Activities of Gunnar BECK related to 2022/2051(INL)
Plenary speeches (1)
Proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties
Amendments (7)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Insists on more democratic legitimacy, accountability and scrutiny of the Union economic policies; stresses for the framework, institutions and tools for EU economic governance to be under the Community method; calls for any Treaty revision to grant the Parliament its role as co-legislator and democratic oversight in these policieand monetary policies of the ECB, and enhanced accountability and transparency arrangements of the ECB, including access to the minutes of the Governing Council by Members of the European Parliament on the same premises as Members´ access to SSM documents;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Supports an economic governance framework that ensures stability, full employment, strategic and sustainable investments, democratic accountability and ownership, and fiscal policies and instruments to counteract shockustainable debt levels and budget deficits, and guarantees enforceable correction measures;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Urges that the framework of the ECB’s accountability to Parliament be improved; Calls for a more comprehensive definition of the price stability and the ways to achieve it, including by granting access to the minutes of the Governing Council by Members of the European Parliament on the same terms as Members´ access to SSM documents;
Amendment 70 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Underlines the numerous impediments to essential EU tax initiatives over the past decades; calls for gradual change that would allow QMV in certain tax quesimportance of unanimity in tax questions, respecting the principle of no taxation without representation; recalls that since the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in 2009, qualified majority voting is the rule, and unanimity the exceptions;
Amendment 80 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Recalls that on many occasions, the EU has - seemingly lawfully - requalified legislative initiatives on taxation as competition measures, circumventing the unanimity rules, such as the requalification of the public country by country reporting directive from a taxation issue into a competition issue in February 2021, proving that an overhaul of the Treaty rules on taxation is unnecessary;
Amendment 86 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6