8 Amendments of Nicolae ŞTEFĂNUȚĂ related to 2021/0000(INI)
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Annual Sustainable Growth Strategy 2021 assessments, the strategy’s enhanced focus on social and environmental dimensions and its emphasis on the importance of combining crisis management with reforms identified in the European Semester, the transformative aspirations of the Green Deal and the digital transition; underlines that the COVID-19 crisis is having an impact on the notion of reforms, recovery and resilience and highlights the Portuguese Presidency’s emphasis on the European social model as a valuable contribution in this regard;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Considers that the agreements on the multiannual financial framework, Next Generation EU, the own resources (OR) decision, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and the Rule of Law (RoL) regulation constitute a viable baseline for innovative policies and is convinced that the common issuance of bonds at EU level is a sea change in EU public finances whichduring the health and economic crisis to ensure sustainable growth, is a major breakthrough in EU public finances which in the circumstances of the pandemic adds value by mutualising the outstanding credit rating of the EU budget based on its OR system;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the RRF reshapes the European Semester framework and that, together with REACT-EU, Horizon Europe, Invest EU, RescuEU, Rural Development and the Just Transition Fund, will be an exemplary test case of how EU strategic guidance and financial firepower can be synchronised with national priorities and implementation capacities; ensuring a strategic and responsible spending that is efficient and effective for the economy and for the citizens, on short and long term;
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the RRF reshapes the European Semester framework and that, together with the Just Transition Fund, will be an exemplary test case of how EU strategic guidance and financial firepower can be synchronised with national priorities and implementation capacities of reforms that create economic and employment growth, coordination of European policies is fundamental for the European Semester;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses the concern of the long- term effects on the Single Market of the extension of derogation to the State Aid rules during the ongoing crisis for the Member States with limited public funds and limited fiscal capacity of some Member States; the recovery funds should ensure the Member States and the EU will work closely to mitigate the economic effects of the pandemic while finding concrete solutions to preserve the level playing field in the Single Market and to strengthen the economic and social cohesion between EU regions;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses the urgent need for the recovery and resilience plans to deliver public goods like pandemic prevention, stability of public finances and their resilience against future economic shocks, to sustain our economic base and to contribute to implementing the European Pillar of Social Rights, the EU’s climate and biodiversity objectives, the digital and green transformation, and the Gender Equality Strategy;
Amendment 57 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Reiterates the urgency of introducing new own resources to diversifying the EU budget’s revenue sources, in line with the roadmap integrated in the Interinstitutional Agreement, and of linking own resources with policy objectives more effectively;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to apply the RoL Regulation completely and without ambiguity. as adopted by the co- legislators fully, without ambiguity and with no delay; recalls Commission’s role as guardian of the Treaties.