13 Amendments of Miguel PORTAS related to 2012/2000(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. AcknowledgesRegrets that the fiscal consolidation efforts undertaken by Member States with the aim of addressing the crisis; underlines the fact that the EU will never be able to respond properly to the crisis without common instruhave driven the EU to a second wave of crisis; the austerity policies resulted in a severe slowdown of public and private consumption and led to the decrease of public and private investment, leaving the economic recovery solely dependent on exports; calls for this trend to be reversed and underlines that investments need to be made both at EU and national level to fight unemployments and the presources to make them workcariousness of labour; underlines the fact that the EU urgently needs common instruments, such as eurobonds, to enhance solidarity;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Continues to beIs deeply concerned at the unprecedented global crisis that has seriously damaged economic growth and financial stability and provoked a strong deterioration in the; insists that 2013 will only be a key year for economic recovery if priority is goivernment deficit and debt position of the Member States; shares the Council’s concern regarding economic and budgetary constraints at national level and insistn to policies, which trigger and support investment and the recovery of the citizens consumption; stresses that without this thate 2013 will be a key year for economic recoveryEU Budget will not help to overcome the effects of the recessive policies;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that, in times of crisis more than ever, the collective efforts of solidarity, integration and territorial cohesion taken at EU level must be strengthened in order to ensure that our actions deliver results; underlines the fact that the annual budget, as well as all other European instruments, needs to be aligned with the Europe 2020 Strategy for Growth and Jobs and that this is essential for themust be a leverage tool for Member Strategy’s credibility and in order to preserve confidence in EU policies, especially amongst its citizens; stresses that, given its role as a catalyst for s' recovery policies by supporting national investment to reinforce growth and the creation of employment, namely the youth; underlinvestment, that lowering the level of the EU budget would have an adverse impact on the creation of growth and jobs of the Union;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Proposes that any eventual appropriations' decrease should be made on the appropriations of the Risk-Sharing Finance Facility since it supports mainly large dimension enterprises, which have the capacity of alternative financing on the market; the savings made should reinforce the policies and programmes targeting SMEs and the development of the regions to foster growth and employment;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Points out that in time of austerity, a budgetary shift from military action to civil conflict prevention and peace- building is a necessary alternative to regulate migratory flows into the EU and reduce expenses;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Underlines the fact that all the measures taken so far to combat the crisis should assist a return to the path of growth; stresses, in this regard, that the tailor-made austerity measures already taken neled to be accompanied by targeted investmenta drastic drop in public and private investment and a dramatic aggravation of unemployment, poverty and precariousness rates in several Member States; points out that the EU budget has a determining role to play in this context as a tool to ensure prompt and well coordinated action in all fields to mitigate the effects of the crisis on the real economy and to act as a catalyst to boost investment, growth and jobs in Europe;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that well coordinated, coherent and timely implementation of political commitments and priorities shared at national and EU levelthe budgetary policy requires national and European institutions to work together toin prioritiseary public spending on growth areas, assess ex ante the effects of planned actionsinvestment, increaseing synergies between them and ensureing that they have a positive impact by removing obstacles and tapping into under-utilised potential; in the European Semester, underlines its commitment to continuing to organise interparliamentary debates on the common budgetary orientations of the Member States and the Union in order to ensure that there is coordination between the national and EU budgets in the general framework of Parliament’s activities in the European Semester;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls for the adoption of a responsible and result-oriented budget, based on good-quality spending and optimal and timely use of existing EU financing; in this spirit, welcomes the statement of 30 January 2012 by the Members of the European Council outlining the need to invest in growth and jobs, especially in terms of SMEs and young peopleTakes note of the statement of 30 January 2012 by the Members of the European Council outlining the need to invest in growth and jobs, especially in terms of SMEs and young people; regrets, that these objectives were not supported with any additional financial resources, and underlines that they are solely sustained by new guidelines on non- implemented resources of the structural funds; underlines its intention of engaging, together with the specialised parliamentary committees, not only in the identification of concrete areas where actions need to be strengthened, but also in identifying possible negative priorities;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that the EU budget represents an investment solely directed towards policies and actions demonstrating EU added value; draws attention to the factRecalls that the EU budget – which cannot run into deficit – has a leverage effect on growth and employment much higher thand that of national spending, as does its capacity to gear up investment, deliver stability in Europe anould help the EU out of the current economic, social and financial crisis if it would have more resources; underlines the fact, moreover, that new financial instruments should further enhance the leverage effect of EU spending’s contribution to growth and boost the creation of employment, however the current context of stagnation and recession of the EU constraints its effect;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Will pay specific attention, in the context of the 2013 budgetary procedure, to the implementation of the EP’s previous years’ budgetary priorities and will, in particular, follow closely the funding and implementation of the Europe 2020 Strategy, which is fully endorsed by Member States, in terms of promoting competitiveness and employment, as well as of its other sectoral priorities;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Proposes that, in this context, any eventual proposal for an appropriations' decrease should be made on security research; the EU, following the new challenges and modifications in the international context, should assume a new and daring approach to security matters with the aim to concentrate on cooperation for development and on conflict prevention by pacific means;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21a. Highlights the importance of funding the European authorities of financial market supervision to enable their entire and necessary commitment to prevent crisis;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Takes note of the letter dated 23 January 2012 from the Commissioner for Budgets and Financial Programming expressing the Commission’s willingness to reduce the number of posts in its establishment plans by 1 % as early as 2013; recalldeeply regrets the Commission’s intention of reducing the staffing in EU institutions and bodies by 5 % as compared to 2013 by 2018, and recalls that this is to be seen as an overall goal; considers that any short- term or long-term reduction of staff shouldmust take full account of, inter alia, the Union’s legal obligations and the institutions’ new competences arising from the treaties; reiterates that the principle of multilinguism should not be jeopardised and recalls that all EU citizens should have access to all the EU documents in all the official languages;