Activities of Pervenche BERÈS related to 2014/2249(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Possible evolutions of and adjustments to the current institutional set-up of the European Union - Improving the functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty - Budgetary capacity for the Eurozone (debate) FR
Possible evolutions of and adjustments to the current institutional set-up of the European Union - Improving the functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty - Budgetary capacity for the Eurozone (debate) FR
Amendments (49)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty have not yet been exploited to their full potential; whereas some proposals seeking to address these challenges and strengthen the integration of the Union can only be fully realised by Treaty change, emphasising; whereas provision should be made for a two-step approach to EU reform (within and beyond the Treaties);
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the Community method must be preserved and not be undermined byweakened by recourse to intergovernmental solutdecisions, not evenincluding in areas where not all Member States fulfil the conditions for participation;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas in order to createthe various options should be explored for a genuine bi- cameral legislative system, the existing specialised Council configurations should be reduced to a single legislative one, and the which is democratic and transparency oft in its decision-making should be improved;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas the existing economic governance system is not yet strong enough to tackle all potential future crises and shocks as it should, nor is it yet sufficiently good at generating higher competitiveness, structural convergence among its members, sustainable growth and social cohesion; whereas, therefore, progress towards the completion of the EMU should be sustained, as well as efforts to render its institutional structure more legitimate and democratically accountable;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital P
Recital P
P. whereas the Union should be endowed with increased investment capacity by ensuring betteroptimum use of the existing structural funds and by fully implementing the existing six-pack and two-pack legal framework;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Q
Recital Q
Q. whereas part of the EU budget should be used tothe establishment of a fiscal capacity within the eurozone in order to assist Member States in the implementation of agreed structural reforms based on certain conditions; whereas this additional fiscal capacity should be placed outside the ceilings of the MFF and should be financed by genuine own resourcess necessary and its outline, funding, modes of intervention and conditions of integration in the Union's budget should be determined;
Amendment 131 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the growth potential of the Single Mternal market should be further exploited in the areas of services, the Digital Single Market, the Energy Union, the Banking Union and the Capital Markets Union;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S
Recital S
S. whereas the rights of workers should be guaranteed and sustained in the process of reforming the Union in order toby fully exploit fullying the potential of the Lisbon Treaty;
Amendment 191 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Is of the opinion that intergovernmental solutions should not exist, not even in areas where not all the Member States fulfil the conditions for participation, and that the Fiscal Compact and the European Stability Mechanism, as intended by the Treaties should therefore be incorporated into Union law and no new institutions should be introduced;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Underlines that the directly elected European Parliament plays an essential role in ensuring the legitimacy of the Union, as well as in makingmakes the Union’s decision- making system accountable to citizens by ensuring proper parliamentary scrutiny over the executive at the Union level and by the legislative co-decision procedure whose scope should be extended;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Encourages the exchange of best practices in parliamentary scrutiny between national parliaments, such as the holding of regular debates between the respective ministers and the specialised committees in national parliaments before and after Council meetings, and with Members of the European Commission in an appropriate timeframe; encourages the establishment of exchanges of officials of institutions and political groups between the administrations of the European Parliament and national parliaments;
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Proposes that the Council be transformedadvisability should be examined of transforming the Council into a true legislative chamber by reducing the number of Council configurations by means of a European Council decision, thus creating a genuinely bi-cameral legislative system involving the Council and Parliament, with the Commission acting as the executive; suggests involving the currently active specialised Council configurations could be included as preparatory bodies for the legislative Council, along the lines of the Committees in the European Parliament;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Insists on the importance of enhancing the transparency of Council legislative decision-making and the access of Parliament representatives as observers in meetings of the Council and its bodies, in particular in cases of legislation;
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls for the creation of the position of European Finance Minister, combining the roles of a permanent President of the Eurogroup and Commission Vice-President (VP) for Economic and Financial Affairs, through an Interinstitutional Agreement between Parliament, Council and Commission;
