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Debate: System of own resources of the European Union
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Dimitrios Papadimoulis
Political group: The Left
Country: France
Language: EL

Για αυτό στηρίζουμε την πρόταση της Επιτροπής ως Κοινοβούλιο και ζητούμε συγκεκριμενοποιήσεις και βελτιώσεις και ασκούμε δριμεία κριτική στο απόν Συμβούλιο, το οποίο βραδυπορεί και δεν τιμά την υπογραφή του στη διοργανική συμφωνία. Το Ευρωπαϊκό Κοινοβούλιο, κύριε Hahn, ζητά και το επόμενο βήμα για τους ιδίους πόρους να είναι ακόμη πιο φιλόδοξο, γιατί έτσι μπορούμε να ξεπεράσουμε και την πάγια αντίθεση μεταξύ καθαρών εισφορέων και καθαρών ληπτών που κρατά τον προϋπολογισμό της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης στο εξαιρετικά χαμηλό ποσοστό του 1% του ευρωπαϊκού ΑΕΠ.  Και περιμένουμε από εσάς, επιτέλους, να φέρετε και μια δραστική πρόταση για την φορολόγηση του μεγάλου πλούτου. Δεν είναι δυνατόν η Ευρωπαϊκή Ένωση, που πρωτοπόρησε για την αντιμετώπιση της κλιματικής αλλαγής, να μην πρωτοπορήσει και σε αυτό το θέμα, σε μια περίοδο που αυξάνονται επικίνδυνα οι κοινωνικές και οι φορολογικές ανισότητες.
Debate: System of own resources of the European Union
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Marcel de Graaff
Political group: NI
Country: France
Language: NL

Voorzitter,  commissaris, de Europese Commissie wil naast de lidstaten ook belasting kunnen heffen. Belasting die bedrijven op burgers afwentelen. Wat doet de Commissie met dit geld? Het geeft dit geld aan de grote farmaceutische bedrijven in ondoorzichtige miljardendeals waar de schijn van belangenverstrengeling vanaf druipt. Het geeft dit geld aan stichtingen die mensensmokkelaars betalen om migranten illegaal binnen te halen. En het geeft dit geld aan Oekraïne waar het verdwijnt in de zakken van corrupte zakenlieden en politici, tot in de Verenigde Staten toe! Want
Debate: System of own resources of the European Union
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Margarida Marques
Political group: S-D
Country: Cyprus
Language: PT

Senhor Presidente, Senhor Comissário, ontem debatemos aqui a estratégia de constituição do  Sem novos recursos próprios o  Há um acordo interinstitucional vinculativo. Da Comissão, aguardamos a solução para a taxa sobre o digital e a proposta para a criação da taxa sobre as transações financeiras. Do Conselho, que os aprove no calendário necessário, desde já aprovando o Regime de Comércio de Licenças de Emissão e o Mecanismo de Ajustamento Carbónico Fronteiriço como novos recursos próprios do orçamento da União Europeia. Estaremos, assim, a fortalecer a arquitetura da União Europeia e a assegurar que as novas prioridades e ações de emergência da União Europeia não são financiadas, em momento nenhum, nem à custa dos atuais programas, nem das políticas europeias, nem das próximas gerações.
Debate: System of own resources of the European Union
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Claudia Gamon
Political group: Renew
Country: Germany
Language: DE

