Activities of Reimer BÖGE related to 2014/2249(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Possible evolutions of and adjustments to the current institutional set-up of the European Union - Improving the functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty - Budgetary capacity for the Eurozone (debate) DE
Possible evolutions of and adjustments to the current institutional set-up of the European Union - Improving the functioning of the European Union building on the potential of the Lisbon Treaty - Budgetary capacity for the Eurozone (debate) DE
Amendments (10)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union has strengthened the democratic legitimacy of European policies and created new areas of responsibility for the European Union;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the Treaty of Lisbon has been only partially implemented in the budgetary field, mainly owing to the absence of genuine own resources;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Recital C (new)
Recital C (new)
C. whereas the agreed level of commitments in relation to the level of payments has proven unsustainable over the past years, posing a serious risk of a constantly growing structural deficit of the EU budget which would be in breach of the Lisbon Treaty;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Recital D (new)
Recital D (new)
D. whereas the legislator was faced with great challenges in ensuring consistency in the parallel negotiations of the Multiannual Financial Framework 2014- 2020 and the multiannual programmes;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls on the European Council to make use of Article 48(7) of the Treaty on European Union and Article 312(2) of the TFEU and to abandon the unanimity requirement in favour of a qualified majority when adopting the forthcoming MFF Regulation, thereby facilitating a balanced agreement;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the European Council is not empowered to exercise legislative functions, and that this prohibition is clearly expressed in Article 15(5) of the TEU; regrets that, when adopting the 2014-2020 MFF was adopted, the European Council intervened itook preliminary decisions touching upon the content of thsome programmes funded by the EU budget, flying in the face ofthereby undermining Parliament's legislative prerogatives;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets that the European budget is based principally on national contributions and notrather than on genuine own resources as provided in European treaties since the Treaty of Rome; calls on the Council to return to the letter and spirit of the Treatideplores that, in consequence, the debate on expenditure in the Council revolves around net- receipts rather than European added value; calls on the Council to return to the letter and spirit of the Treaties while taking into account the recommendations of the high-level group of own-resources;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Condemns the accumulated delays in the settlement of commitments due to the insufficiency of payment appropriations from which the European budget suffers in contravention of Articles 310 and 323 of the TFEU, thus endangering the authority of the Union; believes that the post- electoral revision of the MFF 2014-2020, to be launched at the end of 2016 at the latest, offers a good opportunity to re-visit the issue and make the necessary adjustments to alleviate the problem;
Amendment 18 #
5. Stresses that the use of the European budget as a guarantee against borrowing on the market by some of these instruments, such as the facility providing financial assistance for balances of payments, the European Financial Stability Mechanism (EFSM) and foreign policy instruments such as the guarantee for the EIB’s external mandate, and macro-financial assistance, and the soon to be established European Fund for Structural Investments (EFSI) effectively place the Union in a state of indebtedness, which is in itself contrary to the principle of budgetary equilibrium enshrined in the Treaty;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that, contrary to current practice, the Treaty provides for the possibility of adopting an MFF for a five-year period; calls for the adoptionlignment of future MFFs to be aligned with the next parliamentary term.with the next parliamentary term to enhance the democratic accountability and to disassociate the legislative process from the adoption of the multiannual programmes, thus facilitating the legislative coordination as well as effectively preventing the European Council from exercising legislative functions;