10 Amendments of Andrea COZZOLINO related to 2016/2101(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Underlines the opportunities within the European semester to explore tools and mechanisms to ensure that the flexibility permitted by the Stability and Growth Pact could be used in strategic areas of investment to ensure growth and sustainable employment;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission to take action to ensure that Member States fully use their fiscal space to support productive investments;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Points out the importance to rebalance the economic asymmetries generated by the different monetary policies between euro-area and not in order to achieve the main goals of the territorial cohesion policy;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Believes that the Commission should involve all beneficiaries of the 2014-2020 Structural Funds when assessing the ongoing European Semester, in order to ensure an effective implementation of the Cohesion Policy;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considering that structural reforms might have a negative impact on national budgets, notes that the mismatch between the flexibility granted by the Stability and Growth Pact and the temporal horizon needed to reap the benefits of structural reforms maturation is counterproductive.
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Notes that the Country Specific Recommendations could be a useful tool for the dissemination of investment opportunities including the promotion of synergies between European structural funds and all other EU funds; recognizes the effort of the Commission to explore all investment opportunities in Europe.
Amendment 85 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Welcomes the Commission’'s focus in its 2016 country-specific recommendations (CSRs) on the three main priorities to further strengthen economic growth: supporting investment, pursuing structural reforms and preserving responsible public finances for innovation, growth and job creation, pursuing sustainable and socially balanced structural reforms to modernise European economies making them more competitive and preserving responsible public finances which would foster investments and a sustainable growth;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that Europe’s long economic crisis has shown that there is a strong need to focus on public and private investment, in order to enhance the EU’s competitiveness; notes that the CSRs could be a useful tool for the dissemination of investment opportunities; encourages the Commission to explore all investment opportunities in Europe;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9a (new)
Paragraph 9a (new)
9a. Considering that structural reforms might have a negative impact on national budgets, notes that the mismatch between the flexibility granted by the Stability and Growth Pact and the temporal horizon needed to reap the benefits of structural reforms maturation is counterproductive;
Amendment 305 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16a (new)
Paragraph 16a (new)
16a. Considering that the output gap is a key measure in order to assess whether a government is meeting European Union budget rules, invites the Commission to speed up its work on a possible revision of the methodology for the calculation of the output gap;