8 Amendments of Paulo RANGEL related to 2017/2052(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that EU spending should be subject to maximum flexibility and to proper democratic scrutiny and accountability, which necessitates the full involvement of Parliament in decision making on the MFF Regulation; calls, therefore, for closer dialogue between the Council and Parliament when negotiating the next multiannual financial framework and warns against the European Council’s usual top-down approach of setting the overall ceilings per heading instead of first assessing the actual needs of the programmes;
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Emphasises that the EU budget is an instrument to fulfil the common objectives of the Union laid down in art. 3 TEU and believes that it has served well its purpose in the past;
Amendment 5 #
1b. Points out that the MFF post- 2020 needs to enable the Union to respond both to existing and emerging challenges which call for a pan-European approach;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls for the alignment of the future MFFs with the duratNotes that the current length of the MFF is in accordance with the minimum periond of Parliament’s legislatifive years pursuant to article 270.°-A(1) TFEU; believes term and the Commission’s mandate, thereby reducing the length of the MFF from seven to five yearhat this time span would favour the approval of the MFF post-2020 before the 2019 European elections;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Warns against the possibility that the upcoming Brexit negotiations might shroud the outcome of negotiations on the next MFF; recalls the difficulty of assessing the impact of Brexit on both the interinstitutional process and funding under the forthcoming MFF, and considers it unlikely that the long-term EU budgets can be increased in this context;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Considers that the European Union cannot wait for the outcome of Brexit to start preparing the negotiations on the MFF post-2020 and that a proposal in this matter should be put forward by the Commission as soon as possible, ideally by the first quarter of 2018;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for increased complementarity between national budgets and the EU budget, and for European funding to focus on areas that deliver genuine European added value and in wheconomich such well-targeted spending at European level can produce savings at national level.trength, solidarity, security and sustainability;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Takes the view that a new heading for the implementation of a European Defence Union, preferably financed with new own-resources, would be in compliance with the EU Treaties.