Activities of Sergio GUTIÉRREZ PRIETO related to 2014/2222(INI)
Reports (1)
REPORT on European Semester for economic policy coordination: Employment and Social Aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2015 PDF (189 KB) DOC (135 KB)
Amendments (29)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas in spite of mild improvements, the unemployment rate remains historically high, with 25 million people out of work; whereas long-term unemployment is worryingly high, and 12 million people have been unemployed for more than a year (up 4 % over the previous year); whereas youth unemployment rates have not decreased significantly (they have only been reduced by 1.9% compared to 2013) reaching the EU average at 21,2%; whereas 75% of the long-term unemployed in the EU are under 35 years old; whereas the labour market situation is particularly critical for young people, regardless of their level of education;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas excessive austerity has led to an alarming decrease in the EU public and private investment which is now close to 20% below its pre-crisis level and is lower than among its main economic partners elsewhere in the world; whereas investment in quality jobs, human capital, research and innovation must be the top priority for both the Commission and the Member States, as investment in these areas are essential not only to ensuring a recovery but also to expanding the EU’s economic potential to grow and to create prosperity;
Amendment 84 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas EU policies and reforms have significantly constrained national policies with high impact on people´s living standards while democratic accountability has been undermined; whereas the insufficient involvement of national parliaments, the European Parliament and social partners and civil society organizations at the national and EU level in EU decision making has impeded the ownership of reforms by the Member States, the development of inclusive, social and sustainable solutions and has reduced citizens’ confidence in the EU project as shown in past European elections;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Title 1 – subheading 1 a (new)
Title 1 – subheading 1 a (new)
(1) Decisive European Investment Strategy (This amendment intends to be a subheading inside the heading "Ambitious economic policies for growth, quality job creation and fighting deflation", between paragraphs 1 and 2)
Amendment 153 #
Motion for a resolution
Title 2 – subheading 1 a (new)
Title 2 – subheading 1 a (new)
(1) Responsible policy re-focused on investment, quality job creation and growth (This amendment intends to be a subheading inside the heading "Ambitious economic policies to boost growth, enhance quality job creation and fight deflation" between paragraphs 7 and 8)
Amendment 171 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the development of a European framework to assure that investments under the Juncker Plan, which are excluded from national deficit targets, have a significant impact in terms of stimulating economic growth and creating quality jobs; calls on the Commission to include a specialist on social policies in the expert committee of the new European Fund for strategic investments that will approve projects to be funded;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Title 2 – subheading 1 b (new)
Title 2 – subheading 1 b (new)
(1) SMEs restored financing to boost private investment and job creation (This amendment intends to be a subheading inside the heading "Ambitious economic policies for growth, quality job creation and fighting deflation", between paragraphs 10 and 11)
Amendment 193 #
Motion for a resolution
Title 2 – subheading 1 c (new)
Title 2 – subheading 1 c (new)
(1) A more efficient use of the funds (This amendment intends to be a subheading inside the heading "Ambitious economic policies for growth, quality job creation and fighting deflation", between paragraphs 13a and 14)
Amendment 194 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Stresses the importance of the intermediary bodies linked to SMES, such as chambers of commerce as engines with a multiplier impact in the implementation of the EU policies related to SMES and calls the European Commission to launch a partnership dialogue with them on how EU policies related to SMES could be better implemented so as to boost quality job creation;
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Calls on the Commission, the Member States and the regions to ensure the full implementation of the EU funds 2007-2013 and to closely align the ESF and other European Structural Funds with the EU 2020 strategy; calls on the Commission for the strict monitoring of the 20% ring-fencing of ESF for poverty; calls on the Commission to introduce in the next AGS and in the CSRs a chapter related to the implementation of the FEAD;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 17 – point 1 (new)
(1) Education and active labour policies to expand human capital (This amendment intends to be a subheading inside the heading "Labour market reforms to expand growth potential, human capital and productivity", between paragraphs 17 and 18)
Amendment 262 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 20 – point 1 (new)
(1) Quality jobs and wages as engines of productivity and growth (This amendment intends to be a subheading inside the heading "Labour market reforms to expand growth potential, human capital and productivity", between paragraphs 20 and 21)
Amendment 298 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 23 – point 1 (new)
(1) Youth unemployment and labour mobility (This amendment intends to be a subheading inside the heading "Labour market reforms to expand growth potential, human capital and productivity", between paragraphs 23a and 24.)
