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Amendment 15 José Gusmão, , Petros Kokkalis, Malin Björk, Ruiz, , on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Motion for a resolution B9-0158/2020 PPE, S&D, Renew, Verts/ALE, ECR New multiannual financial framework, own resources and the recovery plan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 e (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

23e. Insists that the recovery plan and revised MFF proposal safeguard the increased funding allocated to gender equality, women’s rights including SRHR, human rights and civil society organisations, to ensure continuity of programmes and address the disproportionate impact the crisis will have on women, girls and marginalised groups; highlights that the EU must include SRHR in its humanitarian and development response to the COVID-19 pandemic and underlines that it is crucial that donors do not reallocate funding that was already allocated to SRHR to other priorities related to the COVID-19 response;

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Amendment 16 José Gusmão, Petros Kokkalis, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Manuel Bompard, Manon Aubry on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Motion for a resolution B9-0158/2020 PPE, S&D, Renew, Verts/ALE, ECR New multiannual financial framework, own resources and the recovery plan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 f (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

23f. Urges the ECB to cancel Member States’ debts to the extent of those states’ expenditures on dealing with the COVID- 19 health and economic crisis; urges the EU to launch a revision of the treaties, at least focused on monetary policy, in order to allow the ECB to lend money directly to Member States and the EU and to buy perpetual debt bonds with zero interest directly from Member States; calls for the renegotiation of the terms, maturities, interest and amounts of public debt, allowing the reorientation of resources from debt servicing to the urgent economic and social needs in the Member States; calls on the Commission to ensure that aggravated inequalities and asymmetric public debt caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are addressed by means of concrete, non-austerity measures, including grants with zero interest, and the mutualisation and restructuring of new debt;

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Amendment 17 José Gusmão, Petros Kokkalis, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Manuel Bompard, Manon Aubry on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Motion for a resolution B9-0158/2020 PPE, S&D, Renew, Verts/ALE, ECR New multiannual financial framework, own resources and the recovery plan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

9a. Is highly concerned about the significant loss of public revenue that is due to tax avoidance; considers it pivotal that companies should be excluded from state financial assistance schemes if they artificially shift their profits to tax havens and that they should publish their country-by-country reporting if they receive financial support from Member States;

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Amendment 18 Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Petros Kokkalis, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Manuel Bompard, Manon Aubry on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Motion for a resolution B9-0158/2020 PPE, S&D, Renew, Verts/ALE, ECR New multiannual financial framework, own resources and the recovery plan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

9b. Stresses that workers should not, under any circumstances, pay for this crisis, and therefore calls on the EU institutions and Member States to fund the recovery through taxes that target both big multinational companies and the wealthiest individuals, to propose an ambitious wealth tax, and to establish an effective minimum corporate income tax rate of 25 %, with higher rates for the most profitable multinational companies, especially those in the financial sector that have profited from short-term and speculative transactions;

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Amendment 19 José Gusmão, Petros Kokkalis, Manuel Bompard, Manon Aubry on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Motion for a resolution B9-0158/2020 PPE, S&D, Renew, Verts/ALE, ECR New multiannual financial framework, own resources and the recovery plan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 9 c (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

9c. Underlines the need to relocate production and industry to Europe; calls, therefore, for a public investment plan for strategic sectors, for the introduction of real filtering of foreign investment in strategic sectors, and for higher rates of taxation on goods that are produced under conditions that do not comply with ILO standards and conventions or with ecological standards;

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Amendment 20 José Gusmão, Petros Kokkalis, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Manuel Bompard, Manon Aubry on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Motion for a resolution B9-0158/2020 PPE, S&D, Renew, Verts/ALE, ECR New multiannual financial framework, own resources and the recovery plan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 21 b (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

21b. Stresses that recovery funds and programmes must aim to strengthen the EU’s social pillar and to support and finance strategic sectors, especially those sectors that are essential to the functioning of life: health, care of the elderly and/or dependent persons, industry, transport and the primary sector (agriculture, fisheries and livestock); underlines that all funds from the common agricultural policy should be maintained and that the Community preference for EU products should be restored;

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Amendment 21 José Gusmão, Petros Kokkalis, Manuel Bompard, Manon Aubry on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Motion for a resolution B9-0158/2020 PPE, S&D, Renew, Verts/ALE, ECR New multiannual financial framework, own resources and the recovery plan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 20 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

20a. Stresses that a real industrial strategy focusing on strategic sectors should be the core of the Recovery Plan; stresses that this plan must develop the industrial potential of every Member State in a cohesive and coordinated way; stresses that the pandemic has shown that sectors which are fundamental to our lives, such as medicines or medical supplies, must be under public control;

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Amendment 22 Marc Botenga, José Gusmão, Petros Kokkalis, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Manuel Bompard, Manon Aubry on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Motion for a resolution B9-0158/2020 PPE, S&D, Renew, Verts/ALE, ECR New multiannual financial framework, own resources and the recovery plan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 g (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

23g. Stresses the need to invest in public research and development as a key part of the recovery plan, particularly in strategic sectors related to medicine and healthcare;

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Amendment 23 José Gusmão, Petros Kokkalis, Idoia Villanueva Ruiz, Manuel Bompard, Manon Aubry on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Motion for a resolution B9-0158/2020 PPE, S&D, Renew, Verts/ALE, ECR New multiannual financial framework, own resources and the recovery plan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 22 a (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

22a. Stresses that recovery funding must be in line with the Paris Agreement and climate neutrality objectives; highlights that the European Green Deal is an opportunity to promote sustainable industries which can have an important role in the recovery plan;

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Amendment 24 José Gusmão, Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Petros Kokkalis, Manuel Bompard on behalf of the GUE/NGL Group

Motion for a resolution B9-0158/2020 PPE, S&D, Renew, Verts/ALE, ECR New multiannual financial framework, own resources and the recovery plan

Motion for a resolution Paragraph 23 h (new)

Motion for a resolution Amendment

23h. Believes that the EU and its Member States should pay special attention to the tourism and culture sectors and help them accordingly, particularly in island and outermost regions;

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