8 Amendments of Andrea COZZOLINO related to 2016/2306(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey 2017 as an important part of the European investment process based on a strategy of investment, structural reforms and responsible public fina and job creation, aiming to further promote higher growth levels and strengthen European recovery and upward convergences;
Amendment 12 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Is concerned about patchy implementation of country-specific recommendations (CSRs) in the European economic recoverythe substantial investment gap in EU, which significantly jeopardises the EU’s longer-term growth potential; highlights the role of local and regional authorities and other relevant stakeholders, as well as European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds) themselves, in supporting the structural reforms and investmenjob creation and investment with a high social impact;
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for European Semester Policies which aim at boosting domestic demand in order to make European economy more resilient in a framework of worsening global outlook and slowdown in global demand;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recognises the potential of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI), which is designed to support high- risk investment projects, in boosting growth and employment with the aim of strengthening growth potential based on quality jobs and productivity; is concerned, however, about the enormous imbalance in use of the Fund between the EU15 (91% of funding) and the EU13 (9% of funding); welcomamong different zones; notes the Commission’s proposal to strengthen synergies and complementarities between the EFSI and the ESI Funds in order to mitigate divergence in the Single Market by enabling all regions to develop their potential; emphasises, however, that this should by no means undermine the role of Cohesion Policy as the main investment policy of the European Union, thus, putting the EU closer to its citizens;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Welcomes the European Commission proposal “Towards a Positive Fiscal Stance for the Euro Area” as a milestone for future European and national economic fiscal policies in order to ensure macroeconomic stability, incentivising those countries with fiscal room for manoeuvre to make use of it;
Amendment 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Welcomes the positive fiscal stance, which is in line with the Five President´s proposal about the creation of a central macroeconomic stabilisation function in order to complement automatic stabilisers at the national level, in case of significant macroeconomic shocks;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. SharNotes the view of the Commission that, in the context of the European Semester and efforts to simplify the Cohesion Policy, Member States need to step up their efforts to implement the necessary reforms aimed at removing obstacles encountered by beneficiaries of the Cohesion Policy; stresses the importance of ex-ante conditionalities in order to improve the capacity building in Members States with the scope of achieving the EU’s 2020 targets; stresses the need to intensify communication of results for European citizens to make the European added value more visible;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Acknowledges the Commission’s proposal to extend the EFSI (proposal for an “EFSI 2.0”) and to increase its amount by 2022 and underlines that ESI Funds should remain in the same regional areas, while at the same time improving geographical and sectorial coverage; notes that a swift adoption of this proposal is essential;