Amendment 300 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 23 a (new)
Paragraph 23 a (new)
23a. Considers that the achievement of reindustrialization targets paramount for the competitiveness of the EU and that the relaunch of a genuine European industrial policy could foster growth and create new high quality jobs;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25 a (new)
Paragraph 25 a (new)
25a. Urges the European Commission to go above and beyond the March 2014 Council recommendation on a quality framework for traineeships and to propose a new Quality Framework with a view to preventing discrimination and exploitation of young workers
Amendment 351 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Reiterates its warning of the socioeconomic challenges facing the Union and the risks to its sustainability and its stable growth potential posed by a reversal in regional convergence; recalls that more than 122 million EU citizens are at risk of poverty or social exclusion, including in- work poverty and child poverty, and that these levels are unacceptable and need to be reduced immediately; calls for a true ‘social pillar’ to be implemented within the EMU as part of the process of improving economic governance mechanisms, including effective social impact assessments as promised by President Juncker;
Amendment 358 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28 a (new)
Paragraph 28 a (new)
28a. Recalls on the Commission that employment and social policies to promote the European Social Acquis should govern all European policies, under Article 9 TFEU; requests the Commission to fulfil its obligation to link the European Semester with the objectives of the EU2020 Strategy;
Amendment 361 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 29 – point 1 (new)
(1) European Social Stabilizers (This amendment intends to be a subheading inside the heading "A decisive call for the EU Social Dimension and Convergence", between paragraphs 29 and 29a)
Amendment 362 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 29 a (new)
Paragraph 29 a (new)
29a. Calls on the Commission to restore the EMU reform agenda as launched in 2012 and make concrete proposals based on the recommendations outlined in the EU Presidents report "Towards a Genuine EMU" and the Commission´s "blueprint for a deep and Genuine EMU". Stresses that most important among them is the need for the Eurozone to acquire its own fiscal capacity to operate as a main instrument of macroeconomic stabilisation in the face of crises hitting Member States in an asymmetric manner;
Amendment 371 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31
Paragraph 31
31. Notes the Commission objective ‘to make EU law lighter, simpler and less costly for the benefit of citizens and enterprises’; stresses that this removal of regulatory barriers should undermine neither the European social acquis, the ILO core conventions nor the European Social Charter in fields such as occupational health and safety or information and consultation of workers, nor the ILO core conventions nor the European Social Charter, and should respect the autonomy of social partners as foreseen in the Treaty;
Amendment 373 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 31 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 31 – point 1 (new)
(1) Social Indicators (This amendment intends to be a subheading inside the heading "A decisive call for the EU Social Dimension and Convergence", between paragraphs 31 and 32)
Amendment 387 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 32 – point 1 (new)
(1) Poverty and Social exclusion (This amendment intends to create a subheading inside the heading "A decisive bet for the EU Social Dimension and Convergence", between paragraphs 32 and 33)
Amendment 400 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Calls on the Commission to submit a proposal for a European minimum income, as announced by its President during the investiture debate, with the aim of reducing poverty in EU, in this sense, reiterates its call for progress towards an EU Framework Directive;
Amendment 409 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls on the Commission to tackle immediately the alarming increase in child poverty throughout the EU through the introduction of a child guarantee against poverty, implementing the three pillared Commission recommendation from the Social Investment Package: "Investing in Children";
Amendment 423 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 35 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 35 – point 1 (new)
(1) Sustainable pensions and health (This amendments intends to create a subheading inside the heading "A decisive bet for the EU Social Dimension and Convergence", between paragraphs 35 and 36)
Amendment 442 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 37 – point 1 (new)
Paragraph 37 – point 1 (new)
(1) Fairer Taxation labour systems (This amendments intends to create a subheading inside the heading "A decisive bet for the EU Social Dimension and Convergence", between paragraph 37 and 38)
Amendment 446 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 38
Paragraph 38
38. Stresses that the tax wedge has been much higher for low-wage and second- income earners, and that this remains an issue; notes however, that only a few countries have taken steps to address this problem, not least on account of the limited fiscal margin; calls on the Commission to take note of the IMF’s October 2013 tax report, which points out that there is scope for better and more progressive forms of taxation;
Amendment 461 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 40
Paragraph 40
40. Expresses its deep concern over the limited role that it, the national parliaments as well as civil society have to play in the formulsocial partners and civil society organizations have to play in the formulation, monitoring and implementation of economic and social priorities in the European Semester; stresses that the persistent lack of democratic accountability in the measures and reforms that have been implemented is significantly reducing confidence in the EU project, as witnessed in the last European elections;
Amendment 472 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 41 a (new)
Paragraph 41 a (new)
41a. Calls on the Commission to develop and implement the EU guidelines on stakeholders engagement in the Semester at EU and national level;