3 Amendments of Angelika WERTHMANN related to 2012/2256(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 1
1. Regrets the absence of new proposals from the Commission on an enhanced democratisation of the European Semester process, which remains absolutely necessary and should be of high priority; notes the Commission's «Blueprint for a Deep and Genuine EMU – Launching a European Debate»; reaffirms its call for an appropriate «checks and balances» system, through enhanced participation of both the European Parliament and the national parliaments and strengthened coordination between them in all phases of the European Semester (on the basis of Article 13 of the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union) in order to transform the current very formal exercise of the European Semester into genuine economic and budgetary cooperation;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is convinced that funding at EU level can generate savings for all the Member States' budgets and that this should be emphasised; considers that the EU budget has a vital role to play in stimulating growth, boosting job creation and successfully reducing macroeconomic imbalances throughout the Union, basically also in reaching the "EU-2020 goals"; regrets once again that the Commission fails to address this issue in its Communication on the AGS;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 5
5. Strongly condemns the position taken once again by the Council in the framework of the 2013 budget negotiations to reduce artificially the level of payment appropriations available in the EU budget; stresses that the position of the Budget Ministers diminishes the credibility of the European budget authorities by jeopardising the implementation of the Compact for Growth and Jobs adopted at the June 2012 European Council meeting; calls, once more, on the Council to agree with Parliament and the Commission on a common method to assess real payment needs in order to implement the Compact for Growth and Jobs; underlines the utmost urgency of the situation, especially in respect of programmes at the core of the Compact for Growth and Jobs and included in headings 1A and 1B (competitiveness for growth and employment / cohesion for growth and employment), as well as rural development;