Activities of Margarida MARQUES related to 2022/2051(INL)
Plenary speeches (1)
Proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties (debate)
Opinions (1)
OPINION on proposals of the European Parliament for the amendment of the Treaties
Amendments (20)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Welcomes the final report on the final outcome of the Conference which includes 49 proposals1a and which was presented to the Presidents of the three institutions on 9 May 2022; notes that several proposals are to be considered of an economic nature and highlights that some recommendations could also be followed up in the framework of the current Treaties; notes that some of them would require treaty change to be fully implemented; _________________ 1a Conference on the Future of Europe - Report on the Final Outcome, May 2022
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Paragraph -1 a (new)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Insists on more democratic legitimacy, accountability and scrutiny of the Union economic policies; stresses for thenotes that the Eurogroup and the Euro Summit are informal forums of discussion within the Economic and Financial Affairs (Ecofin) Council; Calls on the Member States to act within the Community framework stresses the need for the decision-making 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 its right to and democratic oversight in these policies; Calls for a broader participation, including EP, MS and Social Partners in the definition of economic policy priorities to further ownership of the reforms;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Paragraph 1 – point 2 a (new)
Amendment 15 #
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 shocks; Notes that the Conference on the Future of Europe discussions highlighted the strong demand of a deep review of EU's economic governance and the European Semester, in order to ensure that the green and digital transitions, social justice and social progress go hand in-hand with economic competitiveness; reminds that the Parliament3a agreed to an urgent reform of the Union’s economic governance architecture, including simpler and clearer fiscal rules and a framework more conducive to long-term economic growth; _________________ 3a European Parliament INI report of 8 July 2021 on the review of the macroeconomic legislative framework for a better impact on Europe’s real economy and improved transparency of decision- making and democratic accountability (2020/2075(INI))
Amendment 18 #
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 shocks; stresses the need for the application of the fiscal rules to be more flexible and subject to the democratic supervision of the Parliament;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point 3
Paragraph 2 – point 3
3. Article 122 TFEU shall be amended to lay down a single procedure whereby the Council, acting by qualified majority after obtaining the consent of the European Parliament, may adoptprovide for the application of the ordinary legislative procedure in the adoption of temporary measures to address severe or exceptional economic situations, without prejudice to other procedures provided for in the Treaties;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Stresses the importance of the EU economic governance framework to enable governments to promote public investment and ensure debt sustainability; recalls that the Economic and Monetary Union cannot function smoothly without a fiscal capacity at European level capable of providing a counter-cyclical stabilisation function and timely and adequate support in the event of economic shocks, calls for further consideration to common borrowing at EU level, with a view to creating more favourable borrowing conditions, while maintaining responsible fiscal policies at Member State; calls to transform the SGP into a Sustainable Development Pact, imbedded in a Sustainable Development cycle and enable the just, green and digital transition; calls for the development and completion of the Capital Markets Union and Banking Union, including a fully- fledged European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS);
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Calls for an assessment on the Maastricht criteria, including the deficit and public debt targets, benefiting from the experience accumulated over these last two decades of the single currency, namely on economic growth and public investment, and from the lessons learned from previous and current crisis, namely the most disruptive ones, such as the financial and sovereign crisis from early 2010´s, COVID pandemic and the War in Ukraine;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point 4
Paragraph 2 – point 4
4. Article 311 TFEU shall be amended so that the decision laying down the provisions relating to the system of own resources of the Union and the implementing measures for that system are adopted by the Council acting by qualified majority after obtaining the consent of the European Parliamentin accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the economic governance to be redesigned taking into account lessons learned from the NGEU and SURE processesPoints out the importance of common tools to respond to economic shocks on an European level as learned from the previous financial crisis, the COVID-19 crisis and as well in the current economic shock due to the Russian aggression in Ukraine; Calls for the economic governance to be redesigned taking into account lessons learned from the NGEU and SURE processes; Calls for a stronger involvement of the European Parliament, on equal footing with the Council in defining the EU common priorities, and to ensure a proper scrutiny of its implementation;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Highlights the positive impact and record of accomplishment of new EU instruments such as SURE and the design and operating model of the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), that made it possible to maintain jobs and business and support the relaunch of the EU economy; calls for an assessment on the creation of a common permanent instrument, focused on investment and convergence, which can also act with a counter cyclical purpose, and based on a contractual basis for reforms; suggests the Treaties changes to be inspired by the SURE model for short term and targeted interventions and the RRF for long-term investment capacity to support structural strategic investments in Europe;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 – point 6 a (new)
Paragraph 2 – point 6 a (new)
6a. Article 322(2) TFEU shall be amended to clarify the methods and procedure whereby the budget revenue provided under the arrangements relating to the Union's own resources is to be made available to the Commission, and to determine the measures to be applied, if need be, to meet cash requirements. That amendment shall be adopted by the European Parliament and the Council acting in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure;
Amendment 50 #
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; Highlights the secondary mandate of the ECB to support the general economic policies in the Union; calls for a clarification into Article 127 TFEU so as to ensure the primary objective of the European System of Central Banks to maintain price stability is without prejudice to the achievement of the objectives of the Union as laid down in Article 3 of the TEU;
Amendment 51 #
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; recalls the independence of the ECB in the implementation of monetary policy in pursuit of its primary objective of price stability; calls for the involvement of the Parliament in the revision of the monetary policy strategy and the definition of the inflation target, in order to strengthen their democratic legitimacy;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Emphasizes the importance of placing the European Parliament on equal footing with the European Commission and the European Council regarding its participation on the European Central Bank’s Governing Council meetings (Article 284 (ex Article 113TEC)) and the General Council meetings;
Amendment 72 #
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 questionsStresses that, for the long term, Member States should consider the added value of transitioning to qualified majority voting, as recommended by the Conference on the Future of Europe.; underlines the numerous impediments to essential EU tax initiatives over the past decades; calls for gradual change that would allow QMV in certain tax questions, such as highly integrated tax policies (VAT) or tax reforms that are approved by Member States in the framework of international negotiations; demands that no country should be granted a permanent veto of proposed legislation on its own, notably on tax issues; and calls to refine the concept of qualified majority in Art.16 TUE in this framework, as well as the passerelle-clause rules, notably ART 48(7);
Amendment 75 #
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 questions and in particular in the field of own resources;
Amendment 88 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Highlights the new challenges for Union’s competition policy (Art101-109 TFUE), which require that the Treaty be amended to align it with the goals of the Green Deal and the pEuropean Pillar of sSocial rRights and support the Union´s strategic autonomy in key sectors, calls for a level playing field in the single market in order to promote a stronger, more sustainable and inclusive EU global competitiveness; stresses the need for the Parliament to play an active role in the political debate on competition policy, via proper involvement in experts groups and working parties and by shaping and assessing the Commission’s enforcement priorities;
Amendment 110 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Reiterates that the EU needs to address its lack of political weight at international level due, inter alia, to the lack of coherence of its representation in international organisations, which could be improved by implementing measures to ensure the unified representation of the EU and the euro internationally in all its dimensions and policies;