18 Amendments of Marisa MATIAS related to 2012/2150(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 7 a (new)
Citation 7 a (new)
- having regard to its Resolution of 12 December 2011 on the Scoreboard for the surveillance of macroeconomic imbalances: envisaged initial design;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the Commission’s country- specific recommendations for the euro area; expects these recommendations to, which will form the basis of the Spring Council’s recommendations;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Is confidenDeplores the fact that the measures proposed are conducive toin order to achieve sustainable public finances, increased competitiveness, higher growth and improved are based on the privatisation of public services, an increased tax burden and the undermining of labour laws. These priorities will not promote growth, investment or employment;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. warns, in particular, against the set-up of the Annual Growth Survey as a bureaucratic act and expresses its deepest concern to the fact that the democratic assessment of the functioning of this instrument is not guaranteed by the European Parliament at any time, not even at the level of consent;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. NotDeplores the Commission’s insistence on conducting growth-enhancing structural reforms to allow the EU to get to grips withwhich have failed to promote growth. Without growth and job creation, it will be impossible to overcome the crisis and for the EU to regain its preeminent role in the world economy; supports the Commission’s efforts to correctchoices and priorities have exacerbated stagnation, unemployment and the macroeconomic imbalances within the euro area;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Asks the Commission to better point out the role of spill-over effects at all steps of the European Semester procedure. Considers that, in order to successfully reduce Europe-wide macro-economic imbalances, excessive current account surpluses must be tackled and respective recommendations must be clearly stated and enforced;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Notes that most of the structural reforms are concentrating on a small number of areas, such as labour marketincreasing the insecurity of labour relations, the taxation system, restructuring the banking sector, removing unjustified restrictions on regulated trades and professions, liberalising certain industries, improving the efficiency and quality of public expenditurereduction or privatisation of public services, avoiding unnecessary layers of government, combating tax evasion, and reforming mortgage and real estate markets;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the Commission to be more explicit in its recommendations and to monitor recommendations made in the past, i.a. by providing more detailed explanations and evaluations in those cases where the Commission thinks a country has only partially followed the recommendationthat its recommendations have failed to produce the desired results;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Invites the Commission to complement the Scoreboard for the surveillance of macroeconomic imbalances with upper and lower thresholds as required in Regulation (EU) No 1176/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention and correction of macroeconomic imbalances;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Invites the Commission, when presenting complementary indicators and related thresholds for the financial sector by the end of 2012, to include further indicators, namely on R+D expenditure, private and public investment, inequality and energy efficiency;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the end of excessive deficit procedures for several Member States; hopes that more procedures can be brought to an end in the near future; and that the resolution of ongoing procedures can be based on the promotion of policies for growth, with a view to achieving sustainable public accounts in the medium term;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the ratification ofRegrets that the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union by a growing number of the 25 Member States that signed it; urges all other Member States to ratify the Treaty as soon as possible; lauds the positive outcome of the Irish referendum on that Treatycontains no solution to any of the Union's structural problems, lauds the referendum held in Ireland on that Treaty and urges all other Member States to carry out similar popular consultations;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Highlights the important role the Union budget must play in order to successfully reduce macroeconomic and social imbalances throughout the Union and thereby restoring the conditions for a sustainable monetary union;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Lauds the economic dialogue held so far between Parliament and national representatives, and wishes to conduct further dialogues that must be an important element of reinforced Europe- wide debate on economic and social priorities and instruments;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Reminds that the setting the public budget is one of the key responsibilities of the parliament in our democracies. Considers that national parliaments' weakened control over budgetary planning requires perceptible democratic compensation which must go hand in hand with a strengthening of Europe-wide debates;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Notes that the lack of transparency in decision-making and opinion forming processes, particularly in the European Council and the Council of Ministers, is undermining citizens' trust in European integration and the democracies of the European Union and is hindering the exercise of active, constructive control by citizens. Asks therefore for all consultations which take place during the European Semester should be held in public in order to satisfy the requirement for transparent and democratic decision making processes and improve citizens' awareness of economic correlations in the economic and monetary union;