Activities of Krišjānis KARIŅŠ related to 2014/2145(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Review of the economic governance framework: stocktaking and challenges (A8-0190/2015 - Pervenche Berès) LV
Amendments (11)
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, according to the Commission’s autumn forecast, after two consecutive years of unanticipated negative growth, gross domestic product (GDP) in the euro area is expected to rise by 0.8 % in 2014 and by 1.1 % in 2015, meaning that the pre-crisis growth rate will not be regained this yeargrowth is positive again;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas huge differences will continue to prevail between the Member States, also followingre still present, and the situation has not deteriorated further due to the Troika’s intervention, with forecasted GDP growth rates in 2014 ranging between -2.8 % in Cyprus and +4.6 % in Ireland reflecting increasingly undermining growing internal divergences ;
Amendment 187 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stresses that the return to sound government budget policies and structural reforms were prerequisite for Member States to regain access to financial markets and kick-start economic growth;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that major policy initiatives which included policy recommendations were basere implemented oin economic forecasts that had not anticipated the low growth and inflation experienced and have not fully taken into account the underestimation of the size of the fiscal multiplier, the importance of spillover effects across counthe time of severe financial crisis and the financial distries in a period of synchronised consolidation and the deflationary impact of cumulatives called for structural reforms;
Amendment 263 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recommends further strengthening of the cooperation in the field of economic governance;
Amendment 332 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the fact that in its interpretative communication on flexibility, the Commission acknowledges that the way in which the current fiscal rules are interpreted is crucial in bridging the investment gap in the EU and implementing growth-enhancing structural reforms in a sustainable way;
Amendment 381 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that the communication rightly broadens the scope of the investment clause, allowing for flexibilitya temporary flexibility under strict preconditions in the preventive arm of the SGP to accommodate investment programmes by the Member States, in particular as regards expenditure on projects under structural and cohesion policy, including the Youth Employment Initiative, trans-European networks and the Connecting Europe Facility, and co-financing under the EFSI; believes that this approach must be urgently reassessed to be symmetrically applied to the corrective arm of the SGP;
Amendment 410 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
Amendment 425 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
Amendment 537 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Believes that the MIP must be used in a more balanced manner between deficit and surplus countries, also to address countries with significant room for actionis a key tool to avoid future crisis;
Amendment 685 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Requests that a reassessment of the Eurogroup’s decision-making process be conducted so as to provide for appropriate democratic accountability; believes that in the long term the Commissioner for Economic Affairs should assume the role of President of the Eurogroup;