Activities of Alexis GEORGOULIS related to 2021/0227(BUD)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2022 – all sections
Amendments (11)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Believes that the economic crisis triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic should not adversely affect investments of a social, educational, creative and cultural nature; therefore, increases the allocations of Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps Programme to better support the recovery, in particular by ‘greening’ those programmes; underlines that particular attention should be paid to ensure good outreach to vulnerable people, whose exclusion has been worsened by the pandemic, in order to ensure equal access to the programmes for all, leaving no one behind;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Given the dramatic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis on Europe’s cultural and creative sectors (CCS), reinforces the Culture strand of the Creative Europe Programme, to support organisations and artist, artists and all cultural workers in their recovery, to provide targeted support for the performing arts, in particular the music sector, and to ‘green’ and to “digitize” the programme;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Member States once more to earmark at least 2 % of the Recovery and Resilience Facility for the recovery of the CCS and industries, and/or to provide equal protection measures such as tax deductions or exemptions, disposal of public buildings for free to boost the recovery, financing of the costs of the expensive processes required for the special hygiene protocols to be obligatorily adopted by the CCS or other measures possibly suggested by the CCS agents themselves;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Insists that no funding from any of the three strands of the Creative Europe Programme should be used for financing projects in the framework of the New European Bauhaus initiative, in line with the repeated commitment of the Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth to this effect, in order to prevent diversion of the programme’s already thinly spread funds towards new, unforeseen political prioritie, which, as past years have shown, are not sufficient to meet the needs of the programme, towards new, unforeseen political priorities; notes that the New European Bauhaus initiative needs its own funding, which should also be tailored to its particular needs and requirements;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Emphasises that more funding is needed to fund all high-quality projects submitted in the framework of calls for proposals under the Citizens’ engagement and participation strand Union programmes in the fields of culture and education, with particular emphasis ofn the Citizens, Equality, Rights and Values Programme andin order to tackle the historically low application success rate of that strand;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Increases the budget for “Multimedia actions” by EUR 2,2 million and creates a reserve of EUR 5 million, in order to encourage the Commission to provide more stability, financial security and predictability for radio networks covering EU affairs with funding covering at least two years; furthermore, splits the existing budget line into its four components, for enhanced transparency and budgetary scrutiny.
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Underlines the need to support the CCS so that they manage to develop creativity and innovation in order to further develop and eventually deal with the digital transition as an opportunity and not as a threat;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6 b. Νotes the importance of providing equal access for all to funding for education and culture; therefore, calls for specific measures to enhance visibility of the funding tools that the Union makes available to the CCS, as well as educational activities to enhance know- how and accessibility to the administrative processes required to access Union funding;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 c (new)
Paragraph 6 c (new)
6 c. Stresses the need for Member States to monitor and be monitored with regard to the management of funding for the CCS;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 d (new)
Paragraph 6 d (new)
6 d. Highlights the need to enhance data gathering and usage for the CCS; notes that there are many data that are currently not further used to add value for policy-design; suggests the adoption of specific measures to enhance the usage of the data already gathered in the implementation processes of the programmes;
Amendment 28 #
6 e. Highlights that public funding is vital for the CCS; notes, however, that they are currently inadequately funded; therefore, calls on the Commission and the Member States to adopt measures establishing long-term schemes for funding the CCS as well as measures incentivising the private sector to invest in the CCS.