Activities of Constanze KREHL related to 2022/2032(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report - EU border regions: living labs of European integration (debate)
Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report - EU border regions: living labs of European integration (debate)
Reports (1)
REPORT on economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report
Amendments (16)
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M
Recital M
M. whereas cohesion policy should provide efficient responses for tackling poverty and social exclusion, creating employment and growth, promoting investment in education, health, research and innovation, fighting climate change and tackling demographic challenges; whereas cohesion policy can only fulfil all these tasks if it is embedded in solid funding and is freed from macro- economic conditionality;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is convinced that cohesion policy can only continue to play its present role as a vector for investment and job creation and a solidarity mechanism for all EU regions if it has solid funding and is no longer subject to any macro-economic conditionality; stresses that this implies providing for at least the same level of funding as in the 2021-2027 financial period, topped up with the Just Transition Fund (JTF) II budgetary resources;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Reaffirms its strong commitment to cohesion policy, which is an acquis communautaire inseparable from the European project, based on the principle of solidarity between Member States and regions;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights the importance of increased funding for Interreg to support the cooperation of regions across borders which is essential for the Union's integration and development;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Welcomes the cohesion policy’s role as a short-term reaction tool in addressing recent crises; underlines that the original aim of cohesion policy to promote and support the 'overall harmonious development' of its Member States and regions should remain the key role of cohesion policy programmes;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the Commission’s introduction of the JTF to support regions facing challenges in their transition towards carbon neutrality; calls on the Commission to draw lessons from the implementation of the JTF; asks for a JTF II, which should be fully integrated into the CPR and significantly better funded than the current JTF, to be established in the post-2027 programming period, while applying shared management and partnership principles; believes that regions with high CO² per capita, as well as industries in transition, should have access to this fund; calls for this new JTF to differentiate between climate mitigation and adaptation; stresses that a certain proportion of funding should be allocated to the transition, in a socially just way, and to the reduction of the EU’s carbon footprint;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 10 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Welcomes the idea of the “do no harm cohesion” principle, raised in the 8th cohesion report; believes that the European Committee of the Regions should be involved in the design of this principle and that it should be set into legislation so that scope and modalities of its application are clearly defined;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Believes that while some regions in industrial transition face specific challenges like deindustrialisation, due to outsourcing of industrial production to emerging economies, low levels of productivity and no real strategy for future-oriented occupations; other regions, have a comparatively strong potential, like tradition in manufacturing and sophisticated innovation activities in local niche-industries; furthermore, within specific regions, industrial transition or the lack of it, may have left pockets of disadvantages in close proximity with areas of relative prosperity;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14a. Societies and economies have to unlock their creative potential, regions facing challenges with the transition towards carbon neutrality such as old industrial regions should use creative industry as a multidiscipline catalyst for transition processes, integrating ideas of the cultural and creative industries into administrative processes and managing authorities can help these regions, therefore stresses the need to support multidisciplinary cooperation;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 15 – point 1 (new)
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 15 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Underlines that state aid rules should be aligned for EU policies, so that cohesion policy programmes, which need to follow all state aid rules, are not put at a disadvantaged position in comparison to other EU policies, which are exempt from it;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 – point 2 (new)
Paragraph 15 – point 2 (new)
(2) Calls on the Commission to work on a solution that public spending under cohesion policy by Member States and local and regional authorities as part of Structural and Investment Funds should not be considered as national or equivalent structural expenditure as defined within the Stability and Growth Pact;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Is convinced that a major challenge for future cohesion policy will be to provide appropriate support to these regions,, and that cohesion policy must both reduce disparities and prevent vulnerable regions from falling behind, by taking account of the different trends and dynamics;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Calls for the strengthening of European territorial cooperation and invites the Commission to take all necessary initiatives, including relaunching the cross-border cooperation mechanism, to make this cooperation more dynamic and effective for the benefit of the people;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Stresses the importance of investments on regional and local level for the strive towards a circular economy;