Activities of Niklas NIENASS related to 2019/2028(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2020
Amendments (8)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that the Erasmus+ programme is a strategic investment in Europe’s young generation, social cohesion and building a European sense of belonging, and therefore is an investment in the future of the Union; reaffirms that a substantial increase in the budget for the Erasmus + programme is critical and highly expected by citizens, as demonstrated by the volume of applications received, which exceeds by far the available funding; calls therefore for an adequate increase of the funding over the draft budget for 2020 across all Erasmus+ budget lines; reiterates Parliament’s support for a tripling of the budget for the Erasmus+ programme in the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) and its intention to stand up for that increase;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. DeploreCondemns the cuts proposed by the Council to the Creative Europe programme, which undermine its role in supporting the Union’s cultural and creative sectors and thus fostering a European sense of belonging, social cohesion, jobs and growth; insists that funding levels should match the ambitions of the programme and recalls that it has been chronically underfunded; consequently, in opposition to the cuts, asks for the budget lines corresponding to the Creative Europe programme to be restored and reinforced in order to boost the efforts to reinforce the creative and cultural sectors; reiterates Parliament’s support for a doubling of the budget of the Creative Europe programme in the next MFF and its intention to stand up for that increase; calls on the Commission to continue to support the multilingual offer of European quality cultural TV programming across Europe through the Creative Europe programme;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Acknowledges that the interinstitutional agreement on the funding of the European Solidarity Corps has been respected and an sufficient, yet not really adequate budget for the functioning of the programme has been allocated;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to use the attention generated by the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage (EYCH) to build a coherent and sustainable long-term strategy on promoting and safeguarding cultural heritage in Europe and to allocate necessary funds for this purpose in 2020 and beyond; calls, in that regard, for dedicated funds to be made available through relevant MFF programmes;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges to maintain and secure the Commission’s draftincrease the budget for 2020 for multimedia actions, including the budget of the Euranet+ network within the multimedia actions budgetary linetargeting this increase to other platforms and communication outlets such as the Euranet+ network; it is urgent that this multimedia actions budgetary line is made transparent by clearly setting the different projects benefiting from the funds deployed; a new set of budgetary lines should be proposed according to the actions;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is alarmed by the conclusions of the Rapid case review of the European Court of Auditors on Euronews, stating that in the Financial Regulation there is no longer any reference to the fact that Euronews is pursuing a general Union interest; therefore urges the Commission to end itsreassess its approach of the cooperation with Euronews.
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Acknowledges that the European society needs strong and independent journalism that provides news, information and documentations from a European perspective and thus helps building a European identity; acknowledges massive technical developments as well as significant changes of consumers' habits in the area of media and broadcasting, and therefore urges the Commission to consider alternative ways of strengthening the media providing independent and comprehensive European information to European viewers.
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8 b. Urges the Commission to take the necessary steps to a proper transparent internal monitoring of the way funding is given to Euronews, and ensure the independence of its journalistic production as well as a workable framework for multimedia actions in general, acknowledging that it is crucial to base the service contract between the Commission and Euronews on the results of such a monitoring; urges the Commission to evaluate whether Euronews is a reasonable solution for the future of European information broadcast with regards to the goals stated in paragraph 8a.