Herr Präsident! Warum braucht die Europäische Union unbedingt mehr Eigenmittel, mehr eigene budgetäre Quellen? Weil sie mehr Freiraum schaffen, weil sie uns krisenfest machen. Dass die Europäische Union für wesentliche budgetäre Entscheidungen in der Vergangenheit de facto fast vollkommen abhängig vom Willen der Mitgliedstaaten war, war ein Konstruktionsfehler. Und wer jetzt hier behauptet, dass mögliche Quellen, wie der Emissionshandel, Unternehmen belasten würden, der kann auch endlich anfangen, zu Hause mal die Hausaufgaben zu erledigen, die eigenen Steuersysteme zu durchforsten und unnötige Belastungen für Unternehmerinnen und Unternehmer und Bürgerinnen und Bürger abzubauen. Wir übernehmen Verantwortung für das Klima. Wir übernehmen Verantwortung für eine nachhaltige Wirtschaft der Zukunft in Europa. Und wir arbeiten jetzt endlich daran, der Union mehr Freiheit zu geben, wesentliche Investitionsentscheidungen für die Zukunft ihrer Bürgerinnen und Bürger selbständiger und selbstbestimmter treffen zu können.
Debate: System of own resources of the European Union
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: France Jamet
Political group: ID
Country: Poland
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, passer d’un budget de 1 % du PIB de la zone euro à 10 % démontre une seule chose: l’Union européenne veut plus de pouvoir. Et pour y parvenir, elle dépossède les États membres de la maîtrise de l’impôt prélevé sur nos populations et nos entreprises et, plus grave encore, sur nos choix stratégiques énergétiques. J’en veux pour preuve la confirmation hier, par les commissaires Dombrovskis et Gentiloni, que le plan REPowerEU ne financerait pas la restauration de notre parc nucléaire français. Cela a au moins le mérite d’être clair, après toutes ces semaines de silence ou d’ambiguïtés entretenues de la gauche à la droite. Mais en pleine crise énergétique et alors que cela fait plus de 50 ans que les Français finançaient à juste titre une filière d’excellence, on les en prive au moment où ils en ont le plus besoin. Notre devoir étant de prioriser l’intérêt général de nos compatriotes, nous ne validons ni la hausse de vos ressources ni votre politique, qui se font contre la France et les Français.
Debate: System of own resources of the European Union
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Zbigniew Kuźmiuk
Political group: ECR
Country: Belgium
Language: PL

Panie Przewodniczący! Panie Komisarzu! Zgodnie z art. 311 Traktatu o funkcjonowaniu Unii Europejskiej te nowe obciążenia podatkowe powinny sprawiedliwie rozkładać ciężary pomiędzy poszczególne kraje członkowskie. W przypadku tych nowych zasobów tak nie jest. Mamy twarde dane dotyczące opłaty od nieprzetworzonego plastiku. W przypadku mojego kraju, Polski, to jest obciążenie wynoszące 8 % całości wpływów. Podczas gdy dochody z DNB, to jest 3 %, a więc to jest trzykrotnie więcej niż dotychczasowa składka. Podobnie jest w przypadku wpływów z ETS-u, dwa i pół raza więcej, w przypadku CBAM-u dwa razy więcej. To jest skrajnie niesprawiedliwe. I druga poważna wątpliwość. Otóż nowe dochody są głównie oparte na tych opłatach środowiskowych, a więc one pomniejszają możliwości finansowania celów klimatyczno-energetycznych dla krajów członkowskich, które mają z tym największy problem. Takich jak mój kraj, Polska. W tej sytuacji zabieranie tych środków, uderza w cele klimatyczne Unii. To jest pozbawione sensu.
Debate: System of own resources of the European Union
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Aurore Lalucq
Political group: S-D
Country: France
Language: FR

Monsieur le Président, Monsieur le Commissaire, chers collègues, ces dernières années, on a vu un certain nombre de mots tabous réémerger dans le débat politique et industriel: sortie du gaz, État-providence, fiscalité. Et j’aimerais qu’on réhabilite, une fois pour toutes ensemble, un autre mot, celui de politique budgétaire et celui de  En économie, on n’a pas quinze politiques possibles, on en a deux: la politique monétaire et la politique budgétaire. Et nous avons été assez créatifs au niveau européen pour faire quelque chose qui n’existe nulle part ailleurs et surtout pas en économie: faire une monnaie sans budget. Cela ne fonctionne pas d’un point de vue macroéconomique et pas plus du point de vue de la solidarité. La question qui se pose à nous aujourd’hui est de savoir si on va décider un jour ou pas de sortir de cet obscurantisme économique, si on va un jour ou pas décider de dépasser les égoïsmes nationaux pour avoir un budget, un vrai, des ressources propres, des vraies, avec une fiscalité – peu importe: pilier I,
Debate: System of own resources of the European Union
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Johannes Hahn
Language: EN