Amendment 345 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
Amendment 412 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls for further institutional reforms in order to provide the EMU with an effective and democratic economic government with improved capacities and integrated within the institutional framework of the Union, whereby the Commission acts as the executive and Parliament and Council as co-legislators, as outlined below;
Amendment 428 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 9
Subheading 9
Amendment 441 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Insists on the adoption of Convergence Guidelines, to be enshrined within a Convergence Code and adopted under the ordinary legislative procedure, with a view to creating a more binding framework for economic policy coordination (with key economic, competitiveness and social targets, such as in the areas of labour markets, competitiveness, business environment and public administrations, aspects of tax policy and social protection) that is obligatory for members of the eurozone and open to all 28 Member States and that guarantees them the possibility of participating in a shock- absorption mechanism;
Amendment 491 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 11
Subheading 11
Amendment 508 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Calls for betteroptimised use of the existing structural funds in the direction of fostering EU competitiveness and cohesion, and for the creation of an increased EU investment capacity through the exploitation of innovative approaches such as the European Fund for Strategic Investments, or through the creation of a specific facility to finance and guarantee infrastructure projects in the interest of the Union;
Amendment 524 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46
Paragraph 46
46. Insists on the full implementation of the existing six-pack and two-pack framework and the European Semesterneed to address, in particular, macroeconomic imbalances, and secure long-term control over deficit and still extremely high levels of debt by improving spending efficiency, prioritising productive and future investments, providing incentive toimproving spending efficiency, providing incentives for fair and sustainable structural reform and taking into account business cycle conditions;.
Amendment 525 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 13
Subheading 13
Establish a fiscal capacity within the eurozone through part of the EU budget
Amendment 532 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 47
Paragraph 47
47. Recalls that the euro is the currency of the Union and that the EU budget is designed tocontributes towards helping less developed Member States catch up and become able to join the eurozone;
Amendment 537 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
48. ProposeConsiders the establishment of a fiscal capacity within the eurozone in order to assist Member States in the implementation of agreed structural reforms, based on incentives and certain conditions, including the effective implementation of the National Reform Programmes agreed within the European Semester; considers that this could be done through the creation of additional capacity and/or by earmarking funding from the existing EU budget for this purpose; underlines that any new instrument should be placed within the EU budget, but outside the ceilings of the MFF, and financed from real own resourcesto support Member States to be urgently needed and essential;
Amendment 549 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. Pledges to increase the resilience of the EMU when facing economic shocks while preventing any form of permanent fiscal transfers;
Amendment 571 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Considers it necessary to incorporateReiterates that it is in favour of integrating the European Stability Mechanism into the Union legal framework and, as a next step, to transform it into a European Monetary Fund;
Amendment 576 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
Amendment 613 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57
Paragraph 57
57. Calls for the establishment of a true capital markets union, with a single European capital markets supervisor;
Amendment 616 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58
Paragraph 58
Amendment 621 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 59
Paragraph 59
59. Considers it necessary to improve the automatic information exchange between national tax authorities in order to avoid tax fraud and tax evasion, tax planning, base erosion and profit shifting, as well as to promote coordinated actions to fight tax havens; calls for the adoption of a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base directive establishing a minimum rate and spelling out common objectives for progressive harmonisation; deems it necessary to embark on a comprehensive review of the existing VAT legislation, addressing i.a. the issue of reduced rates and the introduction of the country of origin principle, and to establish a partially automatic stabilising mechanism to foster convergence and counter differences in the economic cycles of the Member States;
Amendment 628 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 15
Subheading 15
A more democratic institutional set-up for the EMU
Amendment 637 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 62
Paragraph 62
62. Reiterates that interparliamentary cooperation should not be seen as establishing a new jointlead to the establishment of a new parliamentary body or any other new institution, because the euro is the currency of the EU and the European Parliament is the parliament of the EU; recalls that the EMU is established by the Union, whose citizens are directly represented at Union level by Parliament, which can findhas to find and be able to implement ways to guarantee the parliamentary democratic accountability of eurozone-specific decisions;
