Activities of Marta ANDREASEN related to 2011/0177(APP)
Plenary speeches (1)
Multiannual financial framework for the years 2014-2020 - Own resource based on the value added tax (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION Interim report in the interests of achieving a positive outcome of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014-2020 approval procedure (2011/0177(APP))
Amendments (8)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Is fully aware that the negotiations on the MFF 2014-2020 are taking place in a very difficult economic context, in which Member States are engaging in considerable efforts to make fiscal adjustments to their national budgets, with a view to the stability of the banking sector and the single currency;exercise restraint in their national budgets, and insists that the Union should not be seen as addingadd an extra fiscal burden on taxpayers.; is, however, convinced that the EU budget is a part of the solution to enable Europe to emerge from the current crisis by helping Member States tackle, collectively and in concerted fashion, the present structural challenges, in particular loss of competitiveness, rising unemployment and poverty;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that all the macroeconomic financial stabilisation measures taken since 2008 have not yet proved sufficient toeffective in overcomeing the economic and financialcurrent crisis; believes, therefore, that in order to return to growth and generate employment in Europe, a well- targeted and sufficient EU budget is needed to further help coordinate and enhance theretrenchment of the EU budget is needed to enable efforts to be better concentrated at national effortslevel;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that pursuant to Article 310 TFEU the revenue and expenditure shown in the EU budget must be in balance and, therefore, the budget cannot generate public debt generated by the budget falls directly on the member states, many of which are already heavily indebted;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. StressNotes that the EU budget is an investment budget and that 94 % of itonly 94 % of the EU budget's total returns are investedspent in the Member States themselves or for external priorities of the Union; emphasises that, for the regions and Member States, public investment would be minimised or impossible without the contribution of the EU budgeton the external ambitions of the Union; believes that any decrease retrenchment of the EU budget would inevitably hampervery likely assist the growth and competitive strength of the entire Union economyconomies of the Member States;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. RecallNotes that delivering onattempting to implement the Europe 2020 strategy’s seven flagship initiatives willould require a huge amount of future- oriented investmentspending, estimated at no less than EUR 1 800 billion up to 2020; stresses that one of the main objectives of the Europe 2020 strategy, namely, to promote jobs and high-quality employment for all Europeans, will only be achieved if the necessary investment in education, in favour of a knowledge society, and in research and innovation, SMEs, and green and new technologies is made now and not delayed any longer; favours combining the reduction of public deficits and debt with the promotion of such investments, and would in all probability be no more successful than the Lisbon Agenda;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Stresses that since 1988 national budgets have grown on average more rapidly than the EU budget; notes that even since the start of the crisis in 2008 total government expenditure in the Member States has risen at an annual nominal rate of 2 %; draws the conclusion that this shrinkage of the EU budget with respect to the national budgets is in flagrant contradiction with the extension of competences and tasks conferred on the Union by the Treaty and with major political decisions taken by the European Council itself, notably the development of a strengthened European economic governancenotes however that this still represents an increase in the EU budget;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Strongly rejects, therefore,endorses any attempt by the Council to reduce further the level of EU expenditure as proposed by the Commission; firmly opposes, in particular, any plead for linear, across- the-board cuts that would jeopardise the implementation and effectiveness of all EU policies, irrespective of their European added value, political weight or performance; instead, challenges the Council, in case it proposes cuts, to clearly and publicly identify which of its political priorities or projects should be dropped altogether;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39
Paragraph 39
39. Profoundly disagrees withWould welcome the application of a linear staff reduction to all institutions, bodies and agencies, as their roles and responsibilities under the Treaties differ widely; stresses that it should be left to each of them to decide where cuts can be introduced, and which cuts, so as to not hamper their proper funone component of ongoing budget reductionings;