The second set of new own resources would complement the first. It aims at generating sufficient revenue for the repayment of NGEU borrowing. As you know, the institutional agreement names two possible contributions for this second basket of resources, one linked to the corporate sector and one linked to the financial sector. But there are also other possibilities like a digital levy, for instance.  In the field of corporate taxation, the Commission intends to come forward with a proposal for a single set of tax rules for doing business in Europe. This could form the basis of an own resource linked to the corporate sector. NGEU repayment is not a choice, but an obligation which we have towards investors and to taxpayers. It’s a test of unity and credibility of the union to repay our debts. And this unity will be closely watched by the outside world. Our joint effort, therefore, should be to negotiate and agree a balanced package of new own resources. And again, it’s something which is very much linked to the credibility of us, to the capital markets, which are now very important for us more than ever in order to raise the necessary amounts to support our citizens.
Debate: System of own resources of the European Union
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Valérie Hayer
Country: Czechia
Language: FR

Ce que je retiens de nos échanges aujourd’hui, c’est quand même que le Parlement est uni, qu’il est uni et qu’il ne cédera rien à ceux qui voudraient qu’on rebrousse chemin sur les ressources propres, que ce soit en utilisant les recettes pour d’autres objectifs ou bien en empêchant purement et simplement la mise en place de ces instruments. Je voudrais citer par exemple Viktor Orbán, qui continue à bloquer l’accord sur la taxation des multinationales par pur chantage politique, alors même que les Hongrois demandent eux aussi plus de justice fiscale. Alors oui, il est justifié que les droits à polluer achetés par les grandes industries sur le marché européen reviennent à l’Europe et qu’en conséquence cet argent vienne rembourser l’emprunt qui a permis à nos industriels de ne pas mettre la clé sous la porte, mais aussi de décarboner leur production. Alors oui, il est justifié qu’ArcelorMittal paie des droits à polluer sur l’acier ultra carboné qu’il importe d’Inde pour le revendre chez nous et qu’en conséquence cet argent permette de rembourser l’emprunt qui a permis de maintenir la demande européenne sur le marché mondial. Et oui, il est justifié de faire contribuer les grandes multinationales qui prospèrent grâce à notre marché intérieur mais qui ne paient pas leur juste part d’impôts aujourd’hui et qu’en conséquence, là encore, cet argent rembourse l’emprunt qui a maintenu la consommation en Europe et qui, de ce fait, a protégé leurs activités. Alors, chers collègues, soyons fermes, soyons déterminés, allons jusqu’au bout. Et maintenons la pression chaque jour, dans chaque négociation, jusqu’à ce que ces ressources propres soient sur pied. Parce que rien, aucune règle d’unanimité, aucune réserve idéologique ne doit nous arrêter dans cette quête de plus de justice fiscale et de plus de justice sociale.
Debate: System of own resources of the European Union
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: José Manuel Fernandes
Country: Ireland
Language: PT

Por outro lado, ter um orçamento que invista de forma a que haja autonomia na União Europeia, para darmos futuro aos cidadãos da União Europeia. E, nesse sentido, se não fizermos os investimentos nestes projetos comuns, como demonstra a falta da União da energia, nós teremos e pagaremos um preço muito alto.  Fica aqui um compromisso: o Parlamento Europeu, eu e a Colega Valérie Hayer, já estamos a trabalhar em propostas para um novo pacote e para dar sugestões à Comissão. A Comissão que venha com a segunda fase e o segundo pacote, também em termos daquilo que deve ser o roteiro para os recursos próprios. Agora falta o Conselho, que tem de decidir por unanimidade. Está nas mãos do Conselho fazer avançar a União Europeia. E eu espero que o Conselho, em vez de governantes, e por uma vez, também tenha líderes. A União Europeia bem precisa deles.
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Margarida Marques
Political group: S-D
Country: Cyprus
Language: PT

Senhor Presidente, Senhor Vice-Presidente da Comissão, Senhor Comissário, eu gostaria de destacar que as orientações da Comissão Europeia para a revisão das regras de governação económica, do nosso ponto de vista, vão na boa direção. Têm em conta uma parte significativa dos princípios políticos aprovados por este Parlamento. Mas precisam de mais ambição e precisamos de conhecer os detalhes.  A minha pergunta é a seguinte: com o
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Valdis Dombrovskis
Language: EN

