19 Amendments of Jonás FERNÁNDEZ related to 2014/2145(INI)
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 a (new)
Citation 18 a (new)
- having regard to the Study of the European Parliamentary Research Service of September 2014: "Common unemployment insurance scheme for the Euro area - Cost of Non-Europe Report",
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 18 b (new)
Citation 18 b (new)
- Having regard to the January 2013 Note of the Directorate General for Internal Policies about the "Legal Options for an Additional EMU Fiscal Capacity",
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Takes the view that the rules known as the Six Pack and the Two Pack are not balanced and have not been particularly effective, since they are excessively biased towards monitoring and punishing budgetary deviations, which have generally been the consequence rather than the cause of the financial and economic crisis. Budgetary stability cannot be seen as an end in itself unless it contributes to economic growth and the revitalisation of employment. The desirable reduction in public deficits and debt is more likely to be achieved through robust real GDP growth rates than through Draconian tax hikes and cuts to public and social spending;
Amendment 260 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Takes the view that the Eurozone needs to be seen as the economic reference unit when setting the corresponding aggregate stances, in particular fiscal and balance of payments stances. In this sense, the political dialogue with the Commission should first be established at Eurozone level, and then extended to Eurozone Member State level, based on the above aggregated economic stances.
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Supports all the incentives to finance the new European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), mainly by making national contributions to the fund fiscally neutral as regards the SGP; calls for further clarification regarding the concrete treatment of these contributions in accordance with the new paradigm set out in the communication; takes the view, further, that the EFSI should be placed on a more permanent footing beyond 2019, thereby becoming the European Union’s anti-cyclical mechanism;
Amendment 378 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Believes that the communication rightly broadens the scope of the investment clause, allowing for flexibility in the preventive arm of the SGP to accommodate investment programmes by the Member States, in particular as regards expenditure on projects under structural and cohesion policy, including the Youth Employment Initiative, trans-European networks and the Connecting Europe Facility, and co-financing under the EFSI; believes that this approach must be urgently reassessed to be symmetrically applied to the corrective arm of the SGP; takes the view that the investment clause should also cover all such measures, i.e. including those carried out by the Member States and which do not take the form of loans or capital contributions, regardless of whether or not they are co- financed by the European Union;
Amendment 455 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Invites the Commission and the Council to better articulate the fiscal and macroeconomic frameworks, notably in the corrective arm of the SGP, to allow for earlier debate among stakeholders, taking into account the need to increase convergence between euro area Member States and the role of the European Parliament, national parliaments and social partners regarding the design and implementation of fair structural reforms;
Amendment 512 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Asks the Commission to make the three-pillar strategy (investment, fiscal rules and structural reforms), presented in the AGS 2015, more concrete under the euro area recommendation and in the CSRs and to strengthen its approach by building a fourth pillar on taxation and a fifth pillar on social Europe; agreement on a priority catalogue of structural reforms which presuppose improvements to workersʼ living conditions is particularly necessary;
Amendment 651 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Recalls the European Parliament’s request that the creation of the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) outside of the structure of the institutions of the Union represents a setback to the political integration of the Union and, therefore, demands that the ESM be fully integrated into the community framework and made formally accountable to Parliament; calls in the meanwhile on the ESM Managing Director to agree to answer the written questions addressed to him by Members of the European Parliament;
Amendment 677 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Requests, as per the opinion of the ECJ’s Advocate-General, that the ECB not form part of any financial assistance programmes;
Amendment 686 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Requests that a reassessment of the Eurogroup’s decision-making process be conducted so as to provide for appropriate democratic accountability; believes that in the long term the Commissioner for Economic Affairs should assume the role of President of the Eurogroup;
Amendment 741 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – introductory part
Paragraph 37 – introductory part
37. Invites the stakeholders in this necessary next step of the EMU to avoid left-over and to explore all options which have been well discussed and documented over a long period of time, together with other more recent ones, as ways of achieving a deepening of the EMU, such as:
Amendment 750 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 1
Paragraph 37 – indent 1
– a ‘fiscal and taxationʼ union’, which implies greater harmonisation of the various taxes,
Amendment 757 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 1 a (new)
Paragraph 37 – indent 1 a (new)
- the financial union, to include the euro areaʼs public debt issuance,
Amendment 765 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 2
Paragraph 37 – indent 2
– a social dimension, including a minimum wage mechanism and a minimum unemployment benefit scheme for the euro area and in-depth reforms to favour mobility,; a first step toward the setting up of these policies could be the institution of a European Solidarity Fund financed by a share of the revenue of the envisaged Financial Transaction Tax, and, for the non-participating Eurozone countries, by a State contribution.
Amendment 778 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 3
Paragraph 37 – indent 3
Amendment 798 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 4
Paragraph 37 – indent 4
Amendment 801 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 4 a (new)
Paragraph 37 – indent 4 a (new)
- a mechanism inspired by the European Payments Union, to restore the balance of payments in the euro area, thereby reducing surpluses and excessive current account deficits;
Amendment 803 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – indent 4 b (new)
Paragraph 37 – indent 4 b (new)
- a convergence process for social and labour standards;