Activities of Barbara KAPPEL related to 2018/2119(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2019 PDF (234 KB) DOC (88 KB)
Amendments (13)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas Europe’s economy is now entering its sixth year of uninterrupted growth, although slower than originally predicted;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas economic growth remains vulnerable to continued geopolitical tensionchanges, which have an impact on global trade, and persisting uncertainties surrounding the Union’s future relations with the UK;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the Commission’s 2018 Ageing Report shows that fiscal costs linked to pensions, healthcare and long- term care are expected to rise over the coming decades under unchanged pension policies, as Europe’s population continues to age significantly;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Urges Member States to take responsibility for future generations, and to ensure the sustainability of our social security systems and, in so doing, the future of our welfare stateseconomies, productivity, innovation and wealth creation;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges Member States to prepare for these demographic developments by: 1) building fiscal buffers to arm against rising fiscal costs; 2) implementing structural reforms to reduce these costs; and 3) enhancing productivity growth, which is essential to ensuring sustainable economic growth in the future; and 4) reduction of debt and risk;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey 2019, which reaffirms the importance of: 1) high quality investments; 2) reforms that increase productivity growth, inclusiveness and institutional quality; and 3) macro-financial stability and sound public finances, including debt reduction;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s efforts to encourage Member States with current account deficits or high external debt to contain the growth of unit labour costs and improve their competitiveness, and to encourage Member States with large current account surpluses to promote demand by increasing wage growth in line with productivity growth and to foster productivity growth by promoting investment;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Regrets that Italy has not submitted a revised draft budgetary plan for 2019 to the Commission; supports the Commission’s consideration of a debt- based excessive deficit procedure against Italy, given the country’s failure to comply with the debt criterion; also regrets that the European Commission has postponed the final assessment of the French budgetary plans to the second quarter of 2019; is concerned about this seemingly unequal treatment of member states in similar budgetary situations;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses the importance of reviewforming national public pension schemes, largely financed on a pay-as-you- go basis, in order to reduce their budgetary burden;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights that mobilising a shrinking working-age population will require more versatile employees and more flexible labour markets, combined with active labour market policies, and life-long learning and training, and accessible social security systems, as outlined in the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 220 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for taxation reforms with a view to improving the efficiency of tax collection; highlights the need for better coordination of administrative practices in the field of taxation;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recalls the importance of a resilient banking sector that safeguards financial stability; welcomes calls for the step-by- step completion of the banking union, with a credible European deposit insurance scheme and a package to reduce non- performing loans;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Highlights the urgent need for a fully-fledgedneed to further develop the capital markets union, as financial markets could provide for private risk-sharing and risk-reduction mechanisms;