Activities of Miguel PORTAS related to 2011/2019(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
2012 draft budget trilogue (debate)
Amendments (9)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the promotion of jobs and high-quality employment by delivering on the Europe 2020 strategy’s seven flagship initiatives is a jointly endorsed goal of the 27 EU Member States; recalls that the implementation of this strategy will require a huge amount of future-oriented investment up to 2020, estimated at no less than EUR 1 800 billion by the Commission in its communication entitled ‘The EU Budget Review’3 ; underlines, therefore, that necessary investment in education at all levels, fostering a knowledge society, research and grounded on the overall EU scientific and technological capacity, the budget devoted to research, development, innovation, and support to SMEs, and green and new technologiess well as the reinforcement of the funding in domains fostering a sustainable and inclusive growth model must be made now and delayed no longer;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Stresses the European added value of investments in cross-border transport, particularly the TEN-T programme, which improve trans-border and intermodal connections, thus promoting economic development and employment; recalling the traditional under-funding of TEN-T, urges that increased resources be made available for this purpose, including through recourse to alternative sources of financing such as Public Private Partnerships (PPP) and other forms of financial instrument;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Asks the Commission to keep on working closely with those Member States with a low absorption rate in order to further improve absorption on the ground; calls, therefore, for the further promotion of mutual learning, exchange of best practices and reinforcimprovement of administrative capacities in certain Member States;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Notes that these increases are mostly linked to three of the four Solidarity and Management of Immigration programmes: External Borders Fund (+38%), European Return Fund (+43%) and European Fund for the Integration of Third-Country Nationals (+24%); emphasises, however,underlines that the increases foreseen under this heading for 2012 are simply the result of the yearly breakdown of multiannual global amounts agreed upon by both Parliament and Council when these programmes and actions were adopted; are much more remarkable in those programmes oriented to prevent the arrival and to repatriate immigrants than other programmes which aim is their integration; highlights that this fact is paradoxical confronted with the challenges arisen by the processes of transition to democracy in the Southern Mediterranean;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Takes note of the repeated calls by the European Council to strengthen the operational capacity and role of FRONTEX; aAsks the Commission to present the full budgetary implications for 2012 of the ongoing revision of FRONTEX and to provide a clearer picture of the Member States’ financial participation in its functioning;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. Takes the view that programmes and actions under this heading play an important role in achieving headline targets and flagships initiatives of the Europe 2020an strategy; reiterates that education, training and culture carry economic value since they contribute notably to economic growth and quality job creation and support the development of active citizenship;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Underlines the fact thatDisagrees with the very small margin available that will allow limited room for manoeuvre when proposing new actions or taking decisions on stepping up the funding of priorities directly relevant to citizens;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Is astonished that the Commission has not proposed in its Draft Budget 2012 any specific programme in favour of sport, although this is now a fully-fledged competence of the Union deriving from the Treaty of Lisbon; finds this attitude all the more surprisingdeplorable since some funding – though of limited magnitude – was available in Budgets 2009, 2010 and 2011;