6 Amendments of Charles GOERENS related to 2015/2008(BUD)
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls that the EU budget is a tool of internal solidarity in that it supports economic, social and territorial cohesion, helps combat poverty and promotes social inclusion; stresses that it is also an instrument of external solidarity by helping the EU to meet its poverty eradication commitments, which have been reaffirmed in the European Consensus on Development, and, in addition, by helping to make the EU the biggest donor of development aid, by offering support to neighbouring countries and by assisting countries and people facing humanitarian and civilian crises;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls that the EU budget is a tool of internal solidarity in that it supports economic, social and territorial cohesion, helps combat poverty and promotes social inclusion; stresses that it is also an instrument of external solidarity by helping make the EU the biggest donor of development aid, by offering support to neighbouring countries and by assisting countries and people facing humanitarian and civilian crises, in line with the commitments made in the framework of poverty eradication, and also renewed in the framework of the European Consensus for development;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Stresses that common effort to handle migration flows lies at the crossroad of both internal and external solidarity; Calls on the Council to develop a culture of fair burden-sharing among its members; Recalls its support to reinforcement of EU means to ensure safe, secure external borders worthy of the EU fundamental values.
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Attaches the utmost importance to the establishment and implementation of a sound payment plan with the objective of reducing the level of unpaid bills at year- end to its structural level in the course of the current MFF, as stated by the Council, the Parliament and the Commission in the joint declaration agreed in the framework of the 2015 budget procedure; recalls that this plan will be agreed by the 3 institutions in due time before the presentation of the draft budget 2016; considers that the interinstitutional meeting in March 2015 should provide the opportunity for the three institutions to agree on such a plan, in due time before the presentation of the Draft Budget 2016this plan;
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Underlines that the 2016 budget will be crucial as it will not only be the first year of implementation of the new MFF provision on the global margin for commitments, but should also serve as a benchmark of the post-electoral MFF review /and post-electoral revision, to be launched before the end of 2016; stresses the need to establish political priorities and identify in good time areas of proven added value of EU spending for which further investments will be deemed necessary in the second half of the MFF 2014-2020; stresses, in this context, the importance of closely monitoring the implementation and performance of key EU programmes already during the current budgetary procedure;
Amendment 125 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Reaffirms its position in favour of an in-depth reform of the system of EU own resources, whose current shortcomings are causing severe impasses in budgetary negotiations; attaches, therefore, the highest political importance to the work of the High Level Group on Own Resources, under the chairmanship of Mario Monti; eagerly anticipates the results and proposals of the work of this High-Level Group that are due to be presented in an interinstitutional conference, with the participation of national parliaments, during 2016, and considered in the context of the MFF review /and post-electoral revision;