Activities of Gérard DEPREZ related to 2017/2286(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Guidelines for the 2019 budget - Section III (debate) FR
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on general guidelines for the preparation of the 2019 budget, Section III – Commission PDF (462 KB) DOC (67 KB)
Amendments (25)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the slow recovery from, after many of them have been hard hit, for several years, by the consequences of the financial, economic and social crisis has fallen short of influencing positiv, citizens feely the day-to-day lives of EU citizens, while social inequalities keep on growingbeneficial effects of the renewed growth, the increase in employment and the stabilizing of public finances;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that, contrary to populist narrative, EU citizens expect the Union to do more, and to protect them from the consequences of global competition, climate change and international security threaclimate change, international security threats and the negative consequences of global competition, while helping them reap its benefits; believes that in order to fulfil these expectations, the EU must, within the remit of its competences, perform better, so as to narrow the gap in living standards between EU citizens, to prepare the European economy and EU citizens to face up to the challengefor the opportunity of digitalisation, to manage migration flows, and to put an end to various kinds of discrimination, such as discrimination against women or LGBTI people, while fully adhering to the EU 2020 strategy and, UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris agreement;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that the 2019 EU budget must primarily answer to the challenges the EU youth is facing, through support for entrepreneurship and via an improved mobility at all levels of education and vocational training;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Believes that the priorities for the 2019 EU budget should be growth, innovation, competitivness, fight against climate change and transition to renewable energy, migration and security;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls on the Commission to fulfil the objectives of the Paris agreement and the EU’s own long-term climate goals by meeting the 20 % spending target for climate in current 2014-2020 MFF; stresses, in this regard, that the contribution for 2019 should significantly overshoot the overall target in order to offset the lower allocations made during the first years of the MFF and that the mechanism of climate change mainstreaming should be fully optimised;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Supports the widening of opportunities for the young people to participate in solidarity activities; calls for a swift roll-out and thorough implementation of the European Solidarity Corps following the foreseen adoption of the initiative in 2018;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the fact that, at the strong request of Parliament, the result of the conciliation on the 2018 EU budget was to increase the originally proposed specific allocation for the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) by EUR 116.7 million of fresh appropriations, bringing its total amount to EUR 350 million in 2018, but points to the need to improve the implementation of the funds that has lagged behind; expects the 2019 budget to demonstrate great ambition to fight youth unemployment in accordance with the real absorption capacity in that area;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission to make available for 2019 the financial data on implementation of the Youth Employment Initiative broken down by national share to complement the data reporting on total costs that is currently publicly available; urges the Commission to improve synergies between the Youth Employment Initiative, the European Social Fund, and national budgets of the Members States to make sure that the YEI does not substitute for national funding for the NEETs;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that, in the light of the celebration of its 30as proved by the volume of applications exceeding the anniversaryvailable funding, Erasmus+ remains the leading programme to foster youth mobility, learning and inculcateing key European values in young people, together with the EU’s culture programmes; believes that the 2019 Erasmus+ budget should be sufficient to answer positively to all eligible demands;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. RecommendsBelieves that research, competitiveness and SMEs are key to enable economic growth and job creation; underlines therefore the importance to providinge EU companies, especially SMEs, with a favourable environment for innovation, by properly financing the EU’s research programmes, such as Horizon 2020, and programmes that support SMEs, such as COSME; considers this to be necessary in view of the rapidly changing and highly competitive world and the profound changes in all sectors brought on by digitalisationresearch and investments to reach a genuinely competitive EU economy on a global level; stresses the importance of a stable and increased budget of Heading 1a, with a proper financing of the successful Horizon 2020, and programmes that support SMEs, such as COSME;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Stresses the potential for economic growth stemming from the technological transformation and calls for an appropriate role of the EU budget in supporting the digitalisation of the European industry and the promotion of digital skills and digital entrepreneurship.
