6 Amendments of Marie-Thérèse SANCHEZ-SCHMID related to 2011/2288(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that the EU’s cohesion policy makes an important contribution to the European economy and, is the Community’s largest source of investment in the real economy and offers remarkable leverage for public and private investments, including at regional and local level;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that in most European countries, SMEs, along with large firms, generate a substantive part of the business sector value added, and insisuggests that for geographically targeted support, the size of the enterprise should not matter as the onlybe the only criterion as the most relevant criterion should be the quality and required sustainability of the project;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that in the world of global competition, an option of cohesion policy support provides added value for European companies when deciding in which world region to develop their operation capacities and where to transfer their knowhowby increasing their competitiveness and promoting the idea of investment in the EU territories; considers that the structural funds must contribute to the implementation of a truly sustainable industrial policy for the globalisation era and promote, in particular, the emergence of major European champions who set global benchmarks;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Endorses the economic rationale of a place-n economic, social and territorial cohesion- based development policy rooted in the fundamental logic that the inteprogrests of the Union’s less- developed regions is likely to increase, should they be able to offerwill benefit the whole of the EU, especially because this policy will enable the competitive comparative advantages as well as firm sets of incentivesof these regions to be developed; in this context requests the Commission to support Member States and regions to pursue their own investment incentives policies;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines that high taxes and public debt are amongis one of the key concerns identified by companies investing in Europe; would be particularly concerned by any effort to harmonise corporation tax conditions inevitably giving rise to higher fiscal burden in some Member States, and would deny individual regions to remain fiscally competitivecalls on the Commission and the Member States, in the context of the European Semester and European economic governance, to reflect and develop efforts in order to achieve a relative convergence of the different tax systems throughout the EU, thus enabling better economic integration and a deepening of the internal market conducive to increased investment;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Emphasises that the EU has an enormous strength in its cities, and that major urban infrastructure projects, and innovative business parks, provide the strongest appealone of the attractions for investment in the EU; urges the Member States to provide large-scale investments infor infrastructure and technology in order to enhance the liveability and competitiveness of Europe’s cities, while ensuring that these investments are not detrimental to real territorial cohesion and balanced rural development.