5 Amendments of Mario BORGHEZIO related to 2014/2228(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the United States is the EU’s key strategic partner; stresses that the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the most significant recent EU-US project and will reinvigorate the transatlantic partnership as a whole, beyond its trade aspects; emphasises that its successful conclusion is of high geopolitical importance at a moment when the US is pivoting to Asia and concluding the Trans-Pacific Partnership; underlines that the TTIP will have a positive impact on jobs and growth for the two economies, which have both been hit by the crisisstresses, however, that the positive impact the TTIP is likely to have on real jobs, which is a matter of key importance at this time of economic crisis, has not been looked into in sufficient detail, not even in the study on which the Commission's assessment is principally based, namely that carried out by the CEPR, which puts the resulting growth in EU GDP at no more than 0.48% over a 13-year period;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes the TTIP’s strategic importance in strengthening and shaping global trade and economic governance based on the values shared by the EU and the US, particularly in an increasingly multipolar world; notstresses that its impact wcould go beyond the bilateral implications by facilitating the establishment of common regulations and rules that could later be adopted at global leveland that it is essential for it to be ensured during the negotiations between the EU and the US that the EU’s legal system, which is based inter alia on the principle of subsidiarity between the EU and its Member States, is safeguarded;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that the conclusion of the TTIP creates the prospect of a broad economic space, which would include third countries with which the EU and the US have close trade and economic relations; points out, however, that, in itself, this cannot be sufficient grounds for regarding that space as an optimum currency area for the purpose of introducing a common currency;
Amendment 68 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the EU’s energy supply largely depends on foreign sources; emphasises the considerable contributionhas major doubts as to whether the TTIP couldan make a major contribution to the EU’s energy supply diversification and to its energy security by, inter alia,despite the lifting of licensing requirements for US gas exports; draws attention to the study entitled 'TTIP impacts on European energy markets and manufacturing industries' which was commissioned by Parliament's ITRE committee and which states that, with the exception of LNG, the TTIP is unlikely to result in an increase in energy supplies and that, anyway, ‘it seems unlikely to assume that there would be a direct security mechanism involved in the agreement’;
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the fact that the Commission is taking steps aiming to improve the transparency of the negotiations, but believes that the discussions on key aspects of the agreement should be opened up more to business and civil society.