2 Amendments of Alexandr VONDRA related to 2019/2211(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the fact that the Communication makes the European Green Deal the engine of the economic strategy of the EU in order to put the Union on the right path to carbon neutralityUnderlines that the European Green Deal is an important pillar of the EU's new growth strategy, supported by investments in green technologies, sustainable solutions, and new businesses;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. CRecalls on the European Commission to extend the European semester by completing the current approach based on fiscal and budgetary discipline with climate and environmental discipline withoutpolitical commitments to the greening of the European semester process, without undermining existing fiscal and budgetary discipline nor weakening the current EU economic governance process; calls therefore on the European Commission to develop a new climate indicator, mirroring the economic indicators and assessing the discrepancy between Member States budget and a Paris aligned scenario of their national budget; stresses the need for this indicator to provide Member States with an indication on their trajectory of temperature under the framework of the Paris Agreement, thus enabling the extended European Semester to provide recommendations about the decrease of the climate deb, and to integrate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in order to ensure that our macroeconomic policies are ecologically sustainable, socially equitable, and which facilitate long-term economic stability; notes that environmental policies can provide new opportunities for growth, jobs and investment;