6 Amendments of Patrice TIROLIEN related to 2013/2042(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the timing and severity of the crisis has varied to a great extent throughout the EU’s regions, emphasising pre-existing structural weaknesses and bringing a serious decline in GDP growth, record unemployment rates, major impoverishment of the most vulnerable in society and a deteriorated business climate and lowered consumer confidence;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the fiscal compact has been shown to be inappropriate in facing the challenges of the crisis and a growth compact enabling significant investment across the Community is envisaged as the most viable solution, as there is a consensus today that fiscal austerity and budgetary cuts without investments do not revitalise the economy and will not create favourable conditions for job creation and economic growth;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the EU-wide collapse in public finance triggered by the sovereign debt crisis caused austerity policies to become widespread; whereas their effects on local finances have been devastating, causing several budget lines to be reduced or moderated and heavily jeopardising the financing/co- financing capacities for productive investment of national, regional and local authorities;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates the importance of Cohesion Policy as the Community’s main investment instrument, playing a central role in fighting the crisis and engaging the EU and its regions on a path of sustainable growth; hence underlines the importance of securing sufficient budgetary provisions in the context of the MFF negotiations to the Structural and Investment Funds, noting in particular their key share of investment in a range of areas such as employment, innovation, sustainable development and support to SMEs;
Amendment 42 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Strongly reiterates its opposition to the introduction of a macroeconomic conditionality in the Cohesion Policy 2014- 2020 which would penalise regions and social groups already weakened by the crisis, with a suspension of payments possibly having disproportionate effects in some Member States and especially in regions, despite their full participation in the efforts to equilibrate public budgets; is particularly opposed to the pro-cyclical nature of such a measure, which would only serve to weaken states in financial difficulty and totally undermine any form of solidarity inherent to preserving macroeconomic balance within the Union;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Is of the opinion that public expenditure related to the implementation of programmes co-financed by the Structural and Investment Funds should be excluded from the SPG limitationdefinition of SGP structural deficits because they are expenditures devoted to supporting competitiveness, growth and job creation;