4 Amendments of Victor NEGRESCU related to 2022/2032(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the key role of cohesion policy in fostering economic, social and territorial convergence across the EU; expresses concern, however, about persistent inequalities, socio-economic disparities and uneven demographic decline, with many less developed regions falling behind and getting caught in a ‘development trap’ in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic; is concerned by the impact of the war in Ukraine on the implementation of cohesion policy, the social and economic situation of Member States and the development perspectives of local and regional actors;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that cohesion policy, with a budget of EUR 392 billion between 2021 and 2027, remains the EU’s primary investment tool and notes that its share of public investment in Member States increased considerably over the 2014-2020 period; underlines the negative impact of the pandemic and of the war in Ukraine on the implementation of the 2014-2020 projects and calls for the extension of the period of the use of European funds from that MFF by 1 year;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is concerned by the significant delay in cohesion policy implementation for the 2021-2027 period; urges the Commission and the Member States to speed up the adoption of partnership agreements and operational programmes; stresses that the prolonged under- implementation of cohesion funds could lead to an abnormal backlog in payments in the second part of the current multiannual financial framework (MFF), putting additional pressure on payments during the negotiations on the post-2027 MFF; calls upon the Commission to support and assist Member States in the neighbouring regions of Ukraine in order to adopt the partnership agreements and operational programmes as fast as possible;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes the flexibility introduced through the Cohesion’s Action for Refugees in Europe (CARE) proposals to help Member States deal with the impact of the war in Ukraine, and especially the countries on the border with Ukraine, following the model of the Coronavirus Response Investment Initiatives, CRII and CRII+; calls for further simplification and flexibility on the use of EU funds for the period 2014-2020 and underlines the need for an extension of the period for the implementation of the projects impacted by the war and the pandemic and the need to facilitate the transfer of projects from that MFF to the new financial programming; underlines, however, that cohesion policy funding must primarily serve its long-term policy objectives and not become a source of financing to make up for shortcomings in budgetary flexibility or crisis response mechanisms within the MFF.