Activities of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2020/0104(COD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a Recovery and Resilience Facility
Amendments (5)
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) At Union level, the European Semester of economic policy coordination (‘European Semester’), including the principles of the European Pillar of Social Rights, is the framework to identify national reform prioritGiven its specific recommendations and structural reforms, the European Semester is a tool for EU interference, designed to oversee and circumscribe the Member States’ fiscal and economic policies, and monitor their implementation. Member States develop their own national multiannual investment strategies in support of those reforms. Those strategies should be presented alongside the yearly National Reform Programmes as a way to outline and coordinate priority investment projects to be supported by national and/or Union fundingvery often it resorts to blackmail and sanctions as a means to apply measures intended to liberalise public services, deregulate labour and enforce austerity policies. Its implementation leads to sluggish economic development, unemployment, poverty and socio-economic and territorial disparities.
Amendment 70 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 4
Recital 4
(4) The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020 changexposed the economic outlook for the years to come in the Union and in the world, calling for an urgent and coordinated response from the Union in order to cope with the enormous economic and social consequences for all Member. The challenges linked to the demographic context have been amplified by COVID-19. The current COVID-19 pandemic as well as the previous economic and financial crisis have shown that developshortcomings of the policies promoted by the EU, which have centralised powers in its institutions and diminished the Member States’ sovereign capacity; have deregulated industrial relations, relaxed rules on working shoundrs and resilient econduced workers’ incomies; and financial systems built on strong economic and social structures helps Member States to respond more efficiently to shocks and recover more swiftly from them. The medium and long- term consequences of the COVID-19 crisis will critically depend on how quickly Member States’ economies will recover from the crisis, which in turn depends on the fiscal space Member States have available to take measures to mitigate the social and economic impact of the crisis, and on the resilience of their economies. Reforms and investments to address structural weaknesses of the economies and strengthen their resilience will therefore be essential to set the economies back on a sustainable recovery path and avoid further widening of the divergences in the Unionhave contributed to the destruction and privatisation of public services. The COVID-19 pandemic is proving that the Member States with more regulated labour conditions and public services that provide universal social responses and help to tackle structural exclusion have a better capacity for resilience and better recovery potential.
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) Against this background, it is necessary to strengthen the current framework for the provision of support to Member States and provide direct financial support to Member States through an innovative tool. To that end, a Recovery and Resilience Facility (the ‘Facility’) should be established under this Regulation to provide effective financial and significant support to step up the implementation of reforms and relaease the way for public investment that may help to bring about policies that respect the needs of the Member States and their development strategies, promoting decent work that is fairly paid and underpinned by collective bargaining; that promoted public investments in the Member Stat in infrastructure and productive sectors, supporting green and innovative development that safeguards social and territorial cohesion; that boost and invest in public services, providing universal, high-quality and accessible social responses. The Facility should be comprehensive and should also benefit from the experience gained by the Commission and the Member States from the use of the other instruments and programmes.
Amendment 104 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 15
Recital 15
(15) The specific objective of the Facility should be to provide Member States with financial support with a view to achieving the milestones and targets of refboosting projects fostering their development, investment in productive and strategic sectorms and investmentsplaying as set out in recovery and resilience plans. That specific objective should be pursued in close cooperation with the Member States concernedtructuring role in providing universal, free and high-quality public services. That specific objective should be pursued with due respect for the specific development strategies of the Member States concerned, making a meaningful contribution by providing immediate responses to the impact of COVID-19 and public investments playing a structuring role in ensuring the social and territorial cohesion of the Member States and the European Union.
Amendment 152 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 4.º – paragraph 2
Article 4.º – paragraph 2
2. To achieve that general objective, the specific objective of the Recovery and Resilience Facility shall be to provide Member States with financial support with a view to achieving the milestones and targets of refboosting projects fostering their development, investment in productive and strategic sectorms and investmentsplaying as set out in their recovery and resilience plans. That specific objective shall be pursued in close cooperation with the Member States concernedtructuring role in providing universal, free, high-quality public services. That specific objective shall be pursued with due respect for the specific development strategies of the Member States concerned, making a meaningful contribution by providing immediate responses to the impact of COVID-19 and public investments playing a structuring role in ensuring the social and territorial cohesion of the Member States and the European Union.