Activities of Stanisław ŻÓŁTEK related to 2017/2286(BUD)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on general guidelines for the preparation of the 2019 budget, Section III – Commission PDF (462 KB) DOC (67 KB)
Amendments (13)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the two arms of the budgetary authority must endeavour to avoid taking any decision on the 2019 budget that could hinder the setup of an ambitiousthe future MFF;
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas following the December 2017 agreement to launch its second phase of negotiations, the Brexit process should not have a direct impact on the 2019 budget; whereas Brexit, set for March 2019, would nevertheless impactBrexit should be not used as a trigger for reinforcing the revenue side onf the positions of different actorsEU budget;
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas years of austerity policies imposed by the EU Institutions have reinforced the mistrust of citizens towards the EU, which has been unable to solve their problems;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the slow recovery from the consequences of the financial, economic and social crisis, combined with the wrong policies imposed by the EU, hasve fallen short of influencing positively the day-to-day lives of EU citizens, while social inequalities keep on growing;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that, contrary to populist narrative, EU citizens expect the Union to do more, and to protect them from the consequences of global competition, climate change and international security threats; believes that in order to fulfil these expectations, the EU must, within the remit of its competences, perform better, so as to narrow the gap in living standards between EU citizens, to prepare the European economy and EU citizens to face up to the challenge of digitalisation, to manage migration flows, and to put an end to various kinds of discrimination, such as discrimination against women or LGBTI people, while fully adhering to the EU 2020 strategy and UN Sustainable Development Goalsbudget to be more efficient, transparent, performance-based and with concrete reductions of the administrative expenditures and wastes of money;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 2 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Underlines the need to properly evaluate which funds could be better managed at national level in order to guarantee the full respecting of the subsidiarity principle;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Welcomes the fact that, at the strong request of Parliament, the result of the conciliation on the 2018 EU budget was toRegrets the increase of the originally proposed specific allocation for the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) by EUR 116.7 million of fresh appropriations, bringing its total amount to EUR 350 million in 2018; expects the 2019 budget to demonstrate great, which failed the ambition to fight youth unemployment;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Recalls thatDeplores the prolongation of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) guarantee fund has been financed partly at the expense of Horizon 2020 and the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF); reiterates Parliament’s long-standing position that any new initiatives should be financed by new appropriations, which failed to accomplish the promises to guarantee growth and to tackle unemployment, leading to a useless waste of taxpayers' money;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the Member States’ recent commitment to a renewed EU defence agenda, which seeks to enhance both hard and soft power, and considers it to be in line with the concerns of citizens, in the light of rising global instability that is exacerbated by new types of threats; supports the recent Commission initiative to launch the European Defence Industrial Development Programme, as a first stage of the European Defence FundRefuses any attempt to use the EU budget for defence or military related expenditures;
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Expects the negotiatAsks for a complete revisions onf the 2019 budget to lead to realistic operational and administrative fundrole of the European agencies questioning oif the EU agencies, enabling them to accomplish their growing tasks of fighting organised crime, terrorism and border managementir tasks and objectives could not be better accomplished by existing Directorates-General of the European Commission or by Member States in order to prevent duplication of roles and costs and also improving transparency;
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Believes that both the EU and the Member States should demonstrate solidarity towards migrants arriving in Europe in facing up to this challeUnderlines the failure of European policies on preventing migration flows and human traffickinge; believes that EU agencies and policies involved in or relating to the management of migration flows should be adequately financed to meet this challenge and that the EU, in order to mitigate the cost in the long term and by acting in a manner befitting its values, should also demonstrate solidarity in creating conditions for peace and prosperity in the countries of origin by placing greater emphasis on development policies; recalls that the redeployment of funding from development to securitrecognizes that, in spite of the mobilization of significant budgetary means in the last financial years to address the migration and refugee crisis, a solution still has not been found; reiterates its concerns about the role played by instruments such as the Internal Security Fund (ISF) and the Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF) in the management of the effects of the migratory and drefence objectives must be avoidedugee crisis;
Amendment 154 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 17 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Asks not to increase the commitment appropriations in the Budget of the European Union until a definitive solution on the stabilisation of the backlog of outstanding payment claims is defined;