Activities of Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS related to 2022/2046(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on upscaling the 2021-2027 multiannual financial framework: a resilient EU budget fit for new challenges
Amendments (18)
Amendment 3 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 24 a (new)
Citation 24 a (new)
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas Russia’'s unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine has led to a major humanitarian crisis, and has triggered an enormous economic and social shock of uncertain duration and magnitude worldwide driven, among others, by high inflation, increasing poverty, high energy prices, security of supply risks and a worsening economic outlook, in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and the most vulnerable; whereas the Heads of State or Government have described the war as a ‘tectonic shift in European history’ and the Commission has stated that the ‘unforeseen needs created by war in Europe are well beyond the means available in the current multiannual financial framework’, necessitating new financing sources;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas citizensthe people of the Union rightly expect the EU budget to respond effectively to evolving and increasing needs and to effectively support them inespecially in times of crises;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the current MFF has reached its limits already since the first year of its implementation;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas the combined effect of multiple crises and low MFF ceilings has given rise to a ‘galaxy’ of ad hoc instruments beyond the EU budget, as well as greater use of external assigned revenue not subject to the ordinary budgetary procedure that would ensure the full involvement and scrutiny of the European Parliament, most notably in the case of NextGenerationEU; whereas, as one arm of the budgetary authority, Parliament should play aalways play its full role in this new budgetary environment in order to ensure democratic accountability and transparency;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the IIA sets out specific arrangements for cooperation and dialogue between Parliament, the Council and the Commission on budgetary matters; whereas further steps should be taken to improve transparency, accountability and the availability of information on all spending in support of EU policy-making;
Amendment 39 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines the central role that the EU budget plays in delivering on the Union’s political priorities, including making a success of the just green and digital transitions, promoting gender equality, tackling the climate and biodiversity crises and their consequences, fostering an inclusive and social recovery, promoting sustainable growth, strategic autonomy and energy security and independence, providing support for small and medium-sized enterprises and vulnerable groups, fostering sustainable development that leaves no one behind and ensures cohesion and upward convergence, ensuring a more robust European Health Union in the aftermath of the COVID-19 crisis, safeguarding and promoting the rule of law, EU values and fundamental rights, contributing to greater opportunities for all, and ensuring a stronger Union for its people and in the world;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underscores that there is a clear consensus among the institutions that, in the wake of the unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine, the EU should provide the strongest possible social, humanitarian, economic and financial assistance to Ukraine, while addressing the severe economic and social consequences of the crisis within the Union and delivering the necessary support to its citizenspeople; underlines, in this context, the shared Union goals of delivering on the European Green Deal and the digital transition, scaling up defence cooperation and coordination, improving its strategic autonomy and energy independence and security, addressing energy poverty, ensuring food security, and addressing the challenges caused by high inflation;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights that, in the short term, large-scale humanitarian aid in Ukraine and financial support to Member States receiving and helping to settle people fleeing the conflict are needed to address the impact of the war against Ukraine; notes that the global humanitarian funding gap continues to grow; stresses that the Humanitarian Aid Instrument is not adequately funded to face the increased needs;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that essentialRegrets that new policy initiatives put forward since the adoption of the current MFF have come with proposals to shift money away from key EU policies and objectives;
Amendment 88 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Emphasises, therefore, that the 2021-2027 MFF is already being pushed to its limits less than two years after its adoption, a situation aggravated by the unforeseeable events of 2022; points out that it is simply not equipped, in terms of size, structure or rules, to effectively respond to a multitude of crises of this scale, nor to adequately finance new shared EU policy ambitions and the swift implementation of the requisite EU-wide solutions;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Concludes that, in this context, the need for an urgent, substantial and ambitious review and revision of the MFF is beyond any doubt and that a ‘business as usual’ approach will not remotely suffice to tackle the array of challenges posed and could thereby undermine confidence in the Union in the long term;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Commission, therefore, to conduct an in-depth review of the functioning of the current MFF and proceed with a legislative proposal for a comprehensive, substantial and ambitious MFF revision as soon as possible and no later than the first quarter of 2023; stresses that, along with addressing the funding gaps, the MFF revision should strengthen the horizontal principles and objectives of the EU budget such as promoting gender equality and tackling the climate and biodiversity crises;
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Points out that MFF and own resources are interlinked; emphasises, in this context, the need for sustainable and resilient revenue for the EU budget; recalls that, in the IIA, Parliament, the Council and the Commission committed, on the basis of a legally binding roadmap, to introducing sufficient new own resources to at least cover the repayment of EURI debt; calls, therefore, on the Council to move as swiftly as possible and speed up the negotiations for the first basket of own resources presented by the Commission on 22 December 2021 and the Commission to make a proposal for the second basket of new own resources before December 2023; calls, moreover, the Commission, given the increased financing needs, to reflect beyond the IIA and to examine the need of proposing further new, innovative and genuine own resources;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29
Paragraph 29
29. Stresses that, while crisis response measures are necessary and useful, cohesion policy is not a crisis response tool; is concernedregrets that cohesion policy is increasingly being used to reinforce other policies and to make up for shortcomings in budgetary flexibility or crisis response mechanisms in the MFF; emphasises that cohesion policy is one of the main priorities of the Union, has long-term investment objectives linked to the EU’s strategic agenda, in particular the European Green Deal and the Digital Agenda, and should not be used to replenish funding for other policies; calls, therefore, for cohesion funding levels to be preservenhanced in the budget;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Insists that, beyond a reinforcement of the existing special instruments, it is necessary to establish a permanent central fiscal capacity and a common crisis instrument as an additional special instrument over and above the MFF ceilings so that the EU budget can better adapt and quickly react to crises andommon or country-specific crises and effectively mitigate their social and economic effects;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Highlights that the ongoing revision of the Financial Regulation is an important opportunity to adapt the rules governing budgetary instruments to current circumstances, whereby external assigned revenue, borrowing and lending operations, trust funds and instruments under Article 122 TFEU are being used with greater frequency despite disregarding the community method, often bypassing the scrutiny of the budgetary authority and thus diminishing the traceability of funds and accountability; points, in particular, to the declaration on reassessing the external assigned revenue and borrowing and lending provisions in the Financial Regulation that was agreed in the context of the MFF negotiations; considers that external assigned revenue, as well as assets and liabilities linked to borrowing and lending operations, should form an integral part of the EU budget and be adopted by the budgetary authority as part of that budget;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 42
Paragraph 42
42. Calls on the Commission, furthermore, to begin a longer-term reflection on the EU budget post-2027 in the light of evolving spending needs and building on the work of the Conference on the Future of Europe with respect to own resources and the budget; insists that the successor to the current MFF be equippedproperly equipped in advance to deal fully and flexibly with a range of policy priorities and spending needs and to ensure resilience in the event of crises, while reinforcing horizontal principles and objectives such as promoting gender equality and tackling the climate and biodiversity crises;