5 Amendments of Monika VANA related to 2014/2059(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines, once again, the important role of the EU budget in stimulating sustainable growth, boosting job creation and reducing macroeconomic imbalances and social inequalities 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;
Amendment 5 #
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 sustainable growth and job creation; welcomes, in particular, the swift launch of the 2014-2020 cohesion policy (in terms of partnership agreements already signed, operational programmes agreed and prefinancing disbursed), the aim of which is to support sustainable growth and job creation;
Amendment 10 #
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 in Europe and support sectors with high sustainable growth potential, with a specific focus on innovation, skills, entrepreneurship and creativity;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls its view that the fiscal situation of Member States can be eased through a new system of own resources to finance the Union budget that will reduce gross national income (GNI) contributions, thus enabling Member States to meet their consolidation efforts without jeopardising EU funding to support investment in economic recovery and reform measures; reminds that the European Commission has tabled several legislative proposals in order to reform the own resources system and which have not been seriously discussed by the Council; underlines, therefore, the importance it attaches to the new high-level group on own resources, which should lead to a true reform of EU financing;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls, furthermore, on the Commission, in its next AGS, to provide a full and complete picture of what has been achieved as a result of the implementation of the Compact for Growth and Jobs, adopted at the European Council meeting of June 2012 in order to move beyond the economic and fiscal crises, and to present new proposals on the role which the EU budget could play in further stimulating growthcreating smart, sustainable, inclusive resource- efficient and job -creationg growth;