7 Amendments of Victor NEGRESCU related to 2017/2043(BUD)
Amendment 37 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Commends the role of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) in bridging the investment gap across the EU and supports its extension until 2020; underlines its position in the on-going legislative negotiations that no further cuts should be incurred on existing EU programmes in order to finance this extension; stresses the importance to reform the European Fund for Strategic Investments and bring more transparency on the project selection and evaluation process, taking into consideration that not all Member States have the opportunity to access the fund;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Welcomes the fact that the draft budget 2018 includes an additional allocation for the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), responding thus to Parliament’s previous calls for the continuation of the programme; notes, in parallel, the proposal for draft amending budget 3/2017 that integrates the provision of EUR 500 million in commitments for YEI, as agreed upon by Parliament and the Council in the 2017 budgetary conciliation; is convinced that while the proposed amounts alone will not be sufficient to tackle youth unemployment, YEI will continue to contribute to the Union’s priority objective of growth and jobs; underlines that YEI can be further improved and become more efficient; calls for further assessment of the present youth issues when drawing up policies and actions that have a significant impact on young people such as learning, voluntary activities , information and mobility;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that in 2018, cohesion policy programmes are expected to reach cruising speed and emphasises Parliament’s commitment to ensuring adequate appropriations for these programmes; is however preoccupied by the unacceptable delays in the implementation of operational programmes at national level; calls on Member States to ensure that the designation of managing, auditing and certifying authorities is concluded and implementation is accelerated; calls on the Commission to maintain the current level of funding that will enhance cooperation across all EU Member States and avoid unacceptable delays in the implementation of the operational programmes at EU Level.
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11 a. Stresses the need to better coordinate the actions of the Digital Skills and Jobs Coalition through consultations of stakeholders in order to identify the best practices to address the estimated 900 000 ICT workers shortage in the EU by the end of 2020, especially taking into consideration that 40% of the EU workforce do not posses competent digital skills and knowledge;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Welcomes the increase proposed for the eastern component of the European Neighbourhood Instrument responding to Parliament’s previous calls; is convinced that in order to counter the activities of an increasingly aggressive Russian Federation, the EU’s support, especially for the countries that have signed Association Agreements, is essential; calls for a public consultation to find new ways of promoting EU's shared values, joint ownership, collective norms, and address the other shared challenges in a concerted way thus improving stability and prosperity;
Amendment 155 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21 a (new)
Paragraph 21 a (new)
21 a. Recognises economic and social cohesion as one of the EU's main goals in achieving a balanced and sustainable development of the European Unions and considers it important to grant special attention to the new territorial cooperation programmes from under developed regions thus ensuring a fair access to development;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Stresses the importance of pilot projects (PP) and preparatory actions (PA) as tools for the formulation of political priorities and the introduction of new innovative initiatives that might turn into standing EU activities and programme; intends to proceed with the identification of a balanced package of PP-PAs; notes that in the current proposal, the margin in some headings is quite limited, or even non- existent, and intends to explore ways to make room for possible PP-PAs without decreasing other political prioritiesr through a small decrease of other political priorities; calls for a budget increase of these two initiatives that will provide funding for new innovative programmed in key areas that have yet to be addressed; asks the European Commission to promote the fact that the PP and PA are initiated by the European Parliament and make visible the initiators and their names in their implementation;