Activities of Eleni STAVROU related to 2023/0264(BUD)
Plenary speeches (2)
General budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024 - all sections (debate)
2024 budgetary procedure: Joint text (debate)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the draft general budget of the European Union for the financial year 2024
Amendments (32)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
Aa. whereas the European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) is under greater strain due to an increased workload and requests for research; whereas EIGE has repeatedly called for eight contract agents with the established general cost to the budget of exactly EUR 327 500;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that simple and enforceable fiscal rules that promote countercyclical policies and ensure debt sustainabilityound and responsible fiscal policies by all Member States are key for the long-term economic prosperity of Member States and the Union;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
Ab. whereas fertility treatments are under increasing attack across the Union; whereas the regrettable defunding of IVF treatments in some Member States represents discrimination against individuals;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Recital A c (new)
Recital A c (new)
Ac. whereas increasing the staff of EIGE would prevent EIGE from having to downscale its critical activities and refuse several requests coming from the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies for technical assistance on gender mainstreaming due to insufficient human resources;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the 2024 budget to include targeted spending in areas that are key for the Union’s strategic autonomy such as energy, defence, education and the labour markemplement the constitutional obligations laid out in article 3 TEU on the work for the sustainable development of Europe based on a balanced economic growth and price stability, a highly competitive social market economy, aiming at full employment and social progress, and a high level of protection and improvement of the quality of the environment;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Recital A d (new)
Recital A d (new)
Ad. whereas there needs to be greater emphasis on strategic investment and sustainable growth in the Union and within Member States in order to improve economic cohesion and create jobs, in particular for young women and girls in all their diversity;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Recital A e (new)
Recital A e (new)
Ae. whereas it is important to focus on enhancing women’s potential in all sectors of the economy, including the digitalised economy, information and communication technologies (ICT) and science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM);
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Recital A f (new)
Recital A f (new)
Af. whereas EIGE's workload due to the growth in tasks and scope of certain activities has become unsustainable, as has been assessed by EIGE since 2021;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Recital A j (new)
Recital A j (new)
Aj. whereas the non-compliance with the rule of law in Poland has had an adverse impact on women, girls and LGBTI individuals;
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Stresses that the budgetax incentives applied in a fiscally responsible manner for private research and development (e.g. via tax credits, enhanced allowances or adjusted depreciation schedules) should contribute to increasing the spending in research and development (R&D) as a key driver for innovation and economic growth by leveraging both private and national public investment;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls for adequate resources to ensure that the Union isEuropean companies get into a better position to be more competitive internationally, isand are able to attract investments and create employment, and to increase productivity in the context of growing international competition;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls for the budget to provide support to Ukraine for as long as Russia’s war of aggression continues, and toHighlights that through the newly- proposed Ukraine Facility a determined, coordinated and solidarity-based European response to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine will continue; acknowledges that such instrument will contribute to itsthe reconstruction, including through the European Union Solidarity Fund and the Emergency Aid Reservrecovery and modernisation of Ukraine as well as limit the spread of the crisis by identifying and supporting Ukraine’s financing needs to mitigate its economic and social consequences and, therefore, will maintain European citizens’ support for the actions taken against Russia and for other actions needed in supporting the Ukrainians in their defence;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Calls for adequate additional financial and human resources for the European Supervisory Agencies (ESAs), specifically the European Banking Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority, in order to execute strictly those tasks assigned to them by the European Parliament and the Council, which have increased through the ESAs review and sectoral legislation; highlights that the speedy developments in the fields of sustainable finance, financial technology, anti-money laundering, cyber resilience and other areas entail increased competences and responsibilities for the ESAs and thus, calls for these to be matched with adequate staff and funding;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 52 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 b (new)
Paragraph 8 b (new)
8b. Stresses the adequate additional funding for the Fiscalis programme to ensure the support necessary for the national tax authorities in a time when the European Union is imposing progressively more administrative burden on them; highlights that the Fiscalis programme is a crucial cooperation programme for Member States and their national tax authorities to pursue common goals regarding the fight against tax fraud, tax evasion and aggressive tax planning;
Amendment 53 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Recognises the need to ensure that funding is made available for actions aimed at combating violence against women, including Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), and trafficking in the framework of the effective implementation of the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence and sexual abuse against women, girls and other forms of domestic violence;
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Underlines the need for budgetary allocations to support women’s entrepreneurship and women’s economic independence and promote a progressive approach to ensure and encourage access for women to loans, equity finance, venture capitalists, business angels and investors through Union programmes and funds, such as the European Social Fund Plus;
Amendment 58 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 c (new)
Paragraph 8 c (new)
8c. Calls for adequate funding for the Anti-Money-Laundering Authority (AMLA) to be able to perform its tasks competently; underlines the increasing need to strengthen the efficient functioning of the EU’s Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) measures and the necessary contribution of AMLA as the focal point of an integrated system composed of the Authority itself and the national authorities with an AML/CFT supervisory mandate, aimed at ensuring obliged entities' compliance with AML/CFT- related obligations;
Amendment 60 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Reiterates calls for the need to accelerate progress in gender equality, including through the promotion of budgets and funds that advance gender equality, as well as for greater investment in gender statistics;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 e (new)
Paragraph 1 e (new)
1e. Calls on the Commission not to release a single euro to Poland until the Polish authorities comply with the rulings of the Court of Justice of the European Union;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 f (new)
Paragraph 1 f (new)
1f. Calls for greater awareness about the positive impact of fertility treatments in achieving gender equality for women in all their diversity;
Amendment 62 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 d (new)
Paragraph 8 d (new)
8d. Stresses that all organisations receiving Union funding must behave in a politically neutral and unbiased way; notes that this also applies to organisations that are supposed to provide independent financial expertise as well as for organisations providing research in the area of taxation;
Amendment 63 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 g (new)
Paragraph 1 g (new)
1g. Calls on the Commission to allocate the sum of EUR 327 500 as a minimum to EIGE to ensure that EIGE can employ the eight contract agents that it needs to fulfil its mandate and ensure that the current staff have an adequate work-life balance; underlines that EIGE has a strategy set in place and has a concrete plan as to the roles and tasks that those contract agents would fulfil and perform;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 h (new)
Paragraph 1 h (new)
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 i (new)
Paragraph 1 i (new)
1i. Calls on the Commission to ensure that there are enough budgetary allocations to ensure that official communication of the Union and Member States is gender inclusive and, where possible, also in braille;
Amendment 69 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 85 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
Amendment 95 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5