3 Amendments of Dominique RIQUET related to 2011/2195(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
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1. Recalls that the Europe 2020 Strategy has been conceived as the main instrument for driving the European economies out of the economic crisis and that regional and cohesion policies are recognised as central instruments for the achievement of its targets, due to their budgetary dimension and multi-level governance approach; considers therefore that the outermost regions, along with all other European regions, deserve a placemust benefit from a differential treatment in the new economic and budgetary strategy of the European Union for the period to 2020 for their own benefit and the benefit of the EU as a wholeas stipulated in Article 349 of the TFEU which provides for the adoption of specific measures for these regions taking account of their remoteness, insularity, small size, difficult topography and climate and their economic dependence on a few products;
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
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2. NoIs disappointesd that in the Commission’s proposal for a multiannual financial framework for the period 2014- 2020 cuts have been proposed to the entire spectrum of Cohesion Policy measures and objectives and strongly deplores that specific funding for the outermost regions is also not spared, being cut back by 7.5 % or EUR 70 m in constant 2011 prices (from EUR 996 m in MFF 2007 - 2013 to EUR 926 m in MFF 2014 – 2020);
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
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3. Stresses, however, that cuts in other cohesion areas have been even more severe than those pertaining to the outermost regions - more precisely,Regrets that the Commission proposes an overall cut to economic, social and territorial cohesion financing of 5.9 % in constant 2011 prices for the next programming period, including a cut of 7 % in the financing for convergence regions (including transition regions), an 8.2 % drop in the financing for competitiveness regions and a 3.3 % decrease in the Cohesion Fund allocations;