Activities of José GUSMÃO related to 2023/0264(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024
Amendments (12)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the 2024 EU budget to ensure that all Member States put in place structural reforms to unleash the full potential of the EU economy and achieve long-term growth;future-oriented reforms and investments to achieve EU climate and social goals, including full employment.
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that the current cycle of restrictive monetary policy is still ongoing; stresses that the full set of economic and social consequences are yet to be fully assessed, such as further pressure on the EU and national budgets, on the stability of the financial system, and hardships for households;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that simple and enforceable fiscal rules that promote countercyclical policies, foster public investment for an inclusive green transition and ensure debt sustainability are key for the long-term economic prosperity of Member States and the Union; stresses, that the Commission’s proposal fails to provide fiscal space for Member States to invest in resiliency and growth enhancing reforms to achieve the European Green Deal and Social Pillar objectives; calls, moreover, for a special debt treatment of the repayments of the loans share of the NGEU programme to be included under the revision;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the 2024 budget to include targeted spending in areas that are key for the Union’s strategic autonomy such as energy, defencclimate, healthcare, education and thehigh quality labour market;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the budget should contribute to increasing the spending in research and development (R&D) as a key driver for innovation and economic growth by leveraging both private and national public investment; stresses the importance of funding to foster the creation of green net zero technologies and support climate mitigation and adaptation;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for adequate investment resources to ensure that the Union is competitive internationally, is able to attract investments and create employment, and to increase productivity in the context of growing international competitiontransforms its industrial sector towards the goal of an inclusive green transition and creates high quality employment;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the budget to provide support to Ukraine for as long as Russia’s war of aggression continues, and to contribute to its reconstruction, including through the European Union Solidarity Fund and the Emergency Aid Reserve; calls for the EU’s financial support to be in the form of grants, in order not to further degrade the external and public debt of Ukraine, and to remove the political conditionality of the IMF economic programme; stresses that the budgetary proposal of EUR 50 billion until 2027 is insufficient when compared to the 142 billion published in the Updated Ukraine Recovery and Reconstruction Needs Assessment of March 2023 ;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Welcomes the fact that, under the latest revision of the MFF, a new special ‘EURI instrument’ was created to exclusively cover additional borrowing costs arising from the NextGenerationEU funding; regrets, however, that no new funding was allocated for this purpose ;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Recalls that the agreed roadmap for the introduction of new own resources is of the utmost importance to ensure repayment of the NGEU programme and to guarantee no extra budgetary burden will be carried by Member States; therefore urges the Council to respect the agreed timeline to make the necessary progress on the new revenue basket proposed by the Commission in December 2021;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Emphasises the continuing need for increased human and financial resources for accounting entities and tax authorities, in particular to support them in the fight against tax fraud, tax evasion, tax avoidance and money laundering and to promote tax fairness, transparency and certainty; underlines that these entities should be held accountable by the Parliament; deeply regrets the Council’s position to cut funding on supervisors such as ESMA, EBA and AMLA and the Fiscalis programme;