Activities of Anouk VAN BRUG
Plenary speeches (1)
General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025 – all sections (debate)
Amendments (20)
Amendment 11 #
2024/0234(COD)
Paragraph 3
3. Takes note ofWelcomes the proposal for the creation of a new macro-financial assistance instrument to the benefit of Ukraine, providing support of up to 35 billion, pendinga maximum of 35 billion euros, depending on the size of other contributions in the framework of the G7 agreement on “Extraordinary Revenue Acceleration Loans for Ukraine”, and with a duration of 45 years.
Amendment 14 #
2024/0234(COD)
Paragraph 6
6. Takes note of the precondition for support, as effective democratic mechanisms and institutions, including a multi-parliamentary system, the rule of law, respect for human rights, including minorities and the consequences of not meeting, or no longer meeting, this precondition.
Amendment 17 #
2024/0234(COD)
Paragraph 7
7. Takes note of the future negotiation between the European Commission and Ukraine on the Memorandum of Understanding, containing the guidelines which vertebrate all the future disbursement to Ukraine and which shall be consistent with the qualitative and quantitative steps contained in the Annex to the Council Implementing Decision (EU) 2024/1447 on the approval of the assessment of th eUkrain ePlan and any amendments thereof.
Amendment 20 #
2024/0234(COD)
Paragraph 8
8. Takes note on the derogation of Article 31(3), second sentence, of Regulation (EU) 2021/947, which implies that the External Action Guarantee will note be used to guarantee the borrowing of the amounts to be lent in the framework of this MFA, and consequently provisioning ofthat therefore the guarantees for this MFA fromwill be provisioned by the headroom.
Amendment 27 #
2024/0234(COD)
Paragraph 12
12. Takes note of the provisions on the transmission of information to the European Parliament and Council, as laid down in the Interinstitutional Agreement on good interinsitutional cooperation and governance and specifically within the framework of the annual budgetary procedure.
Amendment 37 #
2024/0234(COD)
Paragraph 14
14. Requests the European Commission to clarify, identify and eliminate the potential overlaps in the complementary funding provided by the Ukraine Facility and the MFA.
Amendment 42 #
2024/0234(COD)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. Requests the European Commission to explore in the framework of the long-term architecture of the Ukraine Facility and the current MFA how to ensure the required level of support, in particular for the years 2026 and 2027.
Amendment 10 #
2024/0185(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines that, with Draft amending budget No 4/2024, GNI lump- sum reductions for the five beneficiary Member States amount to just under EUR 5,4 billion net; stresses that these rebates are inflation-linked and have therefore increased at a higher rate than the MFF ceilings, which are adjusted annually on the basis of the 2 % deflator; underlines that this anomaly increases the burden on the other Member States;
Amendment 1 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
– having regard to Article 2 of the Treaty on European Union, whereby gender equality is a core value of the Union;
Amendment 2 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 b (new)
Citation 2 b (new)
– having regard to Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, whereby ‘in all its activities, the Union shall aim to eliminate inequalities and to promote equality’; whereas this applies including to all levels of the budgetary process;
Amendment 42 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underscores that the revision of the Multiannual Financial Framework has been partly successful and partly unsatisfactory; acknowledges that the revision has resulted in providing additional resources for Ukraine, the Western Balkan and several other budget lines of strategic importance, the implementation of the new Asylum and Migration Pact, the European Defence Fund as well as replenished flexibility mechanism; welcomes that the Commission has proceeded with translating the outcome of the MFF revision into the Financial Programming as well as amending budgets 2024 and the draft general budget for 2025 (the “DB”); underlines once again that the higher than foreseen repayment costs of the European Union Recovery Instrument (EURI) should have been placed fully in a EURI special instrument over and above the MFF ceilings with a view to restoring some margin within Heading 2b and protecting budgetary space in the Flexibility and Single Margin Instruments; recalls the Interinstitutional Agreement adopted as part of the 2020 MFF agreement, according to which expenditure to cover NGEU financing costs “shall aim at not reducing programmes and funds”;
Amendment 138 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27 a. Regrets that, due to the limited flexibility of the current MFF, the Commission has resorted to reorienting cohesion policy, which is not a crisis response tool but has been repeatedly called on to make up for shortcomings in budgetary flexibility or crisis response mechanisms in the MFF to the detriment of its long-term policy objectives;
