Activities of Inês Cristina ZUBER related to 2012/2144(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the Internal Market for Services: State of Play and Next Steps
Amendments (5)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
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1. Welcomes the Commission Communication on the implementation of the Services Directive entitled ‘A partnership for new growth in servNotes that public services are essential building-blocks of democracies and that they have been placed under continual threat by the so-called austerity policies 2012-2015’, which aresponds to the reporting obligation as set out in Article 41 of the Services Directive; reiterates the need to take account of the medium- and long-term effects of the Services Directive on employment in the EU demolishing the public sector and stripping away the social functions of the State, the object being not just to cut spending in an utterly blind and inhuman way, at the people’s expense, but primarily to favour the private sector and large economic groups, thus turning social entitlements into business arrangements and privileges that only the richest can afford;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
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2. Notes that all main stakeholders have to commit themselves to properly enforcing the full implementation of Single Market legislation, whilst also taking into account its social dimensionMaintains that the Single Market in services has benefited large economic and financial groups, which have found new opportunities to exploit workers and dominate the economy, and that it has overturned state sovereignty as regards defining, safeguarding, and financing public services and made it impossible to lay down rules to fund and protect services in general, thus increasing the power which supranational entities wield over Member States and establishing competition as the paramount influence, thereby severely undermining workers’ rights and the delivery of services to the public;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
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3. Notes that over two decades the Single Market has proved to be a great success; believes, at the same time, that more efthe internal market in services has led to the demise of several fortms need to be concentrated on promoting growth and job creation, as a means of enabling the EU to overcome the current crisisof universal public service and therefore calls for the Services Directive to be repealed;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
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3a. Maintains that public services need to be protected, developed, and expanded in order to ensure that every person can enjoy the right to health, education, social security, water, and housing, and, in that way, to help create jobs; maintains that states have to function as the key frames of reference within the economy, putting strategic sectors to work, for example banking, energy, communications, and transport, to promote each country’s development.
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
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