6 Amendments of Alexandru NAZARE related to 2008/2055(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Supports the three-step approach taken by the Committee on Budgets towards the mid-term review, and underlines that the chronic under-financing of Heading 4 needs to be addressed as a priority under the necessary adjustments of the current Multi-Annual Framework (MFF), including by envisaging adequate funding for the EU External Action Service;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls the Commission's undertaking to present, within the framework of the review, an evaluation of the situation of Heading 4, and urges the Commission to propose, on this basis, short-term solutions within the current MFF as well as options for the new MFF, which would financially reinforce Heading 4 and remove its chronic under-financing, thus enabling the European Union to meet its external action obligationenhance its foreign policy instruments and increase their coherence and effectiveness;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points in particular – given the character of actions to be financed under Heading 4 – to the need to establish a flexibility mechanism which would enable the EU to react to unforeseen situationscrises affecting some of its Member States, or the EU as a whole, without weakening the funding for ongoing policies and programmes in the external affairs area and while fully respecting the rights of the budgetary authority;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points to the challenges faced by the EU in the area of energy security and urges the Commission to envisagallocate adequate meansresources to projects that allowing the EU to mitigate its vulnerability in this area, especially by ensuring a diversification of sources of supply;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 − indent 2
Paragraph 7 − indent 2
- resolving deficits and leftovers in the context of the annual budgetary procedures, if possible through more flexibility and, if necessary, using part of the margin left below the own resources ceiling,
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that the general magnitude of the EU resources should not be affected by the current world economic crisis, even if the Member States' GNI will cease to follow an ever increasing curve; therefore is convinced that the EU spending should concentrate on policies with a clear European added value, fully in line with the principles of subsidiarity and, proportionality and solidarity;