Activities of Aurore LALUCQ related to 2022/2037(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Central Bank - annual report 2022 (debate)
Amendments (36)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 a (new)
Citation 13 a (new)
— having regard the European Parliament resolution of 19 May 2022 on the social and economic consequences for the EU of the Russian war in Ukraine – reinforcing the EU’s capacity to act (2022/2653(RSP)),
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 13 b (new)
Citation 13 b (new)
— having regard the European Pillar of Social Rights,
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is deeply concerned by the unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine and by its repercussions for the European economyserious, long-lasting and unpredictable repercussions for the European economy and society, especially for the most exposed and vulnerable groups, such as lower-income households and SMEs;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Understands the current challenges, uncertainty and complex environment to drive the monetary policy. Notes that ECB has limited tools or influence to address an high inflation trend that is mainly supply driven. Welcomes the assurance by the ECB and its members to be ready to take the actions needed to safeguard financial stability;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that fiscal, budgetary and monetary policies have reinforced each other during the pandemic; stresses that maintaining price stability today requires even closer coordination between fiscal, budgetary, monetary and structural policies, as addressing supply- side shocks requires greater supply-chain resilience and a shift away from fossil fuels;with the appropriate level of investment, and a shift away from fossil fuels; Notes that during COVID, all EU institutions and Member States worked together, swiftly, in a coordinated manner and within their mandates to tackle the social, economic and financial impacts of the crisis
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Highlights that monetary and fiscal policies should work together to help households and businesses most affected by the pandemic and the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Recalls on the lessons learned and success of new EU instruments such as SURE and the design and operating model of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), that are currently on EU´s toolbox. Underlines the role of SURE model for short term and targeted interventions and the RRF as a long-term investment capacity to support structural strategic investments in Europe;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5 c. Calls for support to develop and complete the unfinished infrastructure for the common currency, namely to deepen and complete the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), the Banking Union and the Capital Markets Union (CMU). Given the uncertain impact of a deeper economic downturn with spillovers to the banking system, is concerned about the risks caused by the serious delay in completing the third pillar of the banking union and repeats its calls for its swift completion; welcomes the ECB’s long- standing support of the establishment of a fully-fledged European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS);
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 d (new)
Paragraph 5 d (new)
5 d. Calls on the ECB to explore ways of strengthening the international role of the euro; notes that making the euro more attractive as a reserve currency will further enhance its international use; stresses that the creation of a well- designed European safe asset could facilitate financial integration and help mitigate the negative feedback loops between sovereigns and the domestic banking sectors; Underlines that strengthening the role of the euro requires the deepening and completion of the European economic and monetary union, including the creation of instruments of the nature of Next Generation EU, which enhance the EU budget;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Echoes President Lagarde’s call for a swift revision and simplification of the Stability and Growth Pact; Recalls that the upcoming revision of the economic governance framework has to provide the EU with stable, transparent, credible and flexible rules that could be implemented and respected by all Member States. Recalls that fiscal rules are essential for the proper functioning of the EU and should be respected. Recalls that rules should be applied in an intelligent way and within a flexible framework that adapts quickly to changes with the proper democratic accountability. The new framework should promote growth and ensure a better balance between sustainability and stabilisation. Notes that the new Transmission Protection Instrument (TPI) is now linked with the EU fiscal rules and its activation requires sustainable economic policies and compliance with the EU fiscal framework;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Welcomes Chief Economist Philip Lane's statement about taxing the wealthy and overprofits; recalls that both contributions would be temporary and would support households and consumers in this energy crisis;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Recalls that, in the context of imported inflation largely caused by rising energy prices, an increase in interest rates is ineffective in moderating inflation;
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Amendment 175 #
