Activities of Dimitrios PAPADIMOULIS related to 2023/2229(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Financial activities of the European Investment Bank - annual report 2023 (debate)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 20 a (new)
Citation 20 a (new)
– having regard to the EIB’s approach to human rights, published on 6 February 2023,
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 21 a (new)
Citation 21 a (new)
– having regard to the EIB Group’s strategy on gender equality and women’s economic empowerment and to its gender action plan,
Amendment 8 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates the important role played by the EIB as the EU public bank and as the only international financial institution entirely owned by Member States with operations, fully guided by EU policy objectivies and subject to EU legal standards with the goal of supporting the social and economic recovery and targeting investments for the materialisation of the Union’s objectives;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the EIB to address systemic shortcomings that prevent certain regions or countries from taking full advantage of its financial activities; stresses the importance of avoiding further geographical imbalances in the EIB’s lending activity so as to ensure a broader geographical and sectoral allocation of investments, reduce regional disparities and enhance economic and social convergence;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the EIB to expand its role in addressing investment gaps in social infrastructure and welfare, such as social housing, public healthcare, utilities, public transport, sustainable transport and education, while ensuring additionality and complementarity with other public funds and commercial lenders; calls on the EIB to support projects that deliver on the implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the role of the European Investment Fund in improving access to finance for smaller EU companies, mid- caps and start-ups; calls on the EIB to provide additional growth capital to enable small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to scale up their operations by improving financing conditions and diversifying the sources of finance available to SMEs; recalls that SMEs constitute the backbone of the economy, representing the overwhelming majority of EU enterprises and generating more than 50% of the total added value produced by EU businesses; underlines that supporting SMEs is a key objective for the EIB; calls on the EIB to further enhance its efforts in expanding their financing capacity;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18 a. Stresses the enormous social and economic consequences deriving from the COVID-19 crisis followed by the invasion of Ukraine and their impact on fair, inclusive and sustainable growth, investment, resilience, employment, education and socio-economic inequalities;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Reiterates its call for clear and binding rules to complement the information note summarising EIB Global’s approach to human rights, in particular on assessment and disengagement; expresses particular concern that, since 2015, the EIB has not required project promoters to carry out any standalone human rights impact assessments; calls therefore on the EIB to provide a Human Rights Strategy as well as human rights assessment and evaluation of its programmes, also on the ground, to ensure that local communities are consulted and that the right to free prior and informed consent (FPIC) is implemented in a systematic manner; calls, furthermore, on the EIB to develop specific policies on human rights defenders and protocols to respond to risks of reprisals;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4
Subheading 4
Transparency and, governance and gender equality
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24 a. Calls on the EIB to increase its reporting to Parliament regarding its decisions, progress achieved and the impact of its lending activities, notably through regular structured dialogues between Parliament and the EIB; reiterates its request for an interinstitutional agreement between Parliament and the EIB in order to improve access to EIB documents and data and enhance democratic accountability, including the ability to submit questions for written answer to the EIB;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25 a. Calls on the EIB to actively promote balanced gender representation in its managerial and senior positions; calls on the EIB to further enhance the promotion of all forms of diversity and inclusion within its organisation and to set ambitious targets;