Activities of Miguel VIEGAS related to 2016/2047(BUD)
Plenary speeches (2)
2017 budgetary procedure: joint text (A8-0353/2016 - Jens Geier, Indrek Tarand) PT
General budget of the European Union for 2017 - all sections (debate) PT
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2017
Amendments (12)
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 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Regrets that, given the ceiling imposed by the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF) for Heading 2, major categories of Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) spending are likely, to be cut in 2017, including rural development, direct payments and market measures, notwithstanding the ongoing crisis as a result of successive revisions of the CAP that geared for the liberalisation of markets;
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 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Regrets the proposed cuts for intervention in the agricultural markets, especially for milk and milk products compared to 2016; sees a continued financial effort being necessary to combat the crisis in the milk market; asks the Commission to extend emergency measures related to sales difficulties; is concerned that further markets intervention will be necessary; calls for a review of the CAP and the creation of a new instrument that will ensure production in order to normalise prices;
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;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls for the need to strengthen the school scheme taking into account the oversupply, the need to promote healthy habits in children, and the need to promote the consumption;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the increase in operational funds for producer organisations, nonetheless notes that it is not enough to support the needs and demands of this organisations ; regrets the massive cuts in aid to producer groups for preliminary recognition; welcomes the prolongation of exceptional measures for the fruit & vegetable sector especially in light of the crisis and the Russian embargo that severely hit producers; regrets that the funds intended to withstand the effects of the Russian embargo have been withdrawn from the CAP budget insofar that the situation was created by a political measure of Union external policy;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Stresses the need to strengthen the budget in lines aimed at combating animal diseases and plant pests whose prevalence has been increasing every year;