8 Amendments of Luigi MORGANO related to 2016/2024(BUD)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Expresses its continued strong support for the programmes in the field of education and culture, training, youth, culture and sport, and calls for the allocation of sufficient commitment and payment appropriations to ensure their proper implementation;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates its firm belief that Erasmus+, as an emblematic mobility and lifelong learning programme, must receive increased funding, and calls for the strengthening of the Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens programmes;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Highlights the need to strengthen a European approach to face common European challenges by supporting large scale innovation projects in the field of education, training and youth carried out by European Civil Society networks;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Institutions, therefore, to promptly address the shortcomings of the decentralisation in the provision of funding under KA2 Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices of Erasmus+;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Reiterates its concern over how important programmes that seek to make investments in education, training, youth, culture and the EU's cultural and creative industries, and which invest in human capital – Erasmus+, Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens – will manage to reach cruising speed, owing to the late approval of the legal bases and of the operational programmes; welcomes the albeit belated launch of the Financial Guarantee Facility of Creative Europe, one of the key means to improve access to loan financing for SMEs and organisations working in the cultural and creative sector, and one of the key means for guaranteeing the necessary fair remuneration of creators; welcomes the initiative of the integrated training scheme of the Guarantee Facility proposed to bankers and financial intermediaries; strongly recommends the necessary measures to be put in place in the course of 2016, as in the original Commission proposal;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) must contribute substantially to investment in the areas of education, training, youth and research, and that the cultural and creative sectors must be given adequate support;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes, in the context of the evolving migration and refugee crisis, the importance of the Paris Declaration of 17 March 2015, which calls for intercultural dialogue and EU-level cooperation to prevent and tackle marginalisation, intolerance, racism and radicalisation. ; notes, furthermore, that upcoming challenges, including migration and diverse societies, require more investments in education, training, youth, culture and sport as a way to reinforce cohesive, equal and inclusive societies, as well as intercultural dialogue; draws, therefore, the attention of the Institutions to the need to respond to such challenges by providing additional resources in both the directly managed programmes and the Structural Funds, in addition to dedicated budget lines;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the efforts undertaken by the Institutions in recent years to address the payments' backlog; recalls that - even more so in the case of programmes in the fields of education, training, youth, culture and sport - the delays in the finalisation of contracts and in payments between authorities and beneficiaries, as they endanger the full implementation of the programmes by the European Commission, and as such undermine the citizens' trust in and the credibility of European Institutions;