Activities of Paloma LÓPEZ BERMEJO related to 2016/2047(BUD)
Plenary speeches (1)
General budget of the European Union for 2017 - all sections (A8-0287/2016 - Jens Geier, Indrek Tarand) ES
Amendments (7)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Calls for the 2017 draft budget to reflect and support the priorities outlined in the European Semester, specifically relaunching investment, pursuing structural reforms to modernise European economies, conducting responsible fiscal policiesbe directed towards the aim of bringing about sustainable economic growth and social development and cohesion, promoting public investment, and strengthening the Welfare State;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Also calls for this draft budget to be focused on real convergence policies, based on social progress and safeguarding and fostering each country’s potential, net job creation (translating into secure employment of high quality), sustainable use of natural resources, and protection of the environment;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls for support programmes to be set up for Member States should they wish – having realised that their participation in EMU has become unsustainable and intolerable – to negotiate their exit from the euro, and considers that programmes of this kind should provide for the compensation necessary to make good such social and economic damage as the countries in question might have suffered because they adopted the single currency;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Calls for emergency plans to be drawn up to support the economies of countries under the Troika regime in order to provide for financial resources and for the necessary exceptions to the operation of the single market and common policies;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1d. Maintains that no institutional status should be conferred on the principles of macroeconomic conditionality and the performance reserve or on the link between cohesion policy and the Structural Funds or, moreover, on the Stability and Growth Pact, the economic governance package, or any economic agreement entered into by Member States; considers that in each case the underlying assumptions are undeniably different and the objectives are diametrically opposed;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Maintains that the aim of cohesion policy should not be impeded by macroeconomic conditionality or the stipulations of the Fiscal Compact; stresses that cohesion policy is designed to ensure balanced growth and eliminate inequalities with a view to achieving genuine convergence; points out that funding for European regions should not be suspended because Member States have failed to comply with macroeconomic conditions and that suspending funding for Member States in difficulties will make the situation worse;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Takes the view that – no matter how many programmes might be set up to stimulate economic growth, investment, and job creation and no matter how much additional funding might be channelled into the existing programmes – the Member States’ economies will not revive, and there will be no resurgence in social development and progress, until the constraints imposed by the economic governance structure are abandoned for good, that is to say, until the treaties underlying it are revoked;