2 Amendments of Sabine VERHEYEN related to 2019/2028(BUD)
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Is alarmconcerned by the conclusions of the Rapid case review of the European Court of Auditors on Euronews, stating that in the Financial Regulation there is no longer any reference to the fact that Euronews is pursuing a general Union interest; therefore urgeasks the Commission to end its cooperation with Euronewsconduct a full-scale review of the MultimediaActions budget line for Euronews in 2020, as requested in the CULT Committee’s opinion on the 2019 budget, and put forward a solution to the situation according to the legal framework.
Amendment 99 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23 a. Is alarmed by the conclusions of the Rapid case review of the European Court of Auditors on Euronews, which highlights that Euronews is now 85% owned by private investors and only 15% by EU and non-EU broadcaster and local public authorities, that Union financial support to Euronews lacks transparency and accountability, that monitoring and evaluation mechanisms are insufficiently robust and that Euronews is not accessible to most or all EU citizens; is particularly concerned by the finding that, following the 2018 revision of the Financial Regulation, which scrapped the reference to the notion of bodies pursuing a general Union interest, grants for Euronews are provided under Article 195 (c) and (f) of the Financial Regulation (de facto monopoly/specific technical competence) and not under Article 180 (actions intended to support a Union policy objective/body forming part of or supporting a Union policy), thus implying that Euronews no longer pursues a general Union interest at all; in light of the above considerations, urges the Commission to end its cooperation with Euronews at the end of the current MFF; considers, furthermore, that no additional funds, beyond what is included in the 2020 draft budget, should be allocated to Euronews under the Multimedia Actions budget line;