24 Amendments of Silvia COSTA related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. UrgesBelieves that the end of the 2014- 2020 programming period, along with the changed European and international political environment, warrant a rethink of the MFF structure, so as to adapt it to the needs of the Union; urges therefore the Commission and the Member States to introduce a fundamental reform of the multiannual financial framework (MFF) t, in order to also prevent Brexit from having any negative effects on the level of funding earmarked for EU-wide cooperation programmes, in the fields of culture, education and research, that have clearly demonstrated their European added value and enjoy lasting popularity among beneficiaries;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Considers that the structure of the future MFF should respect, at a minimum, the following criteria: i. Simplicity, that is, a reform of the headings that allows citizens to understand its objectives; believes that the programmes for education and training, youth, culture and sport should be collected under a single heading; ii. Predictability, that is, a structure of the MFF and the related programmes allowing for sufficient long-term planning by beneficiaries; invites the Commission to maintain the structure of those programmes whose potential has not been fully exploited yet, chiefly the cross- sectoral strand of Creative Europe, including the Cultural and Creative Sector Guarantee Facility and its joint actions with EFSI, which are crucial for support of cultural and creative industries; iii. Transparency and democratic accountability, that is, the duration of the MFF should be aligned to the European electoral cycle; iv. Adaptability, as the experience of the MFF 2014-2020 has shown its inability to respond to emerging challenges without impacting existing programmes; believes more flexibility and wider margins are needed within the next MFF, along with the establishment of the principle of “new money for new initiatives”; invites the Commission and the Council, therefore, to consider increasing the ceilings of commitment and payment appropriations;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Firmly supports the need to reduce the GNI-based resource’s contribution to at most 50% of the EU budget’s own resources, in the context of a comprehensive reform of the system, to respect the spirit and the letter of article 311 of the TFEU;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes with great concern the rise of social and economic inequalities, xenophobia, racism and violent extremism in Europe; calls, therefore, for increased funding for relevant EU programmes that foster social cohesion, tolerance and human rights, and promote open and inclusive European societies as the bedrock of our democratic model, in accordance with the Paris Declaration of 17 March 2015;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the long-term challenges posed bychallenges facing the Union in the fields of education, culture, youth and citizenship: – the integration of refugees and migrants into European society for new arrivals and host societies, underlines the importance of cultural and educational programm; – concrete accessibility to EU programmes, in particular for people with disabilities; – the need to widen the scope of the programmes to address all young Europeans, including high school pupils and apprentices, reaching beyond university students, who are currently the vast majority of beneficiaries; underlines, in this regard, the importance of cultural, educational, and sport programmes, and calls for long-term and coordinated investments through current and future Erasmus+, Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens programmes to support Member States in their efforts;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the long-term challenges posed by the integration of refugees and migrants into European society for new arrivals and host societies, underlines the importance of cultural and educational programmes in this regard, and calls for long-term and coordinated investments through current and future Erasmus+, Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens programmes to support Member States in their efforts; proposes, therefore, a tenfold increase of the funds dedicated to the successor programme of Erasmus+;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Recalls that the Youth Guarantee Scheme and the Youth Employment Initiative are key tools to address the persistent problem of high levels of youth unemployment and calls for their continued improvement, as well as a substantial budget increase, within the framework of the European Social Fund; points out that policies supporting demand and investments, growth- enhancing structural reforms, and coordination in social policies are needed to support quality transitions of young people into the labour market in a sustainable way;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Reiterates its support for the strengthening of the external dimension of the Erasmus+ and Creative Europe cultural programmes as an important part of the people-to-people aspect of the EU strategy for international cultural relations, also via specific mobility schemes for young artists and professionals working in the cultural and creative sectors;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Considers that to increase the impact of the next MFF, further links should be established between EU funds such as the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, Structural Funds, the European social fund, the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and Creative Europe.
