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Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Dolors Montserrat
Political group: PPE
Country: Germany
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, hoy Día Europeo de las Víctimas del Terrorismo, quiero recordar a todas las víctimas y a sus familias: hoy y siempre memoria, dignidad, justicia y verdad. Gracias, presidenta. Los Estados miembros tienen que presentar con urgencia sus planes nacionales de recuperación. La COVID—19 sigue robando miles de vida; cada día se cierran negocios y se destruye empleo. Los fondos europeos son la respuesta para construir una Europa más competitiva e industrializada que apueste por una economía sostenible y digitalizada, que fortalezca nuestros sistemas sanitarios, que invierta en educación e investigación, que apoye a sus pymes y a sus autónomos y ayude a todas las familias. Estos fondos son para crear empleo, empleo y más empleo. Por ello se deben repartir con criterios transparentes, contando con las comunidades autónomas, ayuntamientos, parlamentos nacionales y sectores económicos. Estos fondos son para los europeos. No son propiedad de ningún Gobierno. Y no vamos a permitir que aquellos que dejan descansar la gobernabilidad en fuerzas radicales gestionen los fondos sin control —como ocurre en España— para despilfarrar, creando un nuevo episodio del conocido Plan E, creando redes clientelares o ignorando a las comunidades autónomas, los ayuntamientos y la sociedad. Los españoles necesitan más que nunca estabilidad. Mientras la maquinaria estratégica del Gobierno de Sánchez aprovecha la peor crisis para desestabilizar institucionalmente España, intentando derribar en los despachos Gobiernos autonómicos. Los españoles se van al paro, las colas del hambre aumentan, los autónomos no reciben ninguna ayuda y hay miles de ciudadanos esperando la vacuna. España necesita un Gobierno que gobierne, un Gobierno que haga reformas. Lo demás sobra.
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Margarida Marques
Political group: S-D
Country: Cyprus
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, para que a resposta europeia à crise chegue aos cidadãos, às empresas e aos Estados, exige-se o bom funcionamento das parcerias entre as instituições europeias e nacionais. Desde já, na aprovação dos Planos Nacionais de Recuperação e Resiliência. Palavra chave: urgência. O Parlamento Europeu, num quadro interinstitucional, definiu os objetivos para a União, para um crescimento verde, digital, inclusivo, para a valorização dos jovens, mas também para a realização de reformas que possam tornar os sistemas públicos, designadamente da educação, da saúde e da justiça, mais bem preparados para lidar com os desafios globais. Cabe aos Estados-Membros, num diálogo aberto com os autarcas, os parceiros sociais e a sociedade civil, como fez o governo do meu país, decidir sobre as suas políticas e os projetos para usar da melhor forma o financiamento europeu disponível, numa base de complementaridade entre o Next Generation EU e o QFP, para benefício das suas economias, da economia europeia e dos europeus.
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Dragoș Pîslaru
Political group: Renew
Country: Spain
Language: EN

Madam President, as a co-rapporteur on the file, together with my colleagues, I have defended from Parliament’s side the principle of consultation with stakeholders: local and regional authorities, social partners, entrepreneurs, civil society, youth organisations and many others. Thanks to the European Parliament, with the support of the European Commission, we now have a mandatory provision in the Recovery and Resilicience Facility (RRF) Regulation for Member States to run such consultations. I actually organised consultations through the EP offices in no less than 13 Member States even before the debate on the RRF file, and I can testify how rich, useful and rewarding that dialogue was in documenting and reinforcing the arguments for the best possible RRF. The consultations are not just a source of legitimacy, a natural alignment with our democratic values, an expression of a citizen-centred approach to European policy that is so dear for our group in Europe, but more importantly, the consultation with stakeholders, including local authorities, are critical for the quality of both the design and the implementation of national plans. I am really glad to see that my constituency in Romania recently had consultations attended by more than 4 000 stakeholders, and we have decided to create a local resilience fund for local authorities as part of the national plan for recovery and resilience. I also support strongly the appeal for not transforming national plans into political battlefields. This is not what the European citizens expect from us. The European Commission was our ally on these matters during the negotiations. We ask you to be our partner again and use your power to require national governments to fulfil their obligations. This is how we truly renew Europe.
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Marie Toussaint
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Hungary
Language: FR

