Activities of Miguel VIEGAS related to 2017/2053(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
The next MFF: Preparing the Parliament’s position on the MFF post-2020 - Reform of the European Union’s system of own resources (debate) PT
Shadow opinions (2)
OPINION on the reform of the European Union’s system of own resources
OPINION on the reform of the European Union’s system of own resources
Amendments (11)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for an in-depth reform of the own-resources system, including new own resources (ORs) that could reduce the shareonsiders that the EU’s financing system should continue to be based ofn GNI-based (the contributions (from which accounted for 65.4 % of the Union’s revenue in 2016) and, with a stronger focus on solidarity and redistribution, and calls for a phase-out of all forms of rebate; stresses that the current system includes complex and opaque correction mechanisms and contributes to the lack of sufficient payment appropriations each year;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomesTakes note of the work of the High Level Group on Own Resources, and while expressing particular theconcern at proposals for measures aimed at reducing the share of the GNI-based contribution, which is residual in nature; argues that this reduction should be compensated for by the use of genuine own resourcesas it considers that the Community budget should be made up of Member States’ contributions based on their GNI, so as to preserve and strengthen the principle of contributory solidarity; argues that no EU system of own resources should undermine or replace this principle;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Invites all parties to draw the appropriate conclusions from the HLGOR’s report and to analyse the feasibility of the recommendations to help make the Union budget more stable, simple, autonomous, fair and predictable, but with an ever stronger focus on solidarity and redistribution between richer and poorer countries;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. AdvocatOpposes the establishment of a budgetary capacity for the Eurozone, given that this would perform functions of macroeconomic stabilisation and bring about economic and social convergence; considers, moreover, that this capacity should be financed through own resources specific to the euro area, such as a tax on financial transactions, a bank levy and a sharebe yet another way of pressurising and blackmailing EU workers and peoples and imposing neoliberal economic and social policies ofn the ECB’s profitMember States;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Is opposed to any attempt to use Member States’ contributions to co- finance the CAP;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 59 #
6a. Also points out that state measures to regulate supply could save on the vast volume of resources currently used to compensate farmers for market instability.
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. SupportsConsiders that the creation of a dedicated budget line to support the adoption of the euro by Member States not yet part of the euro area, butwould be a poisoned challsice for it to be made separate from the Eurozone’s budgetary capacity; considers that the budgetary capacity of the Eurozone should be excluded from ceiling calculations for commitments and payments under the multiannual financial frameworkthe countries concerned; objects, therefore, to the use of additional resources by the EU to force both eurozone members and applicants for single currency membership to adopt neoliberal policies in exchange for greater budgetary flexibility;
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for the creation of a budget line to fund support programmes for the Member States seeking to negotiate a Euro exit on the grounds that participation in it has become unsustainable and unbearable; considers that these programmes should provide for adequate compensation for the social and economic damage caused by joining the single currency;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Supportrongly rejects the proposal to create the post, within the Commission, of European Finance Minister, who would be tasked with managing the budgetary capacityregarding such a move as nothing more than a step towards further loss of sovereignty for the Member States and hensuring full democratic accountability of the EU’s economic governancece the realisation of a more integrated federalist Europe; considers also that this proposal will help to further concentrate power in the hands of the Grand European Directory;