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Believes that the next MFF should enable the Union to provide solutions and emerge strengthened from the crises of the decade: the economic and financial downturn, youth unemployment, raising poverty and inequalities, the phenomenon of migration and refugees, climate change and natural disasters, terrorism and instability, to name but a few; underlines that these global, cross-border challenges with domestic implications reveal the interdependency of our economies and societies, and point to the need for joint actions;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Highlights that the proclamation of the European Pillar of Social Rights and the commitment from EU institutions and Member States to ensure a more Social Europe should be supported by adequate financial resources, including through EU funding instruments.
Amendment 133 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that appropriate recognition and full support of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) would strengthen the impact of the next MFF; recalls the dual nature of the cultural and creative sector: economic (wealth and job creation)and cultural (creating values, meaning and identity);recalls that CCIs are one of Europe’s fastest growing sector, generating 509 billion Euros in value added to GDP per year and representing more than 12 million full time jobs ;calls for additional links between the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation and the Creative Europe programme, as this would help to address the increased industrial dependency on design and creativity; reminds that Creative Europe has consistently boasted excellent performance with full implementation at year-end since the start of this MFF; calls on the Commission to comply with Article 167(4) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and establish the CCIs as a horizontal priority within EU funding schemes and programmes, particularly in the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation, the EaSI and the ESIFs.
Amendment 137 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Calls on the Commission to develop , through the MFF, a comprehensive, coherent and long-term industrial policy framework for the cultural and creative industries, with adequate funding to CCIs in order to boost their competitiveness and enable them to fulfil their potential in terms of creating quality jobs and growth for the benefit of the Union;
Amendment 138 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 c (new)
Paragraph 9 c (new)
9c. Calls on the Commission to facilitate funding to the sector, based on the following definition of CCIs: ‘Cultural and Creative Industries are those industries that are based on cultural values, cultural diversity, individual and/or collective creativity, skills and talent with the potential to generate innovation, wealth and jobs through the creation of social and economic value, in particular from intellectual property; they include the following sectors relying on cultural and creative inputs: architecture, archives and libraries, artistic crafts, audio-visual (including film, television, software and video games, and multimedia and recorded music), cultural heritage, design, creativity-driven high- end industries and fashion, festivals, live music, performing arts, books and publishing (newspapers and magazines), radio and visual arts, and advertising’, as adopted in its own resolution on “a coherent EU policy for cultural and creative industry” of 13 December 2016;
Amendment 529 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 83
Paragraph 83
83. Is strongly committed to the delivery of Social Europe and the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, and points to the existing instruments contributing to these goals, notably the ESF, the Youth Employment Initiative, the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived, the EGF and EaSI; believes that they should be safeguardtrengthened in the next MFF;
Amendment 548 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84
Paragraph 84
84. Emphasises in particular the continuous need to fight unemployment, especially among young people, and calls, therefore, for a doubling of the Youth Employment Initiative envelope in the next programming period; the Youth Employment Initiative should continue to target young people directly and should be transformed from a crisis instrument into a more permanent EU financing instrument for tackling youth unemployment, taking into account the financial commitment required to comprehensively tackle youth unemployment in the EU; considers that investment to boost education and training, especially the development of digital skills, remains one of the top priorities of the EU;
Amendment 552 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84
Paragraph 84
84. Emphasises in particular the continuous need to fight unemployment, especially among young people, and calls, therefore, for a doubling of the Youth Employment Initiative envelope to be multiplied by six in the next programming period; considers that investment to boost education and training, especially the development of digital skills, remains one of the top priorities of the EU;
Amendment 553 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 84 a (new)
Paragraph 84 a (new)
