Activities of Angelika WINZIG related to 2022/2172(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Impact on the 2024 EU budget of increasing European Union Recovery Instrument borrowing costs - Own resources: a new start for EU finances, a new start for Europe (debate)
Amendments (16)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the crucial and growing importance of the EU budget in delivering on virtually all of the EU’s key policy objectives, its flagship programmes and its crisis intervention; underlines the multiple challenges the EU is facing such as building up its strategic autonomy, ending its reliance upon Rufossian fossil fuelsl fuels especially from Russia, completing the health union and the energy union and financing important common projects such as defence, civil protection and space; considers that all new EU policies and challenges must involve new means and extra resources; reiterates, in this regard, that robust, reliable and resilient financing of the EU budget requires a diversified and enlarged set of own resources; is convinced that there is huge potential in a well- designed reform of the EU own resources not only for strengthening the financing of its budgetary needs, but also for boosting its policy outputs, improving the fiscal equilibrium between the EU and Member States and adding value to overall public finance as well as putting a stop to ever higher GNI contributions from member states;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that these new own resources are necessary to avoid the next generation of Europeans paying the price for the repayment of the principal and the interest of the funds borrowed under NGEU, either through an increased burden on taxpayers or via cuts in regular EU programmes directly affecting beneficiaries and project-holders; notes the legitimate demand by Europeans for more social and tax justice; warns against any attempt to reduce funding for ordinary EU policies to make space for the repayment of EU debt, as this would endanger long-term EU goals, such as economic convergence, research and innovation or the green and digital transition;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Regrets that the current way in which the EU budget is financed subjects it to national budgetary constraints, thus leading to undue downward pressure on its – already modest – overall volume and a ‘juste retour’ logic that does not reflect fully the solidarity principle at the core of EU integration; believes that this structure is one of the main reasons preventing the EU from fulfilling all its tasks effectively; is very concerned by the slow progress in the modernisation of the own resources system since the creation of the European Communities;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges all actors to continue the efforts to identify fresh and new, preferably genuine, own resources and other revenue sources for the EU budget with the aim of fully covering the overall expected expenditure for the repayment of the principal and the interest of the funds borrowed under the NGEU and reinforcingmaking sure that the EU bBudget where the ‘1 % of EU GDP dogma’ is to be abandonedcan properly deliver on key EU policies;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Believes that the EU revenue side should be used strategically to create incentives for morestrengthen the EU´s competitiveness and to create incentives for more innovation in Europe as well as social and tax justice; underlines that green own resources should be complemented by tax-based own resources from the corporate sector for reasons of sufficiency, fiscal equivalence (those who benefit from the EU and its open markets should also contribute their fair share to its financing) and overall distributional fairness among Member States and sectors, always taking into account the competiveness of European industry;
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Looks forward to and places high hopes, in this context, in the Commission’s upcoming Business in Europe: Framework for Income Taxation (BEFIT) initiative in the third quarter of 2023; agrees that a single corporate tax rulebook for the EU, based on the key features of a common tax base and the allocation of profits between Member States by using a formula or formulary apportionment, would constitute an excellent starting point for a new own resource in the spirit of the roadmap; expects the new approach to this corporate tax-based own resource to address issues of national differences in corporate taxation that have so far impeded an own resource in this realm and to allow for a broad s; reminds however that the policy goals of BEFIT are boosting compe capturing more companies active in the single market than only the few very biggest and most profitable multinationals that are subject to the OECD Pillar One Agreementtitiveness, cutting down on red tape, reducing compliance costs but also to go against tax avoidance practices, which therefore means that BEFIT will need a careful design including clear assessments of interactions and overlaps with current implemented or ongoing EU and global initiatives (for example Pillar I and Pillar II) for it to be effective and achieve its policy goals;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Acknowledges with regret that any prospects for the introduction of a financial transaction tax under enhanced cooperation have faded away in the course of recent years; insistproposes, nevertheless, that the financial sector be encompassed by the corporate or single market-based own resource initiative, ideally within the BEFIT context, carefully assessing the impact of such an instrument and taking into account the competiveness of European capital markets;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5
Subheading 5
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that several taxation options are conceivable for crypto-assets, such as a tax on capital gains resulting from crypto-asset activities (based on a uniform levy rate for all EU Member States), a tax on crypto-asset transactions or a tax on the mining and trading of crypto-assets determined according to their electricity consumption and environmental impact; calls on the Commission to assess the impact of these options on the European crypto-asset market, to estimate potential revenues and to come forward with a concrete proposal; recalls that crypto assets have been subject to high volatility to date and expects that structuring own resources and predicting income streams in this area may therefore be challenging;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recalls that in its position of 23 November 202215 , Parliament stated that in the event of a clear lack of progress at OECD level towards the Multilateral Convention by the end of 2023, a legislative proposal should be submitted for a digital levy or similar measure that can be enacted unilaterally and which can serve as a basis for an own resource of the Union in order to generate revenues by 2026; welcomespoints out that the debate over the contribution of large digital operatocontent providers to network costs is still ongoing; _________________ 15 Texts adopted, P9_TA(2022)0404.
Amendment 137 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Sees high potential added value inIs open to the discussion of own resources in the form of statistics- based national contributions which provide Member States with an incentive and a reward for vigorous implementation of EU- level policies; calls on the Commission to assess and simulate the impact of such national contributions calculated on the basis of statistics in the social or environmental areas where robust, common harmonised Eurostat data are available on an annual basis;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Calls, specificallyfor example, for the establishment of a gender pay gap-based own resource; underlines that, under this mechanism, a share of contributions based on gross national income (GNI) wcould be replaced by a new distribution key requiring Member States with a higher gender pay gap to contribute more than Member States with smaller gender pay gap, in a proportionate way;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Recognises the merits of the GNI- based own resource in view of its reliable balancing function; noteregrets the enduring predominance of the share of national contributions in the own resources system, now amounting to approximately 80 %; points out the modest share of traditional and genuine own resources, especially customs duties, which stands at around 13 % today;