16 Amendments of Victor NEGRESCU related to 2022/2150(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines the exceptionally uncertain EU economic outlook resulting from the lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, in particular in the field of health and education, and the consequences of the war against Ukraine, inflation and energy crisis;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Underlines the exceptionally uncertain EU economic and social outlook resulting from the lasting impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the consequences of the war against Ukraine;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the robustness of the labour market; highlights the stabilising effect of national short-time work schemes supported by the European instrument for temporary support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency (SURE); welcomes the fact that the recovery and resilience facility is mitigating those consequences and contributing to the Union’s competitive sustainability; stresses that its successful implementation requires the completion of milestones and targets, in particular compliance with the rule of law and the general regime of conditionality, to be monitored transparently and thoroughly; if a Member State can demonstrate that the achievement of a specific milestone or target is no longer achievable due to recent geopolitical events, these situations may be invoked as objective circumstances to adjust their recovery and resilience plans ( Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL amending Regulation (EU) 2021/241 as regards REPowerEU chapters in recovery and resilience plans and amending Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 , Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, Directive 2003/87/EC and Decision (EU) 2015/1814 ); welcomes the Commission’s proposal to include a REPowerEU chapter in the national recovery and resilience plans; insists that the financing of REPowerEU must not divert resources away from other EU priorities;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Welcomes the robustness of the labour market; highlights the stabilising effect of national short-time work schemes supported by the European instrument for temporary support to mitigate unemployment risks in an emergency (SURE); welcomes the fact that the recovery and resilience facility is mitigating those consequences and contributing to the Union’s competitive sustainabilitya sustainable and resilient Union; stresses that its successful implementation requires the completion of milestones and targets, in particular compliance with the rule of law and the general regime of conditionality, to be monitored transparently and thoroughly; stresses that large parts of the success of the RRF are due to the mobilisation of financial support for reforms and investments undertaken by Member States; welcomes the Commission’s proposal to include a REPowerEU chapter in the national recovery and resilience plans; insists that the financing of REPowerEU must not divert resources away from other agreed EU priorities;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Welcomes however the European Commission’s call on Member States to deliver targeted measures to offset the impact of high energy prices on vulnerable households and companies; agrees with the European Commission in stressing that such measures should maintain incentives for energy savings; recalls that Member States find themselves in significantly diverging positions regarding the fiscal space available to them; notes that this situation entails the risk of furthering divergence between Member States and of potential distortions of the Single Market as the energy crisis continues and progresses.
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls upon the European Commission to be open, transparent and available for the rapid revisions of NRRPs especially if the reforms included risk to generate negative social and development effects;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the Union budget primarily supports strategic, targeted and growth-enhancing investment and entails a lower risk of inflationary pressure compared to untargeted and extensive national; believes that RRF provides a solid foundation for discussions on how to allow sufficient public investment under the fiscal stimrulues; calls on the Commission and the Member States, in the revision of the EU economic governance framework, to treat gross national income- based contributions to the Union budget in the same way as the national investment commitment; under the European Fund for Strategic Investments in the context of the Commission communication on flexibility .
Amendment 24 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Stresses that the European Parliament should be fully involved in the reform of the economic governance framework as well as the future conduct of economic governance in the EU, including in the establishment and management of fiscal instruments.
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Is concerned at the economic impact of the aforementioned crises on the Union and on national budgets; stresswelcomes that crisis response has led Member States to adopt extensivenecessary economic and social measures; highlights the positive long-term impact of these measures on economic sustainability, but considers that it should be possible to return to a state of economic discipline in the long run; is also concerned at the Union’s increasing debt repayment obligations if not appropriately handled; stresses that Union borrowing should not increase further as long as there are nowell-targeted measures and public investments on economic growth, social inclusion and environmental sustainability that will contribute to increase potential growth and fiscal sustainability in the long run; considers that the Union’s debt should be accompanied by the introduction of new own resources to cater for debt repayment obligations.
Amendment 31 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls for a better correlation of the European Semester with the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI); calls on Member States to take the necessary measures to reinforce their digital infrastructure, the connectivity and the methods used by schools and learning centres for digital education and learning in the context of the pandemic and reiterates the need to accelerate the reforms implementing the digital transformation ensuring that all Europeans can take advantage of it;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Believes that future reforms of the European Semester should draw on the lessons learned on the Next Generation EU, the RRF and the Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) instrument, especially as regards more transparent and democratic processes as well as policy coordination and collaborative approaches to the definition of reforms and investment priorities and projects;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Underlines its concern about the gaps existing in Europe on how access to education and lifelong learning is being dealt with during the pandemic and calls for the need to make sure everyone continues to get access to quality education and lifelong learning, knowing this represents a key feature in the European Pillars for Social Rights in achieving sustainable long term development of the European Union and Member States;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Considers that all options to incentivise Member State investments to tackle the long-term challenges should be on the table, specifically the revision of the Stability and Growth Pact to promote a future-oriented economy and the extension of lending and borrowing capacities at EU level, building on Next Generation EU;
Amendment 41 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Underlines the need to increase the role and visibility of education in the European Semester format in order to assess the evolutions and reforms of the educational systems and consistently check the implementation of the EU actions plans, agendas and recovery targets across the Union, especially in the context of the pandemic; calls, in this regard, for an extensive chapter dedicated to education and digital education;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Considers that an adequately- designed permanent fiscal capacity at EU level could play a crucial role in maintaining sufficiently high levels of strategic investment and ensuring an appropriate fiscal stance at the aggregate level;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 d (new)
Paragraph 4 d (new)