6 Amendments of Bernd KÖLMEL related to 2017/2226(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that EU budgets must provide an incentive for sustainable growth and structural investments and reforms, but also solutions and synergies as regards national budgets; believes, thereforeBelieves that the key to long-term cooperation and partnership between the Member States lies in a sustainably financed EU budget and an efficient EU budgetary policy in keeping with the principle of subsidiarity; notes, that the Annual Growth Survey (AGS) shcould serve as a guideline for Member States and for the preparation of national and EU budgets, particularly in the context of the preparation of the post-2020 multiannual financial framework (MFF);
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Believes, in this regard, that there should be greater synergies between national and EU budgets; points outNotes that the Commission, given its involvement in the European Semester as well as in the preparation and execution of the EU budget, has a key role to play in this respect;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Commission to propose ambitious reforms of the governance of the euro area, includingbut rejects the introduction of a specific budget; welcomesintroducing the eurozone budget would require Member States to give up control over large tracts of domestic spending; takes note of the proposal for a budgetary capacity for the euro area financed by own resources, set out in the final report and recommendations of the High Level Group on Own Resources of December 2016, entitled ‘Future Financing of the EU’;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls its supportrejection for the creation of a euro area fiscal capacity in order to cope with macroeconomic shocks and increase the competitiveness and stability of Member States’ economies, as stated in its resolution of 16 February 2017 on budgetary capacity for the euro area1 ; considers that the funding should come from Member States’ contributions, as part of the transfer of competences, and from own resources such as the financial transaction taxSovereignty on the one hand needs accountability for all actions on the other hand. Every Member States is responsible for their own debts. Launching a budget for the euro area would result in a Transfer Union; _________________ 1 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2017)0050.
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. WelcomesIs deeply concerned about the announcement by President Juncker concerning the proposal to transform the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) into a European Monetary Fund to be integrated into the EU framework; urges the Commission to adopt proposals to fully integrate all intergovernmental tools related to the euro into the EU framework, and is convinced that all reforms to further integrate the governance of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) into the EU framework must be reflected in the post- 2020 MFF.In a monetary union that responds to the deficit rules of the Maastricht Treaty, permanent bailouts would not be required. Stresses therefore the fiscal responsibility of the members of the monetary union. Urges the need to strengthen the liability principle, apply the Maastricht rules and return to the market economy in public finance;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. A European Monetary Fund with new major stabilization instruments could be misused for massive transfers to over- indebted Member States.Nor is it desirable at all to push back the role of the International Monetary Fund in Europe.The influence of international financiers on the crisis countries in the Eurozone was very healing, otherwise there would have been more bad compromises and rule softening;