18 Amendments of Elisabetta GUALMINI related to 2019/2211(INI)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers that the European Union needs a more sustainable growth model in order to respond to environmental, digital and demographic challenges; welcomes the European Green Deal as the new green growth strategy for Europe with sustainability, citizen well-being and fairness at its core as well as a socially just transition, that will respect the limitations of our natural resources and ensure job creation and lasting prosperity for the future;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. stresses the importance to swiftly adopt the European investment stabilisation function together with a European unemployment benefit reinsurance scheme, with a view to protecting citizens and reducing pressure on public finances during asymmetric shocks so as to overcome social and economic imbalances;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the importance of the European Semester as an instrument to ensure macroeconomic policyies coordination with a shift in emphasis from macroeconomic stability to sustainable development; welcomes the increased focus on climate and environmental sustainability and on the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals in the Country Reports;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Welcomes the new Commission’s commitment to revise the actual rules of the Stability and Growth Pact, which in an period of economic stagnation and underinvestment, are no longer appropriate; therefore, considers that additional flexibility is needed in order to boost growth, environmental and social public investments to counter the climate emergency and its social consequences;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Recalls, for instance, the importante role of the Cohesion Funds in the implementation of the SDGs, as well as the European Pilar of Social Rights, in the Member States;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Moreover, invites the Commission to introduce “a golden rule” for public investments, in particular for environmental and social investments, which will allow investments outside the debt and deficit rules of the Stability and Growth Pact; underlines that being an investment budget, Member States’ GNI based contributions to the EU budget could be considered in this sense, or Member States’ co-financing of EU programmes;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Reminds, as another example, the paramount effect of investments in research and development, as well as on skilling youth, in the Member States’ productivities, and stresses the paradox between this fact and the repetitive willingness from some Member States over the last years and for the next period, for a low ambition EU policy in this regards;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the importance of a properly funded EU budget in order to address common challenges and citizens’ expectations; recalls Parliament’s position demanding a strong and credible EU budget and an agreement on the reform of the EU’s own resources to give its consent; requests that the Commission adopt a more transparent, stringent, comprehensive methodology for climate and biodiversity mainstreaming, while involving Parliament in this process; including reformed performance indicators, for defining and tackling climate and biodiversity relevant expenditure, the prevention of financial support for harmful measures and the monitoring of the mid to long-term impact of climate mainstreaming for mitigation and adaptation, while involving Parliament in this process; recalls that the future EU budget should contribute to climate and biodiversity mainstreaming beyond levels of targeted spending shares through the integration of the climate and social dimensions in the decision-making of all major policies and throughout the entire policy cycle;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Considers that the transition to this new growth model requires a significant amount of investment and some of the instruments envisaged in the next MFF 2021-2027 can play an important role in supporting the green transition;
Amendment 50 #
4a. Welcomes the new Commission’s commitment to revise the current rules of the Stability and Growth Pact, which are no longer appropriate in times of economic stagnation and underinvestment; therefore, considers that additional flexibility is necessary in order to boost growth and promote environmental and social public investments, to counter climate emergency and its social consequences.
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Considers that the Member States and regions have different starting points when it comes to the transition and the efforts already made shall not be neglected; considers that the Just Transition Mechanism should ensure an adequate, inclusive and fair transition for all affected by environmental and climate transformation towards a neutral carbon economy;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Welcomes the initiative of the Commission to present a Sustainable Europe Investment Plan as a real catalyser to the necessary investments to deliver on the European Green Deal;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Recalls the importance to complete the Economic and Monetary Union with a central fiscal capacity able to accommodate macro-economic shocks with instruments such as the European Unemployment Benefit Reinsurance Scheme and the European Investments Stabilisation Function; notes the proposals to create a Budgetary Instrument for Convergence and Competitiveness for the Euro area and a Reform Support Programme; considers that its governance structure should be subject to democratic control and fears that if this budgetary instrument is too small it risks not being macro- economically relevant;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Underlines the importance, for the budgetary resources of the EU and its Member States, of fighting tax evasion, tax avoidance and aggressive tax planning; recalls that investment in this fight brings back financing power to national budgets much more easily and systematically than any saving performed on the back of the EU budget; considers that digital technologies will impact the way value added is created in the economy and that the European taxation system should be reformed to cope with this transformation;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6 d. Considers that flexibility of the Stability and Growth Pact should be further revised to take into account Member States' efforts supporting, through public investment, a fair and inclusive transition towards a competitive green and digital economy; reiterates that, as a contribution to an investment and counter-cyclical budget, aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals, Member States’ contributions to EU budget and/or national co-financing of EU programmes should be excluded from the national deficits calculations;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 e (new)
Paragraph 6 e (new)
6 e. Underlines that any taxation reform aiming at greening the national budgets must be conceived so as to avoid increasing the fiscal burden on the contributors;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Invites the Commission to continue to enhance the democratic accountability of the European Semester. and invites Member States to involve national parliaments, social partners and relevant stakeholders to collaborate more closely with the European Parliament in the context of the European Semester on the macroeconomic policy coordination;