10 Amendments of Iskra MIHAYLOVA related to 2014/2213(INI)
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is of the opinion that EU policies should support and enable towns, cities and larger functional urban areas to attain their full strength and potential as motors of economic growth, employment and social inclusion; highlights that a broad range of EU initiatives impact directly or indirectly on cities; believes, therefore, that towns, cities and larger functional urban areas need to be more closely associated with the entire European policymaking cycle;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Asks the Commission to propose ways to introduce an early warning mechanism, giving the subnational government the possibility to observe whether the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality have been taken into account; notes that there is a need to better assess the impact of all EU initiatives having territorial and urban dimension;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Supports the establishment of a European Urban Agenda in order toas a coherent framework for EU policies with an urban dimension. It should aim to better join up local urban solutions with EU challenges and vice versa, better join up sectoral policies and levels of governance, better target EU funding to the relevant local urban challenges, better assess the territorial impact of the sectoral policies; An urban agenda should anchor the urban dimension more efficiently in European and national policymaking, as well as ind policy implementation, and thus improveing the conditions for sustainable, economic and socially inclusive development of functional urban areas in Europe;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is of the opinion that the European Urban Agenda should be a joint effort by the Commission, the Member States and the cities to rationalise, coordinate and implement EU policies with an urban dimension through a practical, integrated and coordinated, yet flexible, approach, ‘in and with’ the cities, taking account of the local territorial specifities and respecting each Member State’s institutional architecture;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Underlines that European urban territorial development should be based on balanced territorial organisation with a polycentric urban structure in line with the EU Territorial Agenda 2020 and the ESPON Report "Making Europe Open and Polycentric"(2013); points out the role of small and medium-sized towns and the importance of enhancing the functional links of the urban centres with their surrounding areas to achieve sustainable and integrated urban development;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Recalls that EU structural policies and their financial instruments are better equipped as a rule to support complex integrated territorial strategies for functional areas through shared strategic planning and rules; encourages Member States to make full use of the available new instruments such as ITIs and CLLD, as well as of the new flexible operational programmes (OPs), in order to successfully support the implementation of integrated urban development plans; encourages Member States and the Commission to elaborate a coherent set of appropriate indicators to better assess the urban dimension of the implemented operations and initiatives funded by European Structural and Investment Funds;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Highlights the need of exploiting to a maximum extent the potential of the macro-regional strategies for successful implementation of the integrated urban approach for cities, especially for those faced with specific geographic characteristics, being part of the macro- regional process; notes that a better combination and integration of policies aimed at strengthening macro-regional development and taking account of the specific needs of cities in these areas is needed;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. CWelcomes the new European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI) and its potential for mobilising additional investments and leverage effect; calls for better coordination and integration of all EU investment policies having potential to ensure sustainable, integrated and socially-inclusive urban development; calls on the Commission and the Member States to make full use of the regulatory framework to create synergies between, on the one hand,European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI), the EU subsidised programmes (such as LIFE, Horizon 2020, Intelligent Energy Europe, etc.) and cohesion policy, a funds, on the other hand,as well as the national public financial instruvestments, and to blend these, to the greatest possible extent, with private financial instruments in order to obtain the greatest leverage effect of invested public moneyfunds; underlines the need of ensuring complementarity of all investment policies, enhanced synergy and avoiding double-financing and overlaps;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Urges the Commission to develop a new model of multi-level governance, based on partnerships and genuine collaboration, moving multilevel cooperation beyond simple stakeholder consultations, a model combining formal governmental structures with informal flexible governance structures that correspond to the new realities of the digitalised ‘network’ society, and which is adapted to the scale at which the challenges exist, a model which improves multi-level cooperation, both vertical and horizontal, with governmental and non-governmental actors at local, regional, national and European level, thus bringing government closer to the citizens and improving the democratic legitimacy of the European project; recommends that this model become the generally applied working method of the future European Urban Agenda;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Believes that in order for the European Urban Agenda to be an effective tool it should be a shared and regularly updated conceptual framework with a thematic focus on a that explimcited number ofly recognises the challenges in the larger context of the Europe 2020 goals of smart, inclusive and sustainable growth, with particular attention being given to social inclusion, demographic change, urban mobility, innovation-friendly business environment, resource-efficient economy and environmental sustainability;