Activities of Bernd LUCKE related to 2015/2132(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
2016 budgetary procedure: joint text (A8-0333/2015 - José Manuel Fernandes, Gérard Deprez) DE
Amendments (5)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes how the pace of economic recovery and long-term growth prospects in the EU are being affected by the slowdown in investment, reflecting in part budgetary constraints in the Member States; welcomes therefore the draft budget’s strong emphasis, in point 1.1, on creating fresh impetus for jobs, growth and investment;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights the crucial role to be played byNotes that the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) is supposed to play a crucial role in closing gaps not covered by the market and in attracting private investments; welcomes the agreement reached by the co-legislators on the increase regrets that the underlying contributions to the EFSI to EUR 3 billion, to be found from the overall budgetary margins in the period 2016 to 2020; reaffirms its determination to further reduce the budgetary impact on Horizon 2020 and the Connectauses of the proclaimed investment gap and the sluggish growth ing Europe Facility (CEF)are not addressed;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Draws attention to the crucial role of the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) in relation to EU-level financial supervision and the banking union; emphasises that the 2016 draft budget mustshould only provide for a sufficientn increase in budgetary resources for the ESAs to address the ever-increasing range of tasks being assigned to them, as well as external factors such as exchange rate fluctuations and genif deemed necessary and by internal increases in levels of payredeployment;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission, when to firmly implementing the planned restructuring measures with regard to staff cuts, to focus on its main priorities; emphasises, in that regard, the need to increase staffing in the Directorate-General for Competition, and particularly the department responsible for state aid, so as to ensure that taxation practices in relation to tax rulings and other measures similar in nature or effect which are questionable under state aid rules can, in future, be properly investigated, thus helping to make corporate taxation in the European Union fairer;