11 Amendments of Jo LEINEN related to 2014/2145(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Takes the view that it is absolutely vital for the democratic legitimacy of EMU to be improved substantially within the EU’s institutional framework and in line with the Community method; considers that the pieces of legislation based on intergovernmental treaties and implemented during the crisis have hampered the democratic legitimacy of the EMU and the European project;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Advocates, in this sense, for the establishment of a less complex, more efficient and transparent economic governance, aiming, in the long term perspective, at a deeper integration of the EU, while offering medium-term solutions to enable the Euro Zone and the Union to face the current challenges.
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls forIs convinced that strengthening the involvement of Parliament in the economic governance process is a prerequisite to increase democratic legitimacy and calls to explore the path of legislative and interinstitutional agreements to be concluded between the European Parliament, the Commissenable the European Parliament, among other things, to be more formally involved in the key stages of the European Semester, with regards notably to the Annual Growth Survey, to the Euro Zone Recommendation and to the Council providing for parliamentary validation of the various stages oftry Specific Recommendations in order to remedy the double democratic deficit that is aggravated by the Ecuropean Semester, starting with the Annual Growth Surveyrent governance framework, both at national and at European levels;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Requests, in this regard, the adoption of the Annual Growth Survey under the codecision procedure; that the ESM is integrated into the EU legal framework and made formally accountable to the European Parliament, through the joint application of articles 352 and 136 of the TFEU; that the decision-making process within the Eurogroup operates in the interests of accountability and democratic legitimacy; and that, in the long term, the Commissioner for Economic Affairs chairs the Eurogroup;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Takes the view that the implementation of the economic dialogue needs to be scrupulously reviewed so as to ensure that there is proper parliamentary scrutiny at all stages of the procedure;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Believes that the elaboration of a new legal framework for future assistance programs should guarantee that all decisions are taken under the responsibility of the Commission with the full involvement of the European Parliament, in order to ensure full democratic legitimacy and accountability;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Recalls that a "Genuine Economic and Monetary Union" cannot be limited to a system of rules, but must be part of an ambitious political project, and that the necessary deepening of the EMU absolutely needs four interrelated conditions: a fiscal capacity, renewed assistance mechanisms, a social dimension, an institutional and democratic pillar;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Takes the view that the Commission communication on making the best use of flexibility within the rules of the SGP is a positive first step, but urges the Commission to extend the application of the "investment clause" to the corrective arm of the SPG, making use of a similar methodology that grounded the application of the "investment clause" to the preventive arm of the SGP;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 c (new)
Paragraph 5 c (new)
5c. Takes the view that the social dimension of the EMU must be fully taken into account, whereas according to the Article 9 of the TFEU the promotion of high employment and social protection have to be taken into account when defining and implementing the policies and the activities of the EU. Calls for an equal treatment between the social rights and the internal Market's freedoms in the hierarchy of norms;
Amendment 42 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Stresses that the European Parliament shall fully play its part in the upcoming discussions and decisions and requests the President of the Commission to submit - an ambitious 'roadmap" outlining the necessary legislative and institutional progress to create the best future possible for the Euro Zone, the EU and its citizens.