{"id":666,"date":"2017-11-27T11:26:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T10:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/?post_type=article&p=666"},"modified":"2017-11-27T11:26:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T10:26:51","slug":"aktar-fondi-huma-mehtiega-ghat-tkabbir-ghall-impjiegi-ghas-sigurta-u-ghall-bidla-fil-klima","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/article\/aktar-fondi-huma-mehtiega-ghat-tkabbir-ghall-impjiegi-ghas-sigurta-u-ghall-bidla-fil-klima\/","title":{"rendered":"More funds needed for growth, jobs, security, and climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MEPs set overall EU budget for 2018 at \u20ac162.6 billion (+1.2% on the Commission\u2019s draft budget) for commitments and \u20ac146.7 billion (+0.9%) for payments.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In their budgetary resolution, MEPs reaffirm their commitment \u201cto financing Union policies that enhance jobs and growth in all its regions through investments in research, education, infrastructure, SMEs and employment, in particular among young people.\u201d They nonetheless stress that they fail \u201cto understand how the Union can achieve progress in these fields considering the cuts proposed by the Council (\u2026).\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The resolution on Parliament\u2019s position on the EU’s budget for 2018 was approved by 414 votes to 163, with 90 abstentions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

MEPs increased the Youth Employment Initiative by \u20ac366.7 million in commitment appropriations, raising the total to \u20ac600 million, to help youngsters desperately seeking a job.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They rejected the Council\u2019s \u201cunjustified \u20ac750 million cuts\u201d in the \u201cgrowth and jobs\u201d area, warning that such cuts \u201cwould jeopardize programmes with real European added value and a direct impact on job and growth creation, such as Horizon 2020 or the Connecting Europe Facility.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They therefore decided to reinforce, on top of the Commission\u2019s budget proposal, \u201cthose programmes that are key to boosting growth and jobs and that reflect widely agreed Union priorities, namely Erasmus+, Horizon 2020 (Marie Curie, European Research Council, SME Instrument), COSME, and EaSI (Progress and Eures).\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For Parliament\u00a0 \u201ctackling migration and security must remain top Union priorities\u201d, say MEPs, adding that the available funds have proven \u201cvastly insufficient to fund adequately the internal dimension of those challenges.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  MEPs set overall EU budget for 2018 at \u20ac162.6 billion (+1.2% on the Commission\u2019s draft budget) for commitments and \u20ac146.7 billion (+0.9%) for payments.\u00a0\u00a0 In their budgetary resolution, MEPs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":661,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":""},"issuem_issue":[34],"issuem_issue_categories":[8],"issuem_issue_tags":[],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.8.8","language":"en","enabled_languages":["mt","en"],"languages":{"mt":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/666"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/666\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_categories?post=666"},{"taxonomy":"issuem_issue_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/weekly.uhm.org.mt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issuem_issue_tags?post=666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}