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17 Amendments of Helmut SCHOLZ related to 2010/0821(NLE)

Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation -1 (new)
– having regard to Article 48(2) of the Treaty on European Union (TEU),
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 27 #
Draft decision
Article 1
The following paragraph shall be added to Article 136 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union: "3. The Member States whose currency is the euro may establish a stability mechanism to be activated if indispensable to safeguard the stability of the euro area as a whole. The granting of any required financial assistance under the mechanism will be made subject to strict conditionality or of Member States whose currency is the euro.".
2011/02/04
Committee: ECON
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Considers that, in so far as the European stability mechanism is intended to perpetuate the existing arrangements for the European Financial Stability Facility, it will be necessary to cooperate closely with the Union institutions and bodies responsible for monetary issues – the European Commission, European Central Bank and European Investment Bank – in granting and administering financial assistance and laying down conditions under the European stability mechanism; stresses in this context that a legal instrument concerning the European stability mechanism which did not form part of European law would constitute a legally ineffective attempt to circumvent European law;
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on the Commission to look for other mechanisms to ensure the financial stability and sustainable and adequate economic growth of the euro area, and to make the necessary legislative proposals; underlines the need for the stability mechanism to include measures used to reduce risks to financial, economic and social stability, including effective regulation of financial markets, revision of the SGP and better economic coordination, the introduction of instruments for the reduction of macroeconomic imbalances inside the euro area and measures directed at ecological reconstruction;
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
8. Considers that the setting-up and functioning of the permanent stability mechanism should be brought as close as possible into the European Union framework, also making use, by analogy, of the institutional patterns of enhanced cooperation under Article 20 TEU as a means of involving the Union institutions at a preliminary stage and reassuring those Member States whose currency is not yet the euro;
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – introductory wording
9. States that, in order for the proposed draft European Council decision to be properly scrutinised, supplementary information is needed, notably concerning the envisaged design of the stability mechanism and the relations which it is intended to have with the Union institutions, with the proposed European Monetary Fund and with the International Monetary Fund; accordingly, makes its support for the draft European Council decision dependent on fulfilment of the following conditions:
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point a
(a) a redrafting of the European Council draft decision as proposed in the amendments annexed hereto1, it being understood that, by shifting the proposed provision from Article 136(3) to Article 136(1) TFEU, the stability mechanism, notwithstanding its initial intergovernmental character, would be placed in a perspective of possible future incorporation into the framework of the Union, e.g. in the form of a special kind of agency, making use of the institutional patterns of enhanced cooperation;deleted
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – word separating points a and b
ordeleted
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b – introductory wording
(b) a clear declaration by the European Council ensuring that:deleted
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b – indent 1
– the operational features of the permanent stability mechanism and the conditionality measures (a stringent programme of economic and fiscal adjustment) will be decided on the basis of a recommendation by the Commission, after consulting Parliament, and that the Commission will be responsible for ensuring full respect of these measures and for the precautionary use of the mechanism, regularly reporting back to Parliament;deleted
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b – indent 2
– the Commission will carry out all the necessary tasks in implementing and monitoring the permanent mechanism and in assessing the financial situation of the Member States, regularly reporting back to Parliament;deleted
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 95 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b – indent 3
– the financial assistance under the mechanism will be subject to rigorous analysis and to a programme of economic and financial recovery; those Member States whose currency is the euro will act, when deciding to grant financial assistance, on the basis of an evaluation provided by the Commission, the European Central Bank and, in so far as it may be involved, the International Monetary Fund; andeleted
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 – point b – indent 4
– the secretariat of the permanent stability mechanism will be provided by the Commission;deleted
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 104 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Points out that the strict conditionality for granting financial assistance under the European Stability Mechanism gives Member States whose currency is the euro the power to take competences from the Member States of the Union in the field of economic, financial and social policy, which essentially means an extension of the competences conferred on the Union; consequently, does not agree that the simplified Treaty revision procedure should be used and calls, in accordance with Article 48(2) TEU, for the ordinary Treaty revision procedure to be used;
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 b (new)
9b. Insists on a broader debate concerning any Treaty change, involving all persons affected by future integration, through the convening of a convention, as a persuasive democratic option designed to address growing scepticism about the European Union within the 27 Member States;
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 117 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13a. Underlines that any future Treaty changes must be adopted in accordance with the ordinary Treaty revision procedure;
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13b. Calls on the Member States to allow referenda in all 27 Member States on proposals for Treaty change;
2011/03/03
Committee: AFCO