12 Amendments of Isabel BENJUMEA BENJUMEA related to 2024/2112(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
E a. Whereas, in recent years, the EU has demonstrated a high degree of resilience to major disruptions due to a coordinated response; further recalls that fostering sustainable growth in a consistent manner involves promoting fiscal discipline and responsible budgetary policies, advancing pro-market structural reforms, and increasing investments, particularly strategic ones, to enhance productivity, foster a more competitive single market, develop economic growth policies, and revise the regulatory framework to attract investments; emphasizes that achieving sustainable and competitive economic growth is essential through efficiency and the promotion of economic freedom;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E b (new)
Recital E b (new)
E b. Whereas competences should be developed so as to be well-defined and limited while respecting the principle of subsidiarity in public spending; notes that the solution does not lie in increased public spending that raises public debt, but rather in structural reforms such as reducing bureaucracy, simplifying administrative and regulatory frameworks, completing the Capital Markets Union, attracting private investment, and developing attractive regulatory frameworks; welcomes the Union's commitment to improve its spending efficiency and investments in overall defense capabilities to meet its needs in the face of growing threats and security challenges; recalls that any transferred spending must be accompanied by robust mechanisms ensuring transparency, accountability, and the efficient use of funds, so as to avoid indiscriminate increases in public spending;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Highlights the need to implement a gradual and sustained fiscal consolidation in the eurozone; recalls that this can be achieved by prioritizing the efficiency of public spending, eliminating unnecessary bureaucracy, and promoting policies that drive economic growth, such as private investment, deregulation in strategic sectors, and improving the business environment to foster innovation and competitiveness; emphasizes that public spending must be controlled and justified, as otherwise it could lead to a crowding- out effect, causing the private sector to contract and public debt to rise uncontrollably, thereby increasing the inefficiency of public expenditure;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Proposes that country-specific recommendations include an analysis of the quality of public spending, thereby promoting the redirection of productive investments and eliminating inefficient expenditures;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 5 a (new)
Subheading 5 a (new)
RRF and NextGeneration EU
Amendment 71 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20 a. Emphasizes that Next Generation EU and, more specifically, the Recovery and Resilience Facility, have been a necessary, swift, and decisive response to the economic crisis caused by COVID and the urgent need to reactivate and boost the economy through a stimulus plan; reiterates that the successive modifications and updates to this plan, such as REPowerEU in response to the energy crisis triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, also demonstrated the ability to adapt and respond quickly;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20 b. Recalls that, at the Union level, the European Semester for the coordination of economic policies is the framework in which national reform priorities are determined and their implementation is monitored; reaffirms that within the framework of the Recovery and Resilience Facility, the reforms included in national recovery plans and their subsequent annexes must be coherent and address the demands outlined in the country-specific recommendations and the general guidelines of the European Semester;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 c (new)
Paragraph 20 c (new)
20 c. Requests that the milestones and targets included in national recovery plans, the Operational Agreements, and subsequent annexes must undergo an impact assessment to measure whether these reforms have truly achieved the objectives for which they were designed and whether they have had the expected impact, as these reforms conditioned the receipt of European funds;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 d (new)
Paragraph 20 d (new)
20 d. Recalls that the amended Regulation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility is the result of the agreement and consensus of the European institutions and the governments of the Member States, and that compliance with this Regulation by the governments of the Member States is the only way to achieve the objectives that gave rise to these recovery funds: full economic recovery, improved competitiveness, and economic growth, while also granting legitimacy to this mechanism and the Union bodies, avoiding interpretations and flexibilities that could lead to arbitrariness;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 e (new)
Paragraph 20 e (new)
20 e. Recalls that only through rapid, transparent and efficient implementation of the funds by the Member States, as well as the fulfilment of milestones and targets within the agreed deadlines, these funds will have the promised and expected impact on the GDP of the European Union and of each of its Member States;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 f (new)
Paragraph 20 f (new)
20 f. Recalls that the success of the Recovery and Resilience Facility will not depend on national recovery plans and the projects contained within them, nor on the number of transfers made by the Commission to the Member States, but on the rapid and effective deployment of funds to the real economy, productive sectors, and businesses;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 g (new)
Paragraph 20 g (new)
20 g. Highlights that all evaluations agree on identifying the excessive level of bureaucracy and administrative hurdles as one of the main issues in managing these funds; emphasizes that, to overcome these barriers, coordination between the competent authorities for managing this Facility is essential, which means that national governments must work in coordination with regional and local authorities, avoiding a centralized management of the funds that further hinders and delays their execution;