14 Amendments of Anni PODIMATA related to 2010/2099(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the new enhanced economic governance should fully integrate and reinforce the EU principle of solidarity, as a prerequisitive of the eurozone's capacity to respond to asymmetric shocks and speculative attacks,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the new EU economic governance should move forward from a strict budget surveillance function towards establishing a fair balance between investments in sustainable growth and full time employment on the one hand and the prevention of excessive deficits over the economic cycle, in line with Union-level commitments and guidelines, need to be persued, on the other
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the recent economic crisis has made clear that excessive macroeconomic and competitiveness divergences and current-account imbalances within the euro area which increased steadily during the pre- crisis years and have largely persisted throughout the crisisdue to absence of enhanced economic coordination are not sustainable for the European economy and should be fully addressed,
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas comprehensive secondary legislation needs to be established in order to attain the Union objectives in this area; whereas enhanced economic governance for the Union based on the provisions of the TFEU is essential, the Union method should be used to its full extent and the key role of the Commission and the European Parliament should be respected in order to promote mutually reinforcing polices,
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
N a. whereas in order to avoid further expanding existing competitiveness divergences in EU and undermining the success of the new strengthened European economic governance as well as the EU 2020 targets on job creation and sustainable growth, the European fiscal consolidation strategy should fully take into account each member state's particularities and avoid a simplistic "one- size- fits- all" approach.
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex 1 – heading 1 – paragraph 1 – indent 4
Annex 1 – heading 1 – paragraph 1 – indent 4
– Establish common rules for a more active use of the Broad Economic Policy Guidelines as and the Guidelines for the employment policies of the Member States as key tools for economic guidance, surveillance and Member State- specific recommendations in line with the EU 2020 strategy, focusing on growth, structural reforms, productivity and competitiveness, while taking into consideration the convergences and divergences between Members States, strengthening the relative competitive advantages of Member States, the resilience of the economy to external shocks and the impact that Member States' decisions may have on other Member States,
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex 1 – heading 2 – paragraph 1 – indent 4
Annex 1 – heading 2 – paragraph 1 – indent 4
– Establish a monitoring mechanism including possible warnings and incremental sanctions for Member States that have not reached their MTFO or are not approaching it at the agreed pace, avoiding however a simplistic "one-size fits-all" approach and taking fully into account each member state's particularities,
Amendment 165 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex 1 – heading 2 – paragraph 1 – indent 7
Annex 1 – heading 2 – paragraph 1 – indent 7
– Establish pre-specified and pre-emptive incentives to be decided independently from the Council by the Commission or semi-automatic preventive sanctions, in order to facilitate early warning steps and apply them in a progressive way,
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex 1 – heading 4 – indent 1
Annex 1 – heading 4 – indent 1
– Establish a permanent mechanism or body (European Monetary Fund) as a last resort mechanism for member states exposed to serious economic difficulties in cases in which market financing is no longer available based on existing mechanisms (the European Financial Stability Facility, the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism and the European balance of payments instrument) with clear rules on the decision-making procedure, funding, conditionality for loans, monitoring, rules on burden-sharing, and resources and powers in order to facilitate borrowing and lending activity in exceptional circumstances and in order to facilitate orderly resolution avoiding contagion and ring-fencing sovereign debt insolvency, if needed.
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex 1 – heading 5 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
Annex 1 – heading 5 – paragraph 1 – indent 1
– Produce a feasibility assessment (the nature, risks and advantages) of establishing a system in the long run for the issuance of common government bondEuropean bonds, which acting as a common guarantee could significantly reduce loan interest rates for member states and help safeguard euro zone against future speculative attacks,
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex 1 – heading 5 – paragraph 1 – indent 3
Annex 1 – heading 5 – paragraph 1 – indent 3
– Develop a common budgetary strategy or guidelines for national budgets and the EU budget in line with the Europe 2020 strategy, keeping the balance between achieving budgetary discipline targets and enabling the financing of employment and public and private investment,
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex 1 – heading 5 – paragraph 1 – indent 5
Annex 1 – heading 5 – paragraph 1 – indent 5
– Establish a high-level tax policy group chaired by the Commission with a mandate to work for a strategic and pragmatic approach to tax policy issues in the Union, while paying particular attention to combating tax fraudromoting an enhanced common EU strategy against tax fraud assume international leadership to strengthen the fight against tax heavens with a clear timetable, reinvigorated the code of conduct on business taxation and facilitating the adoption of the Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base and growth-enhancing tax reforms.
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex 1 – heading 5 – paragraph 1 – indent 5 a (new)
Annex 1 – heading 5 – paragraph 1 – indent 5 a (new)
– Believes that the review of the current EU tax policies should be focused on shifting the burden from labour to other sources and establishing a more fair income tax system across EU, especially for the low income groups of citizens; Considers therefore that EU should move forward with a European financial transaction tax and an EU-wide CO2 tax, which make "the polluter" assume full responsibility and can guarantee both significant budget revenues and a fair distribution of the tax burden.
Amendment 250 #
Motion for a resolution
Annex 1 – heading 7 – paragraph 1 – indent 5
Annex 1 – heading 7 – paragraph 1 – indent 5
– Establish financial and non-financial sanctions for providing statistics, which do not comply with the statistical principles set out in Regulation (EC) No 223/09,