7 Amendments of Karima DELLI related to 2009/2234(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas between 2000 and 2006 15.2% of Europeans (69.8 million) lived in Objective 2 areas and benefited from total financing of EUR 22.5 billion (9.6% of total resources), with 730 000 ‘gross’ jobs being created, and most indicators showing high performance levels (employment, innovation, research and development (R&D), human capital intensity, education and training, lifelong learning) while, on the other hand, other indicators (foreign direct investment (FDI), productivity) show lower performance levels than those of the convergence regions; and, as regards growth of per capita GDP compared with the EU average, the regions in question are quite a long way ahead (122%) of the convergence regions (59%) but nevertheless show a fall of 4.4% in that period; whereas, however, in the light of the proposals by the Stiglitz Commission attainment indicators for objective 2 should be extended to include new tools which can provide better measurement of social progress,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas, based on latest Commission forecasts (2009-2011), the labour market situation will remain unfavourable and the unemployment rate will reach 10.25% in the EU, with the loss of 2.25% of jobs for 2009 and 1.25% for 2010 and entailing inter alia an increase in social breakdown in the member countries; the key sectors in the EU region show: (a) an increase in new orders and confidence with an improvement in the overall EU industrial picture, although at a rate of production 20% lower than at the start of 2008, (b) continued decline in activities in the manufacturing sector, (c) continued difficulty for SMEs in accessing micro- credit/financing,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the Structural Funds are powerful instruments, designed for helping the regions in their economic and social restructuring and in promoting territorial cohesion while having regard to the specific needs of towns, especially urban areas experiencing difficulties, as well as for implementation of the European Economic Recovery Plan and, in particular, development of competitiveness, supporting their systematic and effective use; stresses that the aim of competitiveness cannot be attained to the detriment of cooperation and solidarity between regions;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Warmly supports the key priorities of the EU 2020 strategy: exploiting, particularly smart, sustainable, inclusive growth: exploiting, inter alia, new sources of growth via the digital economy, improving the regulatory framework for strengthening territorial cohesion and promoting better conditions of competitiveness, entrepreneurship and innovation for all the regions, developing SMEs and supporting their growth potential; calls for these policies to be strengthened further within the framework of the forthcoming deepening of the EU 2020 strategy;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the support measures for undertakings under the cohesion policy (approximately EUR 55 billion between 2007 and 2013), most of which concerns strengthening innovation and modernisation of SMEs, and understands that the proposed measures under the intervention in favour of undertakings must be targeted at their long-term restructuring outcomes and the transition to a more sustainable economy and not at fire- fighting interventions for economic survival, which in many cases are incompatible with State aid policies;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to monitor, on a continuous basis, the impact of the crisis in various structural and development fields and the use made of the opportunities offered by the financing instruments earmarked for Objective 2 primarily to support competitiveness and employment, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship and SMEs alongside protection and improvement of the environment, with an emphasis on entrepreneurship and SMEs and bodies working for a social, inclusive economy;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Supports the assistance policy for large projects for the regions (financing of EUR 50 million and above) introduced by the Commission in 2009, and calls which must not be implemented to the detriment of polycentric, balanced development nor, by implication, the territorial cohesion of the EU, and calls for enhanced transparency in decisions on the financing by the EU of large projects and for a further increase beyond 25% in the financing provided through JASPERS (Joint Assistance in Supporting Projects in European Regions) with a view to preparation and very rapid implementation of large projects;