Madame la Présidente, notre modèle de développement nous a menés à la plus grande crise sanitaire, économique et sociale que nous ayons jamais traversée. Nous avons le devoir de transformer en profondeur notre économie afin qu’elle protège enfin le vivant et garantisse enfin l’égalité sociale. L’ONU nous alerte: nous ne pouvons pas rater l’occasion de ces plans de relance pour sauver le climat. C’est une possibilité technique, c’est une nécessité éthique, c’est un impératif vital. Nous mobilisons aujourd’hui plus d’argent que nous ne l’avions jamais fait par le passé et que nous ne l’avions prévu pour financer le pacte vert européen. Alors soyons sérieux et exigeons de consacrer au moins 50 % de ces plans de relance au climat: le minimum pour financer le pacte vert, selon les estimations de la Commission européenne. Alors soyons inflexibles et exigeons d’exclure de ces plans de relance tout projet climaticide comme les aéroports, les fossiles ou le nucléaire. Soyons réalistes, cessons d’accompagner les entreprises qui persistent à dépasser les limites planétaires. Enfin, je le répète, ces plans de relance ne peuvent bénéficier aux plus riches et seulement aux plus riches. Nous devons garantir un impact positif de ces fonds investis sur les 10 % les plus pauvres de nos sociétés.
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Chris MacManus
Political group: The Left
Country: Austria
Language: EN

Madam President, it is imperative that the spending of Ireland’s modest share of the recovery fund is done in maximum partnership with regions, and especially my own, the North and Western Regional Assembly. Post-Brexit, the distance from Galway, the largest western city in Ireland, to Brest, the nearest point in any other EU State, is over 800 kilometres. Our region has actually slipped in terms of being a developed region to one of being in transition. It begs the question: in transition to what? It is appalling that this has come to pass, but it highlights deep structural and investment issues in the North-West and Border area of the Irish State, further exacerbated by Brexit. The status quo cannot remain. Our government needs to listen. Ireland’s recovery funding needs to be concentrated into the North and West region, and an investment plan with the RRF structural funds and regional aid put in place for that part of Ireland.
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Monika Hohlmeier
Political group: PPE
Country: Poland
Language: DE

Frau Präsidentin, Herr Kommissar, liebe Kolleginnen und Kollegen! Das Partnerschaftsprinzip sorgt dafür, dass im Rahmen der Kohäsionspolitik Partner aller Ebenen im Programmplanungsverfahren eingebunden werden sollten. Ich halte es für außerordentlich wichtig, dass dieses Prinzip tatsächlich angewandt wird und dass die Mittel des RRF nicht nur einigen wenigen oder gar oligarchischen Strukturen zugutekommen, sondern dass sie der Breite der Wirtschaft, der Breite der Menschen zugutekommen, damit wir uns aus den entsprechend schwierigen Zeiten, die wir derzeit in Corona haben, wieder befreien können und mit wirtschaftlichem Aufbau nach vorne gehen können. Ich halte es für außerordentlich wichtig, dass wir auch als Parlament die Möglichkeit erhalten, möglichst rasch einsehen zu können, welche Pläne die Mitgliedstaaten tatsächlich haben bzw. wofür das Geld dann konkret ausgegeben wird, und sehr, sehr rasch auch digital erfahren, wofür es ausgegeben worden ist, wer die Gelder empfangen hat und wohin es gegangen ist. Denn Transparenz ist ein wichtiges Prinzip, das wir auch hier gelten lassen müssen. Der Widerstand von einigen Seiten hier ist hinderlich.
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Jonás Fernández
Political group: S-D
Country: Ireland
Language: ES

