6 Amendments of Liadh NÍ RIADA related to 2014/2059(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls the need, at the start of the new Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), for swift and effective implementation of the new programmes at both EU and Member State level, in order to allow these programmes to contribute to the economic recovery process; calls for a particularly speedy implementation of the programmes frontloaded to the first years of the MFF, such as Horizon 2020, COSME, Erasmus+ and the Youth Employment Initiative; stresses the fact that these programmes have a leverage effect and a synergetic and catalytic role in relation to national investment policies and growth and job creation; welcomestakes note, in particular, of the swift launch of the 2014-2020 cohesion policy (in terms of partnership agreements already signed, operational programmes agreed and prefinancing disbursed), the aim of which is to while expresses its deep concern for all the delays and the lack of payment appropriations for all these programmes which aim at increasing the support of growth and job creation; furthermore, expresses its deep concerns on what might be the impact of the macroconditionality criteria and the insertion of the performance reserve on the full and timely implementation of these EU policies;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. SupportsConsiders that both the EU Youth Guarantee and the Youth Employment Initiative as crucialcould become important means to fighting the dramatically high level of youth unemployment; welcomes, if they would be re- structured and allocated an adequate level of resources; takes note of the recent steps taken by the Commission to assist Member States in the prompt programming of measures financed under the Youth Employment Initiative; insists that further measures need to be taken in order to fully and timely implement these programmes so that they can help in alleviating the inumerous situations of social emergency in several Member States;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the fact that the promotion of EU jobs and competitivenesssustainable growth requires that the formation of value chains in the EU be boosted and that EU companies, namely the micro, small and medium enterprises be more firmly integrated at all value-chain levels; recalls the fact that such policies should cover undertakings of all sizbe allocated the sufficient financial resources, be conducive to maintaining the production chain in Europe and support sectors with high growth potential, with a specific focus on innovation, skills, entrepreneurship and creativity;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the fact that, at a time when many Member States are heavily reliant on a single energy supplier, including six who are entirely dependent on Russia for their natural gas, the promotion and safeguarding of jobs also requires a reduction in the EU’s vulnerability to external energy shocks, as evidenced by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine; welcomes, in this regard, the conclusions of the European Council meeting of 26- 27 June 2014 and expects these conclusions to be complemented no later than October 2014 by ambitious medium- to long-term measures to enhance the EU’s energy security; calls upon the Commission to re-evaluate its approach and to seriously take into consideration the project to construct the South stream as soon as possible, overcoming all the current constraints, and enabling the stream which avoids Ukraine's territory, on the basis of its instability;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Underlines the fact that the tight 2014- 2020 ceilings in payments remain a crucial problem for the EU budget, having negative effects on economic recovery given that late payments are harmful primarily to direct beneficiaries; recalls the need to ensure, in the light of implementation, the duly, timely, orderly progression of payments so as to concomitantly deliver on both the payments stemming from past commitments and those resulting from prefinancing to promptly launch the new programmes, and to avoid any abnormal shift of outstanding commitments (RAL) onto the 2015 budget; urges, in this connection, the Council to adopt in full draft amending budget no 3/2014, as submitted by the Commission, in order for the EU budget to have maximum impact in terms of investment on the ground;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls its view that the fiscal situation of Member States can be eased through a new system of own resources to finance the Union budget, integrating taxation of the financial sector, to finance the Union budget and/or the EU Member States that will reduce gross national income (GNI) contributions, thus enabling Member States to meet their consolidation efforts without jeopardising EU funding to support investment in economic recovery and reform measures; underlines, therefore, the importance it attaches to the new high- level group on own resources, which shall ensure the due and full participation of all EP political groups in all stages of the process, should lead to a true reform of EU financing;