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19 Amendments of Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO related to 2017/2124(INI)

Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
2. Gives a positive assessmentQuestions the efficiency of the monetary policy pursued by the ECB in the period 2012-2016 in terms of its contribution to economic recovery by preventing deflation, preserving favourable financing conditions and maintaining financial stability and the proper functioning of the payment systems; however, the policy chosen by the ECB, especially in countries in crisis, was not always politically neutral.
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Asks the ECB to consider complementing its price stabiConsiders that the repeated failure of the ECB to reach its inflation target, calls for considering the adoption of a nominal GDP target as a new monetary politcy objective with nominal GDP growth targfor the ECB; therefore calls upon the Council to put this topic into the agenda of its future Council meetings;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. HighlightsNotes with regret that according to the IMF’s April 2017 World Economic Outlook, the Eurozone output gap was -1.2 % of the potential GDP in 2016, a gap which will remain negative until 2019;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Underlines the positivelimited effect of the ECB monetary policy on growth, employment and the financing costs of Member States, non-financial companies and households; calls for additional and alternative measures to enhance inclusive growth, policies that focus on job-creating development, quality employment fight poverty and youth unemployment and enforce SMEs participation and development, preventing and managing better in that way future crises;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Considers that monetary policy alone is not sufficient to achieve a sustainable and more even and inclusive economic recovery, and that public and private investments should therefore be encouraged in the context of a moderately positive fiscal stance in the Eurozone as proposed by the Commission to fill the regional investment gap; thereby calls for a recomposition of the ECB's portfolio of securities held under the APP towards more bonds linked with sustainable investments, for example in the context of a mutually noncoercive coordination between the ECB and the European Investment Bank (EIB);
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Points out that while unemployment has decreased, aggregate demand in the euro area remains subdued, largely as a result of the rise in poor quality, temporary, low-paid jobs; calls on the ECB to evaluate how this phenomenon is slowing the recovery and explore ways to stimulate demand, in spite of wage stagnationcrease wages and promote quality employment, equal access to education and training to new technologies;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 264 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. calls the ECB to explore the economic and legal feasibility of policy options, beyond interest rate policy and bond purchases, to channel money or credit efficiently into the real economy and hence induce investment demand and ensuring proper transmission of monetary policy;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 282 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Stresses that excessive current account surpluses in some Member States must be corrected through appropriate fiscal policies, including the European Commission recommendations for more public investments and incease of demand, in order to tackle macroeconomic imbalances in Europe;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 307 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Encourages further improvement of SMEs' access to credit, enforcing inclusiveness in economic development;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 376 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes the improvements made by the ECB in disclosing the list of securities held by the Eurosystem under the ECB’s CSPP; but remains concerned that this programe mainly benefits large multinationals; thereby reinforcing capital misallocation towards shareholders and the over-concentration of some oligopolistic sectors;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 402 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
27. Agrees that a well-functioning, diversified and integrated capital market would support the transmission of the single monetary policy; calls for the full completion and implementation of the capital markets union and the banking union;deleted
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 418 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28 a. acknowledges that the third pillar of the banking union is a necessary condition for full mutualisation of the risk with regard to the guarantee of the deposits of all the European depositors;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 471 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
33. Urges the ECB to support Greece, for example through ensuring the eligibility of Greek companies for the CSPP and the timely inclusion of Greek sovereign bonds in the APP, ensuring the timely access to QE and provide an independent debt sustainability analysis, as well as to support investments for countries to risk;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 519 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 a (new)
36 a. Calls for full European Parliamentary scrutiny over ECB policy and full revision of the ECB accountability framework by an EU independent body.The European Parliament should confirm the appointment of the ECB Executive Board members and be timely and in full transparency informed forthe ECB policies at all levels;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 526 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 c (new)
36 c. Calls the ECB Governing Council to follow EU staff regulation and code of conduct regarding to a two-year professional abstention period after the conclusion of its members’ mandate and to file public declarations of interests and assets;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 528 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 d (new)
36 d. Calls the ECB to enhance whistle- blowers protection, as clearly indicated in relevant reports by the Commission, the Parliament, the European Ombudsman and the UN Convention against corruption;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 529 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36 e (new)
36 e. Notes that the current ECB employment system regarding temporary agents, which is placed within a system or repetitive temporary contracts, is reportedly creating instability in the working environment and undermining professional cohesion within the ECB;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 544 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
38. Asks the ECB to make it a rule to publish its decisions, recommendations and opinions, thereby drastically reducing the number of exemptions from disclosure as well as to follow closer international best practises in improving the disclosure of bank supervisory data;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON
Amendment 556 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38 b (new)
38 b. Stresses that the Members of the Executive Board of the ECB, should abstain from being simultaneous members of forums or other organisations which include executives from banks supervised by the ECB;
2017/09/18
Committee: ECON