5 Amendments of Alfred SANT related to 2016/2047(BUD)
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Recalls the need for further funding designed for the Union's peripheral regions aimed at slowing down the growing socioeconomic cleavage between the European centre and it's peripheral regions;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 b (new)
Paragraph 21 b (new)
21 b. Notes that the EIB's Evaluation of the functioning of the EFSI from September 2016 shows that as for the period ending 30 June 2016, only two peripheral Member States, Cyprus and Malta, had no signed operations under either window of that Fund;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Requests that more attention should be given to small-scale farming and small-scale fishing, which are very often not in a position to properly benefit from the current system of Union funding;
Amendment 100 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Reiterates, that budgetary flexibility has its limits and can only be a short-term solution; is strongly convinced that a forward-looking and brave answer in the face of a crisis that involvesthis long-term migrant and refugee crisis is needed; highlights that in the past years, when the impact of the same crisis was being predominantly felt only in Southern Europe, necessary priority has not been given; requests that at a time when the crisis has spilled over to the entire continent and shows no signs of abating, is an upwards adjustment of the ceiling of Heading 3 is necessary; insists that such an adjustment is indispensable and urgent and is disappointed that the Commission forewent the opportunity to propose it at the occasion of the MFF mid- term revision;
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Welcomes the Commission’s proposal, as part of the MFF mid-term revision, to establish a new European Union Crisis Reserve, to be financed from de-committed appropriations, as an additional instrument to react rapidly to crises, such as the current migrant and refugee crisis, as well asmigrant and refugee crisis, a crisis through which the Union's Mediterranean countries have long been in need of the adaptation of the tools applied to the Union's migration policy framework, amongst which the need for a boost in financial assistance; considers that the newly established Crisis Reserve should as well accommodate a wider set of events with serious humanitarian or security implications;