Activities of Xabier BENITO ZILUAGA related to 2018/2024(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
2019 budget - Trilogue mandate (debate) ES
Amendments (9)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. WelcomesTakes note the Commission proposal and believes that it corresponds broadly to Parliament’s own priorities; intends to further defend an appropriate level of appropriations corresponding to the latter; notes the increase of 3.1 % in commitment appropriations and points out that it is still insufficient to address the challenges of Europe;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Commends the roleDeplores the design of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) in reducingwhich is unable to promote properly, in a distributed and well selected way, the investment gap in the EU; reiterates its longstanding position that any new initiatives within the MFF must be financed by new appropriations and not to the detriment of the existing programmes; reiterates also that the cuts made to Horizon 2020 and CEF to finance the extension of EFSI should be reversed in the 2019 budget; Europe needs another type of public investment plan, involved in the change of the production model, based in friendly environmentally technologies;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. NotDeplores the commitment to a renewed EU defence agenda, namely through the agreement on the European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP), as a first stage of the European Defence Fund; believes that this shared commitment will contribute to achieving economies of scale and greater coordination among Member States and businesses, allowing the EU to retain its strategic autonomy and become a genuine world playernot solve the security problems of Europe, which have to be faced through social, economic and labour policy within Europe, and a more cooperative strategy with Third Countries;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Agrees that migration remains a top Union priority in 2019; deems it crucial to maintain spending in this area at a high and stable level; it entails that the migration policy should be based on promoting the development cooperation in origin to prevent the root causes of forced migrations, to get ready safe paths to those who has not choice than to move, and preparing social and labour integration policy at destination to make natives and migrants life as productive and inclusive as possible;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. NotDeplores that a total of EUR 3 728.5 million in commitment appropriations is proposed for Heading 3, which represents a 6.7 % increase over 2018, and that the total for payment appropriations is EUR 3 486.4 million, i.e. a 17 % increase over last year’s proposals; underlines, however, that these increases follow years of declining funding levels and that overall funding for different key areas such as migration, border management or internal security still represents only 2.3 % of total proposed EU spending in 2019;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Notes the overall increase in the draft budget 2019 of the allocations for the decentralised agencies, of +10.8 % (without taking into account assigned revenues) and +259 posts; welcomes the fact that for the majority of the agencies their own budget increases while the EU contribution decreases; notes in this regard that Parliament is currently exploring the possibilities of further extending the fee- financing of decentralised agencies; notes with satisfactioconcern that agencies with ‘new security tasks’ (ESMA, EU-LISA and FRONTEX) are granted a significant increase in appropriations and establishment plan staff, while another social priorities are diminishing, as it happens in the ground of social cohesion and agriculture;