6 Amendments of Monika VANA related to 2015/2285(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Takes the view that the EU has no economic policy other than the sum of national policies; deplores the fact that there is no lever available – given the modest scale of the European budget – and that economic forecasts, economic policy priorities, and the budget-making process do not stand in any form of coherent relationship;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that the European budget helps directly to achieve two out of the three objectives charted in the Annual Growth Survey 2016 (relaunching investment, pursuing structural reforms, and implementing responsible fiscal policies); welcomes the Commission’s proposal to channelrecalls the important role of the European Structural and Investment Funds and European fFunding towards technical assistance to support structural reform for Strategic Investment concerning the achievement of the EU 2020 goals;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Considers that the European budget could relieve the strain on national budgets and bolster fiscal consolidation efforts by providing own resources as well as rationalising expenditure; firmly believes that wider ranging management of public money at EU level would make it possible to achieve economies of scale and hence cut spending, especially in the diplomatic and military fields; Calls for a reform of the own resources system introducing new own resources for the EU, as for example Financial Transaction Tax, a CO2 and a Kerosene tax, to deliver a fair, transparent, more independent and future oriented budget system;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges that the euro area have its own budgete creation of a budget line or specific funds in order to counteract asymmetric shocks and reward reform efforts; believes the European Stability Mechanism to be a prototype of such a tool; calls for budgetary policy and monetary policy to be brought into a policy mix to boost sustainable growth and decent job creation.
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Points out the need to expand the scope of the annual growth survey, in order to follow an holistic approach and therefore include criteria beyond GDP such as employment and social cohesion related ones;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the Commission to analyse the gender dimension of the European Semester and to take specific actions, e.g. such as gender budgeting, in order to counterbalance any existing asymmetries.