7 Amendments of Tamás DEUTSCH related to 2016/2004(BUD)
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes, additionally, the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey for 2016; strongly believes that boosting investment, including a coordinated increase in public investment with a focus on the Europe 2020 targets, is a proper policy response with a view to a more balanced economic policy; believes that those two elements should be taken into consideration in the preparation of the draft budget for 2017 insofar as this should help identify priorities within an economic context; calls, consequently, for more synergies between the Union dimension of the European semester for economic policy coordination and the Union budget;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Welcomes, in this context, the Commission’s efforts to enhance the use of the European Structural and Investment Funds in support of key priorities highlighted in the country-specific recommendations, and supports the proposal to use Union funding programmes for the Commission’s Structural Reform Support Service;
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Highlights the fact that the Union has had to face numerous crises in recent years; recalls that a solution has still not been found for the Europe-wide migrant and refugee crisis, which escalated in 2015 with a sudden and massive increase in the numbers of refugees and migrants travelling to the Union to seek asylum, which has further impacted on the internal crisis; the EU milk and pig sectors have suffered a sharp fall in farm gate prices which is caused by the serious negative effects of the Russian agricultural export ban and the global over-production, so these vital sectors are also in crises; underlines that the Union budget should be used as part of a European solution to overcome these emergencies;
Amendment 113 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is alarmed by increasing poverty, particularly among children; recalls its report advocating the establishment of a child guarantee in order to lift children out of poverty and avoid their being socially excluded7 ; recognizes the importance of the school milk and school fruit&vegetable programmes which mean the only source of appropriate nutrition for poor children in many situations and therefore suggests the increase of their EU funding; considers education, childcare, health services, housing and security to be basic needs to which every European child has the right; __________________ 7 Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0403.
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Acknowledges the mobilisation of significant budgetary means spread over 2015 and 2016 to address the migration and refugee, crisis both internally within the Union and externally in refugees’ countries of origin; stresses, however, that substantial additional financial means are required to address this crisis, as the increase in numbers of refugees and migrants cannot be considered a temporary phenomenon; highlights that longer-term solutions should be sought, not only in the annual budgetary procedure, but also in the upcoming interim revision of the MFF, without hampering the implementation of other EU policies;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Highlights that the implementation of the European Structural and Investment Funds is expected to reach cruising speed in 2017, and warns against an underbudgeting of payment appropriations to match this increased absorption level; encourages the European Commission to increase the payments to the necessary levels in its Draft Budget; expresses its concern at the late adoption of the Operational Programmes and at the risk of the build-up of a new backlog of unpaid bills over the second half of the MFF; encourages the Commission to work actively with the Member States and urge them to make every effort to ensure the swift designation of programme authorities, the absence of which has been the main cause of the current delays;
Amendment 189 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Recalls that the final agreement on the MFF 2014-2020, as signed in December 2013, included a proposal for a compulsory review of the MFF 2014-2020, accompanied by a legislative proposal for revision of the MFF by the end of 2016; stresses that the purpose of the review/revision is to provide the Union with sufficient resources to address internal and external crises; stresses that the Council should live up to the expectations raised by its own statements and decisions; underlines in this respect that the Council should take on responsibility for ensuring the financing of new tasks, either by clearly identifyextending the poflexibilicty areas which would no longer be among the Union’s prioritieswithin the MFF or by agreeing to an upward revision of the MFF ceilings;