7 Amendments of Emmanuel MAUREL related to 2018/2033(INI)
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas the current level of stock market valuations on the financial markets is excessive with regard to businesses’ potential for value creation; whereas the need for shareholder profitability is diametrically opposed to a sustainable increase in salaries; and whereas, in spite of past experience, highly-volatile financial instruments continue to threaten to destabilise Europe’s economies and in particular their systemic banks;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls the Commission’s commitment to integrate the implementation of the SDGs within the European Semester; regrets the fact that this dimension is missing from the 2018 country-specific recommendations; considering the seriousness of the environmental situation, which is attested scientifically in terms of climate change, increasing pollution and the acceleration of species extinction, finds it deeply regrettable that sustainable development remains absent from the Commission’s country-specific recommendations for 2018; calls on the Commission as a matter of urgency to draw up new recommendations based primarily on sustainable development objectives together with support for investment and job creation;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls the importance of access to quality public services endowed with sufficient resources and based on a reformed judicial environment founded on distinct principles of free and undistorted competition;
Amendment 142 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Recalls the importance of efficient regulation of the banking and financial sectors to forestall any new crises, particularly by encouraging as much separation as possible between market activities and financing activities of businesses and individuals, and by imposing a tax on financial transactions as soon as Brexit has taken place;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls the need to implement the recommendations of the Panama Papers committee of inquiry, with particularly regard to the keeping of registers of beneficial ownership which shall be regularly updated, standardised, interconnected and made accessible to the public in order to combat the phenomenon of offshore companies;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Encourages stronger coordination and harmonisation of taxation with the objective of reducing the differences among Member States over a tenfive-year period, particularly by introducing legislation to ensure a minimum 10% effective tax rate for businesses, thus making any possible company relocation unattractive;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Welcomes the Council recommendation and the Commission’s efforts to encourage Members States with large current account surpluses to promote faster wage growth, strengthen investment and thus foster economic expansion; highlights the fact that since the 2008 financial crisis, real wage growth has, in recent times, lagged behind productivity growth, whil and distortion in the sharing of added value is not letting up, in spite of the improvements which have occurred in the labour market; stresses, against this background, that there can overall salary increase should be proom for wage increases in certain sectors and areasmoted, with a particular emphasis on a European minimum wage aimed at bringing levels of pay in Central and Eastern Europe into line with those of Western Europe within ten years, in order to ensure good standards of living, taking into account the need to tackle inequalities and boost growth;