12 Amendments of Valentino GRANT related to 2023/0264(BUD)
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights that Member States are still facing numerous challenges and is convinced that Union citizens are therefore expecting the 2024 budget to be more efficient, transparent, performance- based providing concrete reductions in administrative expenditure and granting an efficient and accountable use of taxpayers’ money; underlines also the need to properly evaluate which funds could be better managed at national level in order to ensure full respect for the principle of subsidiarity;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that, despite the Commission’s proposal to revise the MFF, the Council chose to formulate its position on the 2024 budget assuming no change to the framework; deeply regrets that, despite the drastic constraints,takes note that the Council elected to cut commitment appropriations in the DB by EUR 772 million and payment appropriations by EUR 515 million across the MFF headings; considers that the cuts proposed by the Council are not driven by an objective assessment of needs or absorption capacregrets Parliament’s lack of flexibility and run accounter, in many instances, to shared policy ambitions and political agreements; decides, therefore, toability in relation to Council’s position having restored appropriations on all lines cut by the Council to the level of the DB, despite the limited budgetary margins still available and having no guarantee of either if or when an agreement on the revision of the MFF regulation will be reached;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that new policy priorities or tasks must be accompanied by an efficient use of resources; asks if policy priorities or tasks of decentralised agencies 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 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Recalls that the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) is key to boosting investment in high-performance, sustainable trans-European networks and to decarbonisespecially ing the EU economy, thereby accelerating the green transition and promoting interconnectivitycompletion of the trans- European transport network (TEN-T); underlines that CEF Transport has been vital in supporting transport infrastructure in and towards Ukraine (“solidarity lanes”) and in enabling the transport of critical goods in both directions and welcomes the decision to associate Ukraine to the programme; proposes, to increase appropriations for CEF Transport by EUR 100 million above the DB in 2024 in order to support thesestresses that the budget of CEF Transport has been mostly committed by now, which shows the utility and added value of the programme; therefore, takes note of the proposal to increase appropriations for CEF Transport by EUR 100 million above the DB in 2024, although it considers that the increase should be significantly higher to support all the programme’s aims;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Deems it necessaryRegrets the decision to reinforce support to the Turkish-Cypriot line by EUR 2 million above DB in order to finance the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus and support the bi-communal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42 a (new)
Paragraph 42 a (new)
42a. Underlines the failure of European policies in 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, which should guarantee the proper implementation of a rigorous asylum policy in accordance with international standards, while blocking illegal immigration and ensuring border controls and an adequate repatriation policy;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52 a (new)
Paragraph 52 a (new)
52a. Highlights that any funding under the NDICI should be made conditional on the effective implementation of repatriation agreements;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Stresses the importance of the Southern Neighbourhood line in supporting political, economic and social reforms in the region, in providing assistance to refugees, in particular Syrian and Palestinian refugees, and in enabling support along the southern migration routes; proposes, therefore, to increase appropriations for the line by EUR 650 million above DB, including to ensure predictable funding for UNWRA; proposes, however, to withhold funding for UNWRA under the reserve meachanism due to unsolved cases of anti-Semitic incitement;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54 a (new)
Paragraph 54 a (new)
54a. Calls for an immediate stop to the Union’s accession negotiations with Turkey and the prompt suspension of all funds provided to that country under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance and EIB financing, since Turkey does not respect several of the basic principles of freedom and democracy and it has increased its aggressive behaviour, not only in the Mediterranean area, becoming a real threat for many Member States;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64
Paragraph 64
64. Underlines the need to provide a sufficient level of payment appropriations in the 2024 budget and decides, as a general rule, to reinforce payment appropriations on those lines which are amended in commitment appropriations; reminds once again that an increase of payment appropriations ceilings does not automatically correlate with better absorption capacity of the EU Budget; points out, in this regard, that the amount of outstanding commitments (committed amounts but not yet paid) attained record 452,2 billion EUR at the end of 2022;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65 a (new)
Paragraph 65 a (new)
65a. Reminds with concern that the European Parliament continues to lead very costly building policy (amounting to 18 810 626 EUR in 2023) and to expand the Liaison Offices as well as "Europa Experience" centres (costing 15 399 498 EUR in 2023) all over the Europe;
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68 – introductory part
Paragraph 68 – introductory part
68. In line with its above-mentioned resolution of 20 April 2023 on its estimates of revenue and expenditure for the financial year 2024 and taking into account the answers provided by the Secretary- General on 19 July 2023: (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 steps to be taken quickly to establish a single seat for Parliament, in order to prevent any further waste of public money;