more than one third of this nominal increase is explained by additional appropriations needed for pensions (+EUR 108.5 million); takes note that the additional appropriation results mostly in a growing number of pensioners expected (+4.2 %); takes note also that the number of pensioners is expected to grow in the coming years; takes note of the rigorousbelieves that a modification of the approach towards administrative expenditure and the nominal freeze for all non-salary related expenditureshould be considered, starting from a reduction of the highest salaries and pensions of the EU staff;
Amendment 218 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. NoteRegrets the overall increase in draft budget 2018 for decentralised agencies by +3.1 % (not taking into account assigned revenues) and +146 posts but highlights wide differences between ‘cruising speed’ agencies (-11.2 %) and ‘new tasks’ agencies (+10.5%); assumes that these figures properly reflect the fact that since 2013 most agencies have completed or even exceeded the 5 % staff cuts (some are to complete them in 2018), while staff increases in the same period were confined to agencies dealing with migration and security (+183 posts), financial supervisory agencies (+28 posts) and some agencies entrusted with new tasks (ERA, EASA, GSA) (+18 posts); reiterates its call, as expressed in the 2015 discharge report, to safeguard and where necessary provide additional resources to ensure the proper functioning of the agencies, including the Agencies Network’s Permanent Secretariat (now called Shared Support Office);