Activities of Barbara MATERA related to 2010/2211(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on Investing in the future: a new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for a competitive, sustainable and inclusive Europe
Amendments (6)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital B (new)
Recital B (new)
B. whereas the Europe 2020 strategy should help Europe recover from the crisis and come out stronger, through job creation and smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; whereas this strategy is based on five headline targets on promoting employment, improving the conditions for innovation, research and development, meeting climate change and energy objectives, improving education levels and promoting social inclusion, in particular through the reduction of poverty and gender inequalities,
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 1 (new)
1. The challenge of demography Insists that the Union must tackle its demographic challenge; notes that the combination of a smaller working population and a higher share of retired people will place additional strains on its welfare systems and its economic competitiveness, raising increasingly significant problems in relation to gender poverty, given the high number of elderly women and current welfare disparities;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 (new)
Paragraph 8 (new)
8. Calls for SMEs and entrepreneurs, with particular focus on women entrepreneurs, who are statistically less risk-averse but are strongly discriminated against with regard to access to financing, to be placed at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy; demands, accordingly, enhanced support in the next MFF for all programmes and instruments aimed at fostering SMEs, in particular the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP); stresses, further, the need for greater accessibility to financing instruments, without any distinction of gender, and adaptation of those instruments to the needs of SMEs, inter alia through the extension and expansion of the CIP’s guarantee instruments and the Risk-Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF) under the Research Framework Programme;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13 (new)
Paragraph 13 (new)
13. Calls for SMEs and entrepreneurs, with particular focus on women entrepreneurs, who are statistically less risk-averse but are strongly discriminated against with regard to access to financing, to be placed at the heart of the Europe 2020 strategy; demands, accordingly, enhanced support in the next MFF for all programmes and instruments aimed at fostering SMEs, in particular the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (CIP); stresses, further, the need for greater accessibility to financing instruments, without any distinction of gender, and adaptation of those instruments to the needs of SMEs, inter alia through the extension and expansion of the CIP’s guarantee instruments and the Risk-Sharing Finance Facility (RSFF) under the Research Framework Programme;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 (new)
Paragraph 15 (new)
15. Stresses that the CAP has a multifunctional role in delivering a variety of public goods beyond agricultural markets, such as guaranteeing the Union’s food security in maintaining farm land in production throughout Europe, shaping the diversity of landscapes, enhancing biodiversity and animal welfare, and in combating rural depopulation, thereby enabling rural areas to recover and develop;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 16 (new)
Paragraph 16 (new)
16. Encourages intergenerational and intercultural exchanges by strengthening European and national policies and, accordingly, by financing current programmes; regards differences as an opportunity for growth and for the development of the various parts of the EU and their respective levels of competitiveness;