Activities of Gianluca BUONANNO related to 2014/2210(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Family businesses in Europe (A8-0223/2015 - Angelika Niebler) IT
Amendments (11)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 8 a (new)
Citation 8 a (new)
– having regard to the judgment of 2 February 2012 of the Court of Justice of the European Union, which compelled the Union to revoke the only protectionist measures it has ever adopted, namely the antidumping duties on shoes originating in China and Vietnam, whose adoption had been approved by Parliament in 2006,
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the dogma of free movement of goods and capital condemns most family businesses in the European Union, in the short or medium term, to disappear in the face of competition from businesses outside the European Union which are not subject to the same rules – social, on safety or health, and environmental;
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H b (new)
Recital H b (new)
Hb. whereas the adoption of protectionist measures at European Union level is a necessary condition for the survival of most family businesses;
Amendment 42 #
Hc. whereas the euro, a ‘one-size fits all’ currency, is a significant brake on the growth of SMEs, particularly those which are family businesses;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that family businesses demonstrate a high degree of social responsibility towards their staff and that they generally take a more sustainable and longer-term approach to the economic future of the business (by acting as ‘honourable businessmen’) than non- family businesses and thus make an important contribution to Europe’sthe competitiveness of the Member States of the European Union and create and maintain jobs;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that 35% of those companies that do not invest in foreign markets fail to do so because of their lack of knowledge of foreign markets; calls on the Commission and the Member States therefore to provide smaller family businesses in particular with information about opportunities for internationalisation and ensure that they have access to a better exchange of experience and good practices; calls on the Member States, furthermore, to provide support services for businesses that intend to invest internationally, for example by providing them with information or export credit guarantees and by removing trade barriers;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Notes that 35% of those companies that do not invest in foreign markets fail to do so because of their lack of knowledge of foreign markets; calls on the Commission and the Member States therefore to provide smaller family businesses in particular with information about opportunities for internationalisation and ensure that they have access to a better exchange of experience and good practices; calls on the Member States, furthermore, to provide support services for businesses that intend to invest internationally, for example by providing them with information or export credit guarantees and by removing trade barriers;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes, however, that conversely, production is often transferred to overseas subsidiaries and tends to take the place of production by the parent company and other ancillary-sector companies located in the country of origin; this has negative repercussions in terms of both absolute levels of employment and wage levels; points out, in this regard, that the fall in employment and wage compression are behind the crisis in demand, i.e. the structural economic imbalance of the eurozone, denoted by the excessive current account surpluses generated in some Member States because of the fixed exchange rate structure; calls on the Commission to implement much stricter policies to contain excessive trade imbalances, which should take into account forms of compensation between ‘surplus’ Member States and ‘deficit’ Member States, not only on the basis of a single specific set of annual data, but on cumulative values over a five-year period, calculated on a rolling basis from 2010;
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission and Parliament to revoke the deletion by the Amsterdam Treaty in 1997 of Article 44(2) of the Treaty of Rome, which provided for ‘the development of a natural preference between Member States’; calls therefore on the European Union to re- establish Community preference in the field of farm products and to adopt the requisite protectionist measures to enable SMEs which are family businesses to compete with businesses outside the European Union;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Stresses that the euro, a ‘one-size fits all’ currency, is a significant brake on the growth of SMEs, particularly those which are family businesses;
Amendment 190 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to strive to strengthen entrepreneurship throughout the EU and to create an environment for business excellencereview its strategy and finally to adopt the requisite protectionist measures to enable SMEs which are family businesses to compete with businesses outside the European Union;