26 Amendments of Werner LANGEN related to 2013/2134(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the economic, social, financial and sovereign debt crises have not yet abated and twhe objective ofreas a more balanced and integrated Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) remains an unattained ambitionobjective to be pursued;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas, although in the case of Member States under a financial assistance programme recommendations have been strictly enforced, the level of compliance byrightly been enforced, no sanctions of any kind are proposed for the rest of the Member States with previous CSRs is extremely low;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s recognition that ‘to be successful, policies need not only to be well designed but to have political and social support’, and that Europe needs,and the Member States, which bear responsibility, need – beyond fiscal consolidation, real – growth and more specific and urgent action to tackle the unacceptablyjointly the high levels of unemployment;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission’s recognition that ‘deficit’ countries need to boost their competitiveness and that ‘surplus’ countries need to boost their demand, and that this calls for a deep revision of the prevailing policy stance;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission and the Council to avoid taking a one-size-fits-all approach to the CSRs and ensure that recommendations are fine-tuned according to the national specificities and needs of the Member State concerned, while, however, the highest priority must be to stabilise the budget and the economy in the Member States concerned;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the fact that the Commission’s recommendations are directed not only at Member States but also to the euro area as a whole; considers it regrettable, however, that the recommendations made to Member States do not take sufficiently into account the strong interdependence between EU economies, particularly within the euro area, or all the information contained in the Alert Mechanism Report;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for deeper investigation of the reasons for the hugperceptible increase in internal divergences in competitiveness and economic performance across Member States that have resulted from the functioning of the single currency, and in particular of the asymmetricand of the differing impact of common policies;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission’s recognition that European competitiveness ‘cannot and will not be based merely on costs’ and that it is essential to enhance productivity, investment in education, research and innovation and resource efficiency, in line with Europe 2020 goals; regrets therefore the lack of progress on the EU 2020 targets; calls for the above recognition to be adequately reflected in the ‘deficit’ countries’ CSRs as these are the Member States which are in critical need of boosting their competitiveness;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Regrets the lack ofdelays in implementation ofing the EUR 120 billion ‘Compact for Growth and Jobs’ agreed in June 2012, of the Project Bond initiative launched in November 2012 and of the EUR 180 billion additional investment by the EIB (after theinvestment by the EIB estimated at a maximum of EUR 180 billion increase in EIB paid in capital approved on 8 January 2013); calls on the Council and the Commission to investigate and remove as a matter of urgencyquickly remove the obstacles preventing full delivery of these initiatives;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission to include in the scope of a CCI financial support to structural reforms in areas that block economic dynamism and efficiency such as the reforms of the national justice systems, technically supported by the EU Justice Scoreboard;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. WelcomNotes the use by the Commission of the margin of manoeuvre offered by the revised SGP to extend the deadlines for the correction of excessive deficits in seven procedures; calls on the Commission and the Council to ensure that the content and the calendar of the fiscal adjustment path are adapted to the specificity of each country and, particularly in ‘deficit’ countries, includein ‘deficit’ countries do not make wrong use of the aforementioned margin of manoeuvre and the fullnce delay necessary measures, for example the use of structural funds, sound and sustainable structural reforms and the identification of investments (namely in the CSR) essential to boost competitiveness; calls on the Commission to clarify as a matter of urgency the ways in which to accommodate, under certain conditions, non-recurrent, public investment programmes with a proven impact on the sustainability of public finances;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the Commission’s statement that ‘surplus’ countries have a role to play in overcoming the current crisis, not only by reducing taxes and social security contributions but also by developing wages in order to boost sustainable domestic demand and promoting new investment opportunities; stresses the importance of the positive spill-over effects which these actions will have across the EU by boosting sustainable domestic demand and promoting new investment opportunities by means of their purchasing power;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Urges the Commission to develop a genuine European industrial policy and a coherent European external trade policy, based on reciprocity and shared minimum standards, in particular in social and environmental matters; believes that it is only by intelligently managing its interface with ‘globalisation’ that Europe can guarantee growth, jobs and, for several Member States, the recommended progressive reallocation of resources away from non-tradable sectors into tradable sectors;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. CommendNotes the Commission’s recognition that there is a need for greater attention to be paid to the distributional impact of reforms, and calls on the Commission to carry out a thorough ex- ante assessment of the social impact of all the new recommended reforms and to derive all the necessary conclusions from previous recommendations, including those made to Member States under financial assistance programmestatement that the Member States and the EU’s financial support measures should devote greater attention to the distributional impact of reforms;
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to submit legislative proposals to complete the EMU through a social pillar, as the national automatic stabilisers are blocked in the Member States where they are most needed; stresses that a social scoreboard is needed as a building block of this pillarwith reference to social issues as well;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Agrees that the ECB’s action has ‘decisively contributed to the stability of the euro area’, limiting speculation on sovereign debt; considers, however, that insufficient growth and high (and still growing) levels of private and public debt in many Member States mean that ‘a carefully managed process of deleveraging’ is required; calls on the Commission, therefore, to quickly deliver its 2-pack commitments to Parliament in order to deepen the analysis on the partial substitution of national debt issuance through joint issuance in the form of a redemption fund and eurobills;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses that the financing of the real economy, and of SMEs in particular, has not been restored oin thsome EU’s periphery countries; points out that major differences in access to credit further stimulate the growing internal divergence trends in the EU and euro area in particular and destroy the internal market through unfair competition conditions; points out also that negative economic prospects only partially justify such restrictive credit constraints; calls for closer monitoring of the banking sector practices in financing the real economy, in particular economically viable SMEs; calls for the Commission to prioritise work on alternative sources of financing for SMEs, in particular through the structural funds, the European Investment Bank, the European Investment Fund and public development banksand bring pressure to bear on the internal market;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Points out that negative economic prospects only partially justify such restrictive credit constraints; calls for closer monitoring of the banking sector practices in financing the real economy, in particular economically viable SMEs; calls for the Commission to attach particular importance to the analysis of alternative sources of financing for SMEs, in particular through the Structural Funds, the European Investment Bank, the European Investment Fund and public development banks;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Urges the Commission to submit a legislative proposal to create a Single Resolution Mechanism (including a Single European Authority and an industry financed Single European Fund), which is essential for completing the Banking Union; urges the Council to rapidly conclude negotiations with Parliament on the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive and on the Banking Recovery and Resolution Directive (to be negotiated in parallel);
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Welcomes the Commission’s ‘Action Plan to strengthen the fight against tax fraud and tax evasion’ and its recommendations on ‘measures intended to encourage all EU countries and third countries to apply minimum standards of good governance in tax matters’ and on ‘aggressive tax planning’, adopted on 6 December 2012; stresses that fairness and justice in burden sharing require a completely new approach to tax fraud and evasion; calls for urgent action by the Commission and for clear support from the Council on these dossiers, adopted on 6 December 2012;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the Council to conclude the negotiations for the Financial Transaction Tax and to include in its agenda, as a matter of urgency, the convergence of tax systems within the EUurge that it be introduced throughout Europe;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Urges the Commission to ensure that Member States involve their national parliaments, and the social partners and civil society in the European Semester process as a whole, and particularly in the development and discussion of their national reform programmes;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Emphasises the importance of the dialogue between the European Parliament and national parliaments with a view to achieving a fully operational European Semester process and attaining the necessary level of democratic accountability with regard to all those involved; underlines the usefulness of the European Parliamentary Week on the European Semester for Economic Policy Coordination (EPW 2013);