20 Amendments of Pervenche BERÈS related to 2015/2285(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
– having regard to the COP 21 agreement adopted at the Paris climate conference on 12 December 2015,
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Regrets that the package does not contain any recommendation to use the margins of manoeuver and spin-off benefits arising from the decrease of oil price to create European added value, including to promote ecological transition;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes improvements in public finances, in particular gradually declining debt/GDP ratios; deplores however the head-in-the-sand policy on the unsustainability of public debt in certain Member States in light of the current growth and inflation rates;
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that Europe’s global competitiveness, assessed in terms of innovation, research and development, education & training and public infrastructures remains an important objective, while the worsening global outlook calls for strengthening domestic sources of growth;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls for further efforts to support recovery, foster convergence and correct macroeconomic imbalances, including by channelling excess savings towards the domestic economy and boosting job-rich sustainable investment;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the European Fund for Strategic Investments to be used to maximum effect to support higher-risk projects not financed otherwise, first in the ecological transition, digital, creative and cultural fields, and to promote growth, job creation and cohesion;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to use the European Structural and Investment Funds to their full potential, also in order to improve Member States’ capacity building and their governance of EU funds;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Highlights the importance of investments in human capital and other social investments that should be enhanced together with the strengthening of welfare protection systems and automatic stabilisers;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Calls for product and service market reforms and better regulation, promoting innovation and quality-based competition without watering down consumer protection;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls for a greater shift of taxation away from labour; towards environmental taxes, including by setting up an EU carbon tax in the spirit of the COP 21 agreement adopted in Paris on 12 December 2015;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Insists on implementation of the Stability and Growth Pact, while making full use of its flexibility clauses and available fiscal space, inter alia, to deal with security threats and refugee inflows;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Emphasises the need for improved tax collection, fighting tax evasion and avoidance and improved tax policy coordination, including to fight terrorism and notably by making CBCR mandatory and implementing reinforced control measures on digital companies;
Amendment 341 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the recommendation on the economic policy of the euro area as a way to deepen policy coordination in the follow-up to the Five Presidents’ Report and the Resolution of the European Parliament of 24 June 2015;
Amendment 350 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Emphasises that, given its high level of interdependence and the singleness of its monetary policy, the euro area needs to be viewed as one macroeconomic entity where convergence must be promoted; calls therefore for an in-depth aggregate assessment of macroeconomic imbalances in the euro area and spillovers between eurozone Member States to complement the assessment of country-specific vulnerabilities; insists on full coherence between the euro area recommendation and country-specific recommendations;
Amendment 365 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Welcomes increased attention to the euro area’s aggregate fiscal stance; calls for greater discussion on whetherquestions the idea that it can be considered broadly neutral given the large investment gap; calls therefore for an expansionary aggregate fiscal stance reflecting the necessity to conduct countercyclical economic policies at the euro area level and addressing the risk of exporting deflation to the global economy;
Amendment 385 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Supports the recommendation to differentiate fiscal effort by individual Member States taking into account their respective positions vis-à-vis Stability and Growth Pact requirements and stabilisation needs, as well as spillover effects; notes that high-surplus countries have significant fiscal space which they could use to the benefit of their populations, economies and the monetary union as a whole;
Amendment 404 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Emphasises the need to foster real economic and social convergence driven by improvements in productivity and non- cost factors; underlines the importance of all Member States having sufficient investment capacity and proper automatic stabilisers, enabling balanced and sustainable growth;
Amendment 432 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 c (new)
Paragraph 29 c (new)
29a. Insists that the Eurozone recommendation needs to be the starting point for an economic policy debate involving Members States and EU institutions ahead of the spring European Council to allow a greater efficiency of the European semester and a better ownership of all stakeholders;
Amendment 455 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Requests that plenary debates with the Presidents of the Commission and, of the President of the EurogroupEurogroup and of the European Central Bank on the draft euro area recommendation become regular features in order to strengthen democratic dialogue and accountability;
Amendment 465 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Highlights the importance of national parliaments debating country reports and country-specific recommendations and voting on national reform programmes and of a proper consultation and association of social partners;