11 Amendments of Jonás FERNÁNDEZ related to 2016/2101(INI)
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas political developments such as the question of the UK’s membership of the Union, relations with Russia and the refugee crisipoor management of the influx of refugees by Member States have compounded uncertainties and further served to inhibit investment;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. WelcomesTakes note of the Commission’s focus in its 2016 country-specific recommendations (CSRs) on the three main priorities to further strengthen economic growth: supporting investment, pursuing structural reforms and preserving responsistable public finances;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that Europe’s long economic crisis has shown that there is a strong need to focus on public and private investment, in order to boost growth, create jobs and enhance the EU’s competitiveness;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines that the still-too-high unemployment rates show that the capacity to create jobs in most Member States is still limited; emphasises that further action is needed, in consultation with social partners and in accordance with national practices, to make labourjob markets more inclusive overall and full employment possible in the medium and long term;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Expresses disquiet about the current ‘liquidity trap’ the EU economy seems to have fallen into, with interest rates at the Zero Lower Bound (ZLB), weak demand prospects, and restricted investment and spending by households and companies, not leastespecially in surplus countries;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the Commission’s recommendation for three Member States to exit the Excessive Deficit Procedure (EDP); agrees with the Commission that large and consistent current account surpluses reflect a clear need to stimulate demand and investment in order to cope with the challenges of the future regarding transport and communications, the digital economy, education and research, climate change, energy, environmental protection and the ageing population; calls on the Commission to continue to support budgetary policies that underpin growth and recovery in all Member States and support sustainable and socially balanced structural reforms;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Underlines the fact that investment has so far lagged and failed to lead to sustainable and inclusive growth in the EU and that under the current circumstances, monetary policy alone is unlikely to bring about recovery, even though the rules made necessary by banking union have imposed more stringent financial criteria on banks; considers that a coordinated fiscal expansion is also needed in the EU, therefore, in line with the rules of the Stability and Growth Pact and its flexibility clauses, in order to place emphasis onincrease public and private investment;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights the importance of resilient labourjob markets where an appropriate trade-off is maintained between economic, social and human costs in accordance with the EU values of solidarity and subsidiarity, with a focus on the upgrading of educational systems and vocational education, including lifelong learning;
Amendment 271 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Invites the Commission to give priority to measures that reduce the obstacles to greater investment flows and commercial traffic, which arise at both an EU level from a lack of clarity regarding strategies that are to be followed, especially in the fields of energy, transport, communications and the digital economy, as well as from the effect on bank lending in the wake of the adoption of the banking union, and a national level from cumbersome legal systems, corruption, lack of transparency, outdated bureaucracy, inadequate digitalisation of public services, lack of mutual recognition of academic and technical qualifications in the professions and certain services sectors, and educational systems that remain out of synch with modern requirements;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14a (new)
Paragraph 14a (new)
14a. Considers that the presence of barriers to the internal market in the banking and insurance sectors, and in certain postal communication sectors such as the certification of contents delivered, holds back the growth and efficiency of commercial traffic;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the importance of better addressing the highavoiding an excessive tax wedge on labour given that high taxation diminishes incentives for the inactive, the unemployed, second earners and low-wage earners to return to employment, by promoting a growth-friendly tax shift towards consumption, wealth and environmental taxes;