10 Amendments of Nicola DANTI related to 2014/2145(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Recital – A a (new)
Recital – A a (new)
- Aa. whereas as a consequence of the economic and financial crisis, the level of investments in the EU has dropped by about 15% since its peak in 2007;
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital - A b (new)
Recital - A b (new)
- Ab. whereas such investment gap hampers economic recovery, job creation, long-term growth and competitiveness of our industrial sector and of the Single Market at large and poses risks to reaching the targets set by the Europe 2020 Strategy;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the review and improvement of the economic governance framework should be based on a set of interconnected and mutually consistent policies that foster growth and employment, and whereas the full development of the Single Marketa well-functioning, effective and balanced Single Market with a strengthened industrial base is a prerequisite for this to happen;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph - 1 (new)
Paragraph - 1 (new)
- 1. Welcomes the fact that the communication of the Commission "An Investment Plan for Europe", the communication on "Making the best use of the flexibility within the existing rules of the Stability and Growth Pact" and the proposal for a regulation on the European Fund for Strategic Investments underline as a priority the need to directly link the review of the economic governance framework to the needs of the real economy and to complete the Single Market and create a Digital Single Market;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers the economic governance framework to be a key political initiative that underpins the foundations of the Europe 2020 goals and flagship initiatives which are aimed at fully exploiting the Single Market’s untapped growth potential; underlines the fact that the economic crisis has clearly shown the importance of strengthening the EU’s innovation potential by facilitating market access and mobility and combating Single Market fragmentation across the Union while fostering high-employment growth and economic convergence among Member States and bridging the gap between Euro and non-Euro Member States;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Believes that the revision of the European economic governance should go hand in hand with the revision of the overarching EU 2020 strategy and the European Semester cycle with a view to foster sustainable and competitive growth; calls therefore for a new approach to the Single Market and the Digital Single Market to be taken within the revision of the EU2020 strategy by duly incorporating priority sectors/targets of the Single Market within a new simplified set of guidelines, headlines or flagship initiatives;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Believes that the economic governance framework needs to be inclusive, more transparent and less complex and that political priorities also have to be discussed in a more comprehensive manner, in order to distribute the spread of national ownership and effectively implement both economic governance and Single Market governance;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Supports all the incentives to finance the new European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), mainly by making national contributions to the fund fiscally neutral as regards the SGP;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Highlights the opportunity of channelling extra public and private money to viable projects with a real added value for the European social market economy and stresses that key sectors of the Single Market - transport, energy, services and products, research and innovation - and the Digital Single Market represent the adequate (most appropriate) scale for investments to be eligible within the pipeline of investment projects;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 c (new)
Paragraph 7 c (new)
7c. Welcomes the new room of manoeuvre offered by the investment clause as defined by the Commission in its communication on flexibility; believes that this new possibility should be used at its utmost potential in order to encourage Member States to invest more in projects with a clear European added value such as those more closely linked to the further development of the Single Market and Digital Single Market; considers that targeted investment and reforms in key growth sectors of the Single Market and in the modernisation of public administrations - notably in relation to e- government and e-procurement - should qualify as structural reforms;