12. Stresses that an even transmission of monetary policy is vital to the achievement of the ECB’s price stability mandate; notWelcomes the ECB’s decision on 15 June 2022 to apply flexibility in reinvesting redemptions that are due under the pandemic emergency purchase programme; welcomes the launch of the Transmission Protection Instrument to ECB´s toolkit to support the effective transmission of monetary policy across the euro area and normalise the monetary policy; Notes that compliance with the EU fiscal framework is pre-requisite for TPI´s activation; Calls on ECB to take into account that the general escape clause is activated; Calls for a more clear TPI´s framework and rules of procedure when the general escape clause is activated;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Notes with concern that the combination of cheap targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs) and higher interest rates allow European banks to earn billions in extra profit; regrets the fact that the ECB has not yet addressed this issue and the risk of generating another “excess profit” case in EU with damaging social impact ; regrets the fact that the ECB has not yet addressed this issue and calls for concrete proposals to prevent excess profits in the banking system;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Recalls that, in the absence of a European fiscal policy, the ECB, the EU’s only truly federal actor, is put in an untenable position, as it is called upon both to pursue its objectives of price stability and to act against inflation, while combating a widening of spreads and protecting the economy and employment; stresses the importance, in this context, of having, at European level, own resources and an ambitious fiscal policy in order to support the ECB in these tasks;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Recalls that the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union requires the ECB to support the general economic policies of the Union; which include balanced and sustainable economic growth, highly competitive social market economy aiming at full employment and social progress and convergences and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment, underlines that sustainable development, convergence, full employment and social progress are general objectives of the Union as defined in Article 3 of the TFEU;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the ECB to coordinate with the European Parliament to specify theand how to implement the ECB´s secondary objectives; suggests taking advantage of this resolution to specify and prioritise the policy areas where the ECB is expected to deliver on the basis of its secondary objectives; calls on the ECB to elaborate in its Annual Report the impact its monetary policy may have had on the general economic policies of the Union; and how the ECB has integrated the Parliament's views on the secondary objectives in its decision making process;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the ECB to coordinate with the European Parliament to specify theand how to implement the ECB´s secondary objectives; suggests taking advantage of this resolution to specify and prioritise the policy areas where the ECB is expected to deliver on the basis of its secondary objectives; calls on the ECB to elaborate in its Annual Report the impact its monetary policy may have had on the general economic policies of the Union;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 b (new)
Paragraph 16 b (new)
16 b. Recalls for the important role of ECB in supporting the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Considers that the ECB should contribute to reducing inequality; calls on the ECB to ensure that the costs of its monetary policy operations are not disproportionately borne by lower income strata; invites the ECB to assess the effects of its monetary policy decisions on employmentCalls for an assessment on the impact of the monetary policy decisions on these most vulnerable groups; invites the ECB to assess the effects of its monetary policy decisions on employment; Notes that the ECB strategy review showed that adverse events lower the consumption of poorer households more than that of richer ones, that takes longer for the employment prospects of poorer households to recover following such events and that keeping monetary policy expansionary for longer can help poorer households’ income to rise to higher levels in a more sustained manner and thereby avoid hysteresis;
Amendment 241 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Considers that, in order to address the systemic risk posed by the climate crisis to financial assets and therefore, ultimately, to the banking and financial system and to the economy as a whole, the ECB should impose stricter prudential rules on systemic banks to ensure that they have the necessary capital to deal with a collapse in the value of their assets; proposes, therefore, that the risk weight for banks’ exposures to existing fossil fuel reserves be calibrated at 150 % and that the risk weight for banks’ exposures to new fossil fuel reserves be set at 1 250 %, so that they are financed solely from own funds;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Highlights the ECB role to finance the climate transition and green agendas. Stresses that addressing the climate emergency and the euro area’s dependence on fossil fuels touches not only upon the ECB’s secondary mandate, but also its primary mandate, given the serious threat these issues pose to price stability;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Welcomes the Governing Council’s decision to take further steps to include climate change considerations in the Eurosystem’s monetary policy framework; Welcomes the launch of the scoreboard for green bonds;
