8 Amendments of Anna BONFRISCO related to 2021/0227(BUD)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Takes note ofWelcomes the Council’s position on the DB, cutting EUR 1,43 billion in commitment appropriations for the MFF headings compared to the Commission’s proposal; considers that the cuts proposed by the Council follow the usual top-down approach of implementing an overall arbitrary reduction target, which is neither driven by an objective assessment of implementation trends nor absorption capacities; points out the contradiction with core shared policy priorities; concludes that theregrets Parliament's lack of flexibility in relation to Council’'s position is far from Parliament’s expectations for a recovery budget; decides therefore, as a general rule, to, having restored appropriations on all lines cut by the Council to the level of the DB, for both operational and administrative expenditure, and tothus takeing the DB as the starting point to build its position upon; accepts, however, tonotes the enter of EUR 1 299 million in both commitment and payment appropriations in 2022 for the Brexit Adjustment Reserve (BAR) as thisthat reflects the political agreement on the BAR Regulation;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes strongerNotes conditionality related to democracy, human rights and rule of law under the modernised IPA III; calls on dedicated budget lines fhowever regrets that this instrument is still used to support Turkey under IPA III, which should support Turkish civil society, a country that does not respect several of the basic principles of freedom and democracy and that has increased its aggressive behaviour, not only in the Mediterranean area, becoming a real threat for many EU Member States;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. InsistStresses that new policy priorities or tasks must be accompanied by fresh resources, and that creating an agency or expanding its mandate should not come at the expense of existing programmes or agencies; reverses, therefore, reductions in appropriations for funding programmes proposed by the Commission to reinforce the financial envelopes of decentralised agenciesan efficient use of resources; regrets the reductions in appropriations for funding programmes proposed by the Commission to reinforce the financial envelopes of decentralised agencies, since it questions if their policy priorities or tasks 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 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Underlines the need to increase funding and staffing levels for the European Asylum Support Office (EASO) in line with the tasks stemming from the political agreement on the European Asylum Agency; also increases staffing for eu-LISA in line with the agency’s identified needsagencies operating in the field of migration, asylum and border management, as long as the allocations are devolved to repatriation and border security;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 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 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42 a. Calls for an immediate stop to the Union's accession negotiations with Turkey, a country that does not respect several of the basic principles of freedom and democracy and that has increased its aggressive behaviour, not only in the Mediterranean area, becoming a real threat for many EU Member States;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53 – point i a (new)
Paragraph 53 – point i a (new)
i 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 order to prevent any further waste of public money;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
54. Notes that, in the main, the DB reflects the estimates of the various institutions falling within the other sections of the budget and therefore matches, with some exceptions, their financial requirements; considers that the systematic cuts proposed by the Council would therefore have a deleterious effect on the working of the institutions concerned and consequently on the vital contribution they make to the functioning of the Union; on that account, proposetakes note of the willingness to restore the levels of the DB in almost all cases, including with regard to the establishment plan of the Committee of the Regions; in line with the gentlemen’s agreement, does not modify the Council’s reading concerning the Council and the European Council;