Señora presidenta, señor vicepresidente ejecutivo, tenemos hoy aquí un debate que podríamos decir que es preliminar: las instituciones de la Unión cumplieron en tiempo y forma la negociación del Reglamento por el que se establece el Mecanismo de Recuperación y Resiliencia, y en estos momentos los Estados miembros están desarrollando los correspondientes planes nacionales. Me uno desde aquí a la petición que hacía mi compañero el señor Mureşan, del Partido Popular Europeo, al solicitar a los Parlamentos nacionales una rápida aprobación de la Decisión sobre los recursos propios, que tanto necesitamos para conformar ese programa de inversión. Y me gustaría también hacer referencia al plan español, aunque yo intento no hablar aquí de asuntos nacionales: ni cuando mi partido estaba en la oposición, ni ahora que está en el Gobierno. La semana pasada pregunté en la Comisión de Asuntos Económicos y Monetarios al vicepresidente ejecutivo Dombrovskis y al comisario Gentiloni sobre ese plan, del cual dijeron que avanzaba razonablemente y que continuaban los contactos. Por lo tanto, yo pido desde aquí a sus señorías Garicano y Montserrat que, por favor, no cooperen desde esta Cámara con aquellos que cuestionan la democracia en nuestro país.
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Alexandra Geese
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Frau Präsidentin, Herr Vizepräsident, sehr verehrte Damen und Herren! 23 von 27 Staats- und Regierungschefs der EU sind Männer, und auch 23 von 27 Wirtschaftsministern sind Männer. Das ist eine Männerquote von sage und schreibe 85 %. Und wie man auf Englisch so schön sagt: When you’re not at the table, you’re probably on the menu. Und genau das ist hier passiert: In der Covid-Krise sitzen die Frauen nicht mit am Tisch, sondern zahlen den höchsten Preis – auf dem Arbeitsmarkt und mit der zusätzlichen unbezahlten Sorgearbeit. Aber NextGenerationEU hat sie vergessen, denn dort fließt ein Großteil der Mittel in genau die Branchen, in denen der Männeranteil ungefähr so hoch ist wie unter unseren Wirtschaftsministern – so ein Zufall.  Umso wichtiger ist jetzt endlich eine intensive Konsultation der Frauen in den Mitgliedstaaten. NGOs und Kommunen, aber auch Frauenrechtsorganisationen, Gleichstellungsexpertinnen und vor allem die Vertreterinnen der  Das, Herr Vizepräsident, muss diese Konsultation, muss die Kommission jetzt einfordern und sicherstellen, denn diesen Frauen müssen wir endlich zuhören.
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Lídia Pereira
Political group: PPE
Country: Finland
Language: PT

Senhora Presidente, os planos nacionais de recuperação e resiliência são um pilar do relançamento da economia europeia. A recessão económica de 2020 e este primeiro trimestre de 2021, marcado pelos confinamentos, pedem respostas urgentes. É preciso apresentar, discutir, aprovar rapidamente os planos para que os fundos cheguem, o quanto antes, à economia real. Às empresas que geram riqueza, criam valor e multiplicam o emprego e às famílias que se encontram desprotegidas e sem rendimento.  Por isso, e para que se cumpra verdadeiramente o princípio da parceria com os Estados e a sociedade civil, precisamos de transparência. Transparência no processo de decisão, mas também ao longo de toda a execução, pois só com um acesso integral à informação podemos garantir que as empresas acedem às oportunidades e que os cidadãos podem avaliar os resultados. E o resultado que queremos é o crescimento económico e a geração de emprego.  Se, por um lado, não podemos desperdiçar recursos ou transigir em fraudes ou corrupção, por outro, não podemos aceitar a concentração no Estado dos fundos que pertencem aos europeus, às pessoas. É fundamental que o dinheiro seja investido na economia e não sirva para financiar os gastos das administrações públicas ou para alimentar instrumentos de propaganda dos governos.
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Rovana Plumb
Political group: S-D
Country: Poland
Language: RO

Doamna președintă, nimic nu poate fi mai adevărat în contextul actual decât respectarea principiului parteneriatului și al transparenței în pregătirea planurilor naționale de reziliență și redresare. Transparența, buna guvernare și consultarea publică reprezintă cheia pentru asigurarea planurilor naționale durabile. Este vorba, până la urmă, de bani europeni care trebuie să fie în beneficiul tuturor celor care au suferit în urma acestei crize.  Pentru noi, social-democrații români, trei elemente sunt esențiale: reflectarea obiectivelor prin investiții în educație, sănătate, mediu și digitalizare, reducerea decalajelor regionale și respectarea procesului de consultare a autorităților locale, regionale, a partenerilor sociali și prezentarea planului în fața Parlamentului.  To conclude, Romania fully supports the EU own resources decision.  We are not seeking to block anyone but we, as Social Democrats, call for transparency and democratic control over the national plan.  This is not an electoral programme, but a plan for our citizens!
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Jordi Solé
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Bulgaria
Language: EN