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Calls on the ECB to make maximum use of the forthcoming European Green Bond Standard by prioritizing the purchasing of such green bonds;
Amendment 281 #
24. Regrets that the climate roadmap does not include greening of the ECB’s targeted long-term refinancing operations; stresses that providing cheapfavourable liquidity conditions to financial institutions investing in browncarbon intensive activities works against the fight against inflation and is not consistent with the objectives of the Paris Agreement;
Amendment 290 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Is concerned about the implications of higher interest rates for greenstrategic and sustainable investments; calls on the ECB to assess the possibility of applying differentiated rates to support green investments and disincentivise brown investmentthat contribute most to reducing inflationary pressures, such as those in energy efficiency and renewables;
Amendment 299 #
26. Welcomes the ECB climate risk stress test aimed at assessing the climate risk preparedness of the European banking sector; is concerned that the results published on 8 July 2022 show that banks do not have robust climate risk stress- testing frameworks and lack the relevant data; calls on the ECB to use all its available tools to ensure that banks take climate risk seriouslyhighlights that while the cost of taking action to fight climate change (transition risks) is evenly spread in the EU, the cost of inaction (climate risks) is borne by the warmer EU Member States; calls on the ECB to use all its available tools to ensure that banks take climate risk seriously and highlights specifically transition plans as good tools for this purpose; urges the ECB to make use of its powers to apply additional capital requirements in cases where a bank does not adhere to a climate-law aligned transition plan;
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Welcomes the ECB’s economy wide climate risk stress test aimdeveloped ato assessing the climate risk preparedness of the European banking sectorresilience of banks and corporations for climate transition; is concerned that the results published on 8 July 2022 show that banks do not have robust climate risk stress-testing frameworks and lack the relevant data; calls on the ECB to use all its available tools to ensure that banks take climate risk seriously; notes that credit risks tend to be higher for mortgages collateralized with energy-inefficient houses, which could contribute to the build-up of future NPLs; calls on the ECB to use all its available tools to ensure that banks take climate risk seriously including by integrating energy efficiency in their business strategy to prevent these risks to materialize;
Amendment 301 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Welcomes the ECB’s economy wide climate risk stress test aimdeveloped ato assessing the climate risk preparedness of the European banking sectorresilience of banks and corporations for climate transition ; is concerned that the results published on 8 July 2022 show that banks do not have robust climate risk stress-testing frameworks and lack the relevant data; calls on the ECB to use all its available tools to ensure that banks take climate risk seriously;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses the need to further enhance the ECB’s accountability and transparency arrangements; Recognises the steps taken by the ECB; Calls for the relaunch of negotiations on a formal Inter- Institutional agreement, whilst ensuring the ECB’s independence which goes hand in hand with its accountability;
Amendment 324 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Welcomes the ECB’s progress on the digital euro project, as well as the dialogue with Parliament in this regard; looks forward to the Governing Council reaching a decision on launching the digital euro; Calls on the ECB to effectively address the expectations and concerns on a digital euro which include concerns for privacy, security, usability, low cost and accessibility. Calls on the ECB to step up its monitoring of the development of crypto-currencies and the related risks in terms of cybersecurity, money laundering, terrorism financing and other criminal activities related with the anonymity provided by crypto-assets;
Amendment 333 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 a (new)
Paragraph 31 a (new)
31 a. Calls for Enhancement of the ECB’s internal whistleblowing framework;
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 b (new)
Paragraph 31 b (new)
31 b. Calls for ECB to create an internal evaluation office for ex post assessment of its policy decisions;
Amendment 339 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 c (new)
Paragraph 31 c (new)
31 c. Welcomes the new communications policy, with more accessible ways to explains and presents ECB policy decision to general public and stakeholders. Given the current negative impact of tightening of the monetary policy on household budgets and companies investment plans, suggests reinforcement of ECB´s communication on financial advices on how families and business could better manage and prepare for an higher interest rates environment;