11 Amendments of Barbara KAPPEL related to 2016/2098(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the EIB, as theEurope’s biggest public lender in the world, operates in the international capital markets, offering competitive terms to clients and favourable conditions to support EU policies and projects;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Strongly encourages the EIB to continue its efforts to overcome investment, market and sectoral gaps with a view to possibly fostering transnational added value via greater EU economic and territorial convergenceoperation between EU Member States, a stronger investment environment and the return of sustainable growth across the EU;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Acknowledges that the EIB is a core actor needed to revitalise the EU economy and maxoptimise the effectiveness and value for money of available financial resources by using revolving instruments, namely through a multiplier effect of guarantee funds and leveraging classical EU financial instruments such as grants;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes there is a need to secure a resilient and sustainable EU funding strategy to speed upin order to achieve a steady economic recovery and help certain economic sectors and geographical areas, in particular rural areas, to catch up; recalls the need to focus on investment making a difference; believes that projects should be chosen on the basis of their own merits and effective additionality, possibly with a higher risk profile;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Reiterates, in this respect and in order to enhance transparency, that more information should be given on the precise nature of individual projects funded directly or indirectly through the EIB’s lending activities, and, in particular, on their added value and expected impact;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that with regard to Europe’s potential to provide funding in third countries the EIB has worldwide responsibilities in ensuring the EU’s attractiveness on the world stage by promoting a conducive investment climate for business and enterprises;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Acknowledges the central role of SMEs and mid-caps in the EU economy in terms of employment and growth; encourages the EIB to intensify its support to all kinds of SMEs (start-ups, micro- medium sized businesses, business clusters), with a focus on new business models, inter alia in the field of digitalisation, with high potential job opportunities for young people;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Encourages the EIB to focus its climate action on the sustainability of cross-sector projects in the context of the COP21 targets and to support the expanson vigorous promotion of renewable energies andso as to drive them to the market and support resource efficiency; notes that financing for renewables reached EUR 3.4 billion;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Welcomes the EIB’s rapid adaptation capacity to international challenges; calls on the EIB to continue its support to EU external policies and emergency response related to the global challenge of migration by including the development aspect and by promoting economic resiliencevesting in projects which generate economic growth and employment in third countries that are particularly affected by the migratory movements;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Insists that thea widest possible geographical spread should be considered in the implementation of the EFSI pipeline for the benefit of cohesion and sustainability objectives; asks the EIB to correct the current geographical imbalances and sectoral concentration of the EFSI’s portfolio, namely under the Infrastructure and Innovation Window (IIW) and the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises Window (SMEW), by enhancing its advisory activities for projects development in Member States and technical assistance through the European Investment Advisory Hub (EIAH), by considering expanding the number of sectors eligible for EFSI funding or by better adapting the type and size of the projects to the market needs in Member States;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Calls on the EIB to carefully consider in the selection process real additionality and new dynamics along the magnitude of the multiplier effect, which might vary among the projects, in particular in fields where the EIB or the EIF were not already engaged, in cases of market failure or in sub-optimal investment situations;