10 Amendments of Maria ARENA related to 2014/2222(INI)
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Notes that the ambitious structural reforms introduced by those Member States most affected by the crisis have not borne fruit; calls therefore for a review of the austerity policy in Europe and, given the context, for the encouragement of public investment;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Regrets the fact that the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) will be based on recycled EU resources and will not raise public ‘fresh’ money, apart from an extra EUR 5 billion from the EIB; stresses the risks of an insufficient fund based on overly optimistic assumptions about the likelihood of attracting the bulk of the financing needed from private investors; calls on the CommissionEIB to consider using the EIB’s annual profits and undisbursed dividends to increase resources without endangering the bank’s AAA ratinga change in character from a purely commercial banking and AAA-rating methodology towards that of a project risk assessment model based on defined criteria and transparency; calls on the Commission to explore ways of using the EU budget and other, new resources to ensure that it will not fail to deliver;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission and the EIB to assess the effect of the economic crisis in relations with the banking system and the final recipients of EIB funding, in particular regarding SMEs, social economy sector and public companies;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Stresses that once again, to re-launch growth and quality jobs in Europe, public capital is being used to offset the risk- aversion of the private sector by taking on the role of venture capital; recalls in this respect the very mixed results of the TLTRO operation launched by the ECB in 2014;
Amendment 157 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Insists in this respect on the establishment of a favourable climate for the development of public-sector investment; wishes in particular the neutralisation in calculations of the debt and deficits of public-sector investments made by public-sector operators of the Member States, in particular in view of the impact of the new accounting standards SEC2010 on the investment capacity of some public authorities; calls therefore for the European Central Bank to take appropriate decisions in this connection;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Calls for urgent action to be taken by the Commission to fight tax dumping, tax fraud and tax evasion and for the adoption at the Council level of an ambitious FTT, as both measures would enable public investment for growth and quality jobs;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission to design tailor-made policies to support quality job creation for the long-term unemployed, senior unemployed people, women and other priority groups hit especially hard by the crisis, such as immigrants or people with disabilities; calls for CSR to systemically address gender pay and pension gaps reduction;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that decent wages and social protections are important not only for social cohesion through fight against social dumping, but also for maintaining a strong economy with high internal demand and a productive labour force; calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for an ambitious European framework for minimum wages with a view to reducing wage inequalities and limiting nominal imbalances in competitiveness as well as an ambitious framework for minimum social protection thresholds;
Amendment 343 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Recalls the EU objectives in gender matter, notably the 75% employment rate of women and men by 2020 and the reduction by 20 millions of people in or at risk of poverty;
Amendment 374 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Welcomes the fact that the Joint Employment Report annexed to the AGS includes a scoreboard for employment and social policies; considers it regrettable, however, that these indicators are not sufficient and that they have not been made binding Commission is not bound to automatically readjust its macroeconomic analysis taking into account these indicators, which would allow them to be used more forcefully; asks the Commission to remedy this situation;