Madam President, as we are entering the final phase of the preparation of the recovery plans, we need to emphasise once again the need to involve regional and local governments in putting them together. It’s indeed an obligation established in the regulation. However, we know that this consultation is not taking place on a general basis. So we expect the Commission to make sure that sub-state governments are being heard and having their say, not only in the preparation phase of the recovery plans but also in their implementation. Because sub-state authorities, especially those regional governments with significant powers, know better than anyone else the needs of the local economies, businesses and citizens, and many of them have a long and successful experience in managing EU funds and programmes. Some of them, like the Catalan Government, even propose their own ambitious plans. So, ensuring a shared governance of the recovery plans will allow for more efficiency and better results.
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Anna-Michelle Asimakopoulou
Political group: PPE
Country: Greece
Language: EL

Κυρία Πρόεδρε, κύριε Αντιπρόεδρε της Ευρωπαϊκής Επιτροπής, όπως έχει πει ο πρωθυπουργός της Ελλάδας, ο κ. Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης, η απόφαση για το Ταμείο Ανάκαμψης είναι ιστορική. Το Ταμείο Ανάκαμψης αποτελεί ένα συλλογικό τείχος προστασίας και αλληλεγγύης για τις χώρες της Ευρώπης που χρειάζονται επανεκκίνηση στην οικονομία τους και μια ανάσα για τους εθνικούς προϋπολογισμούς λόγω των επιπτώσεων της πανδημίας. Μένει πλέον να περάσουμε από τη θεωρία στην πράξη, και αυτό που θα μετρήσει καταλυτικά στη διαδικασία αναστροφής της ύφεσης σε ανάπτυξη θα είναι ο παράγοντας του χρόνου. Η επίσπευση δηλαδή της εκταμίευσης, ώστε τα χρήματα άμεσα να διατεθούν στην πραγματική οικονομία, αναχαιτίζοντας κύματα λουκέτων στις επιχειρήσεις και νέων ανέργων. Η Ελλάδα ήδη έχει καταθέσει στην Ευρωπαϊκή Επιτροπή το δικό της εθνικό σχέδιο για την αξιοποίηση του Ταμείου Ανάκαμψης και έχει λάβει εξαιρετικές κριτικές. Δεν συμφέρει κανένα κράτος μέλος να καθυστερεί. Η Επιτροπή από την πλευρά της δεν πρέπει να αγγυλωθεί σε δυσθεώρητες γραφειοκρατικές διαδικασίες και εμπόδια.  Η κινητήρια δύναμη της οικονομίας είναι η ψυχολογία της αγοράς και, για να αναστραφεί το κακό κλίμα, θα πρέπει να δοθεί έγκαιρα μια γενναία οικονομική ενίσχυση. Κύριε Dombrovskis, βρισκόμαστε σε ένα κρίσιμο σημείο καμπής, εξερχόμαστε σταδιακά από την πανδημική κρίση, αλλά ρισκάρουμε να εισέλθουμε σε ένα νέο αδιέξοδο την επόμενη κιόλας μέρα, αν δεν κινηθούμε αποφασιστικά και με ταχύτητα. Η ταχύτητα στην εκταμίευση πόρων από το Ταμείο Ανάκαμψης είναι το κλειδί για να πετύχει τους στόχους για τους οποίους σχεδιάστηκε.
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Rosa D'Amato
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Czechia
Language: IT

Signora Presidente, onorevoli colleghi, signor Commissario, la verità è che nella preparazione dei piani di ripresa e resilienza i territori non sono stati né coinvolti né consultati dagli Stati membri. Eppure l'articolo 15 del regolamento prevede una relazione sul processo di consultazione di comuni, regioni, società civile, organizzazioni giovanili. Che piani saranno e che risultati daranno senza gli input degli  Inoltre in alcuni paesi, e penso al mio, c'è il rischio che i piani di ripresa non riflettano le esigenze delle regioni meno sviluppate, come il Mezzogiorno. Quelle risorse in più, ottenute per la grave situazione economica e sociale in cui versa il Sud devono essere ad esso destinate. E che dire della riscrizione del piano di ripresa, affidato a società di consulenza americane come la McKinsey? Il coinvolgimento di aziende di consulenza e di multinazionali è sicuro, è compatibile con gli interessi dei cittadini europei? Noi crediamo di no. Cosa pensa la Commissione?
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Krzysztof Hetman
Political group: PPE
Country: Netherlands
Language: PL

