5 Amendments of Helga TRÜPEL related to 2018/2024(BUD)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Stipulates, moreover, the need to provide the so-called European Solidarity Corps, presently under negotiation, with its own budget line and its own resources, composed of the previous European Voluntary Service funds under Erasmus+ and further funds coming exclusively from unallocated margins;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the value of Creative Europe in supporting the EU’s audiovisual and cultural sectors; insists that funding levels match the ambitions of the programme; considers that a reinforcement of the cross-sectoral strand will enableould provide a way for the Commission to scale up efforts to tackle fake news, both through enhanced media literacy work and by fostering sectoral dialogue;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. CUrges the Commission to conduct a full-scale review – to be provided to Parliament – of all activities under the ‘multimedia actions’ line to ensure that they deliver on their core aims and that the next MFF strikes the right funding balance across actions; calls for extra funding in 2019 to secure the work of Euranet Plus for the remainder of the MFF; insists, however, that the network’s current ‘hand-to- mouth’ existence is unsustainable and calls for a long-term financing basis in the next MFF; urges the Commission to conduct a full-scale review – to be provided to Parliament – of all activities under the ‘multimedia actions’ line to ensure that they deliver on their core aims and that the next MFF strikes the right funding balance across actinsists also on providing the relevant funding for European broadcasters like ARTE, which supports multilingual access to quality programmes for a larger number of citizens throughout the Unions;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. In the light of the seriously deteriorating situation of press and media freedom in Europe, calls for the existence of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom in Florence (CMPF) and the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom in Leipzig (ECPMF) to be safeguarded for the remainder of the MFF and for additional funding to be made available in 2019; notes that these centres complement each other perfectly in their activities and urges the Commission to guarantee them a long- term financing basis in the next MFF to enable them to develop as independently as possible as effective European instruments to safeguard media freedom and media pluralism and provide journalists in hazardous situations with tailor-made assistance and support;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Emphasises the value of Europe for Citizens in enhancing citizens’ understanding of the EU and fostering a sense of citizenship; reaffirms its commitment to propbetter funding levels for the programme, using all available possibilities to increase the project success rate in this year of European elections, and beyond that, ensuring a proper funding level;