Activities of Jean ARTHUIS related to 2014/2249(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
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) FR
Amendments (6)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union has strengthened European policies and created new areas of responsibility for the European Union; whereas the European Union currently does not have the means to fulfil the tasks assigned to it by the Member States signatory to the treaties;
Amendment 9 #
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 when adopting the forthcoming MFF Regulation; stresses that the horsetrading approach and risks of deadlock brought about by the unanimity requirement are harmful to the European Union as a whole;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Regrets that the European budget is based principally on national contributions and not 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 Treaties and to re-establish a system of genuine own resources which are clear, straightforward and fair so as to make the European budget more accessible and more efficient, while correspondingly lessening the burden on national budgets and abandoning the 'fair return' rationale that clashes with the need to act with common purpose and in concert as set out in the preambles to the treaties;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
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, effectively place the Union in a state of indebtedness, which is in itself contrary to the principle of budgetary equilibrium enshrined in the Treaty; notes that, under the EFSM, any EU budget contribution is subject to no parliamentary oversight, and proposes that oversight be exercised jointly with the national parliaments;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that, contrary to current practice, the Treaty provides for the possibility of adopting a MFF for a five-year period; calls for the adoption of future MFFs to be aligned with the next parliamentary term.; calls on the Council to act on that democratic imperative in connection with the post-electoral revision of the MFF in 2017;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on Council to deliberate in public when adopting its position on annual and amending budgets and to avoid an excessive use of the written procedure, which undermines the openness of decision-making as foreseen in Article 10(3) TEU and should be reserved for situations of genuine urgency;