8 Amendments of Marta ANDREASEN related to 2010/2248(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
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1. Welcomes the changes brought about by the Lisbon Treaty, allowingopportunity for more flexibility in EIB financing, including: equity participations as a complement to the ordinary activities of the Bank; the possibility to establish subsidiaries and other entities, to regulate the so-called special activities and to provide wider technical assistance services; and the strengthening of the Audit Committee;
Amendment 5 #
Motion for a resolution
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2. Is aware of the request by some Member States for the EIB to take on more risk in its financing operations, but at the same time recognises the importance of the EIB's AAA ratingconsiders that the EIB's AAA rating should not be endangered by excessively risky investments;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
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4. WelcomUrges the Bank's to focus on the threeprincipal areas where the crisis has hit Europe hardest, namely small and medium-sized enterprises, convergence regions and climate action;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
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5. Welcomes the increase inConsiders the amounts lent to SMEs between 2008 and 2011, to an annual average of EUR 7.5 billion, as well as the setting-up of the European Progress Microfinance Facility in March 2010 with EUR 200 million of funding from the Commission and the Bank to be insufficient in light of their difficulty in getting credit; calls, however, for morprecise qualntitative measureindicators in order to incrmeasure the value added by EIB intervention in this field; calls on the EIB to provide an estimate of the number of jobs created in this period by its investment in SMEs;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
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Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
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14. Believes that there is a clear need for additional support by the EIB in the following areas: SMEs, midcaps and infrastructure and other key growth- and employment-enhancing projects as part of the Europe 2020 Strategy areas where the EIB can have the greatest beneficial impact on employment in the nations of Europe are in SMEs and midcaps;
Amendment 44 #
Motion for a resolution
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15. UrgeConsiders theat EIB to invest in the Nabucco gas pipeline and other important TEN-E projects that will allow future EU energy demand to be met, diversifying Europe's pool of supplier countries, improving the EU's policy mix and helping meet the Union's environmental commitmentment in energy infrastructure should be contingent on these vital projects remaining under the control of European nations;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
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