Activities of Younous OMARJEE related to 2022/2032(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report - EU border regions: living labs of European integration (debate)
Economic, social and territorial cohesion in the EU: the 8th Cohesion Report - EU border regions: living labs of European integration (debate)
Amendments (31)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1
Citation 1
— having regard to Article 3 of the Treaty on European Union (TEU) and Articles 4, 162, 174 to 178, and 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
— having regard to Articles 4, 162, 174 to 178 and 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU),
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas infrastructure quality differs vastly between urban and rural regions, and between continental regions and island or outermost regions;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas the territories listed in the second paragraph of Article 174 TFEU face additional challenges, in particular in connection with the energy transition and climate change mitigation and adaptation, and therefore require specific support;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M a (new)
Recital M a (new)
Ma. whereas the budget of the European Union Solidarity Fund (EUSF) is nowhere near enough to mount an adequate response to major natural disasters and to give expression to European solidarity with disaster-hit regions, and whereas this mismatch will grow because of the expected increase in natural disasters stemming from climate change;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital M b (new)
Recital M b (new)
Mb. whereas contributions from European funds only cover restoration of the status quo ante with regard to infrastructure and equipment destroyed by natural disasters, while the additional costs of rebuilding more climate-resilient structures are not factored in and must be financed by Member States from their own resources;
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is convinced that cohesion policy can only continue to play its present role as a vector for investment and job creation and a solidarity mechanism for all EU regions if it has solid funding; stresses that this implies providing for the same level of funding as in the 2021-2027 financial period (including REACT-EU), topped up with the Just Transition Fund (JTF) II budgetary resources;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Stresses that the European Semester should comply with cohesion objectives; calls for the participation of the regions and a stronger territorial approach to be guaranteed; calls, also, for the European Semester to uphold the principles laid down in Articles 174 and 175 TFEU;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4c. Stresses that other EU policies can reduce cohesion; calls on the Commission also to assess, in its analyses, the impact that other policies and the occurrence of crises have had on the effectiveness of cohesion policy;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Stresses that, in the decades ahead, climate change represents the most serious threat to human societies all over the world; recalls that the rise in the number and intensity of natural disasters and extreme climate events (floods, storms, cyclones, droughts, heatwaves, forest fires, etc.) is already a visible and tangible consequence of climate change; considers that the cost to Europe, for each country and for each region, of not anticipating and not adapting to climate change, and also to rising sea levels, will be extremely high;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls for the rapid development and implementation of effective and sustainable adaptation strategies throughout the European Union, with priority given to the areas potentially most at risk; agrees with the Commission as regards its estimates of the cost of climate change if nothing is done in terms of adaptation, which could reach more than EUR 50 billion per year for river overflows alone; calls, in this regard, for action to be taken;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Reiterates its call for the Commission to submit a proposal for the creation of a Climate Change Adaptation Fund to help regions anticipate and mitigate the effects of climate change;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls for a strengthening of Article 174 in cohesion policy and in all European policies in order to promote the achievement of the objectives set out therein;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 – point a
Paragraph 8 – point a
(a) 85 % for less developed regions and the outermost regions;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Notes that more industrialised regions are more resilient to the various recent economic and social shocks, and calls, therefore, on the EU to develop and support an ambitious reindustrialisation policy for Europe’s regions;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Notes that in 2019 more than a quarter of the EU population was living in a region where real GDP had still not returned to its pre-financial crisis level in 2007, in particular in Greece, Cyprus, Italy and Spain; stresses that these same countries have again been more significantly affected by the economic and social crisis caused by Covid;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses the importance of supporting rural areas and regions that suffer from severe and permanent natural handicaps, such as islands, the outermost regions, sparsely populated northern areas and mountain areas, by valuing their diversity and potential, improving transport connectivity and high-speed broadband, and helping them meet challenges such as rural desertification, the decline of city- centre communities and insufficient healthcare;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Regrets that this 8th report does not pay particular attention to the progress made in achieving economic, social and territorial cohesion in regions which suffer from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps, such as the northernmost regions with very low population density and island, cross- border and mountain regions, as provided for in Article 174;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 c (new)
Paragraph 12 c (new)
12c. Notes, furthermore, that all the outermost regions are still among the least developed regions; calls, therefore, on the EU to increase its support for these regions, including by making use of all the possibilities provided for in Article 349 TFEU;
Amendment 197 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Notes that European territorial cooperation is a key objective of cohesion policy and that it offers high added value;
Amendment 210 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Notes with concern the demographic challenges faced by the EU, such as an ageing population, the depopulation of rural and remote areas, and migratory flows and the arrival of refugedemographic pressure on other areas, such as coastal and urban areas, and migratory flows and the arrival of refugees, resulting in specific needs in terms of infrastructure and access to basic services;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Regrets that the deployment of the Recovery and Resilience Facility undertaken by the governments of the Member States has been highly centralised and has lacked consultation with the regions and municipalities;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Considers that the socio-economic situation of the EU, aggravated by the consequences of the Covid crisis and the war in Ukraine, calls for the continued suspension of the Stability Pact and for its revision;
Amendment 288 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21b. Considers that the combined impact of the Covid crisis and the war in Ukraine will need to be assessed in detail in the 9th report;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 a (new)
Paragraph 22 a (new)
22a. Calls for a standalone European fund for supporting Member States in connection with projects and programmes for climate change adaptation and for boosting resilience, or for a significant increase in the EUSF budget, and calls at the same time for the scope of the EUSF to be broadened so that it is also allowed to support more climate-resilient restoration or new-build of public and private infrastructure;