Activities of Francesca BALZANI related to 2010/2002(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
Mandate for the trilogue on the 2011 Draft Budget (debate)
Amendments (22)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. RWelcomes the publication by the Commission of the Report on the functioning of IIA (COM 2010/185) and recalls, in thatis respect, that a proposal for a substantial budget reviewrevision is awaited, and that the difficulties encountered in the previous budgetary procedures into reacting properly and satisfactorily to various challenges that have arisen render athe revision of the current MFF unavoidable; recalls that it expects the Commission to make some concrete proposals for a revision of the MFF before the end the 1st semester 2010;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5a new
Paragraph 5a new
5a. Underlines the importance of a strong European reaction to the crisis and to the instability of financial market that should logically imply additional financial capacity and flexibility for EU Budget;
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7a new
Paragraph 7a new
7a. deplores the impossibility to clearly identify, from a budgetary point of view, the financial implication in the Draft Budget 2011 of the EU 2020 Strategy flagship initiatives , such as "innovation Union", "Youth on the Move", "Resource efficient Europe", "New skills and jobs", "Industrial policy for the globalisation era" and expresses its strong doubts regarding the capacity to ensure, in the context of the present financial framework, an adequate funding for these key initiatives;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls that, as stated in its resolution of 25 March 2010 on priorities for the 2011 budget, youth is one of the key priorities for the 2011 budget, which should be promoted as an EU cross-cutting theme, developing synergies between different policy areas relating to youth, notably education, employment, entrepreneurship and health, while facilitating and encouraging young people's social inclusion, empowerment, mobility and skills development; points out that 'youth' should be seen as a broad concept encompassing the ability of individuals to change positions and status several times throughout their lives, switching without restriction between settings such as apprenticeships, academic or professional environments and vocational training, and that, to this end, one of the objectives wshould be transition from the education system to the labour market also taking into account the economic needs related to this process;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11a new
Paragraph 11a new
11a. Underlines the fact that the EU budget is very limited compared to national budgets; recalls therefore, in order to implement common EU strategies, the need for creating synergies between the EU budget and national budgets; stresses that coherence creates a greater impact for European policies, achieving a true European added value, while supporting long term policy objectives; is convinced that the EU budget can play an instrumental role in key areas to support long tem investments and jobs; expects the Council to take that duly into consideration when deciding on the EU budget and to refrain from "across the board cuts" even if the context for national public finances is extremely difficult;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13a new
Paragraph 13a new
13a. Is very concerned about the decrease regarding CIP - Entrepreneurship and innovation, particularly given the key role that the SMEs have in driving the economic recovery; has taken note of the problems described by the Commission in keeping payments at a high level in times of crisis, but is not convinced that the payments need to be drastically reduced to the very low level that has been proposed; urges the Commission to look further into this issue;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Recalls that one of the main changes introduced by the TFEU is the abolition of the distinction between compulsory and non-compulsory expenditure in the budget procedure, allowing, at last, the two branches of the budgetary authority to negotiate on a equal footing on all annual appropriations and multiannual financial programming for an heading which, recalls that compulsory expenditures accountsed for almost 342% of the overall draft budget for 2011most of which were under heading 2;
Amendment 59 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Notes that, despite the claim that appropriations remain stable, assigned revenue is down by more than 25 % in 2011, and expresses its concern that market support is down by almost 22% (to EUR 3 491 million), and that appropriations for veterinary and plant protection measures show a fall of 7.8%, considering increased market volatility as well as vulnerability of agricultural activity to sanitary hazards;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the increase of appropriations for decoupled direct aid (9,7%), school fruit and vegetables scheme (50%, to 90 million), and school milk (5,3%), ands well as the appropriations foreseen for the program "aid for deprived persons" for which it expects the Council to eventually reach an agreement on the Commission's proposal to change the legal basis; notes with satisfaction the constant decrease of export refunds since 2007 (to 166 million in DB 2011);
