3 Amendments of Gabriel MATO related to 2016/2095(INI)
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the need for the Commission and the Member States to reach a stronger commitment to applying Article 174 of the TFEU, particularly in regions with serious and permanent natural or demographic disadvantages, such as low population density or sparsely populated island and mountainous regions; Emphasises that greater territorial cohesion implies greater economic and social cohesion, and therefore calls for strategic investment in those regions with a view to making them more competitive, improving industry and territorial structure and, ultimately, stabilising the population in those areas;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the Commission to introduce policies designed to combat demographic decline and the dispersion of the population; stresses that the European Union’s cohesion policy should prioritise attention for regions suffering demographic decline;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2c. Points out that the outermost regions are facing a series of factors which, owing to the fact that they are ongoing and taking place at the same time, are seriously damaging the development of those regions, which are contending with unemployment rates higher than 30%; calls on the Commission to bolster the application of Article 349 of the TFEU by adopting specific measures to improve the integration of the EU’s outermost regions; calls, with regard to the archipelagos, for the severe depopulation occurring in non-capital islands to be taken into account;