7 Amendments of Gunnar BECK related to 2020/1998(BUD)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
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1. Calls for the 2021 Union budget to make an ambitious contributionbe adapted and committed to the recovery of the Union economy in view offollowing the economic downfall as a result of the national and regional lockdown measures in response to the COVID-19 outbreak; welcomdeplores the proposal for a new recovery instrument, Next Generation EU, which establishes a debt union in violation of Article 311 TFEU;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
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2. Calls for the 2021 Union budget to support the implementation of the Recovery and Resilience Facility which aims to address the challenges identified in the European Semester, in which the Sustainable Development Goals shall be integrated;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
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3. Underlines the importance of supporting companies with solvency issues as a result of COVID-19olvency as a basis for sound, robust and sustainable economic development; calls for an institutional overhaul to focus more on solvency, equity and restrained monetary policy, rather than liquidity, cash and accommodative monetary policy; stresses that the devastating economic consequences of the national and regional lockdown measures in response to COVID-19 require this overhaul; highlights that the proposal for a Solvency Support instrument and calls for fast-acting support; should in no way be used as rogue State Aid for Member States who did not manage their public finances well over the last years, and therefore have less budgetary space to provide State Aid. This would create an incentive for Member States not to pursue sound budgetary policies, but speculate on future EU emergency programmes, mainly financed by those Member States who did pursue sound budgetary policies.
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
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4. WelcomesTakes note of the State aid Temporary Framework in the context of COVID-19; calls for reinforced resources to ensure full and fast application of Union competition policy;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
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5. WelcomesTakes note of the European Green Deal; calls for adequate funding to allow challenges related to sustainable development to be met, including through the Sustainable Europe Investment Planto postpone its implementation until COVID-19 is defeated;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
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6. Calls for sufficient resources to fight against financial crime and money laundering and for adherence to the economic governance framework; calls therefore for a swift repeal of the escape clause under the Stability and Growth Pact;
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
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8. Recalls thatjects the introduction of a basket of new own resources is essential to meet the financial needs of supporting the recovery and for other Union prioriti; recalls that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle; recalls that tax burdens across the EU are already at the highest level in the developed world; believes that citizens of euro area Member States have already contributed enough to European integration and solidarity through e.g. the ultra-loose accommodative policies of the European Central Bank, and increased TARGET 2-imbalances.;