Orientations, as we put them forward, are obviously already taking into account feedback we were receiving from Member States, from the European Parliament, from others during quite a long period of discussions. As you know, we launched this process already in February 2020 as there was some suspension during the COVID-19 pandemic, but nevertheless we had quite extensive discussions. Correspondingly, what we are putting forward is already, in a sense, factoring in those discussions and narrowing them down because we need to get more concrete on where we actually want to go with this review of fiscal rules.  You mentioned the question of additional common fiscal capacity. Well, we were clear in those orientations that here we are focusing on fiscal rules. So we are not opening another very – as we know – broad and also very controversial discussion on this common fiscal capacity. So here, indeed, it’s about how the future of governance framework could look like.
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Margarida Marques
Political group: S-D
Country: Cyprus
Language: PT

Senhor Presidente, na proposta de revisão do Quadro Financeiro Plurianual, no relatório de iniciativa que o Parlamento Europeu já aprovou na Comissão de Orçamentos, nós propomos a criação de um fundo para a soberania, para a soberania estratégica da União Europeia, ideia que, aliás, a Presidente Ursula von der Leyen já defendeu aqui no seu discurso sobre o Estado da União.  Gostaria de saber qual é a abertura da Comissão para apoiar a constituição deste fundo, que será, necessariamente, um instrumento fundamental para o apoio ao investimento na União Europeia?
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Valdis Dombrovskis
Language: EN

So what I’m basically emphasising is that we are not making those discussions part of the discussions of our fiscal and macroeconomic governance framework because that’s already, I would say, a complicated and complex enough exercise.  You mentioned, for example, specifically NextGenerationEU. We remember that a number of Member States agreed on the NextGenerationEU explicitly on the condition that this is a one-off instrument. But we all know also that the debate on common, for example, euro area fiscal capacity predates NextGenerationEU, and we do not expect that this debate will disappear, but we are just emphasising that it is not part of this particular exercise.
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Eva Maria Poptcheva
Political group: Renew
Language: EN

The Commission communication indeed proposes to improve the sanctions regime, which I think makes sense. It improves the corrective arm of the fiscal framework, so basically the sticks. But I’m wondering, what are the carrots you’re proposing or having in mind to ensure greater compliance with the rules? Because conditional access to already—accessible funds like the structural funds doesn’t seem very compelling to me as carrots.
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Paolo Gentiloni
Language: EN

In my view, indeed, the effort we made with these proposals is an effort to strike a balance. So in this case, we can also say a balance also between sticks and carrots. The balance is on a more simplified mechanism where the rules are more transparent. We have a simpler single indicator of the evolution, which is based on the net primary expenditure. Stronger ownership from Member States, because Member States are the ones proposing their plans of reduction of debt and investments. The possibility to use the investments in the common priorities of the Union to have an even more gradual path of reduction of the debt and at the same time having more gradual, more realistic, rules, more capable to incentivise investments to have them also more enforced. This enforcement is not based on enlarging the sanctions but paradoxically, it is based on making the sanctions lighter because lighter sanctions are possibly also sanctions that we can really enforce.
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Eva Maria Poptcheva
Political group: Renew
Language: EN

You mentioned the individual ownership of the Member States that you tried to focus more on in the proposal. I’m wondering, in this regard, do you think that this should also involve a greater role for national independent fiscal institutions?
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Irene Tinagli
Political group: S-D
Country: Slovenia
Language: EN

I want to go back on the investment issue and in particular on the national investments. I think this proposal is very positive, very good in a way that tries to find a better balance between the stability and the growth, and investments – national investments – are crucial to that end. The only thing that I wonder, in the legislative proposal that I’m confident will be presented very soon, I think that we will need a little bit more clarification on some aspects of these national investments: how they will be treated, which kind of investments, which conditions. I mean, I would like the Commission to elaborate a little bit more and to share with us some clarification on this matter.
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Valdis Dombrovskis
Language: EN

