Activities of Jonás FERNÁNDEZ related to 2023/0264(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024
Amendments (11)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the 2024 EU budget to ensure that all Member States put in place socially-balanced structural reforms to unleash the full potential of the EU economy and, achieve long-term growthinclusive and sustainable growth and advance in the green and digital transitions;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Calls on the 2024 Union budget to be a true European budget with citizens at its heart that allows (i) to successfully tackle the social and economic consequences of the war in Ukraine, in particular the increase in energy and food prices hitting the most vulnerable of households, (ii) to promote the strategic autonomy of the Union, which is essential in a rapidly changing world, with greater power rivalry and complex and multi- dimensional challenges, and (iii) to accelerate the implementation of the EU Green Deal and its commitment to deliver a carbon-neutral economy by 2050, in a context of climate emergency.
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that simple and enforceable fiscal rules that promote countercyclical policies and ensure debt sustainability are key for the long-term economic prosperity of Member States and the Union; welcomes the fact that the proposed reform of the economic governance framework foresees more flexibility for strategic investments and allows for different debt reduction paths for Member States; regrets that the proposal (i) does not include a permanent fiscal capacity at EU level, (ii) lacks a meaningful social dimension and a proper integration of the European Pillar of Social Rights, (iii) remains weak in the coordination of national fiscal policies, and (iv) does not foresee an adequate democratic accountability; recalls the need for the reform to be approved preferably prior to the deactivation of the general escape clause;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the 2024 budget to include targeted spending in areas that are key for the Union’s open strategic autonomy such as energy, defence security, defence cooperation, education and, the labour market and reindustrialisation in key technological sectors;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the budget should contribute to increasing the spending in research and development (R&D) as a key driver for innovation and economic growth by leveraging both private and national publicublic and private investment;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for adequate resources to ensure that the Union is competitive internationally, is able to attract productive investments and create quality employment, and to increase productivity in the context of growing international competition, whilst strengthening the social protection system;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls that the introduction of a basket of new and real own resources was integrated into the ‘Interinstitutional cooperation on a roadmap towards the introduction of new own resources’ and the ‘Legislative resolution on the draft Council decision on the system of own resources of the EU’ ; stresses the importance of the additional new EU own resources to cover the costs of the repayment of NextGenerationEU, to assure a sustainable financing of the EU budget and to ensure the financing of the green and digital transitions; warns against the risk of burdening citizens with these transition costs with the added complications that the ongoing cost-of- living crisis poses; takes note of the adjustment of the own resources proposals based on the Emissions Trading System and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism; recalls that a share of the revenue generated under Pillar One of the Global Tax Deal is also included in the first basket of own resources; calls therefore for a swift implementation of the Global Tax Deal;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Takes note of the proposal of a new temporary statistical own resource based on company profits; insists that a proper contribution linked to the corporate sector or a share of corporate income tax collected under BEFIT, together with a Financial Transaction Tax or a Financial Activities Tax, should form part of a second basket of new own resources;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the budget to provide support to Ukraine for as long as Russia’s war of aggression continues, to provide funds for the integration of refugees, and to contribute to itsthe reconstruction of the country, including through the European Union Solidarity Fund and the Emergency Aid Reserve;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Calls on the Commission to make proposals to perpetuate the EU Tax and Financial Crimes Observatory; considers such Observatory as a useful contribution to both democratic debate and informing decision makers;