Activities of Sander LOONES related to 2015/2285(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2016 (A8-0030/2016 - Maria João Rodrigues) NL
Amendments (6)
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the euro area’s current account surplus continues to rise, while the European Union still faces an important investment gap mainly because of a lack of meaningful institutional and structural reform;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. whereas the lack of meaningful structural reform and budgetary discipline in the Member States has pressured the European Central Bank to pursue an accommodating monetary policy which is endangering monetary stability;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D b (new)
Recital D b (new)
Db. whereas the euro area still lacks a procedure that provides for an orderly exit of its members, which has intensified centrifugal forces within the Economic and Monetary Union;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the European Union’s global competitiveness remains an important objective, while the worsening global outlook calls for strengthening domestic sources of growth, e.g. by meaningful structural reform, and better, as well as less, regulation;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is encouraged byTakes note of some mild improvements in labour market indicators; calls for more effort to reduce poverty, social exclusion and growing inequalitieis concerned by high youth unemployment in economies with rigid labour markets;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Insists on implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact, while making use of available fiscal space, inter alia, to deal with security threats and refugee inflows and establishing a procedure to exit the euro area to be used in the event of non-compliance; considers creating a European mechanism for sovereign defaults inside and outside of the euro area;