Activities of Joachim KUHS related to 2022/0212(BUD)
Plenary speeches (2)
General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023 - all sections (debate)
2023 budgetary procedure: joint text (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the Council position on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2023
Amendments (17)
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Highlights that Member States continue to face numerous challenges and is convinced that Union citizens expect the 2023 budget to be more efficient, transparent, performance-based providing concrete reductions in administrative expenditure and granting an efficient and accountable use of taxpayers’ money; underlines also the need to properly evaluate which funds could be better managed at national level in order to ensure full respect for the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls its long-standing position that new policy priorities or tasks shouldmust be accompanied by fresh resources; intends to follow that approach for the Chips Act and the proposal for a Union Secure Connectivity Programme; welcomes the fact that the Commission proposal establishing the European defence industry reinforcement through common procurement act does not entail redeployments from, or earmarking within, other programman efficient use of available resources;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses that new policy priorities or tasks must be accompanied by an efficient use of resources; asks if policy priorities or tasks of decentralised agencies could not be better accomplished by existing Directorates-General of the Commission or by Member states in order to prevent duplication of roles and costs and also improving transparency;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that the Union budget, on account of its size, structure and rules, has a very limited capacity to respond appropriately in 2023 to the challenges facing the Union or to adequately finance new shared Union policy ambitions or initiatives announced in the Commission’s President’s 2022 State of the Union address; recalls in particular that the Heads of State or Government have described the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine as a ‘tectonic shift in European history’ and that the Commission has stated that the ‘unforeseen needs created by war in Europe are well beyond the means available in the current multiannual financial framework’, necessitating new financing sourca realistic review of EU priorities ; is of the view that this is a further demonstration of the urgent need to revise the MFF, including to make it more flexible, raise the ceilings where necessary to reflect emerging needs and new priorities and to address the problems generated by including the European Union Recovery Instrument (EURI) financing costs in Heading 2b;
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Notes that, in 2022, as a result of the war against Ukraine, it was necessary tothe European Union provided additional financing of EUR 150 million to the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) to support Member States receiving people fleeing the conflict; welcomes the decision to trigger the Temporary Protection Directive, which, owing to the nature of the conflict, will entail a longer-term financial commitment and necessitate ongoing budgetary support to Member States; decidunderlines, therefore, to reinforce the AMIF by EUR 100 mill need to guarantee funding and staffing for agencies operating in the field of migration, asylum and border management, especially as long as the allocations abore devolved the DB in 2023o repatriation and border security;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 a (new)
Paragraph 37 a (new)
37 a. Underlines the failure of European policies on preventing migration flows and human trafficking; reiterates its concerns about the role played by instruments such as the Internal Security Fund and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund in the management of the effects of the migration and refugee crisis;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. DecidesOpposes the decision to increase support for strategic communication, especially to measures aimed at countering global disinformation through the systematic tracking and exposing of disinformation spread by state and other actorsaiming to counter pluralism which is arbitrary labelled by the EU as "disinformation";
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. UnderlineQuestions the key role of the EU Macro-Financial Assistance to Moldova, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo, Montenegro, North Macedonia, and Ukraine to promote investments, support recovery from the COVID-19 crisis and the consequences of the war;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 a (new)
Paragraph 49 a (new)
49 a. Calls for an immediate stop to the Union's accession negotiations with Turkey and the prompt suspension of all funds provided to this country under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA) and the EIB financing, since Turkey does not respect several of the basic principles of freedom and democracy and it has increased its aggressive behaviour, not only in the Mediterranean area, becoming a real threat for many Member States;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Considers thatWelcomes the Council’s cuts in this heading - which are designed to obviate recourse to the Flexibility Instrument, as proposed in the DB - are unjustified and would not allow the Commission to fulfil its tasks; restores therefgiven the many privileges and benefits that are already provided; regrets therefore the decision to restore the DB for the Commission administrative expenditure, including with respect to its Offices;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58 – point d
Paragraph 58 – point d
(d) underlines the need forStresses that Parliament’s Committee on Budgets have to receive all relevant information relating to Parliament’s budget in a timely and intelligible manner to be able to take informed decisions; while recognisinghowever regrets the aimportance of the of establishment ofing Europa Experiences centres in all Member States as a way to bring the Union closer to the people, since it questions their real added value; in this context, requests an update of the running costs of the Europa Experience centres, given the context of high inflation; requests and also an update on the EUR 37,9 million loan proposed to finance the purchase of the building of the Europa Experience in Dublin as required by Article 266(6) of the Financial Regulation;
Amendment 182 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58 a (new)
Paragraph 58 a (new)
58 a. Recalls the Parliament’s 2013 resolution which estimated the costs of the geographic dispersion to range from EUR 156 million to EUR 204 million per year; deplores the fact that over a single parliamentary term the costs generated by Parliament’s geographic dispersion can amount to as much as EUR 1 billion and calls, therefore, for practical step to be taken quickly to establish a single seat for Parliament in Strasbourg, in order to prevent any further waste of public money.
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
59. Stresses the pressure that the high inflationary context has on the expenditure for the other institutions; highlights that the largest part of their budgets is fixed by statutory or contractual obligations impacted by inflation and that they have no control over inflation rates and increasing energy prices; points out the need for the crucial institutions dealing with ongoing migration crisis to have sufficient staff in order to fulfil their mandate; welcomes the continuous efforts made by the institutions to redeploy staff and find additional efficiency gains but recognises the limits of this approach in the current context when paired simultaneously with increasing responsibilities; regrets that the Commission did not grant any of the additional posts requested by the other institutions, irrespective of their new tasks; condemns the horizontal approach taken by the Council to increase the abatement rate by 1,8 percentage points in each institution and considers that it is not justified; recalls that increasing the abatement rate would oblige the other institutions to keep a higher number of posts vacant, hence decreasing their workforce, their capabilities to answer to citizens’ concerns and fulfil their mandate;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61 – point b
Paragraph 61 – point b
(b) restore the level of appropriations partially in line with the estimates of the European Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee, the European Data Protection Supervisor and the European External Action Serviceand the European Data Protection Supervisor by increasing the appropriations above the DB for budgetary lines that cover appropriations in relation to the new staff as well as the number of posts in their establishment plans;
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61 – point b a (new)
Paragraph 61 – point b a (new)
(b a) Regrets the ongoing increase in appropriations for the European External Action Service, as it has repeatedly proven to be extremely useless, costly and of questionable effectiveness;