Activities of Roberto GUALTIERI related to 2012/2078(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Constitutional problems of a multitier governance in the EU (debate)
Constitutional problems of a multitier governance in the EU (debate)
Reports (1)
REPORT on constitutional problems of a multitier governance in the European Union PDF (283 KB) DOC (151 KB)
Amendments (35)
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas any differentiation has towill respect and so reinforce the unity of the European legal order and its effectiveness and coherence, the principle of non- discrimination on grounds of nationality, as well as the establishing of the area of freedom, security and justice without internal frontiers and the functioning of the internal market;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the Treaties offer differentseveral options and instruments for differentiated integration, including limitations of the territorial scope of application, safeguard clauses, derogations, opt-outs, opt-ins, enhanced cooperation, and provisions specific to Member States whose currency is the euro, provided such instruments respect the unity, effectiveness and coherence of the European legal order and are embedded in the single institutional framework (the Community method);
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
Ga. whereas some Member states have obtained to opt-out of different EU policies, as laid down in different Protocols to the Treaties;
Amendment 15 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas derogations under Article 27(2) TFEU allow a differentiation between certain Member States within a legal act that is addressed to all Member States; still with the aim of progressively establishing and ensuring the functionality of the internal market;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital O a (new)
Recital O a (new)
Oa. whereas the Prüm Convention has been partially integrated into the EU legal framework;
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S
Recital S
S. whereas international agreements outside of the Treatieslegal framework of the EU which aim at realising the objectives of the Treaties have been used as an absolute ultima ratio instrument for differentiated integration which has to respect the unity, effectiveness and coherence of the European legal order, having to remain open for all Member States willing to join, and either already integrated or providing for an obligation to integrate the content of the international agreement concerned into the Treaties;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Y
Recital Y
Y. whereas Article 136 TFEU can be considered as a specific form of enhanced cooperation between the Member States whose currency is the euro where the authorisation is granted by the Treaties and the procedure under the Treaties has already been used in conjunction with Article 121.6 for adopting regulations;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Y
Recital Y
Y. whereas Article 136 TFEU can be considered as a specific form oflegal base of an enhanced cooperation between the Member States whose currency is the euro where the authorisation is granted by the Treaties and the procedure under the Treaties has already been used in conjunction with Article 121.6 for adopting regulations;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital AC
Recital AC
AC. whereas a genuinedeeper EMU requires stronger competences, financial resources and democratic accountability, and its establishment should follow a two-step approach based on, first, the immediate full use of the potentialities of the existing Treaties and, second, a Treaty change to be defined by a Convention;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Reiterates its belief thatwill for a genuine EMU requires enhancing the Union's competences, in particular in the field of economic policy, and strengthening its own resources and budgetary capacity, as well as the role and democratic accountability of the Commission and the prerogatives of Parliament;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the existing TFEU provisions, in particular article 3.4 TEU, article 3.1 and article 136.1 TFEU, and the differentiated integration procedures under the Treaties allow taking a first step in the establishment of a genuinedeeper EMU which is fully consistent with the requirements of stronger democratic accountability, increased financial resources and better decision-making capacity;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Is of the opinion that, as a consequence, the specificity of measures adopted under Article 136 TFEU does not relate only to the fact that those measuresey are specific to Member States whose currency is the euro, but also implies that they can have greater binding force;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Stresses that, where some Member States want to be excluded completely fromnot to take part in the adoption of a legal act in the field of the Union's non- exclusive competences, an enhanced cooperation in accordance with the relevant Treaty provision should be established instead of concluding international treatiesagreements outside the framework of the EU legal order;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recalls that the purpose of Article 48 TEU is also to guarantee the democratic legitimacy of any treaty change by the requirement of the mandatory involvement of the European Parliament in the amendment procedure and of the national parliaments in the amendmentsubsequent ratification procedure;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Disagrees with ‘'contractualisation’' of the relationship between the Union and the Member States, and reiterates that the lack of Union competences and of Union powers can be overcomeextended, where necessary, by using the appropriate procedures or, in absence of an appropriate legal basis, by amending the Treaties;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Recalls that according to article 3.4 TEU the EMU is established by the Union and its functioning must be founded on representative democracy;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Stresses that the European Parliament is the only EU institution in which citizens are directly represented at Union level and is the parliamentary body of the EMU, and that its appropriate involvement is essential for ensuring EMU democratic legitimacy and functioning;
Amendment 86 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23
Paragraph 23
23. Stresses that the internal rules of the European Parliament offer a sufficient margin of manoeuvre to organise specific forms of differentiation on the basis of political agreement within and among the political groups in order to provide for appropriate scrutiny of the EMU, and calls for the establishment of a subcommittee to provide such scrutiny and enhance the coherence of Parliament's approach to EMU;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 30
Paragraph 30
30. Recalls that Article 14 TEU confers the function of political control on the European Parliament, and considers that this political control function is not limited to setting up temporary committees of inquiry under Article 226 TFEU with regard to activities of the SSM, but also covers any right of investigation that is traditionally grantedlso covers all the other control instruments available to pParliaments in order to control the executive branch, including the setting-up of an independent inquiry into any actions or failure to act of the ECB that have or may have led to a significant event in relation to financial stability, confidence or failure of a credit institution and request for access to any document related thereto;
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 36
Paragraph 36
36. Calls forwelcomes the conclusion of an interinstitutional agreement between the European Parliament and the ECB, on a basis of full respect for the limits set by the independence of the ECB under Article 130 TFEU, and calls for a formal arrangement between the European Parliament and the ESM in order to ensure the fully-fledged democratic accountability of the latter's activities, including those of the Troika;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 a (new)
Paragraph 45 a (new)
45a. Reminds that the Treaties provide in Art. 153 TFEU for a legal base to adopt measures concerning social policy and calls for a use of this legal base in order to enhance the social dimension of the EMU.
