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Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)

- having regard to Articles 152 and 153 (5) of the TFEU,

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 b (new)

- having regard to Article 9 of the TFEU (horizontal social clause),

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the crisis and the increasing inequalities and disparities in competitiveness since the introduction of the euro as well as the functioning of the financial system have highlighted the need for the Union to coordinate economic policies more closely and improve budgetary surveillance,

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS, Olle LUDVIGSSON

Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)

1a. Calls for a Convention on the democratic dimension of the European semester of policy coordination so as to enable the European Parliament and National Parliaments to define its calendar, content and methodology in interaction with social partners and civil society;

2011/06/21
Committee: EMPL

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)

Ca. whereas the European Semester is an institutional process, under the leadership of the EU institutions, of increased coordination across Member States for the implementation of the EU strategy, notably in its macroeconomic dimension,

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas the European Semester is prompting a review of the mechanisms for ~~parliamentary~~ scrutiny of the Commission and the Council by the European Parliament,

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)

Da. whereas the creation, by the Lisbon Treaty, of a stable presidency of the European Council has changed the Union's institutional balance,

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Recital E

E. whereas a purely intergovernmental coordination system would be inadequate in ~~those~~ areas requiring coordinated action by the Union or that are governed by the community method,

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)

Ha. whereas the autonomy of social partners to bargain collectively and the national systems of wage setting need to be strictly respected,

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1

Towards a democratically legitimate and effective European Semester

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Notes that the European Semester is now the annual framework for the implementation and assessment of the Europe 2020 strategy, the broad economic policy guidelines and the employment guidelines; emphasises, however, that it must not replace these instruments, which are enshrined in the Treaty, or diminish their importance; calls on the Commission to clarify and explain how these different instruments fit together and create spill- over effects across policy areas;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)

3a. Notes that the European Semester’s overarching framework relies on non- coercive methods, unless a country is put under the excessive deficit procedure or the new excessive imbalance procedure; calls on the Commission to clarify how these procedures and the European Semester legally fit together and be efficient for the implementation of the EU strategies;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)

3b. Calls on the Commission to clarify how the European Semester will interact with the new economic governance framework;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

4. Notes that the Annual Growth Survey contains two annexes covering the same ground as the employment guidelines and the broad economic policy guidelines; maintains, therefore, that they should be subject to the same parliamentary procedure; and be examined by the European Parliament in a quasi- legislative annual report;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)

5a. Urges the Commission, in the interest of democratic legitimacy, to explain and justify in detail the identification process of the economic policy priorities requested from Member States in its country- specific recommendations;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Calls for the ~~adop~~organisation, ~~via~~in the ~~ordinary legislative procedure, of specific legislation or of an interinstitutional agreement in order to ensure the democratic legitimacy and effectiveness of the European Semester;~~ second semester of 2012, of an interparliamentary conference gathering representatives from the budget, employment and economic committees of the European and national Parliaments with the aim of defining the scope, method and means of a multilevel and multidimensional democratic legitimacy of economic policy;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)

6a. Calls, from 2013, for a yearly parliamentary congress to examine the Annual growth survey so as to feed into the Spring European Council;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Calls for the development of the concept of a European Treasury to strengthen the implementation capacity of the European semester and the economic pillar of EMU;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)

10a. Emphasises that the success of the Europe 2020 strategy depends on the commitment of the EU as a whole, and on ownership by Member States, national parliaments, local and regional authorities and social partners; recalls the importance of a strong and properly functioning social dialogue and collective agreements within the framework of the Europe 2020 strategy, as well as the promotion of a genuine European social dialogue on macroeconomic policies and measures; notes that these measures should be pursued in order to achieve broad consensus on the way forward;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Calls on the commissioners responsible for the European Semester to come and d~~iscuss~~ebate the Annual Growth Survey with the relevant EP committees as soon as it has been adopted by the Commission and to indicate whether the actions taken by the Union and the Member States are in compliance with the Treaty's horizontal social clause and all of the objectives of the EU 2020 strategy;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

12. Intends to organise, prior to the Spring European Council each year, an interparliamentary forum at the European Parliament for members of the national parliamentary committees responsible for the European Semester; proposes that this forum include meetings of the political groups and the relevant committees, along with a plenary sitting affording an opportunity to adopt a joint resolution in preparation for the Spring European Council; instructs its President to represent it at the ~~Spring~~ European Spring Council on the basis of the resolution thus adopted; invites the European social partners to participate in this meeting and provide their views;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)

