Activities of Damian BOESELAGER related to 2020/2075(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the review of the macroeconomic legislative framework for a better impact on Europe’s real economy and improved transparency of decision-making and democratic accountability
Amendments (13)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
-1 a. Stresses that any institutional design has to be fit for purpose; highlights that the goal of macroeconomic policies is to ensure an economy that works for all, to produce policies based on solidarity and with a feminist perspective, to leave no one behind and to ensure resilient societies that put the well-being of its citizens at the centre; notes the importance of democratic, transparent and accountable institutions to ensure that economic policies respond to this purpose and therefore the general interest;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Calls to make use of the flexibilities in the Treaties to increase the use of the community method, to move from unanitmity to qualified majority voting in the Council and to involve the Parliament through co-decision where possible; calls, in particular, for the adoption of a comprehensive “passerelle clause’’ package for a switch to qualified majority voting procedures in the Council on taxation issues and own resources for the EU budget;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3 c. Stresses the need for proper mutualisation mechanisms to address economic shocks; welcomes NGEU as a first step in the right direction but points to the need for permanent programmes of financial assistance; requests in this regard to incorporate an amended ESM into EU law;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3 d. Calls for the adoption of a comprehensive 'enhanced cooperation' package specifically targeted at the Eurozone+ and focussed mainly on further fiscal harmonization and socio- economic convergence within the EMU and the EU;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Asks for the Commission’s Vice- President for an economy that works for people to chair the Eurogroup with the aim of reconnecting the currently unaccountable Eurogroup body to some form of EU level parliamentary scrutiny;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)
4 d. Calls on the Eurogroup to be included in the Rules of procedure of the Council and for the Council to regulate, among other provisions, its voting procedures, the obligation to publish its minutes and the results and explanations of votes;
Amendment 43 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls the importance of parity; strongly regrets that only applications from male candidates have been submitted to Parliament for the latest posts to be filled in the economic bodies of the Union and recalls Parliament’s position not to endorse appointments to boards and other bodies of EU agencies if the shortlist of candidates proposed by the institution or body in question does not respect gender balance;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the importance of an economic governance debate as part of the Conference on the Future of Europe; calls for the conclusions of that conference to be properly taken into account, evenalso if they meanrequire amending the Treaties.
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 f (new)
Paragraph 8 f (new)
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 g (new)
Paragraph 8 g (new)
8 g. Strongly believes that it is essential to allow real choices in economic policy and calls for the revision of the TFEU in order to allow for democratic choices to be made on the European level rather than to bind the EU to specific policies;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 h (new)
Paragraph 8 h (new)
8 h. Requests to lift restrictions to unanimity in Council and to parliamentary co-decision powers in all areas of economic and financial policy in the next revision of the Treaties;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 i (new)
Paragraph 8 i (new)
8 i. Asks for the transformation of the Eurogroup into a Council formation submitted to explicit rules of procedure;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 j (new)
Paragraph 8 j (new)
8 j. Calls for the amendment of Article 12 TEU to strengthen the role of national parliaments and ensure information rights towards their respective national government and the European Commission;