13 Amendments of Marisa MATIAS related to 2014/2224(BUD)
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the research and innovation programmes of the EU, a fundamental pillar of growth strategy, should support social development and resolve problems of the European Union such as poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that the EU Budget must promote social development and cohesion over austerity, wage reductions and distortion of social fabric in countries under adjustment programmes;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Urges the Commission, in view of the deepening of the crisis and the significant increase in poverty to which this is giving rise, to make combating poverty a genuine priority by putting forward specific measures to reduce poverty and arrangements under which the EU budget can be used to supplement action taken by Member States;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Highlights that the EU austerity policies have created a downward pressure on real wages in Member States and that this will prolong the economic and social crisis; underlines that the EU budget should be used to underpin efforts to increase real wages as well as to fight social-dumping in the Member States;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Notes with concern that, while the proposed level of payment appropriations will be mainly dedicated to covering outstanding commitments and the winding down of programmes while at same time most of the instruments have seen their scopes increased (e.g.: Fund for most deprived), the Commission declares that the payments backlog will continue to grow above the EUR 23,4 billion already reached at the end of 2013, even with DAB 3/2014 adoption;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for the end of the mechanisms introduced by the new CPR such as the macroeconomic conditionalities and the performance reserve, which could punish local and regional authorities in a budgetary context they are not responsible for;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Recalls that instruments such as the ESF, the ERDF, the Cohesion Fund or the Youth Employment Initiative are of particular importance during a crisis, and that the first victims of payment decrease are always the weaker stakeholders, such as Member States with budgetary constraints, local and regional authorities, outermost regions, SMEs, NGOs, social partners;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Recalls that EU funds, including research grants from the Commission, shall not fund military projects; stresses that the concept of dual-use technology shall not be used as a loophole to fund projects with a de facto military aim such as drones for high-tech warfare and security surveillance;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes with concern the clear statement of the 6th Cohesion Report that regional disparities widened in particular during the crisis years 2008-2011, meaning that efforts of cohesion policy will have to be significantly increased in order to reach the goals of economic, social and territorial cohesion as stipulated in Article 174 TFEU;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Notes that 2015 will be the second year of implementation of the new ESI funds cycle; underscores the need for sufficient commitment and payment appropriations in order to ensure that the programmes reach the intended number of beneficiaries and thus impact;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Recalls that, according to Article 310 TEUF, the revenue and expenditure shown in the EU budget shall be in balance;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 b (new)
Paragraph 11 b (new)
11b. Considers it extremely important for the funds for this increase to be made available by raising the contributions of the Member States with the highest GNI and per capita income, which will require changes to be made to the current breakdown among Member States;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Insists on the need to enhance its support for the Middle East Peace Process and its determination to ensure the adequate amount of funding to UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority by increasing the level of commitment appropriations to EUR 300 million in payments and to increase it up to EUR 300 million in commitments in order to provide sufficient resources to ease the dramatic humanitarian situation and to support the efforts of reconstruction in the Gaza strip; is astonished that the Council has once again reduced the DB payment appropriations for UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority without clear justification; considers this line under- budgeted already in the DB;