Amendment 181 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Underscores the continued socio- economic challenges in the cultural and creative sectors, which are often made up of small organisations and individual artists, as well as their key role in fostering media literacy and combatting disinformation, and promoting and protecting media freedom and pluralism as the basis for a functioning democracy; proposes, therefore, to increase financing for the various strands of the Creative Europe programme by a total of EUR 8 million above the DB;
Amendment 187 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Reiterates the indispensable role of the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values programme in promoting European values and citizens’ rights, in fostering active civic engagement, in building resilient societies, in combatting gender-based violence, especially important in the context of the measurable increase in violence against women, and violence against the LGBTQI+ community and in supporting the key principles of democracy, the rule of law, solidarity, inclusiveness, justice, non- discrimination and equality; proposes, therefore, to increase appropriations for the programme by EUR 9 million above the DB, with reinforcements for the equality and rights, ‘citizens’ engagement and participation’, Daphne and ‘Union values’ strands;
Amendment 227 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48
Amendment 241 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 51
Paragraph 51
51. Underlines the important role that the Border Management and Visa Instrument (BMVI) plays in managing the Union’s external borders and in particular in supporting Member States in meeting their obligations with regards to the adequate capacity for the border procedure as defined in the Asylum Procedure Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2024/1348) and Commission’s implementing decision 2024/2150, with reinforced border protection capabilities including physical infrastructure, buildings, equipment, systems and services required at border crossing points, notably to meet the requirements of reception conditions for asylum seekers and migrants.; stresses that Member States with a larger share of adequate capacity should receive funds in proportion to their obligations; underlines that the instrument should also support the acceleration of Romania’s and Bulgaria’s accession to the Schengen area; proposes therefore to increase appropriations for the BMVI by EUR 35 million above DB;
Amendment 257 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54 a (new)
Paragraph 54 a (new)
54 a. Emphasises that EU funds must never be misused for terrorist purposes. Requests therefore that the joint text on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2025, approved by the Conciliation Committee under the budgetary procedure, includes the following joint statement by the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission on terrorism financing: “The three institutions agree that EU funds must never be misused for terrorist purposes. Therefore, where the Commission becomes aware that an entity receiving EU funding employs an individual who has been involved in terrorist acts during the term of the current Multiannual Financial Framework, the Commission shall suspend the funding of that entity without undue delay. Entities that employ or have employed more than five individuals who have been involved in terrorist acts during the term of the current Multiannual Financial Framework shall not be eligible for EU funding. Entities that provide financial support to individuals for the reason that these individuals committed or attempted to commit a terrorist act, or are related to someone who committed or attempted to commit a terrorist act, shall not be eligible for EU funding. This restriction shall also apply to the EU funding of third parties that directly or indirectly contribute to the financing of such entities.”
Amendment 260 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Recalls the highly unstable geopolitical situation and international environment around the Union giving rise to greater security and defence challenges since the beginning of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine; considers that the Union's current budget for ensuring the security of Europeans, is not equal to the challenges to be met in the short and long term; therefore supports increasing financial and budgetary massive EU investment for European defence.
Amendment 264 #
2024/0176(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 57 a (new)
Paragraph 57 a (new)
57 a. Strongly supports EU efforts to tackle rising security threats such as the spread of disinformation, including online disinformation, fake news campaigns against the EU, terrorism, radicalisation and violent extremism within the EU and its neighbouring countries;
Amendment 10 #
2024/0089(BUD)
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Takes note of the calculation of the adjusted annual GNI lump-sum reductions for the five beneficiary Member States, which amount to around EUR 5,4 billion net; highlights the fact that these rebates are inflation-linked and have therefore increased at a higher rate than the MFF ceilings, which are adjusted annually on the basis of the 2 % deflator; stresses that this anomaly increases the burden on the other Member States;