29 Amendments of Notis MARIAS related to 2015/2344(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Points out that the success of the eurozone is dependent on the fair distribution of the wealth produced, increasing the welfare of all its citizens, and on well- functioning labour markets, social security systems and welfare systems, based on decent work with rights, a strong role for the social partners, social dialogue, collective bargaining and collective agreements, and preventing individual Member States from trying to gain an unfair competitive advantage by infringing workers’ rights or promoting social dumping;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the crisis enhanced the need for improvementa change in EU economic governance and that the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) must be progressively compleso to boost growth and employment within the EU Member Stateds;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the establishmentxistence of a budgetary capacity within the eurozone is necessary to complete the EMU and that it is recommendable to create a budgetary capacity, albeit limited is needed, under the current Treaty framework;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Takes note of different proposals for this purpose, with different designs and assigning different functions;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that in order to stabilise the social situation in Member States and drastically to reduce unemployment, economic stabilisers such as a European Unemployment Insurance (EUI) scheme should strengthen the welfare state and fight social deprivation caused by one- sided fiscal discipline measures taken under the European economic governance framework;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. RecallNotes that such capacity should be part of the EU budget as laid down in Article 310(1) TFEU and should comply with the provisions of Articles 310(4) and 312(1) TFEU;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets the fact that the current system of European economic governance is highly unbalanced and focuses almost exclusively on fiscal stability, violent fiscal adjustment, austerity and wage competitiveness, while concerns about economic recovery, public investment policies and more and better jobs, the very high unemployment rates in some EU Member States and social cohesion are largely ignored;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that, pursuant to Article 311 TFEU, it is possible to raise the own resources ceilings, to establish new categories of own resources (even if only from a limited number of Member States) and to assign certain revenue to finance specific items of expenditure, as provided for in Article 21 of the Financial Rules1; __________________ 1 Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 966/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 25 October 2012 on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union and repealing Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002.
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines that, while the EU budget also offers sufficient guarantees for specific lending operations and that, several instruments, such as the EFSM and the EGF, allow for funds to be mobilised over and above the MFF expenditure ceilings;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Asks the Member States to respect and promote the autonomy of collective bargaining and collective agreements in particular on wages and working conditions, and to restore balance with the economic governance pillar by urgently moving ahead on the social dimension;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Reiterates the need for democratic legitimacy and accountability, implying the adoption of the community method, namely with the mandatory involvement of Parliament in the shaping, implementation and oversight of a budgetary capacity;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls that the protocols on the application of the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality and on the role of national parliaments offer ample opportunities for national parliaments’ involvement in this respect;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the importance of not linking any unemployment benefit system with economic conditionality for the Member States, and of promoting social policies which fight poverty, social exclusthe very high unemployment rates in some EU Member States, social exclusion, gender discrimination and social dumping;
Amendment 78 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Believes that non-eurozone Member States should be involved, if they so desire, although in a differentiated way and depending on the design of the budgetary capacity, subject to retention of their national sovereignty.
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital ΣΤ
Recital ΣΤ
F. whereas, following real convergence in the run-up to the introduction of the common currency, the euro area witnessed structural divergence between 1999 and 2009, which made the euro area as a whole less resilient to shocks; whereas regulatory adjustments and structural reforms aimed at reducing risks and improving convergence have been introduced since 2009 at both European and national level, but some euro area Member States still require solidarity and sustainable reforms in their catching-up processsince 2009 the structural reforms adopted have not contributed to the economic growth in the EU Member States but have instead led to even higher rates of unemployment and poverty; ·
Amendment 84 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that fiscal capacity should not be merely a responsive tool in the event of country-specific shocks, but should actively enable Member States to achieve a reduction in social inequalities, social cohesion and full employment, to erase poverty, to strengthen the welfare state and to help attain all the social objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy.
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6α. Stresses the need to establish a European guaranteed minimum income, a European minimum wage and a European unemployment benefit in order to combat the high rates of unemployment, poverty and social exclusion that plague the EU.
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas it is to be deplored that no progress has been achieved in addressing the flaws of EMU through legislation such as the Six-Pack and the Two-Pack regulations, as well as through the introduction of the European Semester and the creation of new instruments such as the ESM;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Θ
Recital Θ
I whereas it is to be deplored that a great deal of trust has been lost in the process, both between Member States and on the part of citizens and the markets in the EU institutions and the Union as a whole;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers, against this background, that shortcomings have existed in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) since its inception under the Maastricht Treaty with the attribution of monetary policy to the European level, while budgetary policy remains within the competencies of the Member States and is only framed by provisions on light coordination of national policiesithout the creation of solidarity mechanisms between the Member States of the Eurozone;
Amendment 181 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that EMU exposed its vulnerability in the context of the global financial and economic crisis when unsustainable imbalances, triggered by capital flows from core euro area nations to the periphery and a rising public spending ratio in some Member States, aggravated and led to a sovereign debt crisis, in which government borrowing costs dramatically increased in some Member States, jeopardising, in the absence of a proper fiscal backstop, the mere existence of the euro areaeconomies of those countries;
Amendment 192 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. AcknowledgesExpresses its dissatisfaction at the results achieved since the crisis broke in terms of risk reduction and better coordination; points in particular to the manyinadequate measures taken by the EU institutions to address the shortcomings revealed by the crisis by strengthening coordination of national fiscal policies, in particular via the adoption of the Six-Pack and the Two-Pack Regulations; welcomes further the factnotes that the EU institutions have set up frameworks for action in current and future crises, namely by creating the European Financial Stability Mechanism (EFSM), the temporary European Financial Stabilisation Facility (EFSF) and its permanent successor, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM); underlines, however, that these mechanisms dramatically lack democratic oversight and parliamentary control, and hence ownership;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Makes it clear that rapid action is needed to ensure the sustainability of the euroMember States afflicted by Merkelian austerity policies; stresses that this requires strong joint efforts on the part of the EU and its Member States to complete the EMU and to restore the trust of citizens and markets;
Amendment 411 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for the ESM, whilst fulfilling its ongoing tasks, to be further developed and turned into a European Monetary Fund (EMF) with adequate lending and borrowing capacities and a clearly defined mandate, including its contribution to a euro area fiscal capacity; stresses that an EMF should be managed by the Commission and held democratically accountable by the European Parliament; emphasises that national parliaments would be involved in the process, given that their constitutional prerogatives regarding financial resources could be affected;
Amendment 633 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Points out that the Rainy Day Fund should be funded by all the Member States on the basis of a cyclically sensitive economic indicator and used for payments to all Member States suffering from economic downturns;
Amendment 653 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Acknowledges that the model of a European Unemployment Benefit Scheme would foster convergence of labour markets in the medium term and assist European citizens who are unemployed or in long-term unemployment;
Amendment 724 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Considers that instability in the financial sector could also pose severe challenges for the euro area as a whole; urges completion of the Banking Union in order to lessen these challenges; calls for the fiscal capacity to operate as a fiscal backstop for the Banking Union, as agreed in the SRM;
Amendment 833 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44 a (new)
Paragraph 44 a (new)
44a. Deplores the fact that measures taken to date by the EU institutions have not resulted in financial stability or bank rationalisation but have instead driven certain EU Member States even more deeply into recession.