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Activities of Marine LE PEN related to 2015/2105(INI)

Plenary speeches (1)

A forward-looking and innovative future strategy for trade and investment (A8-0220/2016 - Tiziana Beghin) FR
2016/11/22
Dossiers: 2015/2105(INI)

Amendments (9)

Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s new strategy ‘Trade for all – Towards a more responsible trade and investment policy’; regrets the Commission’s delay in presenting a new strategy, given that Parliament requested that a revised mid- and long-term trade strategy be presented by summer 2012Regrets the still existing lack of transparency in trade negotiations, especially in TTIP and TiSA talks;
2016/04/28
Committee: INTA
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
13. Recalls that the ILO estimates that 865 million women around the world, if better supported, could contribute more robustly to economic growth; notes that women-owned businesses represent an underutilised lever to boost competitiveness, accelerate business and sustain growth; states that trade policy can have differing gender impacts across the various sectors of the economy; regrets that the Commission does not address the gender dimension of trade agreements in its ‘Trade for All’ communication; calls on the Commission to step up its efforts to ensurecalls on the Commission to adequately consider that both women and men can take advantage of the benefits of trade liberalisation and be protected from its negative effects;
2016/04/28
Committee: INTA
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
21. Stresses that the multilateral trading system embodied in the WTO remains the best option for guaranteeing an open, fair and rules-based system which takes account of and balances the many varying interests of its members; reiterates that Parliament is a strong advocate of the multilateral agenda;deleted
2016/04/28
Committee: INTA
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
22. NotUrges that improvements were achieved at the 10th WTO Ministerial Conference in Nairobi in 2015; recognises the differences among WTO members on how to proceed as regards the Doha Round, including the need to consider new approaches to solve outstanding issues; welcomes the intere commission not to use WTO talks as an excuse to further curtail competencest of some WTO members in starting to address new negotiating areas; believes that the outcome of the Nairobi Ministerial Conference provides an opportunity to give new life to the WTO’s negotiating function; urges the Commission to take the initiative in reforming and strengthening the WTO in order to ensure greater effectiveness, transparency and accountabilitythe member states in matters of international trade;
2016/04/28
Committee: INTA
Amendment 269 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
28. Calls on the Commission to start negotiations fpay more an investment agreement with Taiwan in parallel with the one with China; underlines that, in the context of the migration challenges, special focus should be put on the post-Cotonou framework; asks for further impetus to be given to negotiating FTAs with both Australia and New Zealandttention to public opinion before involving in further trade negotiations;
2016/04/28
Committee: INTA
Amendment 296 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
30. Strongly opposes the granting of MES to China, as it is not fulfilling, for the time being, the EU's five technical criteria for defining a market economy; underlines the importance of defining a common European strategy to reinvigorate and apply the anti-dumping procedures on various products suffering from the strong trade distortion caused by Chinese exporting companies; refers in this context especially to the heavy and partly unfair competition the European heavy industry had to face vis-à-vis their Chinese competitors during the last years;
2016/04/28
Committee: INTA
Amendment 321 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
35. Shares the Commission’s view that the temporary movement of professionals has become essential to increasing business internationally; stresses that a labour mobility chapter should be included in all EU trade and investment agreements; recalls however that Mode 4 commitments must only apply to the movement of highly skilled professionals;deleted
2016/04/28
Committee: INTA
Amendment 357 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
42. Stresses the importance of further debate with stakeholders and Parliament on the Commission’s proposal for the Investment Court System in order to better clarify its impact on the ‘right to regulate’, the annual costs for the EU budget and its compliance with the EU legal order, the power of the EU courts in particular, and more specifically the EU competition rulesUrges the Commission to abandon their plans on an Investment Court system;
2016/04/28
Committee: INTA
Amendment 368 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
43. Regrets that the European Fund for Strategic Investments lacks an external dimension; invites the Commission to consider the creation of a European fund for external strategic investments aimed at reviving investments in strategic projects; emphasises that such a fund could contribute to sustainable development and decent jobs, tackle poverty and abate the root causes of migration;deleted
2016/04/28
Committee: INTA