8 Amendments of Monika HOHLMEIER related to 2011/2042(BUD)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is of the opinion that the EU budget brings added value to national public expenditure by initiating, supporting and complementing investments in those policies which are at the core of Europe 2020; believes, moreover, that the EU budget has an instrumental role to play in helping the EU to exit the current economic and financial crisis through its capacity as a catalyst to boost investment, growth and jobs in Europe; takes the view that the EU budget could at least mitigate the effects of current restrictive national budgetary policies; stresses also that, given its redistributive nature, any attempt to limit the level of the EU budget will be detrimental to European solidarity and to the pace of economic development in most Member States; takes the view that the ‘net contributor’/’net beneficiary’ approach has no economic rationale, since it disregards spill-over effects between EU countries and therefore undermines common EU policy goals;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Recalls that delivering on the Europe 2020 strategy’s seven flagship initiatives will require a huge amount of future-oriented investment in the short, medium and longer term; stresses that the main objective of the Europe 2020 strategy – namely, to promote jobs and high-quality employment for all Europeans – will be achieved only if the necessary investments in education, research and development, innovation, SMEs and green technologies are made now and not delayed any longer; calls for a renewed political compromise combining the reduction of public deficits and debt with the promotion of such investments; expresses its willingness to examine possibilities to improve and widen existing instruments enhancing the synergy between the EU budget and EIB actions, in order to support long-term investments;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Title after paragraph 10
Title after paragraph 10
2012 EU BUDGET: budget responsibility should not automatically entail budget austerity
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Underlines that these figures constitute a yearly breakdown of multiannual global amounts agreed upon by both Parliament and the Council when these programmes and actions were adopted; stresses that the annual amounts programmed represent appropriations to be budgeted as a matter of political consistency and with a view towhich allow for achieving EU objectives and priorities, notably in the context of Europe 2020; acknowledges, however, that some room for manoeuvre may appear under certain headings of the MFF, given the very provisional indicative figures (in particular under Heading 2) put forward by the Commission at that point in the year;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Stresses, in this connection, that keeping commitment appropriations under strict control would require not only significant redeployments and reprioritisation, but also the joint identification of possible negative priorities by the institutions; highlights, however, the fact that, to this end, greater budgetary flexibility (mainly between the headings of the current MFF) wouldmight be needed in order to align budgetary resources with evolving circumstances and priorities;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Underlines that the strengthening of a number of policies at EU level following the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty should logically imply additionalequate financial capacity for the EU, which was hardly the case for 2011, the first year after its entry into force; reminds the Council and the Commission of the political declaration annexed to the 2011 budget, whereby the Commission undertakes to consider ways to strengthen the Lisbon Treaty priority areas and thoroughly to assess the needs when preparing the draft budget for 2012; expects the Commission to follow suit by, for example, proposing to transform successful Lisbon-related pilot projects or preparatory actions into multiannual programmes;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Considers the Commission’s approach to determining EU decentralised agencies’ subsidies from the EU budget to be reliable and to provide the right incentives; sStresses that EU agencies’ budget allocations are far from being confined to administrative expenditure alone, but instead contribute to achieving the Europe 2020 goals and EU objectives in general, as decided by the legislative authority; takes the view, therefore, that their budget allocations should be preserved; reaffirms the need to examine requests for new posts carefully in relation to newly assigned tasks; calls for a specific approach in respect of the recruitment of specialised scientific staff with professional experience, especially when these posts are financed exclusively by fees and are thus budget-neutral for the EU budget; supports the work carried out by the interinstitutional working group on the future of agencies, which was set up in early 2009, and looks forward to its conclusions, notably on the above mentioned points;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Is aware that the level of payments finally implemented every year sometimes entails a significant so-called ‘surplus’ compared to the level of payments originally agreed by the budget authority, meaning that Member States’ national contributions to the EU budget are therefore decreased accordingly and their fiscal positions improved; does not consider the Council’s concerns as to the level and timing of this ‘return’ relevant in addressing the sensitive underlying political issue of the financing of the EU budget; strongly urges the Commission, therefore, to make proposals for the establishment of new and genuine own resources so as to provide the EU with real and autonomous financial resources; requests before the establishment of any new own resources an assessment as to which extent this would affect the competitiveness of the EU; insists that any new own resources will have no adverse affect on the competitiveness;