The CDR approved Valcárcel opinion that claims "a strong budget policy to ensure the community"
Thursday, March 31st, 2011In the plenary session of the Committee of the Regions in Brussels
The regional president and vice president of CDR said that the EU budget "should be used entirely for us out of the crisis and create jobs"
Valcárcel proposed private participation in European projects and is in favor of the use of 'bonuses' to find external funding
The full Committee of the Regions (CoR) today approved the report presented by the president and vice president of CDR region, Ramón Luis Valcárcel, on the revision of the budget of the European Union, which claims to be "strong, balanced and autonomous, and to allow the policies of the European Union possible. "
The opinion issued in conjunction with the CDR president, Mercedes Bresso, was presented to the Budget Commissioner of the EU, Janusz Lewandowski, and is the first report of a community advisory body to reach the European institutions for guidance on the future budgetary policy.
In his speech, President Valcárcel defended the need for "cohesion budget" that is "balanced, transparent and credible."
"A budget for the people, he said, to allow us out of the crisis, Europe to grow and create jobs" and having as its primary goal "to serve the citizens, now suffering from the effects of the crisis in the form of unemployment ".
He stressed the importance of using the entire EU budget, "which already is low, and for that," consistent with our position to create reserves of efficiency, we propose, with respect to annual appropriation to the European budget, that unused funds are reallocated in the next year's budget, as currently unused credits back to the national coffers. "
External funding
In addition, the proposal submitted by Valcárcel thinks the programming budgets are made for a period of ten years divided into two parts, to have a "Ecuador to monitor the degree of compliance with the objectives."
This initiative would also have the advantage of pacing the times of democratic events such as European Parliament elections, the appointment of the European Commission and budgetary decisions.
"This schedule of 5 +5 years also requires some flexibility that could help the EU budget to respond to the crisis and create jobs, as its fundamental objective is to be a budget to serve the citizens," Bush said.
Valcárcel also supported a budget that will "encourage further private participation."
The chairman stated that the CDR also supports the use of the 'bonds', which aim to find external funding for European projects that have value added, such as trans-European transport networks and some of the key nodes are to develop .
"The leverage effect would be positive to encourage private participation in European projects, as well as the resources of local and regional communities," said the head of the regional executive.
It also supported the new systems of financial engineering, and the proposal for the EU to issue bonds, because "provides some coordination between the fiscal policies of the Member States."
In his view, "it is necessary to define, given the current economic circumstances, what is the percentage contribution of the member countries so as to ensure the development of the objectives of the EU 2020, which wants the EU to fully recover the crisis and accelerate its transition to a stronger economy. "
Source: CARM