So it’s about finding the right balance. So one element in our intentions is about giving more space or allowing Member States to have more gradual debt-adjustment trajectories if they are performing, growth enhancing and fiscal sustainability, supporting reforms and investments.  So those are the two elements, that’s the investments, which we want be supportive of growth and fiscal sustainability, and also responding to common European priorities and obviously also, of course, country-specific challenges. So we outline these elements as ones which we will take into account when deciding whether to allow Member States to have a more gradual debt-adjustment trajectory.
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Irene Tinagli
Political group: S-D
Country: Slovenia
Language: EN

Let me be a little bit more specific. In the communication of 2015, the Commission provides a clear and specific region for certain investments, you know, that takes into account not only compliance with macroeconomic criteria, but also the type of investment. That’s what I wanted to look into, with particular reference, but of course not limited to co-financed investments that are part of European projects. I think this is an important part. I would like to have clarification. Are you considering proposing something similar in the new governance as well? Because I think in the upcoming years, that would be very, very important and very valuable.
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Valdis Dombrovskis
Language: EN

So the document which we put forward provides broad orientations. That’s exactly what we want now – to get feedback, to get maybe some questions, which can lead to some clarifications, because then, based on those orientations and based on the feedback which we will be getting, we will be putting already concrete proposals and we consider it’s likely legislative proposals will go out. So here, in a sense, with the orientations, we have some leeway for discussion and not everything is detailed to the last point, to the last detail because we are narrowing down the discussion with the orientations, but we are not quite there yet at exact concrete proposals.
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Rosa D'Amato
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Czechia
Language: IT

Signor Commissario, noi temiamo che la riforma del quadro di governance economica, proposta dalla Commissione, non sia sufficiente ad affrontare proprio i tempi di crisi sociale ed economica che stiamo vivendo. I territori, il Comitato delle regioni, ma anche questo stesso Parlamento hanno chiesto che fosse introdotta una  Poi sul sociale, dove sono gli stimoli necessari a massicci programmi di welfare sociale o investimenti nei servizi pubblici che ormai sono sottofinanziati da anni? Penso alla sanità, penso all'istruzione. Infine, dov'è la risposta fattuale al gap di investimenti e al divario territoriale, che è crescente all'interno delle regioni dell'Europa, ma all'interno delle stesse nazioni? Penso al Mezzogiorno d'Italia.
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Paolo Gentiloni
Language: EN

Yesterday, in a discussion with the ECON and BUDG Committees, I said it is not a golden rule it is a timing rule, a time advantage rule. The fact is that we are allowing Member States that are choosing to invest in our common priorities to have more time for the gradual reduction of their debt. So it is again a fiscal tool different from the golden rule but with the same scope, more or less. Then we have to discuss which investments, which was also the discussion addressed by Ms Tinagli and Commissioner Dombrovskis.
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Rosa D'Amato
Political group: Verts/ALE
Country: Czechia
Language: IT

Signor Commissario, la proposta non tiene conto dei costi incalcolabili dell'inazione climatica. Quanto costa agli Stati membri rimandare di anno in anno gli investimenti necessari per fronteggiare la crisi climatica? Quanto costa non investire contro, ad esempio, il dissesto idrogeologico, il rifacimento delle reti idriche? È evidente: i costi per riparare i danni invece che prevenirli sono molto più alti. Quindi, Commissario, c'è un'intenzione da parte della Commissione di spingere verso questo tipo di investimenti?
Debate: Question Time  - Future legislative reform of the Economic Governance Framework in times of social and economic crisis
Date: TUESDAY, 22 NOVEMBER 2022
Speaker: Paolo Gentiloni
Language: EN

The same is, of course, at a different level, through our fiscal rules because we are encouraging, incentivising, giving fiscal advantage to Member States that will choose to give priority to investments. Which investments? For sure, the investments on green, on digital, on social resilience. And then I am sure that in the discussion with stakeholders and especially with Member States, we will also have a discussion on other investments. We already had some proposals coming from Member States. But for sure, our twin priorities will be there and, again, considering the cost of not acting is absolutely necessary.