6 Amendments of Ruža TOMAŠIĆ related to 2017/2226(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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1. Acknowledges that Europe’s economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery, with Member States displaying positive growth and unemployment reaching its lowest level since the crisis; highlights, nonetheless, that not allthat some Member States are still experiencing the samea slow degree of recovery and that unemployment rates are still too high in many regions of Europe, particularly among young people;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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2. Stresses, therefore, the need to foster greater convergence and inclusion; welcomes the fact that the Commission recognises there is a momentum to support the continuation of the recovery through both economic growth, structural reforms and social convergence;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
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3. Welcomes the streamlining and focus of the Country Specific Recommendations (CSRs); expresses its concern, however, regarding the uneven degree of implementation of the CSRs; calls on the Commission and Member States to closely collaborate and coordinate the process in order to support structural reforms and boost investment and growth;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
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4. Emphasises the important future role in the recovery process of cohesion policy as the main investment policy in Europe; considers, however, that its interaction with the European Semester should be improved to further increase the multiplier effect of cohesion spending and its contribution to sustainable and inclusive growth;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
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6. Welcomes the extension of the European Fund for Strategic Investments until 2020 to help boost investment; underlines the need for complementarities and synergies between those tools; reminds, that projects under the extended EFSI should continue to address sub-optimal investment situations and market gaps; underlines, that the objective of Commission for the next EFSI period is to enhance the geographical coverage of the EFSI and to reinforce the take-up in less developed regions; stresses, therefore, that in this context there is a stronger need to make it easier to combine EFSI with other sources of EU funding;
Amendment 46 #
Draft opinion
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7. Underlines the role of the Structural Reform Support Programme in supporting tailor-made assistance in order to help Member States carry out their reforms; highlights, that the experience to date has shown that many Member States have requested support under the Programme and that requests for support are distributed across all support policy areas; stresses, in this respect, the importance of continued structural reforms at all levels of government and the removal of red tape surrounding ongoing investments so as to help improve the business and investment environments.