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls thatWelcomes the extension and enhancement of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) and the expansion of the investment target enabled by the increase of the EU guarantee; reminds that the enlarged guarantee fund has been financed partly at the expense of Horizon 2020 and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF); reiterates Parliament’s long-standing position that any new initiatives should be financed by new appropriations;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Stresses that the extended EFSI should make a significant progress in 2019 on delivering on better geographical coverage, so that all regions can equally benefit from the leverage provided by the EU budget guarantee; calls on the Member States to implement structural reforms that improve the investment environment and local capacities for successful implementation of EFSI support in all regions;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the Member States’ recent commitment to a renewed EU defence agenda, which seeks to enhance both hard and soft power, and considers it to be in line with the security concerns of citizens, in the light of rising global instability that is exacerbated by new types of threats; supports the recent Commission initiative to launch the European Defence Industrial Development Programme, as a first stage of the European Defence Fund; reiterates that it should not be financed by any redeployments from existing successful programmes;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Underlines that tackling internal security must remain the Union’s top priority and calls for the reinforced funding for this evolving policy; is convinced that the EU needs to invest more in the strengthening and the management of its borders, enhancing cooperation between law enforcement agencies and national authorities and fighting terrorism, radicalisation and organised crime, ensuring the interoperability of information systems; underlines, in this respect, the role played by the Internal Security Fund (ISF) and the need to adequately fund agencies in the areas of borders, security and justice; reminds that the financial envelope of this instrument was significantly reduced for 2018;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Calls for increased funding to combat the phenomenon of radicalization that breeds violent extremism within the Union; considers that this objective can be achieved by promoting integration and combating discrimination, racism and xenophobia;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8 c. Considers that tackling irregular migration and the reception of the asylum seekers is one of the main challenge; welcomes the role played by the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF); calls for adequate budgeting in 2019 for this fund in order to support dignified reception of asylum seekers in the Member States, fair return strategies, resettlement programs, legal migration policies and the promotion of effective integration of third country national; reaffirms the importance of having targeted financial means to tackle the root causes of the migrant and refugee crisis; stresses that, to this end, the EU budget must fund measures in the countries of origin of migrants and in the host countries of refugees, including, but not limited to, measures to tackle poverty, unemployment, educational and economic challenges and instability, conflict and climate change;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8 d. Calls on the Commission to present a proposal which would aim at providing at the European level for the expression of financial solidarity to victims of acts of terrorism and their families;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Expects the negotiations on the 2019 budget to lead to realistic operational and administrative funding of the EU agencies and the new EU bodies, enabling them to accomplish their growing tasks of fighting organised crime, terrorism and border managemen against cross-border crime and cybercrime, drugs, fraud, money laundering, terrorism, support for asylum, judicial cooperation, police cooperation, border management, data protection, support for information systems on a large scale and support for fundamental rights; calls for the allocation of adequate resources to ensure the proper implementation and functioning of the European Public Prosecutor's Office; calls, in a more general way, for a thorough assessment of the strategic interest and tasks of all agencies and the possibilities of grouping agencies according to the strategic nature of their mission and their result;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Expects the negotiations on the 2019 budget to lead to realistic operational and administrative funding of the EU agencies, enabling them to accomplish their growing tasks of fighting organised crime, terrorism and border management, and completeing the Energy Union;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. StressBelieves that the Member States’ strong social protection systems have helped them to mitigate the consequences of the crisis; believes that the EU can support the Member States, while fully respecting their competences, by budgeting properly programmes which set out to fight inequalities, alleviate the worst forms of poverty, including child poverty, and overcome the negative effects of digitalisation on working conditions and social protection systemsEU budget should contribute to the efforts by the Member States, to fight inequalities, create growth and jobs, alleviate the worst forms of poverty, including child poverty, and prepare citizens to benefit from digitalisation;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Reiterates its concern about delays to the implementation of the cohesion policy, and expects this important expresse Member States to get the implementation of theis EU’s territorial solidarity to getmost important investment policy up to speed; believes that sufficient levels of payment and appropriations for commitments should be provided in order for implementation to proceed smoothly;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that both the EU and the Member States should demonstrate solidarity towards migrantasylum seekers arriving in Europe in facing up to this challenge; reiterates the importance of the principle of burden-sharing among Member States in financing the efforts needed to provide sufficient support for refugees; believes that EU agencies and policies involved in or relating to the management of migration flows should be adequately financed to meet this challenge and that the EU, in order to mitigate the cost in the long term and by acting in a manner befitting its values, should also demonstrate solidarity in creating conditions for peace and prosperity in the countries of origin by placing greater emphasis on development policies; recalls that the redeployment of funding from development to security and defence objectives must be avoided;
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Reiterates its position that the satellite budgetary mechanisms such as trust funds and other similar instruments circumvent the budgetary procedure, undermine transparency of budgetary management and obstruct the right of the Parliament to exercise effective scrutiny of expenditures; considers, therefore, that these external instruments that were created in recent years must be incorporated into the Union budget;