Amendment 643 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 64
Paragraph 64
Amendment 679 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71
Paragraph 71
Amendment 688 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71 a (new)
Paragraph 71 a (new)
71a. 70 new. Considers paying particular attention to the social dimension of the European Union to be essential and recalls that Article 9 TFEU states that: ‘In defining and implementing its policies and activities, the Union shall take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion...’; considers that the potential contained in this Article of the Treaty has been ignored until now; recalls too that Article 3 TEU states that: ‘The Union shall [be] based on ... a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress...’;
Amendment 689 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71 b (new)
Paragraph 71 b (new)
71b. Stresses that workers’ rights should be guaranteed in their entirety, particularly when they exercise their right of mobility, as should be all their social rights, in accordance with Articles 151 and 153 TFEU;
Amendment 690 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Points out the importance of promoting the idea of a minimal wage determined by each Member State, and a minimum unemployment benefit scheme for the eurozone, and suggests that, under current Treaty provisions, an ‘Employees Mobility Directive’ could be adopted to reduce still- existing barriers for employees;
Amendment 710 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. Calls on the Commission to set up social criteria for the evaluation of Member States’ performance, and to recommend structural reform, through the modification of Regulation No 1303/2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, to ensure better use of regional and social fundstake account of proposals Parliament will make, including with a view to the mid-term review of the multiannual financial framework;
Amendment 711 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 73
Paragraph 73
73. Calls on the Commission to set up social criteria for the evaluation of Member States’ performance, and to recommend structural reform, through the modification of Regulation No 1303/2013 laying down common provisions on the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and laying down general provisionstake account of proposals Parliament will make, including with a view to the mid-term review onf the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund, the Cohesion Fund and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund,multiannual financial framework in order to ensure better use of regional and social funds;
Amendment 796 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92
Paragraph 92
92. Notes that this permanent headquarters could engage in permanent contingency planning and play a major coordinating role in future applications of Article 42(7) TEU; is of the view that the ‘mutual defence clause’, as laid down in this Article and requestused by France during the Foreign Affairs Council on 17 November 2015, will constitute a catalyst for further development of the EU’s security and defence policy, leading to stronger commitment by all Member States;
Amendment 818 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 95
Paragraph 95
95. Recalls, in this context, that Article 222 TFEU provides for a solidarity clause that can and should be activated when a Member State is the object of a terrorist attack or the victim of a natural or man- made disaster;
Amendment 836 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 97
Paragraph 97
Amendment 844 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 97 b (new)
Paragraph 97 b (new)
97b. Understands that the European Border and Coast Guard that has recently been proposed is intended to replace Frontex and is meant to ensure European integrated border management at the external borders of the Union, with a view to managing migration effectively and ensuring a high level of security within the Union, while safeguarding the free movement of persons therein; looks forward to negotiations on the proposal within and between the co-legislators in the context of the ordinary legislative procedure, in accordance with Article 294 TFEU;
Amendment 845 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 98
Paragraph 98
Amendment 854 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 98 b (new)
Paragraph 98 b (new)
98b. Considers that the external dimension should focus on cooperation with third countries in tackling the root causes of, and addressing, flows of irregular migrants to Europe; takes the view that partnerships and cooperation with key countries of origin, transit and destination should continue to be a focus; recommends that cooperation with third countries should involve assessing those countries’ asylum systems, their support for refugees, and their ability and willingness to tackle the trafficking and smuggling of human beings into and through those countries; acknowledges that there is a need to improve the effectiveness of the Union’s return system, but believes that the return of migrants should only be carried out safely, in full compliance with the fundamental and procedural rights of the migrants in question;
Amendment 858 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99
Paragraph 99
Amendment 874 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 104
Paragraph 104
104. Recalls the obligation for the accession of the Union to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), in line with Article 6 (2) TEU, and urges the swift re-launching of negotiations with the Council of Europe to this effect;