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13 Amendments of Marco ZANNI related to 2017/2044(BUD)

Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights that the Union continues to face numerous challenges and is convinced that the necessReiterates its concerns on the Union budget's funds and on their role in supplying concrete answers to citizen's needs and to the growing difficulties they arye financial resourceacing, such as uneed to be deployed from the Union budget, in order to mmployment, economic recession, poverty, the migration crisis and the security threats; underlines the neetd the political priorities and allow the Union to deliver answers and effectively respond to those challengeso properly evaluate which funds could be better managed at national level in order to guarantee the full respecting of the subsidiarity principle;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Underlines that EFSI failed to guarantee growth and to tackle unemployment; therefore, its financing should be stopped so that the Member States could use this money for the real benefit of their citizens;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Is concerned by the fact that youth unemployment remains at unprecedented levels and is convinced that in order not to jeopardise the future of an entire generation of young Europeans, additional actions need to be undertaken; decides therefore to reinforce the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) beyond the level proposed by the Commission for 2018; stresses that such reinforcement sh; underlines that the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) failed to recover this emergency; believes that employment and social policy initiatives should come, primarily, from the Member States and that the solution to the problems of citizens cannot be foulnd be considered as additional to the overall allocation that was politically endorsed for YEI in the context of the MFF mid-term revision, and not as a mere frontloading of that allocation in the 2018 Budgety imposing additional EU constraints, since the Member States themselves are best placed to meet the expectations of their citizens, including their social and economic expectations;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Believes that, while the peak of the migratory and refugee crisis seems to have passed, the Union must stand ready to respond to any unforeseen event in this area; therefore urges the Commission to continuously monitor the adequacy of allocations under Heading 3 and make full use of all available instruments to respond in a timely manner to any unforeseen eventRecognises that in spite of the mobilisation of significant budgetary means spread over in 2015, 2016 and 2017 to address thate might require additional funding; decides therefore to reinforce in a limited manner the Asylum Migration and Integration Fund and the Internal Security Fund; notes, once again, that the Heading 3 ceiling is vastly insufficient to provide for appropriate funding for the internal dimension of the migration and refugee crisis as well as other priority programmes, such as culture programmesration and refugee crisis, a solution has still not been found; underlines the failure of European policies on preventing migration flows and human trafficking;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Underlines that Heading 3 has been largely mobilised in recent years to address challenges arising from the migratory and refugee crisis and that such actions should continue for as long as needed; insists however that in the light of recent security concerns across the Union, funding under that heading should also pay particular attention to measures which will lead to enhancing security of Union citizens; decides for this reason to reinforce agencies in the field of Justice and Home Affairs which due to increased workload and additional tasks, have been facing shortage of staff and funding in the past yearReiterates its concerns about the role played by instruments such as the Internal Security Fund (ISF) and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) in the management of the effects of the migratory and refugee crisis;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
20. Stresses the importance of stimulating cooperative defence research in Europe for addressing key capability shortfalls at a time when international developments increasingly require Europe to step up its efforts on defence; fully supports the increased allocation for the Preparatory Action on defence research; reiterates, nevertheless, its longstanding position that new initiatives should be financed through fresh appropriations and not at the expense of existing EU programmes;deleted
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41 a. Underlines that any funding to Turkey, a country that does not respect several of the basic principles of freedom and democracy, must be immediately stopped;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
42. Is of the opinion that in order to adequately tackle disinformation campaigns, especially those coming from the Russian Federation, and to promote an objective image of the Union outside its borders, additional financial means are needed; calls therefore to step up funding to counter disinformation campaigns and cyberattacks; decides therefore to increase resources for strategic communication actions;deleted
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
46. Considers that Council’s cuts do not reflect the real needs and therefore restores the DB for all Commission administrative expenditure, including administrative and research support expenditure in Headings 1 to 4Regrets the increase of Heading 5 for administrative expenditure; underlines that a large part of this increase is due to additional appropriations needed for pensions of Union officials; takes note that the number of pensioners is expected to rise further in the coming years and asks therefore for a revision of the privileges and advantages of Union pensions and allowances scheme; calls for a new and more fair approach towards administrative expenditure, starting from the cut of the highest salaries and pensions of Union staff;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
48. Endorses, as a general rule, the Commission's estimates of the budgetary needs of agencies; considers, therefore, that any further cuts proposed by the Council would endangerAsks for a complete revision of the role of the European agencies questioning if their tasks and objectives could not be better accomplished by existing Directorates-General of the pEuroper functioning of the agencies, in particular the European Medicines Agency (EMA), and would not allow them to fulfil the tasks they have been assignedan Commission or by Member States, in order to prevent duplication of roles and costs and also improving transparency;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58 a (new)
58 a. Asks not to increase the commitment appropriations in the Union budget before a complete stabilisation of the backlog of outstanding payment claims;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64
64. Welcomes the exchange of views on Parliament’s building policy held on 11 July 2017 between the Committee on Budgets, the Secretary General and the Vice-Presidents responsible for Parliament’s building policy; considers that this dialogue ought to be a continuous process, particularly in the light of upcoming Bureau discussions on the refurbishment of the Paul Henri- Spaak buildingCondemns the lack of transparency and efficiency in EU building policy; censures any initiative to use hundreds of millions of euros of taxpayers’ money for the Paul-Henri Spaak (PHS) building, for which European citizens already paid EUR 1 billion in 1993 and which, according to the Bureau of the European Parliament, has already reached ‘the end of its life cycle’(after only 24 years); rejects any further waste of public funds and calls for complete transparency for EU citizens when it comes to EU expenditure;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76
76. Restores all lines cut by the CouncilUnderlines that the EEAS has proved to be useless and expensive; believes that foreign policy should remain an exclusive competence of National States and asks therefore for a complete deletion of all the budgetary lines concerning this Service;
2017/10/04
Committee: BUDG