12a. Calls on the European Council to invite the President of the European Parliament to participate in its sessions on the European Semester;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)

17a. Notes that the European Semester’s public profile is weak due to the high technicality of the discussion and the complexity of the procedures and that during the pilot year the Parliaments of some countries indicated that the reforms in their respective country were not linked to the introduction of the European Semester; emphasises that more work is needed to integrate the parliamentary activities with the new framework of the European Semester and that the European Parliament should play a role in the dissemination of information;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

22. Calls on the Council to come to Parliament in July each year, or in September in the case of election years, to justify any significant changes it has made to the Commission's proposed recommendations; invites the Commission to take part in this hearing to provide its views on the situation;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)

22a. Calls on the Commission and the Council to step up the role of the macroeconomic dialogue introduced by the Cologne Council in June 1999 so as to improve the interaction among those responsible for wage development, fiscal and monetary policy;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

23. Asks to be ~~allowed to participate~~come a full partner in the macroeconomic dialogue~~, which must be stepped up and made more interactiv~~ and to participate herein, so as to achieve its objectives in terms of delivering a cooperative macroeconomic policy stance;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)

23a. Calls on the Council to strengthen the macroeconomic dialogue, in particular by establishing corresponding macro-dialogues at national level, to unlock the full potential of macroeconomic cooperation by exploiting employment opportunities via strong, non- inflationary and balanced growth dynamics;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Wishes a ~~debat~~n economic dialogue to be held at Parliament with the heads of state or government of those Member States intending to make use of the European Stability Mechanism, before the latter is activated;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Intends to conduct an audit of the Union's macroeconomic situation in the autumn, having recourse to a panel made up of various economic institutes and in consultation with the social partners, in order to foster debate and obtain a second opinion on economic issues in preparation for its discussions with the Commission prior to the drafting of the Annual Growth Survey;

2011/07/15
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1

~~Towards a democratic and effective European Semester~~Outline of the challenges

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1

1. Considers that the current stage of the crisis calls for strong and ambitious answers;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2

2. Whereas beside the adoption of the six texts related to the growth and stability pact, the Presidents of the European Council and of the Commission have announced their intention to table new proposals;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3

3. Considers that until further notice, the European Semester is the valid contribution to the implementation of the EU strategy and of an effective economic government, notably of the euro area Member States that are linked by a joint and common responsibility, and that behind the wording a process over the full year is at stake for EU institutions and member state;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4

34. ~~Not~~Emphasises that the European Semester is now the annual framework for the implementation and assessment of the Europe 2020 strategy, the broad economic policy guidelines and the employment guidelines; emphasises, however, that it must not replace these instruments, whichsuccess of the Europe 2020 strategy depends on the commitment of the EU as a whole, and on ownership by Member States, national parliaments, local and regional authorities and social partners; recalls the importance of a strong and properly functioning social dialogue and collective agre ~~enshrined in the Treaty, or diminish their importance; calls on the Commission to clarify and explain how these different instruments fit together~~ements within the framework of the Europe 2020 strategy, as well as the promotion of a genuine European social dialogue on macroeconomic policies and measures;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

15. ~~Believes that the economic pillar of Economic and Monetary Union must be strengthened in the light of the current crisis, and that the European Semester should play a part in this~~Reiterates that Member States should regard their economic and fiscal policies as a matter of common concern and that the economic pillar of Economic and Monetary Union, including its fiscal dimension, must therefore be strengthened;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Believes that the introduction of the ‘European Semester’ and enhanced fiscal policy coordination should leave enough scope and flexibility of to the EU Member States to pursue an effective alternative counter-cyclical strategy and stability policy, geared to distribution and development and providing an adequate level of public services and infrastructure for EU citizens;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 a (new)

Role of the Commission

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 b (new)

