4 Amendments of Paolo COSTA related to 2008/2334(INI)
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. underlines the added value of the trans-European transport network programme (TEN-T) for the achievement of the Lisbon strategy, the EU's climate change goals, and greater social, economic and territorial cohesion, while providing timely support for sustaining aggregate demand in the EU. Underlines the importance of the 30 TEN-T priority projects - especially the cross-border corridors - for re-launching the economy and for enabling the increasing demand of a better and more environmentally friendly co-modality; calls on the Commission and the Member States to develop new methods for financing transport infrastructures and to increase substantially the budget for the TEN-T projects in the next EU Financial Perspectives and in the Recovery Plan;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. welcomes the Commission's proposal to bring forward from 2010 to 2009 and investment of EUR 500 000 000 for transport infrastructure; stresses, nevertheless, that the Commission and the Member States must include urban transport and TEN-T priority projects among those for the additional investment, to be mobilised in accordance with to the Recovery Plan; considers that those TEN-T projects at an advanced stage of implementation should, in particular, benefit from the greater availability of appropriations;
Amendment 188 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33 a (new)
Paragraph 33 a (new)
33a. calls for an urgent examination by the Parliament, the Council, the Commission, and the European Investment Bank of the benefits which would derive from establishing a European sovereign debt fund, the debt servicing cost of which would be lower than that of the equivalent aggregate of national debts; suggests that such a debt fund should be temporary in nature and transferred after a period of time to national debts; suggests also that such a debt fund should be reserved for transport infrastructure projects that are partly funded by public-private partnerships;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Considers that involvement of the European Investment Bank (EIB) is crucial and that a large share of lending referred to in the Recovery Plan is within its competence; welcomes the Member States' agreement on a capital increase for the EIB; recalls that some of the EIB interventions also require support from the EU budget, but that this is not currently provided for in the Recovery Plan; this could be done either by blending grants and loans or in the form of joint-risk sharing instruments such as the Risk Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF) and the Loan Guarantee Instrument for trans- European transport network projects (LGTT); suggests that the LGTT be extended to include availability based PPPs and the EIB contribute to the LGTT with its own reserves which could multiply the leverage effect;