21 Amendments of Miguel VIEGAS related to 2015/2344(INI)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8
Citation 8
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Treaty on European Union establishes the creation of the single market, whose currency is the euro; whereas the European Monetary Union currently consists of 19 members, two of whom have opt-out clauses, the remaining seven EU Member States having yet to join; whereas no financial liability will be incurred by the two countries with opt-outs from EMU in the framework of any fiscal capacity for the euro area;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas contrary to the budgetary arrangements in all other federations, the EU budget is dependent on contributions from Member State level to EU level;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
Amendment 184 #
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 fromcaused by beggar-thy-neighbour policies in 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 Stateand by capital flows to the periphery leading to elevated debt levels (private or public), which caused a dramatic increase in government borrowing costs in some Member States, following the rise in public spending due to bank bailouts and initial counter- cyclical policy responses to the crisis, jeopardising, in the absence of a proper fiscal backstop, the mere existence of the euro area;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out that the narrow focus on public deficit and debt level does not address the main causes of the euro crisis; stresses that unsustainable current account imbalances had developed before the crisis, due to beggar-thy-neighbour policies in some Member States, which led to increasing debt levels (public and private) in deficit countries;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Observes that the stabilisation of the economic cycle since the beginning of the crisis has relied almost exclusively on the ECB, and that the reduced options available for monetary policy in a context of zero lower bound rates have led the ECB to implement unconventional monetary policy measures; recalls that the President of the ECB has called for integrated institutions, for a stronger and proactive fiscal policy on the euro area scale and for euro area Member States to deliver on structural reform;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 454 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
Amendment 493 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 554 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 3 – paragraph 1
Paragraph 26 – indent 3 – paragraph 1
– investment, notably inpublic investment especially in infrastructure, research and development;
Amendment 562 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 – indent 3 – paragraph 2
Paragraph 26 – indent 3 – paragraph 2
Amendment 574 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
Amendment 609 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
Amendment 625 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
Amendment 707 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
Amendment 772 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
Amendment 784 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
Amendment 804 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42