Introduction

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7

37. Notes that the European Semester is now the annual framework for ~~the implementation~~ensuring sustained convergence of the economic performance of the Member States and closer coordination of economic policies and, as~~sessment of the Europe 2020 strategy, the b~~ such, including the formulation and surveillance of the implementation of the broad guidelines of the economic policies of the Member States and of the Union (Broad eEconomic pPolicy gGuidelines ~~and the employment guidelines; emph~~, the submission and assessment of Member States' Stability or Convergence Programmes, the submission and asises~~, however, that it must not replace these instruments, which are enshrined in the Treaty, or diminish their importance~~sment of Member States' National Reform Programmes supporting the Union's strategy for growth and jobs, the surveillance to prevent and correct macroeconomic imbalances), the formulation and examination of the implementation of the employment guidelines; recalls that the European Semester shall take place without prejudice to the powers of the European Parliament conferred on it by the TFEU; calls on the Commission to ~~clarify and expla~~develop proposals establishing how these different instruments are differentiated, create spill-over effects across policy areas and fit together;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 c (new)

Lessons from first cycle

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Underlines that the codification of the European Semester must permit the flexibility necessary for possible adaptation in the light of the lessons taken from the first exercise; in its assessment and adaptation work, the Commission should focus in particular on the need for the framework to be more closely adapted to the euro area and its challenges;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Notes that the quality of National Reform Programmes under the first European Semester varies greatly regarding concreteness, feasibility and comprehensiveness; calls on the Commission to elevate the National Reform Programmes of best quality to the standard format for next European Semesters;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the national policies and targets announced in the National Reform Programmes together add up to a level that is sufficiently ambitious to reach the EU 2020 headline targets; expresses its concern about the fact that under the first European Semester this was not the case; calls on the Commission to make sure that all Member States contribute to the headline targets according to their potential;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 1 d (new)

Annual Growth Survey

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

411. Notes that the Annual Growth Survey ~~contains two annexes covering the same ground as the employment guidelines and the broad economic policy guidelines; maintains, therefore, that they should be subject to the same parliame~~(AGS), as endorsed by the Spring European Council, guides the drafting of the Member States’ National Reform Programmes (NRPs) and Stability and Convergence Programmes (SCPs), on the basis of which the Commission draws up country-by-countary ~~procedure~~recommendations;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12

5. Notes that the Annual Growth Survey, as endorsed by the Spring European Council, guides the drafting of the Member States' National Reform Programmes (NRPs) and Stability and Convergence Programmes (SCPs), on the basis of which the Commission draws up country-by-country recommendations12. Emphasises that steps needed to improve the European economic governance capacity should not lead to any deficit in democratic legitimacy and accountability; warns, therefore, against a set-up of the Annual Growth Survey as a bureaucratic act which lacks the approval of the European Parliament;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13

13. Request that the AGS be transformed into "Annual Sustainability Guidelines" (ASG);

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14

814. Calls for the Commission to adopt the Annual ~~Growth Survey by 10 January each year~~Sustainability Guidelines by 10 January each year with a specific chapter on and guidelines for the euro area;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15

915. Calls on the Commission ~~to draft the Annual Growth Survey as a document subject to parliamentary negotiation and amendment, inter alia by drawing a distinction between political and technical developme~~, when drawing up the Annual Sustainability Guidelines, to draw upon heterodox scientific expertise to the greatest extent possible and to take relevant recommendations of the European Parliament into accounts;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16

16. Calls on the Commission clearly to assess, in the Annual Sustainability Guidelines, the main economic problems of the EU and individual Member States, to propose priority measures to overcome those problems, and to identify the initiatives taken by the Union and the Member States to support long-term investment, to remove obstacles to growth, achieve the targets laid down in the Treaties and the current economic strategy, implement the 7 flagships and reduce macroeconomic imbalances;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17

17. Calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that policy guidance for fiscal consolidation and structural reforms are fully coherent and consistent with the Union's objectives of social and sustainable development; considers that, in defining and implementing the Annual Sustainability Guidelines, the Union must take into account the impact of developments in micro-financial legislation, in particular prudential regulation, on long-term investment stimulating sustainable growth and job creation; believes that the country-specific recommendations need to be subject of social impact assessments so as to ensure that requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training, retraining and protection of human health are met;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

108. Calls on the Commission ~~clearly~~ to identify, explicitly in the Annual ~~Growth Survey, the initiatives taken by the Union and the Member States to support long-term investment, achievement of the Europe 2020 targets and the reduction of macroeconomic imbalanc~~Sustainability Guidelines potential cross-border spill- over effects of major economic policy measures implemented at the EU level as well as in Member States;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19

