Activities of Moritz KÖRNER related to 2023/0264(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - all sections (debate)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. In the context of the European electoral year, reiterates the importance for direct funding for cities to implement EU programmes locally, as it will allow increased support for project applications, and gain higher visibility on EU priorities and EU programmes such as forthe fight against climate change, or to promote the Rule of Law;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Recalls the essential work carried out by decentralised agencies; considers that agencies must be properly staffed and adequately resourced so that they can perform their tasks; recalls that the tasks of agencies evolve in line with policy priorities and stresses that new responsibilities must be accompanied by corresponding levels of fresh resources;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Underlines the importantessential role played by the decentralised agencies active under this heading; proposes to increase appropriations and staffing for the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity and the European Union Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators in line with their identified needs and expanding mandates;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Underlines the key role cohesion policy plays in delivering on EU policy priorities and boosting the EU economy by contributing to fair and sustainable growth and development, promoting economic and social convergence between countries and regions, supporting the green and digital transitions, and fostering innovation and employment; calls on the Commission and the Member States to accelerate implementation of cohesion policy to ensure its timely absorption, especially in light of the additional implementation pressure posed by Next Generation EU; notes that the Union might be required to mobilise the money already available under the cohesion policy but not used to face critical shortages and dependencies in other programmes;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Stresses the importance of adequate funding for programmes under Heading 2a in order to ensure that regional policy, as the EU’s main investment policy, delivers on its objectives; notes, however, the low absorption rate of the available funds for the regional policy in the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020; expects the absorption rate for the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027 to be even lower due to the additional pressure created by funds available under Next Generation EU; underlines that local and regional authorities are key to ensuring effective implementation of EU programmes and calls for the local and regional level, on the one hand, and the EU level, on the other, to be strengthened, including through adequate financing for relevant actions and institutions;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Accepts the Council position with respect to Heading 2a; nevertheless acknowledges that cuts of commitment appropriations might not be avoidable in future annual budgets due to low absorption capacities; therefore notes that future redeployments benefitting other headings with little to no flexibility promise to create a more honest, responsible and effective use of Union funds;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Points, in this regard, to the flagship Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps (ESC) programmes, which play a vital role in supporting learning mobility opportunities, improving people’s skills and employability and promoting social inclusion; emphasises that both programmes aim to boost participation rates among people with fewer opportunities - an objective that is challenged by soaring inflation and the increased cost of living; calls also on Member States to reassess scholarship amounts in the light of the high inflation; is committed to ensuring that Erasmus+ does not become a de facto selective programme open only to those who can afford to participate and recalls that the Commission is required to put in place financial support measures for people with fewer opportunities; proposes, therefore, an increase of EUR 100 million for Erasmus+ and EUR 2 million for the ESC above DB specifically to ensure the programmes are accessible for all;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Underlines the importance of a stronger Health Union and enhanced preparedness in post-pandemic Europe, as well as the need to better understand and treat long COVID; highlights the vital role that the EU4Health programme plays in this respect, as well as in supporting actions to achieve universal health coverage across the Union, encompassing quality access to sexual and reproductive health services; proposes, therefore, to increase the programme’s appropriations by EUR 20 million above DB, including to help offset redeployments towards the European Health Emergency and Response Authority;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Is alarmed by the growing impact of natural disasters in Europe and its neighbourhood and concerned about the EU’s ability to respond effectively; underlines that these disasters are often linked to climate change and are therefore likely to occur with greater frequency and intensity in the future; is concerned about the EU’s ability to respond effectively; increases, therefore, appropriations for the Union Civil Protection Mechanism by EUR 20 million above DB in order to ensure an effective response and protect human lives, to enhance the Union’s response capacity and better protect its