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Recalls that the "Milk Fund" adopted in 2010 Budget to mitigate the consequences of the dairy crisis was supposed to be a one-off action; asks the Commission to forward its evaluation of this measure and its proposals for a permanent approach and concrete proposals for dealing with price volatility in this sector; including measures to correct the unfair competition currently existing in the dairy sector, where farmers receive less for their products, whilst the price for consumers stays at the same level;
Amendment 97 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Takes note, in this respect, of the Commission's communication on an Action Plan to implement the Stockholm Programme, and welcomes, in the field of immigration and support for the integration of immigrants, the proposed increase in CA for the External Borders Fund (254 million, +22 %) and the European Return Fund (114 million, + 29 %); this requires the Commission to equally reinforce all financial instruments aimed at strengthening the political, economic and development partnership with countries of origin and transit, including best practices in the use of labour remittances for development projects;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Takes note, in this respect, of the Commission's communication on an Action Plan to implement the Stockholm Programme, and welcomes, in the field of immigration and support for the integration of immigrants, the proposed increase in CA for the External Borders Fund (254 million, +22 %) and the European Return Fund (114 million, + 29 %); regrets the small increase of the appropriations on the European Refugee Fund (94 million, +1.3 %);
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Recalls that encouraging and promoting cooperation in the field of youth and sports is a priority for the 2011 budget and stresses that financial support for special annual events is an important tool to this end; deplores the fact that no CA have been included in the draft budget for 2011 (p.m. in CA and only EUR 2.9 million in PA), as against EUR 9.8 million and EUR 10.25 million respectively in the 2010 budget; furthermore underlines that sport is a new competence under the Lisbon Treaty which should be adequately funded in the 2011 budget;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45
Paragraph 45
45. Welcomes the launch of the European Year on Volunteering in 2011, building on the preparatory action introduced under the 2010 budget 2010, and recalls Parliament's and Council's decision to increase the overall allocation provided for in the relevant legislative act to EUR 8 million;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 a new
Paragraph 45 a new
45a. Takes the view that the resources currently given over to citizenship, i.e. 0.5% of the Community budget, are nowhere near enough to genuinely realise our objective of bringing Europe closer to citizens;
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 a new
Paragraph 45 a new
45a. Deplores the cuts of nearly 4 million in commitments for the programme 'Europe for Citizens' and recalls the importance of this programme in the development of European citizenship through support for concrete actions such as town-twinning;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 46 a new
Paragraph 46 a new
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50 a new
Paragraph 50 a new
50a. Stresses the need to increase the Community budget for funding measures designed to address migration phenomena, with a view to improving the management of legal migration, slowing down illegal migration and optimising the impact of migration on development;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 63
Paragraph 63
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65
Paragraph 65
65. Stresses the importance of pilot projects and preparatory actions as key tools for the formulation of political priorities and for paving the way for new initiatives that might turn into EU activities and programmes improving the lives of the citizen; confirms, therefore, already at this stage in the procedure, that it is determined to use all the means at its disposal to ensure the adoption of its proposals regarding pilot projects and preparatory actions for the 2011 budget;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 67
Paragraph 67
67. Intends to forward to the Commission, as provided for in Annex II, part D of the IIA, a first provisional list of potential pilot projects and preparatory actions for the 2011 budget 2011, in order for the Commission to contribute to Parliament's definition of a global and balanced final package on this issue, expects the Commission to provide a well reasoned analysis of EP's indicative proposals; stresses that this first provisional list does not preclude the formal tabling and adoption of amendments concerning pilot projects and preparatory actions during Parliament's reading of the budget;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72
Paragraph 72
72. Recalls, as far as procedural aspects of the conciliation committee are concerned, that the institutions involved are supposed to reach agreement at the trilogue scheduled for July; insist that the up- coming Presidency of the European Union, meant to adopt the budget, takes part in this trialogue; considers, as far as the mandate regarding the 2011 draft budget is concerned, all aspects and points raised in this resolution to be of importance for this trilogue;