3 Amendments of Fabio Massimo CASTALDO related to 2020/2075(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Takes the view that, as a complement to this parliamentary scrutiny, a broader reform of EU economic governance should be pursued, as it is now essential for Member States to have more fiscal space in order to be able to make the investments needed to emerge from the crisis, all the more so in a context of low interest rates;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the suspension of the famous convergence criteria which prohibited having government debt above 60% of GDP and a general government deficit above 3% of GDP made possible the essential public investment for responding to the health, social and economic crisis; welcomes the speed with which it was possible to apply the general escape clause; considers it necessary, moreover, to introduce a Golden Rule that would allow productive investment aimed at strengthening the social pillar, the green transition and the research and innovation sector to be excluded from the debt calculated for the purposes of these criteria;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Considers that the establishment of an Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) is inseparable from consolidation of the rule of law; welcomes the agreement on a regulation for a general regime of conditionality for the protection of the Union budget; takes the view, lastly, that the Economic and Monetary Union should be accompanied by a Tax Union;