84a. Recognises the European added value of having a comprehensive approach to youth policies at EU level; emphasises that a holistic approach to young people is conducive to social justice and competitiveness; notes that cooperation in the field of youth is a prerequisite for achieving other goals set by the EU and that therefore a youth perspective should be mainstreamed in programmes and instruments such as those for cohesion policy, external action, development cooperation and investment recognising the importance of monitoring spending on youth and of assessing the impact on youth when planning the spending of the budget in other fields;
Amendment 560 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85
Paragraph 85
85. Expresses support for programmes in the areas of culture, education, media, youth, sports and, citizenship and civil society that have clearly demonstrated their European added value and, enjoy lasting popularity among beneficiaries and foster European identity; advocates, therefore, continuous investment in the Education and Training 2020 framework through the Erasmus+, Creative Europe and Europe for Citizens programmes in order to pursue reaching out to young people and providing them with valuable competences and life skills through lifelong learning, learner-centred and non-formal education, as well as informal learning opportunities; calls in particular for a tripling of the Erasmus+ envelope in the next MFF with the aim of reaching many more young people and learners across Europe, and achieving the full potential, furthermore, for broad stability in the sectorial regulations of these programme; recommends, moreovs, in order, the continuation of the European Solidarity Corps and reiterates its support for strengthening the external dimension of the Erasmus+ and Creative Europe programmeso fully harness their potential;
Amendment 570 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85 a (new)
Paragraph 85 a (new)
85a. Calls additionally for at least tripling of the Erasmus+ envelope in the next MFF with the aim of reaching many more young people and learners across Europe beyond university students, who are currently the vast majority of beneficiaries, as well as to ensure the accessibility to EU programmes, in particular for people with disabilities, in order to address all young Europeans , and achieving the full potential of the programme; recommends, moreover, the continuation of the European Solidarity Corps and reiterates its support for strengthening the external dimension of the Erasmus+ and Creative Europe programmes;
Amendment 576 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 85 b (new)
Paragraph 85 b (new)
85b. Recalls the strategic potential of the cultural and creative industries (CCIs), to preserve and promote the European cultural and linguistic diversity and their contribution to economic growth, innovation and employment, especially youth employment; supports the maintaining of sector-specific financial mechanisms in interaction with the Creative Europe Programme and the Cultural and Creative Sectors Guarantee Facility, in order to provide fit-for- purpose loans for those industries;
Amendment 585 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 86
Paragraph 86
86. Expects that in the post-2020 period, the European Union will move from crisis-management mode to a permanent, European policy in the field of asylum and migration; stresses that the actions in this field should be covered by a dedicated instrument, i.e. the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund; emphasises that the future fund, as well as the relevant Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) agencies, must be equipped with an adequate level of funding for the whole of the next MFF to address the comprehensive challenges in this area; believes, furthermore, that the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) should be complemented by additional components tackling this issue under other policies, in particular by the cohesion funds and the instruments financing external actions, as no single tool could hope to address the magnitude and complexity of needs in this field; recognises, moreover, the importance of cultural, educational, youth and sports programmes in integrating refugees and migrants into European society;
Amendment 643 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 92
Paragraph 92
92. Stresses that the level and mechanisms of funding in the field of internal security should be stepped up from the outset and for the entire duration of the next MFF in order to avoid systematic recourse to the flexibility provisions of the MFF every year; calls for sufficient resources to be provided to law enforcement agencies (Europol, Eurojust and Cepol) and for the European Agency for the operational management of large- scale IT systems (eu-LISA) to be endowed with the means to implement and manage its new responsibilities; underlines the role of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights in understanding and responding to the phenomena of radicalisation, marginalisation, hate speech and hate crime and stresses the importance of social cohesion and social justice as well as the social inclusion of all people in Europe - also stipulated in the European Pillar of Social Rights - to counteract these phenomena;
Amendment 681 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 99 a (new)
Paragraph 99 a (new)
99a. Considers that the timetable proposed by the Commission, whereby the legislative proposals for the sectoral regulations will be presented after the MFF proposal is issued, will distort the political debate as the negotiations will address the amounts first, and the policy priorities for the EU only at a later stage;