12 Amendments of Kostas CHRYSOGONOS related to 2015/2060(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the Union should play a more active and prominent role in the process of global economic governance, and stresses the need forthrough its adhesion to international bodies. Stresses the need for institutional reforms in order to obtain coherent EU representation and a strong European voice in international financial, monetary and regulatory institutions and bodies;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Believes that the Union, as member of international fora, shall promote the reform of the process of the international and economic governance according to its principles as foreseen, in particular, in Articles 2, 3 and 6 of the Treaty on the European Union;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls for an adhesion of the European Union to international fora regulating and influencing the international economy. However, believes that the EU should clarify the legal nature of the decisions taken by the informal bodies leading the monetary Union;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the establishment of better- structured prior coordination mechanisms, so that a common EU position can be forged with a view to promoting effectively EU goals and policies more effectively within existas listed, in particular, in Articles 2, 3 and 6 TEU and in Articles 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 TFEU, withing international economic forums;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that the EU should seek full membership of such international economic and financial institutions, where this has not yet been granted and is appropriate (in the case of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), for instance); calls for the relevant international economic and financial institutions to make all the necessary statutory changes in order to allow for the EUs full participation;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that in the future, with due regard to the distribution of competences between the EU and its Member States and the progress made towards deepening economic and monetary union, consideration should be given to introducing unified external representation of the EU and the euro area within the IMF and other international economic forums, in order to allow the EU to exploit its potential fully and to increase its relevance and influence within the global economic and financial architecture; Stresses the need of a real reform of the EU policies, so as to avoid internal economic and social unbalances between Member States, and to allow processes of debt restructuring;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Regrets the fact that the international financial, monetary and regulatory institutions and bodies as well as EU's participation in these are lacking democratic accountability and transparency in their decision-making process
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that Parliament should be duly informed of the Union’s activities and positions within existing economic and financial institutions and should have the right to express its opinion;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls for the establishment of inter- institutional working groups that would convene before the official meetings of international financial, monetary and regulatory institutions and bodies and would grant the European Parliament the opportunity to express its opinion on the issues that would be discussed in the upcoming meetings; a mechanism should be created to take into account such opinion;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses that Parliament should be granted access to the relevant documents issued by economic and financial institutions, that an appropriate, open, regular and efficient reporting mechanism should be developed, and that EU participants should systematically provide feedback to Parliament on the decisions taken in these forums;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Is of the opinion that the EU should, where and when necessary, play a leading and more active role in promoting the reform of international economic and financial institutions with a view to making their functioning more democratic, transparent and accountable and thereby bringing them closer to citizens.
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Calls for the careful scrutiny by the European Parliament of the procedures and methods deployed by the International Monetary Fund in the context of its participation in the hybrid institutions (formerly known as " troika") and welcomes, in this regard, the recent developments according to which the European Parliament has been asked to get involved in overseeing the Greek bailout programme and any other future bail-out programmes;