16 Amendments of Pervenche BERÈS related to 2009/2203(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the Members States have experienced their deepest economic and social crisis since the beginning of the process of European integration;
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas through the coordination over time of fiscal policy and of anti-crisis measures in the G-20, the EU and the Member States hasve contributed to avoiding further deterioration;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the active and flexible monetary policy of the ECB since AugustOctober 2008;
Amendment 26 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Is concerned by the economic consequences of a fast loss of value of the US dollar and the renminbi-yuan for the economy of the European Union;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Reiterates its call for better coordination between the WTO, the IMF, the Financial Stability Board and the World Bank Group in order to combat speculation and meet the challenges posed by the economic crisis;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Shares the Commission’s concern about the significant imbalances concerning unit labour costs, productivity rates, growing unequal distribution of income and wealth, current accounts, and interest rate spreads in the EU and in the euro area;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Welcomes the use of EIB funds as well as the common but different contributions of Member States to anti-cyclical public spending during the crisis, which have been used to partly compensate the limited size of the European budget; warns, however, against excessive recourse to the EIB, which would result in the budgetary procedure being circumvented and the European Parliament prevented from giving its opinion on the trajectory of committed expenditure;
Amendment 89 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Reiterates its view that economic coordination should take the form of an integrated European economic and employment strategy on the basis of the Lisbonforthcoming EU 2020 Strategy, the Integrated Guidelines, the Sustainable Development Strategy and the convergence and stability programmes;
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Expresses its deep concern over the unsustainable level of public debt and its predicted rapid increase in 2010 and 2011 which forms an even larger burden, bearing in mind that future generations will inherit the growing public ecological and private financial debt;
Amendment 119 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses the fact that some shortcomings of the construction of the EMU and to some extent the economic policy of some members of the euro zone and of third country partner states make it difficult for Member States to bring their financial house in order;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Reiterates its view that Member States’ governments should, when deciding their national budgets, take into account the Integrated Guidelines and the country- specific recommendations as well as the overall budgetary situation in the euro area; the different national fiscal calendars and the main assumptions used in the underlying forecasts should be harmonised in order to avoid disparities caused by the use of different macro-economic forecasts (concerning, for example, global growth, EU growth, the oil barrel price and interest rates) and other parameters; calls on the Commission, Eurostat and the Member States to work towards the definition of tools to enhance the comparability of national budgets as regards spending in different categories;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Calls on the Commission, Eurostat and the Member States to work towards the definition of tools to enhance the comparability of national budgets as regards spending in different categories;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Calls on the Commission to increase radically the efforts in this direction and asks the ECB and the CommissionCommission and the ECB to include this question in itstheir regular economic reporting;
Amendment 140 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Takes the view that the EMU policy agenda will be marked inter alia by the challenges posed by emerging Asian economies; regrets the lack of progress in improving the external representation of the euro area despite the growing global role of the euro as a reserve currency; stresses that the euro area must build an international strategy commensurate with the international status of its currency;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and, the Commission, the parliaments of the Member States, the Eurogroup and, the European Central Bank and the European Investment Bank.