14 Amendments of Isabella ADINOLFI related to 2016/2148(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIF) are the EU Cohesion Policy’'s main financial instruments, and that they are essential for demonstrating the commitment of the European project to the objective of real solidarity among Member States; underlines the importance of equal access to education and training in delivering genuine convergence and reducing disparities and socioeconomic inequalities among European regions and countries; stresses that, to this end, performing, properly-resourced and highly accessible public education systems are essential for reaching out to all layers of European society;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas the negotiations for PAs and Operational Programmes (OPs) for the period 2014-2020 have been a modernised, strongly adjusted and intensive exercise with a new framework for performance- based budgeting, ex-ante conditionalities and thematic concentration, resulting inadvertently, also because of clear shortcomings in the administrative capacity of several regions and Member States, in serious delays in the actual commencement of cohesion policy implementation;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets that the overall level of the MFF 2014-2020 is lower compared with the MFF 2007-2013; is deeply worried that such reduction shall deliver to the European citizens the clear message that in times of crisis, the European Union is less keen on solidarity among its Member States; stresses that in a period ofcharacterised by austerity policies and extreme fiscal adjustments designed to serve the interests of financial institutions and to assuage the fears of some Member States rather than to contribute to the well-being and prosperity of citizens, pressure on Member States’' budgets increases; highlights the fact that such pressure has led to a decrease in public financing for education and has generated high and persistent unemployment and underemployment, especially among young people;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas cohesion policy is confronted in the current period with many challenges, deriving from the financial crisis, austerity policies and the management of the migration issue, leading to a decrease in public investment in many Member States, leaving the ESI funds and co-financing by the Member States as the main tool for public investment in many Member States, and from the migration crisis;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that Europe has been going through a difficult phase in both economic and political terms, so that a decent investment policy that is close to citizens and more commensurate with the real needs and vocations of local areas is needed now more than ever;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) has failed to date to address the persisting problem of high levels of youth unemployment, which in several Member States remains at over 40 %; calls for an evaluation of the YEI following a fully fledged assessment of its performance; asks the Commission to take all necessary actions to ensure its continuation and itasks the Commission to warn Member States that no single isolated initiative will change the situation unless deep social, economic and political reforms arevision launched in order to promote the creation of new high-quality jobsstop first and then reverse the current trend of employment destruction and decent social protection for young people;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Observes that the key communication on cohesion policy projects should focus on European added value and the visibility of success stories; insists that communication on the subject of the ESI Funds should be modernised and intensified; considers it necessary, in order to make cohesion policy genuinely more credible again, to highlight sufficiently both 'good' and 'bad' practices, through databases that go beyond providing a scant description of the project and the expenditure incurred, thus enabling citizens to check effectively both the added value and value of most of the projects implemented and, in certain cases, their lack of usefulness in relation to a given local area;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the current migration crisis poses many challenges for the educational and training systems of the host Member States; calls on the EU institutions to provide, via ESIF and other Union programmes, adequate funding to host countriMember States in order to substantially support the integration of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers into education and training systems;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the need to enhance coordination and to enable and optimise synergies betweenput real solidarity among Member States at the heart of ESIF and all other Union programmes in order to achieve greater impact and efficiency.create a viable future for the European Union;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Supports the shift from a focus on major infrastructure-related projects towards a focus on stimulating the knowledge economy, innovation and social inclusion;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. FavoursConsiders that the establishment of a balanced link between cohesion policy and the European Semester, as both wespecially where it consists of the option fork towards achieving the same aims under the Europe 2020 She Commission – provided for in Article 23 of the Common Provisions Regulation (CPR) – to propose amendments to the Partnership Agreement of a Member State to support the implementation of relevant Council Recommendations, runs totally counter to the economic, social and territorial cohesion aims laid down in the treategyies;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Supports a further balanced increase in financial instruments; aAsks the Commission, therefore, to come forward with incentives forto ensure that managing authorities to achieve thisare better informed on the opportunities for using financial instruments and their scope;
Amendment 167 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Notes, however, the lack of evidence on the outcomes and results achieved by financial instruments and the loose link between those financial instruments and the overarching objectives and priorities of the EU;
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37
Paragraph 37
37. Underlines that faster take-up of the available funds is needed in future; takes the viewvital in future, with a more balanced progression of expenditure during the programming cycle, also in order to avoid frequently turning to 'consistent' projects, which are often funded with the sole aim of avoiding automatic decommitment; hopes that after adoption of the future regulation, implementation of the OPs will be able to start more quickly, as Member States will already have experience of a performance- oriented policy after the efforts made for cohesion policy 2014- 2020; regrets, however, in this regard, the delays on the part of several Member States in appointing managing authorities for the OPs;