Activities of Zdzisław KRASNODĘBSKI related to 2019/2213(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
Opinion on Guidelines for the 2021 Budget - Section III
Amendments (5)
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines that all relevant areas of the budget need to contribute to the overall goals of the European Green Deal and the UN Sustainable Development Goals; recalls in this context the importance of the introduction of a Just Transition Fund to address societal, socio-economic and environmental impacts on workers and communities adversely affected by the transition from coal and carbon dependence, and to foster economic diversification in the territories concerned; calls for soliincreased financing of the fund taking into account that a specific allocation of €4.8 bn was made before the announcement of new climate ambitions enshrined in the European Green Deal;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the importance of the Connecting Europe Facility as a key instrument to reach the goals of the Energy Union and to facilitate the Union’s commitment under the Paris Agreement and calls for adequate appropriations for the programme, in particular for its energy strand;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need for an ambitious draft budget, in particular for new programmes such as the Digital Europe Programme, which need to become operational as soon as possible in order to help make the EU more competitive; stresses the importance of adequately funding of AI research and innovation in a broad spectrum of programmes in order to capture the full potential of current and future generations of digital tools with a special concern for a challenge of a relatively low AI-readiness in some Member States;
Amendment 75 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Underlines the need for an ambitious draft budget of the European Defence Fund in order to meet the general objective of the Fund, namely fostering the competitiveness, efficiency and innovation capacity of the European defence technological and industrial base throughout the Union; stresses the importance of the EDF as a key instrument to widen cross-border cooperation between legal entities from the defence industry throughout the Union, in particular SMEs and mid-caps; recalls the role of the Fund in answering some NATO allies’ calls on more equal burden-sharing in defence spending on both sides of the Atlantic;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to guarantee timely appropriate level of payments in order to ensure efficient implementation of programmes, which are otherwise often adversely affected by delays in providing grants and payments.