15 Amendments of Marisa MATIAS related to 2013/2134(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the economic, social, financial and sovereign debt crises have not yet abatconstantly increased and the objective of a more balanced and integrated Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) remains an unattained ambition;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Commission's country- specific recommendations (CSRs) contain some useful insights, but on the whole fail to convince in terms of the balance of the policy prescriptions across policy areas;
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
Da. Whereas the involvement of social partners and civil society organisations is essential to perform social assessments of the impact of the crisis on the ground, hence allowing to take adequate measures;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission's recognition that ‘to be successful, policies need not only to be well designed but to have political and social support’, and that Europe needs, beyond fiscal consolidation, real real sustainable and socially balanced growth and specific and urgent action to tackle the unacceptably high levels of unemployment; calls on the Commission in that respect to monitor the compliance of all Member States' reports with EU2020 targets, notably in regard to poverty reduction and employment, and to carefully look at the interconnections and interdependences between policies;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the Commission's recognition that ‘deficit’ countries need to boost their competitiveness and that ‘surplus’ countries need to boost their demand, and that this calls for a deep revision of the prevailing policy stance; rejects beyond this the CSRs and calls on the Commission and the Council to fundamentally revise their approach to economic policy coordination;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission and the Council to avoid taking a one-size-fits-all approach to the CSRs and ensure that recommendations are fine-tuned according to the national specificities and needs of the Member State concerned; calls on the Member States to assess the social impact of economic and structural reform plans, as well as to ensure a genuine evaluation process of their implementation for a more efficient cross-policy coordination and fine-tuning;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Demands from the Commission a thorough and transparent evaluation of the various economic governance measures including the macro-economic adjustment programmes prescribed by the Troika and to reflect on the criticism that is not only expressed by critical economists but also by Troika members themselves;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the Commission's recognition that European competitiveness ‘cannot and will not be based merely on costs’ and that it is essential to enhance productivity, social inclusion, investment in education and life-long learning, research and innovation and resource efficiency, in line with Europe 2020 goals; regrets therefore the lack of progress on the EU 2020 targets; calls for the above recognition to be adequately reflected in the ‘deficit’ countries' CSRs as these are the Member States which are in critical need of boosting their competitiveness;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to submit as a matter of urgency refrain from adopting further legislative proposals on new financial incentives supporting Member States in the implementation of structural reforms, including a Competitiveness and Convergence Instrument (CCI) based on the Community method as a first step towards a European fiscal capacityeconomic governance which aim at transposing the legally doubtful fiscal compact into Union law as currently foreseen by the communication 166(2013); condemns the implicit "carrot and stick" logic, disguised as a solidarity mechanism, of the so called 'convergence and competitiveness instrument'; demands instead the adoption of a comprehensive fiscal stimulus package for regions and countries in need and to strengthen domestic demand in the Member States;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Welcomes the Commission's statement that ‘surplus’ countries have a role to play in overcoming the current crisis, not only by reducing taxes and social security contributions but also by developing wages in order to boost sustainable domestic demand and promoting new investment opportunities; stresses the importance of the positive spill-over effects which these actions will have across the EU; calls on the Commission to adapt the scoreboard indicators of the macro-economic imbalances procedure accordingly;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. ADisagrees that the ECB's action has ‘decisively contributed to the stability of the euro area’, limiting speculation on sovereign debt; considers, however, that insufficient growth and high (and still growing) levels of private and public debt in many Member States metherefore, that the statutes of the ECB need to be revised in order to enable the ECB to act as a true lender of last resort and that ‘a carefully managed process of deleveraging’ is required; callso directly contribute to stimulating the economies of the Member States; calls furthermore on the Commission, therefore, to quickly deliver its 2- pack commitments to Parliament in order to deepen the analysis on the partial substitution of national debt issuance through joint issuance in the form of a redemption fund and eurobills;
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses thatDeems the European Semester must in no way jeopardise the prerogatives of Parliament; urges the Commission to ensure the proper formal involvement of Parliament in all the steps of the European Semester process in order to increase the legitimacy of decisions which affect all citizensprocess as completely insufficient for solving the economic and social problems in Europe;
Amendment 231 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Urges the Commission to ensure that Member States involve their national parliaments, the social partners and civil society in the European Semester process as a whole, and particularly in the development and discuss, monitoring and evaluation of their national reform programmes;