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Activities of Alain LAMASSOURE related to 2018/2093(INI)

Shadow opinions (1)

OPINION on differentiated integration
2016/11/22
Committee: ECON
Dossiers: 2018/2093(INI)
Documents: PDF(142 KB) DOC(65 KB)

Amendments (15)

Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the integration of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) into the EU Treaties by turning it into a full-fledged EU body, on condition that the Commission’s competences on economic policy coordination and multilateral surveillance are fully respected and strengthened;deleted
2018/10/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Requests a strengthened role for the European Parliament and the national parliaments in the renewed economic governance framework to reinforce democratic accountability;
2018/10/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the importance for convergence of the Cohesion, Structural and Investment Funds and of the EIB, welcomes programmes such as the Reform Support Programme to help Member States on their way to joining the euro and further conversion within the EU, and requests an increase in the budget allocation for such programmes.deleted
2018/10/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the proposal to integrate the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the legal framework of the Union.
2018/10/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Welcomes and strongly encourages the initiative from some Member States to consider joining the Banking Union.
2018/10/09
Committee: ECON
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
6. Believes that differentiated integration should always take place within the Treaty provisions, maintain the unity of EU institutions and should not lead to the creation of parallel institutional arrangements; reminds, but instead allow specific bodies to be established where appropriate, without prejudice to the competences and role of the EU institutions; points out that flexibility and adaptation to national, regional or local specificities can and should also be ensured via provisions in secondary law;
2018/09/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
7. Emphasises that democracy should never be the price to pay for differentiation and that differentiated integration should not lead to more complex decision-making processes that would undermine the democratic accountability of Union institutions;
2018/09/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Demands that opt-outs from the Treaty provisions should not be permissible, as they lead to negative differentiation in Union primary law and distort the homogeneity of Union law; considers, however, that given transitional periods could be authorised, on a case-by-case basis, for candidate countries, as has happened in the past
2018/09/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
9. Insists that differentiation should not be permissible when it comes to the respect of existing fundamental rights and values and in policy areas where non- participating Member States could create negative externalities, such as economic and social dumping; demands that any potentialthe centrifugal effects, including in the long run, ar be carefully examined by the Commission when it submits a proposal for enhanced cooperation is proposed;
2018/09/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that a step further would be to go beyond the existing Treaty limits and to initiate a change to the Treaty which would introduce two types of membership: full membership and associated membership;deleted
2018/09/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
11. Suggests that full membership would require full compliance with Union primary law and all the policy areas whereas associated membership would entail the participation in certain policies only and would not be fully integrated into the EU decision-making process; Believes that the associated membership should be accompanied by obligations corresponding to the associated rights, as for example a contribution to the EU budget and should be conditional to the respect of the Union’s fundamental values and to the four freedoms;deleted
2018/09/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
12. Acknowledges that some transitional periods can be necessary for full members on an exceptional and temporary basis only; insists that some clear and enforceable legal provisions should be introduced in order to avoid their perpetuation in time;deleted
2018/09/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
14. Underlines that flexibility and differentiation should go hand in hand with a reinforcement of common rules in core areas in order to ensure that differentiation does not lead to political fragmentation; Therefore, considers necessary the existence, in a future European institutional framework, of European Pillars of Political, Economic, Social and Environmental rights that would not be possible to evade;deleted
2018/09/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
15. Suggests, when competences attribution allows it, permitting regions to participate in cases of enhanced cooperation; also proposes opening enhanced cooperation to the participation of candidate countriesand other EU local authorities directly concerned to participate in cases of enhanced cooperation;
2018/09/17
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
16. Suggests developing tools within the Union law and budget for testing trans- border initiatives within the EU on issues that represent an EU-wide interest that could eventually turn into legislative proposals or cases of enhanced cooperation;
2018/09/17
Committee: AFCO