European Central Bank – annual report 2024

5.2.2025 A100003/24

Amendment 24

João Oliveira

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A100003/2025

Anouk Van Brug

European Central Bank – annual report 2024

(2024/2054(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 a (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6a. Takes the view that combating inflation should not entail squeezing demand or family incomes, but rather increasing salaries and pensions; regulating the prices of essential goods and services; combating speculation; taxing the profits of large economic groups and using the proceeds to promote development and social progress; boosting national output of both consumer goods and capital goods, including in the energy sector, making the most of renewable energies to guarantee greater energy sovereignty and stability in supply chains; promoting peace, the political resolution of conflicts and states’ sovereign development;

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5.2.2025 A100003/25

Amendment 25

João Oliveira

on behalf of The Left Group

Report A100003/2025

Anouk Van Brug

European Central Bank – annual report 2024

(2024/2054(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 6 b (new)

Motion for a resolution	Amendment
	6b. Takes the view that the current socio-economic situation, an inevitable corollary of the ECB’s decision to make 10 consecutive interest rate rises, shows that the euro deprives states of the monetary, financial, exchange-rate and, to a large extent, budgetary policy instruments with which to promote a form of development that takes account of their specific national realities and the necessary responses to the social and economic problems that have arisen by stopping interest rates from being set that are suitable to improve families’ living standards and to develop the activity of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises;

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