33 Amendments of Philippe LAMBERTS related to 2011/2071(INI)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the crisis and the increasing disparities in competitiveness and macro financial imbalances since the introduction of the euro have highlighted the need for the Union to coordinate economic policies more closely and, increase solidarity, improve budgetary surveillance and tackle macroeconomic imbalances on the basis of a symmetrical approach which would address excessive deficits as well as excessive surpluses,
Amendment 25 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the effectiveness of national economic policies, on the basis of closer coordination, depends on the democratic legitimacy and accountability of those policies at parliamentary level,
Amendment 40 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas the introduction of the European Semester will lead to changes in the work of the European and national parliaments,
Amendment 46 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the Council has made substantial changes to the country- specific recommendations proposed by the Commission in the framework of the first year of the European Semester,
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Underlines that the guidelines for the employment policies of Member States and the broad economic guidelines both form integral parts of the European Semester and are equally important for the achievement of smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; calls on the Council and the Commission to ensure that all policy recommendations are consistent with the Integrated Guidelines;
Amendment 63 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the European Semester is now the annual framework for the implementation and assessment of the Europe 2020 strategy, the broad economic policy guidelines and the employment guidelines; emphasises, however, that it must not replace these instruments, which are enshrined in the Treaty, or diminish their importance; calls on the Commission to clarify and explain how these different instruments and the 7 flagships of the EU Strategy fit together;
Amendment 65 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the national policies and targets announced in the National Reform Programmes together add up to a level that is sufficiently ambitious to reach the EU 2020 headline targets; expresses its concern about the fact that under the first European Semester this was not the case; calls on the Commission to make sure that all Member States contribute to the headline targets according to their potential;
Amendment 68 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls the Commission and the Council to ensure an equal treatment of 2020 targets and flagship initiatives in their guidance and recommendations addressed to each Member State and the EU as a whole;
Amendment 74 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Observes the deadlines foreseen in the Economic Governance package are tight and that there is therefore a risk that national parliamentary involvement would be suboptimal should any Member State need to submit a corrective action plan or adjust its stability and convergence programmes as well as their National Reforms Programmes pursuant to the recommendations of the Council,
Amendment 81 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the adoption, via the ordinary legislative procedure, of specific legislation or of an interinstitutional agreement in order to ensure the democratic legitimacy and effectiveness of the European Semester, in particular to ensure that the national policies and targets announced in the National Reform Programmes together add up to a level that is sufficiently ambitious to reach the EU 2020 headline targets; welcomes, in that perspective, the foreseen codification of the European Semester in the Framework of the Economic Governance package as a first step in that direction;
Amendment 102 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Commission clearly to identify, in the Annual Growth Survey, the initiatives taken by the Union and the Member States to support long-term investment, achievement of the Europe 2020 targets and implementation of the 7 flagships as well as the reduction of excessive macroeconomic imbalances;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Calls on the Commission and Council to ensure that policy guidance for fiscal consolidation and structural reforms are fully coherent and consistent with the Union's objectives of social and sustainable development; considers that, in defining and implementing the Annual Growth Survey, the Union must take into account requirements linked to the promotion of a high level of employment, the guarantee of adequate social protection, the fight against social exclusion, and a high level of education, training, retraining and protection of human health; believes that the country- specific recommendations need to be subject of social impact assessments;
Amendment 108 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 b (new)
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10b. Calls on the Commission to identify explicitly in the Annual Growth Survey potential cross-border spill-over effects of major economic policy measures implemented at the EU level as well as in Member States;
Amendment 110 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Intends to organise a public hearing to hold a dialogue based on the 'comply or explain' principle with the Commission, the Council and possibly the Eurogroup, at which the recommendations from the Commission, and the changes introduced by the Council, would be discussed; deems, in that perspective, that cross- border spill-over effects should be explicitly addressed in the framework of that discussion;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Commission to work with the Member States to enhance the comparability of national budget expenditure items by incorporating them into a common nomenclature making it possible to assess the extent to which they contribute to the Europe 2020 targets and the implementation of the seven flagship initiatives;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to come and present its recommendations once the analysis of the NRPs and SCPs has been completed and to highlight the potential cross-border spill-over effects in view of the foreseen interparliamentary forum and the discussions in the Council on the country-specific recommendations;
Amendment 133 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Amendment 134 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 b (new)
Paragraph 20 b (new)
