Activities of Pierre LARROUTUROU related to 2022/2046(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Upscaling the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (debate)
Upscaling the 2021-2027 Multiannual Financial Framework (debate)
Amendments (6)
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underscores that there is a clear consensus among the institutions that, in the wake of the unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine, the EU should provide the strongest possible social, economic and financial assistance to Ukraine, while addressing the economic and social consequences of the crisis within the Union and delivering the necessary support to its citizens; underlines, in this context, the shared Union goals of delivering on the European Green Deal and the digital transition, scaling up defence cooperation and coordination, improving its strategic autonomy and energy independence and security, ensuring food security, and addressing the challenges caused by high inflation; recalls that, with its repeated heatwaves, catastrophic forest fires and deadly floods, the summer of 2022 was for many citizens an opportunity to become aware of the seriousness of climate change and the urgency of doing everything possible to do whatever it takes to limit its gravity and consequences; considers that, in order to get out of our dependence on fossil gas (and therefore to lower its price) and to ensure the success of the European Green Deal, it is urgent to give a new impetus to building insulation (both public and private), which can create massive employment opportunities and improve the purchasing power of households, but which requires massive financial assistance, and in order for the European Green Deal to succeed and to be welcomed all over Europe, it is crucial that the EU participates massively in this financial assistance;
Amendment 195 #
23. Deplores the fact that, even prior to the war against Ukraine, funds available under Heading 6 were woefully inadequate and that pressure has since increased substantially; underlines that the continued funding for the needs of refugees from Syria, Iraq and other countries was not factored into the MFF or NDICI-Global Europe negotiations and should therefore have been financed by fresh appropriations with a corresponding increase in the ceiling of Heading 6; highlights that, owing to the risk of default on MFA loans provided to Ukraine, a far higher rate of provisioning than the standard 9 % is likely to be required as further loans are rolled out; underlines that additional needs in Ukraine must not lead to money being diverted away from other geographic regions in need; insists, therefore, on an increase in the ceiling for Heading 6 to fully cover the current and projected future needs of the Union’s external action, which have dramatically increased both in neighbouring countries and worldwide as a result of the food, energy and economic crises; stresses that, in order to combat deforestation in the Global South and to encourage allied states to implement the recommendations of the International Energy Agency which, in May 2021, called for the renunciation of all new oil drilling "in order to avoid an apocalyptic future", the EU must urgently strengthen our financial support mechanisms for countries that are effectively committed to halting deforestation or agree to renounce the revenues that would be generated by the exploitation of their oil resources; wishes to respond to the expectations of African leaders at the Africa Adaptation Summit in Rotterdam on 5th September 2022 who felt humiliated by the lack of financial support from Western states for the climate adaptation policies they want to implement in their countries; wishes also to respond to the funding-related expectations expressed at Climate Summits and in particular to the expectations of the most vulnerable countries which, in order to compensate for the damage and losses linked to global warming, are asking for funds that could be financed by "a global carbon tax, a tax on airline travel, a levy on the heavily polluting and carbon-intensive bunker fuels used by ships, adding taxes to fossil fuel extraction, or a tax on financial transactions";
Amendment 274 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 a (new)
Paragraph 35 a (new)
35 a. Considers that, in order to create this common crisis instrument, to start reimbursing Next Generation EU from 2027 without reducing existing programmes, and to give more resources to the digital transition and to the European Green Deal (both on European territory and in its international dimension) while not increasing national contributions of the Member States, it is urgent to break the deadlock in the negotiations on the introduction of new own resources; considers that, in order to limit the economic and social consequences of the war unleashed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the EU is expected to adopt a massive financial assistance plan for households, local authorities and businesses as soon as possible, but that certain Member States refuse to negotiate a new common debt until it is clear how the Next Generation debt will be repaid; considers that it is therefore urgent to find a pragmatic solution to this issue as this is now seriously limiting Europe's capacity to act and risks leading Europe to a serious economic, social and political crisis; considers that in order to ensure a level playing field all across the EU and ensure the cohesion of the Single Market, an ambitious European response to the energy crisis must be found which will give all Member States the means to fight this crisis;
Amendment 275 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 b (new)
Paragraph 35 b (new)
35 b. Recalls that in its Report on Sustainable Europe Investment Plan, Parliament listed the candidates for new own resources "(i) the auction revenues of the Emissions Trading System, which could raise between 3 and 10 billion EUR/year, (ii) a contribution on non- recycled plastic packaging waste, which could raise between 3 and 10 billion EUR/year, (iii) the future Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, which could raise between 5 and 14 billion EUR/year, (iv) a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base, which could raise more than 12 billion EUR/year, (v) a tax on large digital companies, which could raise between 750 million EUR and 1.3 billion EUR/year, and (vi) a financial transaction tax (FTT), which, based on the original Commission proposal from 2012 and taking into account Brexit and economic growth, could raise up to 57 billion EUR/year, depending on the scope of the tax”;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 c (new)
Paragraph 35 c (new)
35 c. Recalls that in its Report on Sustainable Europe Investment Plan, Parliament reiterated “its call to all Member States to join the enhanced cooperation framework on the FTT"; considers that if the EU budget was enriched by an additional EUR 57 billion, it would be easy to repay the Next Generation EU debt (EUR 15 billion per year) and to give increased means to the Union's priorities (including, possibly, the repayment of a new Recovery Plan related to the consequences of the war in Ukraine); recalls that it is committed to the implementation of a basket of new own resources which will be the subject of a forthcoming resolution, and that it is open to other mechanisms for mobilising new European and national public resources, such as the windfall tax on energy producers, but stresses that, on its own, the FTT could bring in more than all the other new own resources being negotiated, that it is a very popular social justice solution in all Member States and that, since it was proposed by the European Commission in 2011, it has already been the subject of all the impact assessments necessary for its proper implementation; recalls that, in the December 2020 MFF package, the European Commission noted that "discussions on the Financial Transaction Tax under enhanced cooperation are ongoing with a view of their finalisation by the end of 2022";
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 d (new)
Paragraph 35 d (new)
35 d. Considers that an agreement on the FTT with the scope and rates proposed in 2011 by the European Commission would achieve a double objective: (i) to allow the Member States of this enhanced cooperation not to have to pay their share in the reimbursement of Next Generation EU (unlike the Member States that have not yet joined the enhanced cooperation) but also (ii) to release new resources for the EU budget; considers that the impact assessments carried out by the European Commission state that only one year is needed between a political agreement on the FTT and the actual inflow of new resources for the EU budget; understands that the Council and the Member States participating in the enhanced cooperation on the FTT, which had to deal with multiple crises over the last two years, will not reach an agreement on this issue before the end of 2022 as the Commission and Parliament wished, but that this issue is now becoming absolutely urgent in order to unblock the negotiation on a new Recovery Plan and to avoid serious difficulties in the implementation of the last years of the MFF; urges the Commission and the Member States involved in the negotiations on the enhanced cooperation to do their utmost to reach an agreement on the FTT before the end of June 2023 and therefore before the expected end of the negotiations on the upscaled MFF, which would give considerable room for manoeuvre to effectively upscale the budgets for the years 2025 and after;