Amendment 130 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 45 b (new)
Paragraph 45 b (new)
45b. Calls for European minimum wages at the EU level determined on the basis of certain Member State specific indicators and without prejudice to collective bargaining under Art. 115 TFEU.
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 49
Paragraph 49
49. Considers that any future treaty change should afconfirm differentiated integration as a principle and a means of unity of the Union;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 52
Paragraph 52
52. Considers the Eurogroup to be an informal configuration of the Economic and Financial Affairs Council;, and calls therefore for the president of ECOFIN to be at the same time the president of the Eurogroup
Amendment 169 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55 a (new)
Paragraph 55 a (new)
55a. Considers that both the European Parliament and the Council shall get the right to initiate a legislative procedure by requesting the Commission to submit a legislative proposal and to present an own proposal if the Commission refuses to do so.
Amendment 185 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58 a (new)
Paragraph 58 a (new)
58a. Calls for the inclusion of a general rule according to which the economic freedoms, as established in the Treaties, shall be interpreted in such a way as not infringing upon the exercise of fundamental social rights as recognised in the Member States and by Union law, including but not limited to the right to negotiate, conclude and enforce collective agreements and to take collective action laid down in Article 28 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights, and as not infringing upon the autonomy of social partners when exercising these fundamental rights.
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 58 b (new)
Paragraph 58 b (new)
58b. Takes the view that the Member States and the Union shall conduct their economic policies in accordance with the principle of a highly competitive social market economy;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
Paragraph 60
60. Considers the reversed qualified majority voting in the Fiscal Compact as a merely political declaration without any legally binding effect on Member States, and calls instead for the integration of this voting rule into the Treaties and for the modification of Articles 121, 126 and 148 TFEU, in such a way that the proposals or recommendations submitted by the Commission may enter into force if no objection has been expressed by Parliament or the Council within a certain predefined period, in order to ensure fully-fledged legal certainty;
Amendment 214 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65 a (new)
Paragraph 65 a (new)
65a. Calls for a switch to the ordinary legislative procedure in tax matters under Art. 113 TFEU, Art. 192(2)(a) TFEU and Art. 194(3) TFEU as well as for a deletion of the exclusion clause in Art. 114(2) TFEU;
Amendment 215 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65 b (new)
Paragraph 65 b (new)
65b. Calls for legal means to set minimum social standards which requires an extension of Art. 153(2)(b) TFEU to all fields referred to in Art. 153(1) TFEU and a deletion of the unanimity in Art. 153(2)(3) TFEU;
Amendment 216 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 65 c (new)
Paragraph 65 c (new)
65c. Believes that an EU-level unemployment benefit scheme as an automatic stabilizer can assist the adjustment mechanisms of countries whose competitiveness has declined, where unemployment is very high and putting enormous pressure on domestic budgets and calls therefore for an amendment of Art. 153 TFEU which enables the Union to establish such a scheme;
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 66 a (new)
Paragraph 66 a (new)
66a. Calls for the extension of the legal base in Art. 127(6) TFEU to all financial institutions including insurance undertakings that are established within the internal market;
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 69 a (new)
Paragraph 69 a (new)
69a. Calls for the establishment of a legal base which empowers the Union to raise own taxes as a proper own resource for the benefit of the Union budget.
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 75 a (new)
Paragraph 75 a (new)
75a. Calls for a reduction of the required majority in Art. 48(4) TEU for a Treaty amendment in the conference of representatives of the governments of the Member States to three quarter and calls for the inclusion of the European Parliament to vote on Treaty amendments with a majority of two thirds of its component members;
Amendment 259 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 77
Paragraph 77
77. Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Council and, the Commission, and the President of the European Council.