9 Amendments of Tom VANDENKENDELAERE related to 2014/2221(INI)
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Members States actively to support the Investment Plan, and to contribute to the European Fund for Strategic Investment, supplementing the amounts provided through the EU budget and by the EIB, in order to guide and encourage the private sector to invest; welcomes the principle of using public money to leverage and attract additional private capital; encourages Member States and the Task Force to maintain an adequate balance in the number of private and public projects included into the pipeline, stresses in that respect the importance of the criterion concerning the projects' potential for leverage of other sources of funding;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the ambitious structural reforms implemented by those Member States most affected by the crisis; welcomes as well the fact that those Member States that have successfully implemented adjustment programmes or financial sector programmes have been able to return to the capital markets, where they now access capital at low interest rates; insists that due regard should be given to the social and employment impact of reforms;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to make their labour markets more efficient and geared towards job creation, to modernise social protection systems, including pensions, and to improve and streamline the legal and administrative environment for business investment; stresses that structural reforms need to be complemented by well-targeted, longer- term investments in education, research and development, innovation, infrastructure, ICT and sustainable energy;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls for urgent action to be taken by the Commission to fight tax fraud and tax evasion and calls on the Member States to reach an agreement on the proposal on a common consolidated corporate tax basis as an important instrument in that fight; calls for a tax system that is simple and transparent; reiterates its call on the Member States to shift taxes from labour to consumption and environmental taxes;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Reiterates the importance of ensuring labour mobility (both cross-border and cross-sectoral), enhanced labour productivity (connected with skills trainings to improve employability), job quality and labour market flexibility, while preserving the necessary scope of work security;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls for more determined action on fighting youth unemployment; urges Member States in this regard to use the available financial means, including those under the Youth Guarantee, more rapidly and efficiently
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Agrees with the Commission that most Member States need to continue to pursue growth-friendly fiscal consolidation; inviturges Member States with sufficient fiscal space to consider reducing taxes and social security contributions with a view to stimulating private investment;
Amendment 209 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Notes the Commission assessment of the Member States’' draft budgetary plans; stresses that the examination of draft budgetary plans should aim at sustainable finance; insists on theasks for a strict application of fiscal rules and on, with adequate flexibility towards (productive) government investment as one of the components of the effort to re-launch the economy, and for respect for the equal treatment principle;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Welcomes the Alert Mechanism Report; welcomes the gradual reduction of internal imbalances in the EU economy; draws attention to the external imbalances, including the large trade surpluses; urges Member States with no or limited imbalances to increase their efforts to reach more difficult targets such as the reduction of poverty, unemployment and inequality.