Opinions with Workers' Group members as rapporteur/co-rapporteur/rapporteur-general

  • Antagna on 29/03/2012
    Dokumentreferens
    ECO/309-EESC-2012-01-01-816
    Workers - GR II
    France
    Plenary session number
    479
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    The Committee welcomes the Commission's legislative proposals as a step in the right direction, as they halve the GNI contribution and compensate for that with two new own resources, one based on VAT and the other on a tax on financial transactions. The EESC regrets that the text under discussion does not refer to the new own resources in order to address the key issue of budget size. The Committee regrets the fact that the Commission has not used this opportunity to provide financial support to help fulfil the obligations arising from the Treaty of Lisbon, the 2020 Strategy or the need to take measures to stimulate growth.

    EESC opinion: System of own resources
  • Antagna on 29/03/2012
    Dokumentreferens
    ECO/321-EESC-2012-01-01-818
    Workers - GR II
    Italy
    Plenary session number
    479
    -
    The proposal for an EU financial transaction tax seeks to change the short term oriented behaviour of financial actors whilst at the same time providing an own resource to the budget of the European Union that could considerably reduce the contributions by Member States based on their gross national income (GNI). The second initiative is in line with the treaties and wants the EU- budged be to a higher extent be financed by own resources. This would also put an end to the ongoing "juste retour" discussions that jeopardises the European project. The EESC welcomes these two Commission initiatives.
    Financial Transaction Tax
  • Antagna on 29/03/2012
    Dokumentreferens
    ECO/301-EESC-2012-01-01-814
    Workers - GR II
    Italy
    Plenary session number
    479
    -
    EESC opinion: GDP and beyond / complementary indicators
  • Antagna on 28/03/2012
    Dokumentreferens
    SOC/443-EESC-2012-01-01-827
    Workers - GR II
    France
    Plenary session number
    479
    -
    EESC opinion: Serious cross-border threats to health
  • Antagna on 28/03/2012
    Dokumentreferens
    CCMI/98-EESC-2012-828
    Workers - GR II
    Romania
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Poland
    Plenary session number
    0
    Creative Europe Programme
    Infopack CCMI 098
  • Antagna on 28/03/2012
    Dokumentreferens
    REX/349-EESC-2012-01-01-839
    Workers - GR II
    Spain
    Plenary session number
    479
    -
    Civil society involvement in the EU's development policies
  • Antagna on 28/03/2012
    Dokumentreferens
    INT/618-EESC-2012-01-01-807
    Workers - GR II
    France
    Plenary session number
    479
    -
    EESC opinion: EIT – Strategic Agenda
  • Antagna on 27/03/2012
    Dokumentreferens
    REX/363-EESC-2012-01-01-930
    Workers - GR II
    Spain
    Plenary session number
    484
    -
    The External Dimension of EU Social Security Coordination
  • Antagna on 24/03/2012
    Dokumentreferens
    NAT/521-EESC-2012-830
    Civil Society Organisations - GR III
    Spain
    Workers - GR II
    Italy
    Plenary session number
    479
    -

    The EESC agrees with the proposal's general and specific objectives, as well as its principles of good governance. The CFP must ensure that fishing and aquaculture activities create long-term sustainable environmental, economic and social conditions, contributing to the availability of food supplies, implementing the precautionary and ecosystem-based approaches to fisheries management, aimed at exploitation of living marine biological resources that restores and maintains fish resources above levels which can produce the maximum sustainable yield, not later than 2015, all while meeting the requirements of EU environmental legislation. In order to achieve these objectives, the CFP must, in particular, eliminate unwanted catches of commercial stocks and gradually ensure that all catches of such stocks are landed.

    Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy (CFP)
  • Antagna on 23/02/2012
    Dokumentreferens
    ECO/307-EESC-2012-01-01-474
    Workers - GR II
    Italy
    Plenary session number
    478
    -

    ..."Meanwhile, the financial and economic crisis has changed into a sovereign debt crisis because of the daily speculation against the euro, which has shifted its focus and targeted the debt of a number of European countries. The only reason for this is that the economic and political instruments to protect the euro are piecemeal, totally inadequate and, until a year ago, downright non-existent. These are the paradoxes that come from having a single monetary policy and 17 debt policies, 17 budget policies, 17 (or rather 27) economic and industrial policies, and so many voices, often contradictory, having their say and offering recipes for resolving the crisis. This is why there must be a commitment to redouble and continue the efforts made recently by the EU. It is useful, therefore, to draw up a few proposals, ..."

    EESC opinion: Restarting growth