3 Amendments of João FERREIRA related to 2012/2290(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that forward policy planning and long-term trends imply a need to protect democracy, guarantee genuine ongoing citizen participation, and draw on the role that should be played, where EU policies as a whole are concerned, by the institutions of national sovereignty, not least national parliaments, as well as by workers’ organisations, other social organisations, and economic and cultural players, the object being to safeguard their interests and aspirations and the development of their countries, without negating individual distinguishing features;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Maintains that the state of the EU and the direction of global trends imply a need to embark on a wide-ranging process encompassing debate, information, genuine enlightenment, and democratic participation and decision-taking in all countries, extending to the agreements and treaties governing EU integration and enabling every country’s status to accord with the will of its people and its actual situation, while allowing countries to invoke such opt-out clauses as might be necessary;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Maintains that the current situation in the EU and global trends are such that the EU budget needs to be strengthened in order that, with the aid of the corresponding increase in the contributions from Member States with higher gross national income (GNI), it may completely fulfil its redistributive function and allow forward planning based on the democratic participation of citizens in truly sovereign democracies in every country, extending to the political, economic, social, and cultural spheres, an outcome which must be achieved by eliminating inequalities, both in social terms and between countries, promoting real convergence and public investment, supporting productive sectors in each country, bolstering public services, and preserving and creating employment with rights; maintains accordingly that the spiral of recession must be reversed in the countries being bailed out by the Troika and hence that intervention in that form must cease and an emergency plan must be drawn up to support the economies concerned;