119. Calls on the commissioners responsible for the European Semester to come and d~~iscuss~~ebate the Annual ~~Growth Survey~~Sustainability Guidelines with the relevant EP committees as soon as it has been adopted by the Commission;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2 a (new)

Country-specific recommendations

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20

20. Calls the Commission and the Council to ensure an equal treatment of 2020 targets and flagship initiatives in their guidance and recommendations addressed to each Member State and the EU as a whole;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21

217. Calls on the Commission to work with the Member States to enhance the comparability of National Reform Programmes and of national budget expenditure items by incorporating them into a common nomenclature making it possible to assess the extent to which they contribute to the Europe 2020 targets and the implementation of the seven flagship initiatives;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22

202. Calls on the Commission to come and present its recommendations to the European Parliament at an appropriate time, once the analysis of the NRPs and SCPs has been completed and to highlight the potential cross-border spill-over effects in view of the foreseen interparliamentary forum and the discussions in the Council on the country- specific recommendations;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23

223. Calls on the Council to come to Parliament ~~in July each year, or in September in the case of election years, to~~to explain and justify any significant changes it has made to the Commission'’s proposed recommendations; request the Commission to take part in this hearing to provide its views on the situation;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls on the Commission to organise a hearing with the aim of unfolding the yearly monitoring events announced in the various flagships; calls for this hearing to take place between the Spring and Summer meetings of the European Council with all relevant EU, National and regional bodies and other stakeholders;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Calls on the Commission and the Council to step up the role of the macroeconomic dialogue introduced by the Cologne Council in June 1999 so as to improve the interaction among those responsible for wage development, fiscal and monetary policy;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26

26. Proposes that the spill-over effects of economic developments in the Union for non-European countries should be taken into consideration in order to work towards the reduction of global economic imbalances; calls on the European Commission to play an active part in the economic dialogue in the relevant UN institutions; notes that objectives agreed at international level must also be taken into account;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2

~~Making Parliament a full partner in~~Role of the European ~~Semester~~Parliament

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27

27. Recalls that the parliamentary debate on economic policy orientation is the cornerstone of any democratic system;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a

27 a. Takes note that the crisis and the developments especially inside the euro area call for an upgrading of the European dimension of the economic policies of its Member States, calls on the EP to adapt to this evolution;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28

28. Takes note that the EP has not adapted its structure to the evolution brought by the Lisbon treaty regarding the new role and powers of the President of the European Council and the Eurogroup;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29

29. Believes that the ongoing debate in different euro area Member States has highlighted the need for upgrading the parliamentary dimension in parallel to the Council one;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30

30. Proposes the setting-up of a sub- committee on the Economic and Monetary Union within its ECON committee where only euro area members would vote;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31

31. Asks for the ASG to be subject to a vote with co-decision powers for the European Parliament before the Spring Council;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32

32. Is concerned about the democratic legitimacy in the introduction of the European Semester, maintains that the Parliament, National Parliaments as well as local and Regional elected representatives have a crucial role to play in establishing the necessary democratic legitimacy;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33

33. Calls for the organisation, in 2012, of an interparliamentary conference gathering representatives from the budget, employment and economic committees of the European and national Parliaments with the aim of defining the scope, method and means of a multilevel and multidimensional democratic legitimacy of economic policy, in particular to ensure that the national policies and targets announced in the National Reform Programmes together add up to a level that is sufficiently ambitious to reach the EU 2020 headline targets; care must, however, be taken to ensure that there is sufficient time for the adoption of national budgets;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34

1234. Intends to organise, from 2013, prior to the Spring European Council each year, an interparliamentary forum at the European Parliament for members of the competent national parliamentary committees, re~~sponsible for the European Semester~~commends that this meeting be an integrated part of the annual meeting organised by the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee for members of national parliaments; proposes that this forum include meetings of the political groups and the relevant committees, along with a plenary sitting affording an opportunity to adopt a joint resolution in preparation for the Spring European Council; instructs its President to represent it at the ~~Spring~~ European Spring Council on the basis of the resolution thus adopted; invites the European social partners to participate in this meeting and provide their views;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35

