15 Amendments of Eric MINARDI related to 2022/2172(INI)
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the crucial and growing importance ofat the EU budget ins a means of delivering on virtually all of the EU’s key policy objectives, its flagship programmes and its crisis intervention; underlines the multiple challenges the EU is facing such as building up its strategic autonomy, ending its reliance upon Russian fossil fuels, completing the health union and the energy union and financing important common projects such as defence, civil protection and space; considers therefore that all new EU policies and challenges must involve new means and extra resources; reiterates, in this regard, that robust, reliable and resilient financing of the EU budget requires a diversified and enlarged set of own resources; is convinced that there is huge potential in a well-designed reform of the EU own resources not only for strengthening the financing of its budgetary needs, but also for boosting its policy outputs, improving the fiscal equilibrium between the EU and Member States and adding value to overall public financbe accompanied by the efficient use of the means and resources made available;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Expresses its high expectations that, with the ETS- and CBAM-based own resources, the long-standing demand for a better linkage of the EU revenue side with environmental policies and the rationale of climate mainstreaming across expenditure and revenue policies will finally become operational; notes that the sectoral negotiations on the CBAM and the ETS have led to an agreement; welcomes the fact that the resulting legal texts in the ETS Directive and the CBAM Regulation remain fully compatible with the own resources proposals; calls for the EU institutions to thoroughly assess the implications regarding the revenue estimations; insists on not using such analyses as a pretext for blocking decision-making, given their high volatility; is aware, furthermore, that in the very long run, as the process of decarbonisation continues, the yields from the green own resources will diminish;
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Member States in the Council to adopt, as soon as possible, the new own resources from the first package of 14 December 2021; worries, however, that the amounts generated by the new own resources will not be sufficient to cover all NGEU repayments and borrowing costs; recalls, therefore, on the Commission to come forward with the next batch of proposals in the that unanimity in the Council is required quarter of 2023 at the latest; insists that these proposals take into account the priorities of the European Parliament as outlined in hereto take decisions on the new own resources;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Urges all actors to continue the efforts to identify fresh and new, preferably genuine, own resources and other revenue sources for the EU budget with the aim offind possible, preferably genuine savings, to fully covering the overall expected expenditure for the repayment of the principal and the interest of the funds borrowed under the NGEU and reinforcing the EU budget where the ‘1 % of EU GDP dogma’ is to be abandoned;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Points out persistent shortcomings in new own resources design and their predictability, meanwhile manifesting legal pressure as regards their introduction brings systemic risks;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. Points out the risks of companies' relocation and capital outflow from the European Union;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Crecalls, therefore, for the establishment of a ‘fair border tax’ requiring companies importing goods into the EU to pay a levy for any workers in their global supply chain who are paid a daily wage that is insufficient to allow them to escape absolute poverty, as characterised by international organisations; underlines that any company importing into the EU single market products made by workers paid less than a fixed poverty threshold would have to pay a duty amounting to the difference between this threshold and the salary their workers receiveat European products are subject to strict standards, calls for the introduction of the same standards for products imported into the EU;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
Amendment 118 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16a. Deplores the establishment of a 'fair border tax' in its present form, calling on the EU instead to step up cooperation with the third country responsible for enforcing key competition rules and ensuring that workers' rights are fully respected, rather than seeking to sidestep the issue by levying a duty on the EU companies concerned, thereby burdening them with a new and additional form of European taxation;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19 a. Points out three major risks of introduction of such tax: 1) double taxation, as providers could be liable for a consumption tax on their digital services, while also having to pay a corporate income tax on the profits gained from the same services; 2) consumption taxes may need to be paid even if the company is not profitable; 3) adverse effects may present in global trade relations, as major players on the digital services market may persuade their home countries, like China and USA, to retaliate, as happened when France introduced its digital service tax1a; _________________ 1a https://www.politico.eu/article/ustr- announces-duties-on-1-3b-in-french- goods-in-tax-dispute/
Amendment 142 #
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Deplores the creation of a new own resource based on the gender pay gap; emphasises that a new form of taxation along these lines is not a suitable response to gender pay gap and that investment in appropriate training and employment opportunities would be preferable;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
Amendment 152 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Deplores the introduction and ongoing search for additional EU own resources, given the need for the Union to rationalise spending and streamline its administration before subjecting European citizens and businesses to new forms of taxation;