Activities of Bernd KÖLMEL related to 2018/2024(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
2019 budget - Trilogue mandate (debate) DE
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the mandate for the trilogue on the 2019 draft budget PDF (924 KB) DOC (133 KB)
Amendments (7)
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. CommendNotes the role of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) in reducing the investment gap in the EU; the data available so far do not prove that more investments actually occur with the EFSI than without it. It is doubtful whether this can be measured at all.; reiterates its longstanding position that any new initiatives within the MFF must be financed by new appropriations and not to the detriment of the existing programmeredeployments; reiterates also that the cuts made to Horizon 2020 and CEF to finance the extension of EFSI should be reversed in the 2019 budget;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes the commitment to a renewed EU defence agenda, namely through the agreement on the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP), as a first stage of the European Defence Fund; believes that this shared commitment will contribute to achieving economies of scale and greater coordination among Member States ana planning process would have to be in place before a joint armaments fund, and the work should be clearly distributed. Stresses that the establishment of a common armaments fund and the provision of financing without a clear concept may lead businesses, allowing the EU to retain its strategic autonomy and become a genuine world player to spend without meaning. It merely serves the purpose of creating a common European army in a “Centralized European State";
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Notes with concern the ongoing discussions on the financing of the European Solidarity Corps (ESC), which confirm Parliament’s fear that new initiatives may again come at the expense of existing well-performing programmes; calls on the Council to show a more constructive approach, and accept that a greater part of this initiative should be financed through fresh appropriations; stresses that already today, young people in Europe expressed their solidarity in various projects, including the European Voluntary Service. It raises the question of whether the European Union is actually taking action against the high rate of youth unemployment in some countries, or whether this proposal will result in misleading reductions to this rate;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Takes note of the proposed revision of the legal base of the Union Civil Protection Mechanism, which, once adopted, is expected to have a major budgetary impact in the last two years of the current MFF, with EUR 256.9 million to be borne by Heading 3 alone; insists that it is only logical that this significant upgrading of a key Union policy should be financed through new and additional means; warns against the use of redeployments, which are clearly at the expense of other valuable, well- functioning policies and programmeby the use of redeployments;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. ReconfirmNotes Parliament’s strong support for Union programmes in the areas of culture, fundamental rights and citizenship; welcomes the proposedQuestions strongly the increase for the Creative Europe Programme; insists, furthermore, on sufficient funding for the Europe for Citizens programme and the European Citizens’ Ini and areas of culture; Believes it is an illusion to hope that the national identity could gradually be replaced by a European identity. The coexistence of several identiatives, particularly in the run-up to the European elec characterizes the Western states. "More Europe" is not the solutions;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. WelcomeRejects the creation of two new EU bodies to be considered as decentralised agencies, respectively the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) and the European Labour Authority (ELA); notes that appropriations corresponding to the ELA have been put into reserve pending the finalisation of the legislative procedure; notes that the EPPO has its seat in Luxembourg, and asks it to submit to the two branches of the budgetary authority all information on its buildings policy pursuant to the Financial Regulation; considers that new agencies have to be created by allocating fresh resources and new posts, while avoiding any kind of redeployment unless it is clearly demonstrated that certain activities are entirely transferred from the Commission or other existing bodies to the new agencies; recallredeployments; notes the provisions laid down in the Common Approach for newly created decentralised agencies;