2135. Intends to organise, from 2013 following the Spring European Council, an second interparliamentary meeting ~~(budget conference)~~ bringing together the Chairs of the committees responsible for the European Semester within national parliaments and the European Parliament (ECON, EMPL, BUDG) to discuss the Commission'’s proposed recommendations;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36

36. Underlines the need for country- specific recommendations to be based on democratic procedures; warns against the establishment of any practice that lacks parliamentary approval at the European and national level; notes that this applies especially to recommendations which could undermine social regulation;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37

37. Underlines the role of the economic dialogue with the European Parliament adopted with the economic governance package, which consists of enabling the Commission to make its analyses public and for the President of the Council, the Commission and, where appropriate, the President of the European Council or the President of the Eurogroup to discuss on surveillance procedures (the Stability and Growth Pact and macro-economic imbalances); recalls that, when the Commission makes its studies public, one or more of the ministers of economics and finance involved might respond, thereby initiating a debate across borders and enabling peer pressure, which the current provisions have failed to make possible;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38

2438. Wishes a ~~debat~~n economic dialogue to be held at Parliament with the heads of state or government of those Member States intending to make use of the European ~~Stability Mechanism, before the latter is activated~~financial Stability Facility and Mechanism as well as the European Stability Mechanism, before the latter is activated; urges the Council and the Commission to ensure the consistency of economic conditionality and adjustment programmes in the framework of any rescue programme with Union's overarching objectives of social and sustainable development and in particular employment and economic policy guidelines as well as EU 2020 objectives; asks to include recommendations addressed in the framework of the EU Semester to Member States under financial assistance to take account explicitly of these consistency requirements;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39

2539. Intends to conduct an audit of the Union's macroeconomic situation in the autumn, having recourse to ~~a panel made up of various economic institute~~heterodox and international external independent advice and in consultation with the social partners, in order to foster debate and obtain a second opinion on economic issues in preparation for its discussions with the Commission prior to the drafting of the Annual Growth Survey;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40

2340. Asks to be ~~allowed to participate~~come a full partner in the macroeconomic dialogue~~, which must be stepped up and made more interactiv~~ and to participate herein, so as to achieve its objectives in terms of delivering a cooperative macroeconomic policy stance;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2 b (new)

Role of the Council

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41

41. Calls on the European Council to invite the President of the European Parliament to participate in its meetings on the European Semester;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42

426. Calls on the Council and the Commission in line with the rules of the economic governance package to report to it in the first few weeks of each year on the ~~implementation~~developments and successes of the previous European Semester;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43

43. Observes the deadlines as seen in the first exercise of the European Semester were tight and that there is therefore a risk, in future exercises, that national parliamentary involvement would be suboptimal should any Member State need to submit a corrective action plan or adjust its stability and convergence programmes as well as their National Reforms Programmes pursuant to the recommendations of the Council;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44

44. Calls on the Member States to provide information which is as detailed as possible on the measures and instruments provided for in the national reform programmes to attain the national objectives set, including the deadline for implementation, the expected effects, the risks of unsuccessful implementation, the costs and, if applicable, the use of EU structural funds;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45

45. Calls for Member States to ensure the professional independence of national statistical authorities in line with the governance package and to warrant compliance with the European statistics code of practice as laid down in Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 in order to ensure the transmission of high quality statistics to the Commission for assessment during the European Semester;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46

46. Believes that ensuring the success of the European Statistical System crucially relies upon the work of well-performing national courts of auditors and their thorough and accurate verification of the quality of public finance data and of the transmission process from public entities to the national statistical offices;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47

47. Calls on the Council to strengthen the macroeconomic dialogue, in particular by establishing corresponding macro- dialogues at national level, to unlock the full potential of macroeconomic cooperation by exploiting employment opportunities via strong and balanced growth dynamics;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2 a (new)

Other

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48

48. Calls for the development of the concept of a European Treasury to strengthen the implementation capacity of the European semester and the economic pillar of EMU;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

Pervenche BERÈS

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49

49. Underlines that the policy guidance to Member States partly concerns policy areas like wages and pensions that in line with Article 153 of the TFEU fall under the competences of Member States and social partners; emphasizes that democratic accountability needs to be ensured and the principles of subsidiarity and social dialogue to be respected in order to preserve the policy space required for National implementation;

2011/10/10
Committee: ECON

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