4 Amendments of Marc BOTENGA related to 2020/0103(COD)
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3 a (new)
Recital 3 a (new)
(3a) Given its specific recommendations and structural reforms, the European Semester is a tool for EU interference, designed to enforce and circumscribe the Member States’ fiscal and economic policies, and very often it resorts to blackmail and sanctions as a means to apply measures intended to liberalise public services, deregulate labour and enforce austerity policies. Its implementation leads to sluggish economic development, unemployment, poverty and socio-economic and territorial disparities.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7 a (new)
Recital 7 a (new)
(7a) The Technical Support Instrument may help to build the capacity of national authorities, public and private organisations and the populations that benefit from the projects it supports, paving the way for more efficient and effective use of recovery and resilience funds, with better implementation and a real impact on the delivery of policies that are in line with Member States’ needs and their development strategies, promoting decent work that is fairly paid and based on collective bargaining; that promote public investment in infrastructure and productive sectors, supporting green and innovative development that safeguards social and territorial cohesion; that boost and invest in public services, providing high-quality and universal social responses.
Amendment 85 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 3 – paragraph 1
Article 3 – paragraph 1
The general objective of the instrument shall be to promote the Union’s economic, social and territorial cohesion in the European Union by supporting Member States’ efforts to implement reforms necessaryprojects that promote their development, investment in productive and strategic sectors, and the structuring of universal, free and high-quality public services, with a view to achieveing economic and social recovery, resilience and upward economic and social convergence, and to support Member States’ efforts to strengthen their administrative capacity to implement Union law in relation to challenges faced by institutions, governance, public administration, and economic and social sectors.
Amendment 94 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4 – paragraph 1
Article 4 – paragraph 1
To achieve the general objective set out in Article 3, the instrument shall have the specific objectives of assisting national authorities in improving their capacity to design, develop and implement reformprojects, including through exchange of good practices, appropriate processes and methodologies and a more effective and efficient human resources management. Those specific objectives shall be pursued in close cooperation with the Member States concerned.