Irmhild BOẞDORF

What Irmhild BOẞDORF has said (5)

• 2024-09-30 “P-001882/2024 Answer given by Ms Ferreira on behalf of the European Commission 1. Cohesion Policy is vital to Europe's long-term success and unity. By promoting convergence and correcting national and regional disparities it also plays a role in maintaining stability, democracy, and shared prosperity across the EU. The allocation of Cohesion Policy funds is based on objective criteria and is established with the aim to promote economic, social, and territorial cohesion 1 . Projects are selected with a view to achieving programme objectives. Carrying out the selection process is the responsibility of the Member States at an appropriate level and the regulatory framework requires that selection is non-discriminatory and transparent. Therefore, selection procedures cannot take into account considerations relating to political party adherence. 2. Projects financed by the Cohesion Policy Funds aim at fostering the social, economic and territorial development of recipient Member States and regions. The Ninth Cohesion Report on Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion 2 provides a wide range of evidence on the benefits of Cohesion Policy in regions across Europe, irrespective of how their citizens vote. In the 2014-2020 financing period, Cohesion Policy supported 4.4 million businesses, created 370 thousand jobs, and improved healthcare and energy services for millions of citizens. Also, Cohesion Policy has significant and positive effects for Europe as a whole and for each of its regions. Macroeconomic modelling suggests that the 2014–2020 and 2021–2027 programmes, taken together, could increase EU Gross Domestic Product by 1% by the end of 2030 3 . The impact is, of course, much stronger in Cohesion countries, but it is positive in all Member States and regions, even after considering payments made to the EU budget. 1 Pursuant to the objectives laid down in Articles 174 and 175 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU. 2 Inforegio - Ninth Report on Economic, Social and Territorial Cohesion (europa.eu): https://ec.europa.eu/regional_policy/information-sources/cohesion-report_en 3 This impact is long-lasting: remaining at 0.6 % by 2043.”
  Cohesion and rural funding
• “Thank you very much, Mr. Brostoff. **Irmhild BOẞDORF: Ursula von der Leyen has failed in almost all political areas, and we've had this left green ideology and now we've found a new policy area. The housing crisis. And that's not fallen from the skies. It's homemade and it is the result of the policies of this commission. The EU is tackling the housing crisis with the same resources that they've used in the past. More regulations, more rules, more intervention. Housing is not something that you can regulate into existence or order or moralize into existence. If you want affordable housing, then you have to allow affordable construction. And that is just what this EU is preventing. The Green Deal makes it expensive to build. It makes it slow and almost impossible. Climate ideology does not build houses. Concrete does not come from regulations. And what about immigration? We have millions of people arriving legally or illegally to Europe. Immigration without housing is not humanitarian. It is just a kind of pressure. We don't need a housing committee. We need sovereign member states. Honesty and a re migration committee. Thank you.”
  EU housing policy
• “Thank you very much. Now, uh, the last, uh, intervention for this part for ESM. **Irmhild BOẞDORF: Thank you, Mr. Johnson, for answering our questions here today. I've got a couple for you. You mentioned private investors. How are they supposed to be able to create affordable housing? Construction costs have skyrocketed, as you well know. What incentive is there for private investors to build for rent, then? Short term rentals, you mentioned. That's something we could do in summer and then rent out to students. Could we get more information on that? What are those students going to do in summer. You mentioned there's a lot of empty housing, 20%. Buildings being torn down and new builds. Why? Well, because you quite simply can't sell buildings that have oil heating's in Europe. Because the banks won't back it. So what are your plans? How are you going to deal with the housing shortage? Maybe we should roll back some of the regulation. And that's also tied in with construction regulation. We created a significant number of jobs last year just to be able to implement regulation. So I wanted to hear from you. How would you envisage effective implementation?”
  EU housing policy
• “Yes. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Jorgensen, that you've taken the time to come and listen to our questions. I come from Germany and in Germany we have a other problem The other EU states we have are very few people actually owning their own houses. It's gone actually reduced recently. And what kind of approach can we have in order to strengthen the ownership of homes in Germany? So I can imagine that some some it would be useful to, to get rid of the or at least suspend the performance of buildings directive to make buildings available. And what about for large families? How can we make housing affordable for large families?”
  EU housing policy
• “Thank you very much. I will ask my question in German. You said that there is. No issues in relation to competitiveness. We can see there's huge problems in the construction sector in Germany alone. There is, um, a very of the lowest percentage of home owners in, uh, in the EU. And if we create more burden for homeowners. And when it comes to refurbishing or making changes to the houses, then we're creating more burden for these people. And people won't have any money for it to it, obviously. How are we going to, um, how are we going to solve this, this, um, contradiction between competitiveness and the Green Deal? Thank you.”
  Energy performance of buildings