5 Amendments of Renato SORU related to 2017/2053(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Whereas the European Union is a global actor and its action towards the protection, the empowerment and the defence of its citizens needs to be underpinned by a clear, solid and transparent system of own resources;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1a. Whereas the financing of the European budget broadly relies on the Gross National Income-based contributions and this trend has increased over the last twenty-five years;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Advocates the establishment of a budgetary capacity for the Eurozone that would perform functions of macroeconomic stabilisation and bring about economic and social convergence; considers, moreover, that this capacity should be financed through own resources specific to the euro area, such as a tax on financial transactions, a bank levy and a share of the ECB’s profits; underlines that such a system would also allow a better and more concrete coordination of the national economic policies;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that the EU should be able to issue zero-risk debt assets in order to offset the volatility in own resources’ revenues and to boost the overall economic and financial stability;
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Supports the proposal to create the post, within the Commission, of European Finance Minister, who would be tasked with managing the budgetary capacity and ensuring full democratic accountability of the EU’s economic governance, in particular towards the European Parliament; believes that a euro area treasury is needed in order to accomplish this mission;