10 Amendments of Siegfried MUREŞAN related to 2014/2145(INI)
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, according to the Commission’s autumnlatest winter forecast, after two consecutive years of unanticipated negative growth, gross domestic product (GDP) in the euro area is expected to rise by 0.8 % in 2014 and by 1.13 % in 2015, meaning that the pre-crisis growth rate will not be regained this year;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas huge differences will continue to prevail between the Member States, also following the Troika’s intervention, with forecasted GDP growth rates in 2014 ranging between -2.8 % in Cyprus and +4.68 % in Ireland reflecting increasingly undermining growing internal divergences;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that the communication rightly broadens the scope of the investment clause, allowing for flexibility in the preventive arm of the SGP to accommodate investment programmes by the Member States, in particular as regards expenditure on projects under structural and cohesion policy, including the Youth Employment Initiative, trans-European networks and the Connecting Europe Facility, and co-financing under the EFSI; believes that this approach must be urgently reassessed to be symmetrically applied to the corrective arm of the SGP; e investment clause is the appropriate way to use the Pact as a countercyclical economic policy tool while maintaining fiscal discipline in the EU;
Amendment 430 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that morethere is limited room for flexibility and soft laws exists under the SGP and in the European Semester; inviteexpects the Commission to build on this flexibility and to propose rule changes where neededenforce the already existing flexibility in line with the Commission Communication of 13 January 2015 entitled 'Making the best use of the flexibility within the existing rules of the Stability and Growth Pact' (COM(2015)0012);
Amendment 556 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
Amendment 669 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
Amendment 701 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Recalls that a ‘genuine Economic and Monetary Union’ (EMU) cannot simply be limited to a system of rules but also requires an increased euro area fiscal capacity; however, the euro area fiscal capacity should not be foreseen as a separate entity from existing institutional arrangements and should only be based on stronger coordination at eurozone level; Points out that a 'genuine EMU' also requires convergence in terms of competitiveness of its Member States; labour market reforms, structural reforms and fiscal consolidation, as well as responsible public spending are essential to achieve this goal;
Amendment 727 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Asks the Commission to come forward with an ambitious roadmap which takes into account the need for economic governance reforms, as outlined in this report, and which should be presented to Parliament by the end of May 2015, ahead of the June European Council; Asks the Commission to make it a high priority to create better incentives for Member States to abide by the SGP rules, as this is a way to maintain the trust of the private markets, and also creates space for future solidarity and for averting economic crises;
Amendment 762 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 2
Paragraph 37 – indent 2
– a social dimension, including a minimum wage mechanismfloors and a minimum unemployment benefit scheme for the euro area and in-depth reforms to favour mobility,
Amendment 795 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 4
Paragraph 37 – indent 4
– a euro area fiscal capacity notably to financguide counter cyclical actions at Member State level, structural reforms or part of debt reduction;