7 Amendments of Pina PICIERNO related to 2014/2059(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines, once again, the important role of the EU budget in stimulating growth, boosting job creation and reducing macroeconomic imbalances in the EU; recalls, in particular, that without even considering its role as a catalyst for investment, some 60 % of the EU budget is directly devoted to the achievement of the Europe 2020 objectives; underlines moreover that many 2014-20 programmes contain innovative financial instruments which have the potential to play a key role in supporting both public and private investments in the Member States, particularly in respect of long term investments which is widely recognised as a major political priority;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls the need, at the start of the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), for swift and effective implementation of the new programmes at both EU and Member State level, in order to allow these programmes to contribute to the economic recovery process; calls for a particularly speedy implementation of the programmes frontloaded to the first years of the MFF, such as Horizon 2020, COSME, Erasmus+ and the Youth Employment Initiative; stresses the fact that these programmes have a leverage effect and a synergetic and catalytic role in relation to national investment policies and growth and job creation; welcomes, in particular, theunderlines the need for a swift launch of the 2014-2020 cohesion policy (in terms of signing of partnership agreements, algready signed,ement of operational programmes agreed and prefinancing disbursed), nd disbursement of prefinancing); highlights once more the undisputed role of cohesion policy in supporting growthe aim of which is to support growth and job creationnd job creation on the whole EU territory; expects the next European Commission due to come into office on 1st November 2014 to make concrete proposals in order to help those member states which face difficulties in mobilising the required co-financing part of their operational programmes;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the fact that the promotion of EU jobs and competitiveness requires that the formation of value chains in the EU be boosted and that EU companies be more firmly integrated at all value-chain levels; recalls the fact that such policies should cover undertakings of all sizes, be conducive to maintaining the production chain and increasing jobs creation in Europe and support sectors with high growth potential, with a specific focus on innovation, sustainability, skills, entrepreneurship, and creativity;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the fact that, at a time when many Member States are heavily reliant on a single energy supplier, including six who are entirely dependent on Russia for their natural gas, the promotion and safeguarding of jobs also requires a reduction in the EU’s vulnerability to external energy shocks, as evidenced by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine; welcomes, in this regard, the conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26- 27 June 2014 and expects these conclusions to be complemented no later than October 2014 by ambitious medium- to long-term measuresEuropean measures, including financial ones, to enhance the EU’s energy security;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the fact that the tight 2014- 2020 ceilings in payments remain a crucial problem for the EU budget, having negative effects on economic recovery given that late payments are harmful primarily to direct beneficiaries; recalls the need to ensure, in the light of implementation, the orderly progression of payments so as to concomitantly deliver on both the payments stemming from past commitments and those resulting from prefinancing to promptly launch the new programmes, and to avoid any abnormal shift of outstanding commitments (RAL) onto the 2015 budget; urges, in this connection, the Council to adopt in full all draft amending budget no 3/2014, as submitted by the Commission, in order for the EU budget to have maximum impact in terms of investment on the ground; underlines that the question of the recurrent payment crisis of the EU budget is to be addressed in a sustainable manner at the occasion of the post electoral revision of the MFF 2014-2020 due to be launched - as soon as possible - by the next European Commission to come into office on 1st November 2014;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Finds it regrettable that the Member States continue to underestimate the role and contribution of the EU budget in strengthening economic governance and budget coordination throughout the Union, and therefore calls on them not to consider their contribution to the EU budget as an adjustment variable in their consolidation efforts and not to seek to artificially reduce the volume of the EU budget’s growth- enhancing expenditure, in contradiction with the political commitments they have made at the highest level; calls once again on the Commission to take full account of this recurring and dangerous trend when assessing the budgetary plans of the Member States and to propose concrete actions to reverse it; believes, on the contrary, that funding at EU level can generate savings for the Member States’ budgets;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Expects the next President-elect of the Commission to stick to its promise to present within the next 3 months of the new Commission's mandate a growth, job and investment package worth at least EUR 300 billion of additional public and private investment in Europe; expects this package to include new and efficient European instruments on top of those already agreed in the frame of the MFF 2014-2020;