7 Amendments of Jens GEIER related to 2022/2172(INI)
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the crucial and growing importance of the EU budget in delivering on virtually all of the EU’s key policy objectives, its flagship programmes and its crisis intervention; underlines the multiple challenges the EU is facing such as building up its strategic autonomy notably in the field of industrial policy, ensuring competitivity during the socio-ecological transformation, ending its reliance upon Russian fossil fuels, fostering social cohesion, completing the health union and the energy union and financing important common projects such as defence, civil protection and space; considers that all new EU policies and challenges must involve new means and extra resources; reiterates, in this regard, that robust, reliable and resilient financing of the EU budget requires a diversified and enlarged set of own resources; is convinced that there is huge potential in a well-designed reform of the EU own resources not only for strengthening the financing of its budgetary needs, but also for boosting its policy outputs, improving the fiscal equilibrium between the EU and Member States and adding value to overall public finance;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges all actors to continue the efforts to identify fresh and new, preferably genuine, own resources and other revenue sources for the EU budget with the aim of fully covering the overall expected expenditure for the repayment of the principal and the interest of the funds borrowed under the NGEU and reinforcing the EU budget where the ‘1 % of EU GDP dogma’ is to be abandoned;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Acknowledges with regret that any prospects forthat the introduction of a financial transaction tax under enhanced cooperation have faded awayhas proven difficult in the course of recent years; insists, nevertheless, that the financial sector be encompassed by the corporate or single market-based own resource initiativea new push for taxing the financial sector is necessary, ideally within the BEFIT context;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls, on therefore, for Commission to evaluate the establishment of a ‘fair border tax’ requiring companies importing goods into the EU to pay a levy for any workers in their global supply chain who are paid a daily wage that is insufficient to allow them to escape absolute poverty, as characterised by international organisations; underlines that any company importing into the EU single market products made by workers paid less than a fixed poverty threshold would have to pay a duty amounting to the difference between this threshold and the salary their workers receive; expects such an evaluation to provide an estimation of the impact on working conditions in third countries;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Considers that the exact scope and call rate of such statistics-based national contributions cshould be scaled and calibrated in such a way as to ensure the overall distributive fairness of the next basket of own resourcapplied uniformly in all member states; holds that such an own resource could thus replace and render superfluous any artificial reductions, lump sum rebates or correction mechanisms on the revenue side, which would otherwise compromise the consistency and incentivising force of the own resources policy;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Concludes that the current financing of the EU budget is in breach of the intention of the founding fathers and the spirit of the Treaties;