12 Amendments of Eider GARDIAZABAL RUBIAL related to 2017/2286(BUD)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas years of austerity policies have reinforced the mistrust of citizens towards the EU because of their perception of its role in the management of the financial, social and economic crisis;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the Council has repeatedly contradicted itself over the last few years, by presenting new political priorities for the EU but showing itself unwilling to provide for fresh appropriations to finance them, perceiving the EU budget as a 0 sum game when committing Member States’ contributions;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that, contrary to populist narrative, EU citizens expect the Union to do more (Eurostat data from august 2017 state that 56% of citizens is optimistic about EU future and the 68% of them feels to be an EU citizen), and to protect them from the consequences of global competition, climate change and international security threats; believes that in order to fulfill these expectations, the EU must, within the remit of its competences, and commitments, the EU must perform better, so as to narrow the gap in living standards between EU citizens, to prepare the European economy and EU citizens to face up to the challenge of digitalisation, to manage migration flows, and to put an end to various kinds of discrimination, such as discrimination against women or LGBTI people, while fully adhering to the EU 2020 strategy and UN Sustainable Development Goals;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Believes that the 2019 EU budget must primarily answer to the challenges the EU youth is facing; believes that the younger generations were hit harder by the ongoing crisis and, therefore, the EU must put in place all the relevant instruments in order to tackle youth unemployment;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the fact that, at the strong request of Parliament, the result of the conciliation on the 2018 EU budget was to increase the originally proposed specific allocation for the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) by EUR 116.7 million of fresh appropriations, bringing its total amount to EUR 350 million in 2018; expects the 2019 budget to demonstrate great ambition to fight youth unemployment; recalls the commitment by the Commission to propose a further increase of the YEI funding through an amending budget should the absorption capacity of the YEI allow for an increase;
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls that the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) guarantee fund has been financed partly at the expense of Horizon 2020 and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF); reiteratunderlines Parliament’s long-standing position that any new initiatives should be financed by new appropriations; reiterates that the cuts in those programs should be reversed as much as possible
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Considers that the 2019 budget, at a time when key actors are unwilling to implement their commitments to fight climate change under the Paris Agreement, such as the US, must place the EU squarely at the forefront of this fight; underlines that expenditures in this respect should be considered as investments and not costs; stresses that climate change fight is probably one of the greatest challenges of our generation and that any commitment for this scope should be evaluated mostly in a long term perspective;
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that the Member States’ strong social protection systems in all areas (unemployment, health, pension systems) have helped them to mitigate the consequences of the crisis; believe s that the EU canshould support the Member States, while fully respecting their competences, by budgeting properly programmes which set out to fight inequalities, alleviate the worst forms of poverty, including child poverty, and overcome the negative effects of digitalisation on living and working conditions and social protection systems;
Amendment 128 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that gender-related discrimination, notably on the labour market, is not only incompatible with the values of the EU, but also constitutes a serious impediment to economic growth; expects the 2019 budget to deepen Cohesion policy support to investments in helping to secure better access to the labour market for women, for instance through infrastructure which supportseducation, childcare and healthcare infrastructures helping the re conciliation of private and professional lives for women;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Reiterates its concern about delays to the implementation of the cohesion policy, and expects this important expression of the EU’s territorial solidarity to get up to speed; believes that sufficient levels of payment and appropriations for commitments should be provided in order for implementation to proceed smoothly;
Amendment 144 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that both the EU and the Member States should demonstrate solidarity towards migrants arriving in Europe in facing up to this challenge; believes that EU agencies and policies involved in or relating to the management of migration flows should be adequately financed to meet this challenge and that the EU, in order to mitigate the cost in the long term and by acting in a manner be fitting its values, should also demonstrate solidarity in creating conditions for peace and prosperity in the countries of origin by placing greater emphasis on development policies, notably through the implementation of the European Fund for Sustainable Development (EFSD), the Development Cooperation Instrument (DCI), the Humanitarian Aid budget and the European Neighbourhood Instrument (ENI); underlines the need to support UNRWA actions and programs especially in the light of recent cuts made by US administration; recalls that the redeployment of funding from development to security and defence objectives must be avoided;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Expects the negotiations on the 2019 budget to be based on shared political ambition and to take into account the added value of EU programmes and policies; believes that this objective can only be realised if the negotiating parties are promptly informed of one another’s positions and start the negotiations at the earliest possible stage and are willing to compromise;