Activities of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2022/2046(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on upscaling the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework: a resilient EU budget fit for new challenges
Amendments (5)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that, pursuant to Article 311 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), ‘the Union shall provide itself with the means necessary to attain its objectives and carry through its policies’; underlines the importance, therefore, of an adequate EU budget that serves EUthe citizens; calls therefore to establish a permanent mechanism for participatory budgeting in order to give citizens a voice in determining spending priorities, strengthen budgetary transparency and accountability and foster inclusive democracy;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that the sudden emergence of severe European-wide crises, such as the pandemic and Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, have tested the multiannual financial framework (MFF) and underlined the need for the MFF to be managed in a more flexible, yet sustainable, manner; underlines that the EU fiscal architecture remains incomplete as the EU lacks permanent meaningful budgetary instruments that would improve its ability to respond to shocks and thereby increase its resilience; calls for the establishment of a permanent fiscal capacity that would address common or country-specific shocks; therefore sees a need for the revision of the MFF and calls on the Commission to conduct an in-depth review of the functioning of the current MFF and to proceed with a legislative proposal for comprehensive MFF revision as soon as possible, and no later than the first quarter of 2023;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that the Conference on the Future of Europe has proposed strengthening the Union budget through new own resources2 and that the European Parliament should decide on the Union budget as it is the right of parliaments at national level3 ; calls in that regard forto give the European Parliament to be more closely associatedhe right to co- decide with the Commission and the Council ion the process of adopting new own resources; _________________ 2 Conference on the Future of Europe proposal 16. 3 Conference on the Future of Europe proposal 39.4, third bullet.
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the application by the Commission of the Rule of Law Conditionality Regulation5 laying down the rules necessary for the protection of the Union budget in the case of breaches of the principles of the rule of law in the Member States which affect or seriously risk affecting the sound financial management of the Union budget or the protection of the financial interests of the Union in a sufficiently direct way; stresses therefore the necessity to introduce precise financial obligations in the annual budget planning; _________________ 5 Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2020/2092 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 December 2020 on a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget (OJ L 433 I, 22.12.2020, p. 1).
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Reiterates its call for the abolition of all budgetary rebates and corrective mechanisms as soon as possible in order to ensure fair treatment between Member States; invites the Commission to report beyond the existing narrow accounting approach of reporting Member States’ net balances and to set up additional new budget indicators focusing on solidarity between the Member States and the European added value stemming from participation in EU policies;