20b. Underlines that the policy guidance to Member States partly concerns policy areas like wages and pensions that in line with Article 153 of the TFEU fall under the competences of Member States and social partners; emphasizes that democratic accountability needs to be ensured and the principles of subsidiarity and social dialogue need to be respected in order to preserve the policy space required for National implementation;
Amendment 135 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 a (new)
Paragraph 20 a (new)
20a. Is concerned that draft recommendations to member states under the European Semester contained to undermine the specific regulation of holidays and Sundays; asks the Commission and the Council to respect and support these achievements, especially for the work-family balance;
Amendment 136 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 c (new)
Paragraph 20 c (new)
20c. Calls on the Commission to ensure greater comparability of the National Reform Programmes and establish common benchmarks to assess the Programmes;
Amendment 150 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Calls on the European social partners to take into account the EU2020 objectives when they establish their multiannual working programme; and to present their contribution to the achievement of these objectives at the occasion of the European Social Summit;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 b (new)
Paragraph 23 b (new)
23b. Calls on the Commission to organise a hearing with the aim of unfolding the yearly monitoring events announced in the various flagships; calls for this hearing to take place between the Spring and Summer meetings of the European Council with all relevant EU, National and regional bodies and other stakeholders;
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Wishes a debate to be held at Parliament with the heads of state or government of those Member States intending to make use of the European Stability Mechanism, before the latter is activatedfinancial Stability Facility and Mechanism as well as the European Stability Mechanism, before the latter is activated; urges the Council and the Commission to ensure the consistency of economic conditionality and adjustment programmes in the framework of any rescue programme with Union's objectives of social and sustainable development and in particular employment and economic policy guidelines as well as EU 2020 objectives; asks to include recommendations addressed in the framework of the EU Semester to Member States under financial assistance to take account explicitly of these consistency requirements;
Amendment 179 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Reiterates that Member States should regard their economic and fiscal policies as a matter of common concern and that the economic pillar of Economic and Monetary Union, including its fiscal dimension, must therefore be strengthened through more coordination in the introduction and implementation of fiscal measures as well as an effective fight against tax fraud and tax flight and a roll-over of existing detrimental measures;
Amendment 201 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10 a (new)
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Calls on the Commission to streamline the various tools used to assess the National Reform Programmes and the Stability/Convergence Programmes since the integrated guidelines, the Annual Growth Survey and the Euro-Plus Pact only partly overlap ; calls on the Commission to prioritise the recommendations issued to Member States according to their potential contribution to the achievement of the EU2020 targets and to ensure a proper functioning of their economies or the Euro Area or the European Union as a whole;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 b (new)
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Calls on the Commission to enlarge the set of indicators it uses to monitor national developments, taking account of the work realised in the framework of the follow-up of the Communication « GDP and beyond » and the roadmap to a resource-efficient Europe notably;
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Calls on the Commission clearly to assess, in the Annual Sustainability Guidelines, the main economic problems of the EU and individual Member States, to propose priority measures to overcome those problems, and to identify the initiatives taken by the Union and the Member States to support long-term investment, to remove obstacles to growth, achieve the targets laid down in the Treaties and the current economicEU2020 strategy, implement the 7 flagships and reduce macroeconomic imbalances;
Amendment 294 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35
Paragraph 35
35. Intends to organise, from 2013 following the Spring European Council, a second interparliamentary meeting bringing together the Chairs of the committees responsible for the European Semester within national parliaments and the European Parliament (ECON, EMPL, BUDG, ENVI, ITRE) to discuss the Commission’s proposed recommendations;
Amendment 309 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 39 a (new)
Paragraph 39 a (new)
39 a. Recalls that the Council Directive on requirements for budgetary frameworks of the Member States states that "the Commission shall make public the methodologies, assumptions, and relevant parameters that underpin its macroeconomic and budgetary forecasts";
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 44
Paragraph 44
44. Calls on the Member States to provide information which is as detailed as possible on the measures and instruments provided for in the national reform programmes to attain the national objectives set, including the deadline for implementation, the expected effects, the potential spill-over effects, the risks of unsuccessful implementation, the costs and, if applicable, the use of EU structural funds;
Amendment 336 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 a (new)
Paragraph 49 a (new)
Amendment 337 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49 b (new)
Paragraph 49 b (new)
49 b. Recalls that the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the prevention and correction of macroeconomic imbalances states that "the application of this Regulation shall fully respect Article 152 TFEU and the recommendations issued under this Regulation shall respect national practices and institutions for wage formation. It shall take into account Article 28 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, and accordingly shall not affect the right to negotiate, conclude and enforce collective agreements and to take collective action in accordance with national law and practices.";