4 Amendments of Anneli JÄÄTTEENMÄKI related to 2015/2342(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses that the financial response to the exceptional influx of refugees has been an ad hoc one and has demonstrated that the Union budget and the multiannual financial framework (MFF) 2014-2020 lack the necessary resources and flexibility for a rapid and comprehensive approach to a major external crisis; emphasises the importance of tackling the root causes of the refugee and migrant movements;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Notes that the insufficient size of Heading 4 and the Emergency Aid Reserve in particular has ledRegrets that the Commission tois resorting itself to satellite budgetary mechanisms, such as trust funds and the Facility for Refugees in Turkey, to top up the funding available; notes that this aim has not always been met with full success and that it undermines the transparent management of the budget and hampers budget control measures;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes, however, the Commission proposal for a new European External Investment Plan, with a new focus on investment to promote economic and social development in the EU Neighbourhood and Africa; expresses doubts, however, as to whether the proposal is ambitious enough to fully harness the EU’s borrowing and lending potentialects that the investment plan will promote sustainable development without compromising human rights, climate change mitigation and good governance and that transparent management of the European Fund for Sustainable Development and its projects will be ensured;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the Commission proposal on the revision of the MFF, in particular with regard to endowing the EU budget with larger crisis instruments; expects that the proposed revision of the financial rules to reconcile the necessary flexibility and accountabilitywill increase accountability and sound financial management.