Activities of Andrew DUFF related to 2012/2078(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
Constitutional problems of a multitier governance in the EU (debate)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on constitutional problems of a multitier governance in the European Union PDF (283 KB) DOC (151 KB)
Amendments (27)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas differentiated integration takes two forms: 'multi-speed', in which states seek to achieve the same goals according to different timeframes, and 'multi-tier', in which states agree to differ in their goals;
Amendment 7 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas differentiation may be resorted to where common action at any given time is not possible or reachable;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas differentiation is embedded incompatible with the single institutional framework of the European Union;
Amendment 16 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the enhanced cooperation procedure allows, as a last resort, for the adoption of measures binding a subgroup of Member States after an authorisation granted by the Council by a qualified majority and within the field of the CFSP after an authorisation granted by unanimity;
Amendment 17 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K a (new)
Recital K a (new)
Ka. whereas in the field of common foreign and security policy, clusters of states are enabled to tackle specific tasks or missions, and in the field of common security and defence policy, the establishment of a permanent core group of militarily capable states is envisaged;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N a (new)
Recital N a (new)
Na. whereas the UK has obtained numerous possibilities, under certain complicated conditions, to opt out of EU policies in the field of justice and home affairs;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital R
Recital R
R. whereas the TSCG treaty is a treaty under international law concluded by the Member States except for the United Kingdom and the Czech Republic, and whereas it callforesees in its Article 16 for the incorporation of its relevant provisions into EU law;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AB a (new)
Recital AB a (new)
ABa. whereas the financial crisis requires the deepening of fiscal integration within the eurozone according to a roadmap whose building blocks involve banking union, fiscal union and political union;
Amendment 32 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AC a (new)
Recital AC a (new)
ACa. whereas progress towards a full fiscal union in which the burden is shared among taxpayers necessitates the creation of a federal government, and these developments are certain to sharpen the distinction between current and prospective members of the eurozone, on the one hand, and states which choose not to participate in the euro, on the other;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AD
Recital AD
AD. whereas to be effective, legitimate and democratic the governance of the EMU should be based on the institutional and legal framework of the Union;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AF
Recital AF
AF. whereas the EMU is established by the Union, whose currency is the euro, and whose citizens are directly represented at Union level by the European Parliament;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AF a (new)
Recital AF a (new)
AFa. whereas not all states, despite their treaty obligations, seem truly committed to joining the euro, and whereas the UK has obtained a permanent opt-out from the euro;
Amendment 43 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Reiterates that to be effectively legitimate and democratic the governance of a genuine EMU must be placed within the institutional framework of the Union;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Notes that deepening fiscal and political integration will accentuate the division between, on the one hand, states whose currency is the euro and states genuinely committed to joining the euro ('pre-ins'), and, on the other hand, states which have no intention of joining the euro;
Amendment 66 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Calls for a systematic use of Article 333(2) TFEU when establishing an enhanced cooperation within a field covered by a non-exclusive Union competence that refers to a special legislative procedure, and calls on the Council to adopt a decision by unanimous vote of the participating Member States stipulating that, for the purpose of the enhanced cooperation, it willthey intend to act under the ordinary legislative procedure;
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses that the internal rules of the European Parliament offer a sufficient margin of manoeuvre to organise specific forms of differentiation on the basis of political agreement within and among the political groups in order to provide for appropriate scrutiny of the EMU; understands that MEPs elected in states whose currency is the euro would wish to confer together on matters pertaining to the economic management of the eurozone; recalls, however, that, under the current Treaties, it remains open to every MEP regardless of the state of election to vote in plenary on any legal act of the Parliament;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Emphasises the pivotal role of the Commission in the EMU governance, as also confirmed by the Fiscal Compact and the ESM treaties, in guaranteeing the legal order of the EU treaties and in serving the common interest of the Union as a whole;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41
Paragraph 41
41. Calls for the establishment of a multi- tier budget by including a new own resources financed by contributions paid by Member States participating in the CCI under a modified Own Resources Decision and by assigning the revenue of thisese new own resource to the expenditure of the CCI, and calls for an amendment of the Own Resources Decisions or, if this is not possible, for the use of the revenue of the Financial Transaction Tax as other revenue in order to compensate such direct contributionss, which may include the Financial Transaction Tax, to the expenditure of the CCI;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. Considers that any future treaty change should affirm differentiated integration in the form of multi-tier governance as a principle and a means of unity of the Union;
Amendment 149 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 50
Paragraph 50
50. Takes the view that a future treaty change may introduce a new tier of associate membership includvolving a partial integration into specific Union policy areas as a means to consolidate multi-tier governance by strengthening the European Neighbourhood Policy and up- grading the European Economic Area;
Amendment 162 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 54
Paragraph 54
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 68
Paragraph 68
68. Calls for the introduction of a special legislative procedure requiring four fifths of the votesinvolving qualified majority voting according to a high threshold in bothe Council and a majority of Parliament's component membersParliament for the adoption, under Article 312 TFEU for the adoption, of the regulation laying down the multiannual financial framework;
Amendment 227 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69
Paragraph 69
69. Calls for the introduction of a special legislative procedure requiring four fifths of the votes in Council and a majority of Parliament's component membersinvolving qualified majority voting according to a high threshold in both Council and Parliament for the adoption, under Article 311(3) TFEU for the adoption, of the Own Resources Decision;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71
Paragraph 71
71. Considers the inclusion ofalls for the Convention to allow for the possibility for the Union to budget for a deficit which shall not exceed a reference values specified in the Treaties;.
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 a (new)
Paragraph 76 a (new)
76a. Calls for the Commission to come forward, before the end of the Parliament's mandate, with proposals along these lines for future treaty change aimed primarily at consolidating EMU and at providing a proper federal government for the new fiscal union;
Amendment 258 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 76 b (new)
Paragraph 76 b (new)
76b. Resolves to develop this agenda as one element of its contribution to the work of the European Parliament's delegation to the Convention which we expect to begin work in 2015;