citizens, including capacities for the mobilisation of medical units in emergencies, and underlines the need to invest in climate mitigation and adaptation for particularly vulnerable regions; ;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Underscores that soaring energy prices and inflation, following on from the COVID-19 pandemic, have had a significant impact on the cultural and creative sectors, which are often made up of small organisations and individual artists; emphasises the key role that Creative Europe plays in supporting European creations and Union values as well as the recovery of the cultural and creative sectors, fostering media literacy and combatting disinformation; recalls that free press and media pluralism have been under attack in the European Union and that the digital shift creates additional hurdles for a diverse field of media to flourish, which leads the Union to significantly strengthen its support for pluralistic media as the essential basis for a functioning democracy; proposes, therefore, to increase financing for the Creative Europe programme by EUR 25 million above DB, with EUR 15 million for the Culture strand and EUR 10 million for the Cross-Sectoral strand, which plays a vital role in tackling disinformation and promoting media literacy;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Recalls the importantessential role played by the decentralised agencies under Heading 2b; increases funding and staffing levels for the European Institute for Gender Equality, the European Labour Authority and the European Union Agency for Criminal Justice Cooperation in line with the agencies’ identified needs; proposes, furthermore, to reinforce the European Public Prosecutor’s Office in terms of financing and staff to allow the body to fulfil its duties andUnderlines the importance of protecting the Union budget against fraud, corruption and other prohibited conduct, which adversely affect the Union and national budgets; stresses, in this regard, the central role that the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) plays in protecting the Union’s financial interests, including with respect to the use of NextGenerationEU funds, and ensuring compliance with the rule of law; decides, therefore, to apply targeted reinforcements to the EPPO and increase its staffing levels to allow the body to fulfil its mandate, thereby reinforcing efforts against fraud, corruption, money laundering and organised crime; calls on all the Member States to join the EPPO and ensure a better protection of the Union’s financial interests; recalls the importance of compliance with the general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Stresses that the war has vastly increased pressure on asylum systems in the Member States and that the Union must provide longer-term support to the host Member States to address the ever increasing pressure on national asylum and migration systems, including at the external borders, due to a rise of applications for international protection in the Member States and the exceptional support of the EU to host refugees from Ukraine; stresses moreover that a strong budget is necessary for the reception of asylum seekers and the integration of refugees in their host societies, as well as for strengthening the effective returns of migrants with no right to stay in the EU, and other actions that need a coordinated response, such as resettlement or legal pathways; further stresses that a stronger AMIF budget is a key determinant for the successful implementation of the New Pact on Migration and Asylum the adoption of which is expected before the end of this mandate; reiterates the need to facilitate the reception and integration of refugees from Ukraine, and to help face the recent migration trends via the Mediterranean route and anticipate the financial implications of a timely agreement on the Pact on Asylum and Migration (AMIF); decides, therefore, to reinforce the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund by EUR 110 million above DB in 2024 given AMIF’s positive contribution in providing immediate support to refugees;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
58. Reiterates its commitment to the international dimension of Erasmus+, whichin line with the need identified by the Commission to provide support to Ukrainian students and teaching staff, as well as to all students to cope with high inflation; recalls that Erasmus + enables learning mobility exchanges with partner countries around the world; increases, therefore, appropriations for the international dimension of Erasmus+ by EUR 10 million above DB, split evenly between the NDICI and IPA III; underlines that these appropriations will also help to flatten the heavily back loaded financial profile of Erasmus+, providing more consistent annual financing for a programme with stable year-on-year demand; calls also on Member States to reassess scholarship amounts in the light of the high inflation;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 – point c
Paragraph 72 – point c
(c) increase the establishment plans above the DB with the corresponding appropriations in line with the institutions’ requests for the European Data Protection Supervisor and European Data Protection Board to enable them to face new responsibilities and partially in line with the institutions’ requests for the European Committee of the Regions to enhance cybersecurity capabilities and the European External Action Service to enhance primarily cybersecurity and the fight against disinformation, and also to implement the Strategic Compass, and strengthen the crisis response centrer and enhance cybersecurity and the fight against disinformation.