12 Amendments of Miguel VIEGAS related to 2018/2094(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomeRejects the approach presented during plenary debates on the ‘Future of Europe’, whereby and on the future EU budget should promote European added value, ensure finances for new challenges and continue supportin particular; condemns, therefore, the militaristic, security-focused approach being Epuropean solidarity, stability and growth as well as the modernisation of EU policisued at the expense of territorial, social, and economic cohesion as well as peace and solidarity among countries and peoples;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Urges the Commission to halt the neo-liberal right-wing policy trends; considers it imperative to terminate the Treaties governing European integration, specifically by repealing the Treaty of Lisbon and, in particular, the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union, the ‘Six Pack’, and the ‘Two Pack’, since these are a straitjacket on sovereign economic and social development; calls for an intergovernmental conference to be convened by the European Council to discuss the termination and repeal of the Treaties; maintains that Member States must, as a matter of urgency, regain the ability to determine the economic policies best suited to their needs;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Points out that the level of debt in some Member States remains among the highest in the world; calls, therefore, for the Commission and the Member States to embark on and support a process for renegotiating government debt (as regards the amounts involved, maturities, and interest rates) and for the illegitimate speculative component to be removed in the most indebted countries so as to make debt servicing compatible with economic and social development; notes that economic recovery in Member States is impossible without debt relief;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines the importance of commitment toreversing the Banking Union, since theis process of completingject has merely brought about concentration in the Bbanking Union and the need to ensure openness and equal treatment of all Member States participating insector and exacerbated systemic risk and the ‘too big to fail’ problem; maintains that public control of banks, and shifting their focus towards each country’s specific needs, are the only way to make the Bbanking Unionsector stable;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the importance of the common agricultural policy (CAP) in terms of the budget and of its legacy to the history of the Union; recalls that the CAP is still one of the most important and most integrated policies, and that it will continue to contribute to building Europe’s future; regrets that successive CAP revisions have all been seeking to deregulate the markets and open the EU to world markets, resulting in huge income losses for farmers;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Emphasises the urgent need to completeTakes the view that, by increasing the degree of 'financialisation' of Member States' economies, the Capital Markets Union; stresses that deep and well-integrated capital markets are complementary to the Banking Union, due to its contribution to private risk-sharing, increasing economic convergence and helping to cushion future shockserves only the interests of financial investors and nothing else, adding greatly to the danger of a fresh financial crisis; calls for an immediate halt to the process of establishing a Capital Markets Union and reiterates the need to separate investment banking from retail banking in order to avoid contamination and concentration in the industry;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Considers that, should a Member State decide to withdraw from the euro because its participation had become unsustainable and intolerable, that decision must be fully respected and open the way to an orderly negotiated exit, carried out fairly, without pressures, penalties, or blackmail, under a comprehensive support programme; believes that any such programme should allow for the possibility of proper compensation, to be determined according to the social and economic damage done;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Condemns the fact that, even though the economic adjustment programmes have ended, the Member States which underwent them are continuing to face serious economic and social problems; calls, therefore, for an emergency plan to be drawn up to support the economies of those countries subjected to Troika intervention and for that plan to provide for financial resources and the necessary exceptions to the functioning of the single market and common policies;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the importance of a well reformed CAP to respond to the maximum number of the challenges that will face the Union in the future; stresses the importance of the future CAP in fostering innovation and research and development, including the agricultural aspects of the future Horizon Europe programme; stresses the importance of creating public supply regulation instruments to safeguard the food sovereignty of Member States and farmers' incomes;