Activities of Anne E. JENSEN related to 2010/2211(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
A new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for a competitive, sustainable and inclusive Europe (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the policy challenges and budgetary resources for a sustainable European Union after 2013
Amendments (5)
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Endorses the Commission's view that cross-border infrastructure is one of the best examples of where the EU can plug gaps and deliver better value results; considers that targeted financial support at EU level can help to kick-start other important projects, which often have great commercial potential in the long term; notes that countries are now launching huge, ambitious infrastructure investment drives, that maintaining competitiveness means that Europe has a particularly strong strategic interest in effective infrastructure, to lay the foundations for long-term economic growth, and that the result would be a European core transport network shifting freight and passensuring a more enger flows towards more sustainablegy efficient transport modessector; observes that such support needs to be targeted on key priorities – removing bottlenecks on strategic trans-European axes, encouraging their extension and building cross-border and especially inter- modal connections;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Draws particular attention to the added value of the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), whose priority projects are all transnational and whose added value is particularly evident in cross-border sections of projects, in hinterland investments and in the leverage effect which EU investment has in encouraging private and public funding of strategic projects;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Recalls that the absorption rate of the Marco Polo programme has been lower than expected; underlines therefore the necessity of a careful assessment of the needs;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Underlines that the programme should be targeted less towards operators and more on finding energy efficient solutions, and that doing so requires investments in infrastructure and the development of sea transport in general;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 11 c (new)
Paragraph 11 c (new)
11c. Recommends exploring the possibility of introducing loan guarantees as an instrument in the Marco Polo programme;