Activities of Carl HAGLUND related to 2011/2071(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European semester for economic policy coordination (debate)
Amendments (22)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas under the subsidiarity principle,regardless of the fact that national budgetary procedures and terminology are governed by the constitutional system of each Member State the subsidiarity principle allows for a stronger budgetary coordination between Member States,
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the great achievement of the common market in linking European economies needs to be coupled to a system of budgetary coordination in order to make use of substantial synergies,
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls the need to mainstream the Europe 2020 objectives into the annual budgets of the EU and of the Member States; stresses that structured and early debate on annual budget orientations could helpwill enable Member States to take more account of the European dimension into their draft budgets and help reducing doubling structures significantly; therefore all efforts and activities of the Parliament, in this regard, should concentrate in the first part of the annual budgetary cycle, so to allow for an ex-ante coordination;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets the lack of clarity on one hand and the overlapping of the different instruments and budgetary lines on the other hand through which the Europe 2020 targets are to be achieved through the EU budget; reminds that the European Semester provides a good opportunity to develop greater synergy between EU and Member States budgets;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that the Committee on Budgets has a long existing tradition in holding inter-parliamentary meetings with national representatives to discuss budgetary issues of both EU and national relevance; reminds that the competencies of each EP committee shall be fully respected in a parliamentary dimension of the European Semester; is dissatisfied with the outcome of this year's annual exchange with national parliaments, which suffered from a lack of participation of national parliaments and from a lack of a clear and structured approach which could have lead to concrete results;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the crucial role of the cohesion policy as keyan instrument for Europe 2020, due to its budgetary dimension and multi-level governance approach; advocates, in line with the report of the Policy Challenges Committee, for the maintenance in the next MFF of at least the same level of funding for this policy as in 2013to fund policies linked to Europe 2020; nevertheless asks for clearer identification of possible synergies also in this policy area which could be included in the European Semester process;
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Whereas beside the adoption of the six texts related to the growth and stability pact,stability and growth pact, the macroeconomic surveillance and budgetary frameworks the Presidents of the European Council and of the Commission have announce their intention to table new proposals;
Amendment 177 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises that the success of the Europe 2020 strategy depends on the commitment of the EU as a whole, and on ownership by Member States, national parliaments, local and regional authorities and social partners; recalls the importance of a strongcompetitive and properly functioning social dialogue and collective agreementmarket economy and structural reforms within the framework of the Europe 2020 strategy, as well as the promotion of a genuine European social dialogue on macroeconomic policies and measures;
Amendment 211 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Emphasises that steps needed to improve the European economic governance capacity should not lead to any deficit in democratic legitimacy and accountability; warns, therefore, against a set-up of the Annual Growth Survey as a bureaucratic act which lacks the approvalunderstanding of the European Parliament and Member States;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for the Commission to adopt the Annual Sustainability GuidelinesGrowth Survey by 10 January each year with a specific chapter on and guidelines for the euro area;
Amendment 224 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
Amendment 232 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission clearly to assess, in the Annual Sustainability GuidelinesGrowth Survey, the main economic problems of the EU and individual Member States, to propose priority measures to overcome those problems, and to identify the initiatives taken by the Union and the Member States to support enhance competitiveness, long- term investment, to remove obstacles to growth, achieve the targets laid down in the Treaties and the current economic strategy, implement the 7 flagships and reduce macroeconomic imbalances;
Amendment 238 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that policy guidance for fiscal consolidation and structural reforms are fully coherent and consistent with the Union's objectives of social and sustainable development; considers that, in defining and implementing the Annual Sustainability Guidelines, the Union must take into account the impact of developments in micro-financial legislation, in particular prudential regulation, on long-term investment stimulating competitiveness, sustainable growth and job creation; believes that the country-specific recommendations need to be subject of social impact assessments so as to ensure that requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training, retraining and protection of human health are met;
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls on the Commission to identify explicitly in the Annual Sustainability GuidelinesGrowth Survey potential cross-border spill- over effects of major economic policy measures implemented at the EU level as well as in Member States;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Calls on the commissioners responsible for the European Semester to come and debate the Annual Sustainability GuidelinesGrowth Survey with the relevant EP committees as soon as it has been adopted by the Commission;
Amendment 279 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
Amendment 284 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Asks for the AGSO to be subject to a vote with co-decision powers for the European Parliament before the Spring Council;
Amendment 291 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Intends to organise, from 2013, prior to the Spring European Council each year, an interparliamentary forum at the European Parliament for members of the competent national parliamentary committees, recommends that this meeting be an integrated part of the annual meeting organised by the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee for members of national parliaments; proposes that this forum include meetings of the political groups and the relevant committees, along with a plenary sitting affording an opportunity to adopt a joint resolution in preparation for the Spring European Council; instructs its President to represent it at the European Spring Council on the basis of the resolution thus adopted; invites the European social partners to participate in this meeting and provide their views;
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Underlines the need for country- specific recommendations to be based on democratic procedures; warns against the establishment of any practice that lacks parliamentary approval at the European and national level; notes that this applies especially to recommendations which could undermine social regulation;
Amendment 304 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Wishes an economic dialogue to be held at Parliament with the heads of state or government of those Member States intending to make use of the European financial Stability Facility and Mechanism as well as the European Stability Mechanism, before the latter is activated; urges the Council and the Commission to ensure the consistency of economic conditionality and adjustment programmes in the framework of any rescue programme with Union's overarching objectives of social and sustainable development and in particular, employment and economic policy guidelines as well asnd EU 2020 objectives; asks to include recommendations addressed in the framework of the EU Semester to Member States under financial assistance to take account explicitly of these consistency requirements;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 48
Paragraph 48