6 Amendments of Sofia SAKORAFA related to 2014/2224(BUD)
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Considers it extremely important to set up support to Member States, in particular those already in recession, in connection with investment in infrastructure, public amenities, research, innovation and development;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Stresses that the research and innovation programmes of the EU, a fundamental pillar of growth strategy, should support social development and resolve problems of the European Union such as poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses that the EU Budget must promote social development and cohesion over austerity, wage reductions and distortion of social fabric in countries under adjustment programmes;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Calls for the end of the mechanisms introduced by the new CPR such as the macroeconomic conditionalities and the performance reserve, which could punish local and regional authorities in a budgetary context they are not responsible for;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes with concern the clear statement of the 6th Cohesion Report that regional disparities widened in particular during the crisis years 2008-2011, meaning that efforts of cohesion policy will have to be significantly increased in order to reach the goals of economic, social and territorial cohesion as stipulated in Article 174 TFEU;
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Insists on the need to enhance its support for the Middle East Peace Process and its determination to ensure the adequate amount of funding to UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority by increasing the level of commitment appropriations to EUR 300 million in payments and to increase it up to EUR 300 million in commitments in order to provide sufficient resources to ease the dramatic humanitarian situation and to support the efforts of reconstruction in the Gaza strip; is astonished that the Council has once again reduced the DB payment appropriations for UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority without clear justification; considers this line under- budgeted already in the DB;