Pani Przewodnicząca! Panie Przewodniczący! Unia Europejska przeżywa obecnie ogromny kryzys, zaś straty w gospodarce są gigantyczne. Kryzys to jednak przede wszystkim tragedia milionów pojedynczych Europejczyków, którzy często z dnia na dzień pozbawieni zostali pracy lub możliwości prowadzenia swoich biznesów. Cieszę się z odpowiedzi Unii Europejskiej i stworzenia funduszu odbudowy. Aby ten fundusz jednak został skutecznie wykorzystany i trafił tam, gdzie jest najbardziej potrzebny i gdzie wniesie największą wartość dodaną, krajowe plany odbudowy muszą być przygotowywane w oparciu o rzetelne, przejrzyste i szeroko zakrojone konsultacje społeczne.  Fundusz ten jest zobowiązaniem wobec naszych dzieci i wnuków. W końcu to one będą go spłacać. Musimy zostawić im silną, zdrową i odporną gospodarkę. Jednocześnie musimy pozostawić im może coś cenniejszego: lekcję solidarności i jedności, o których tak często w tej Sali się mówi. Jedności i solidarności z najbardziej poszkodowanymi sektorami: sektorem turystycznym, gastronomicznym, targowym, eventowym, sektorem kultury – długo mógłbym wymieniać. Ci ludzie nie mają dzisiaj żadnej zdolności inwestycyjnej i tylko ograniczone możliwości sięgnięcia po tak skonstruowane w funduszu odbudowy i zapisane w krajowych planach odbudowy środki. Jedyne, co mają, to długi i brak zdolności kredytowej.  Często słyszę w instytucjach unijnych slogan: „Aby nikt nie został z tyłu”. So no one is left behind.  Mam nadzieję, że okaże się, że było to prawdziwe przesłanie, a nie tylko zgrabny, ale jednak slogan.
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Ciarán Cuffe
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Ireland
Language: EN

Madam President, I would say to the Executive Vice—President that local and regional authorities are on the front line when it comes to recovery from COVID. So let’s ensure that these local and regional voices are heard as we rebuild. They have the wisdom and the knowledge to do things right. It has to be a bottom—up as well as a top—down recovery. In Ireland, the government asked the public for their views, and that is informing the recovery plans. This hasn’t been the case in every country in Europe.  Yet, across Europe, we can see local and regional authorities are ready. They are ready to build A—rated homes. They’re ready to roll out walking and cycling infrastructure and public transport. They’re ready to help communities with the digital transformation. National governments must listen. Local and regional authorities are ready to fast track a green and digital recovery to the crisis. We must respect their views.
Debate: Respecting the partnership principle in the preparation and implementation of national recovery and resilience plans, and ensuring good governance of the spending
Date: THURSDAY, 11 MARCH 2021
Speaker: Niklas Nienaß
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Bulgaria
Language: EN

Madam President, dear colleagues, Mr Dombrovskis for the Commission, by the way we are missing the Council. It’s very sad that when we talk about them that they’re not here. When we talk about the partnership principle, we acknowledge that we politicians in Brussels, but also the politicians and the capitals, don’t know everything and they don’t know how to recover every aspect of the regional economy. Therefore, we involve the regions in the question of how to ensure that the recovery really belongs to the people, how we ensure that the recovery facilitates matters in every region of Europe. Then the question is, why aren’t we using it? Why isn’t it used for this recovery as well?  This endangers the whole recovery project because it makes it possible that funding goes into fraud, but it also makes it possible that we lock in regions into useless investment programmes that the people on the ground don’t want.  So please, to the Commission, you need to ensure that the that the partnership principle is valued, that the democratisation of this project, of this recovery programme is valued, and you need to ensure that no plan comes through that doesn’t value the partnership principle.