6 Amendments of Neoklis SYLIKIOTIS related to 2015/0000(INI)
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that many Member States still have largeausterity programmes implemented in Member States, including those imposed by the Troika (Eurogroup, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund), have often resulted in further economic contraction and increased deficits, and that there is a need to develop fiscal responsibility programmes that are fullyfor a new stimulus-based economic direction that is compatible with quality job creation, economic growth and welfare state sustainability; calls on the Commission, which has already received the national budget proposals for 2016, and within the framework of COM(2015)00121, to provide a flexible process of fiscal responsibilitypolicy-making at national level that allows for the adoption of socially responsible and economically efficient policies aimed at decent job creation; __________________ 1 COM(2015)0012, ‘Making the best use of the flexibility within the existing rules of the SGP’.
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls for the country-specific recommendations (CSR) to include the Commission’s recommendation2 on private debt aimed at creating second chances for enterprises; calls for these programmes, as the first priority, to be extended to families at risk of eviction from their first home and for theseis extension to apply to those evicted since the financial crisis began; calls for the CSR to include a call on Member States place a moratorium on further evictions, and for this to be guaranteed, in particular, in banking entities within bank restructuring programmes supported by public money; __________________ 2 Recommendation of 12 March 2014 on a new approach to business failure and insolvency.
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Takes note of the recommendations on the need to move forward within new labour reforms, and calls for such reforms, if carried out, to guarantee social dialogue and to ensure necessary political consensus in order to be sustainable and effectivelabour reforms; considers it regrettable that many labour reforms have not ensured the required baattacked job security, workplance between flexibility and securityrights and trade unions' representation rights, resulting in, for example, the exclusion of millions of workers from collective bargaining, increased job insecurity and increased inequality; calls for labour reforms capable of reducing fragmentation, putting an end to insecurity and increasing the productivity and competitiveness of our economy while ensuring decent jobs and living wages through investment in human capital;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Points out that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) have warned of the social (in-work poverty) and economic (depressed internal demand) problems caused by the wage devaluation that has occurred in recent years; considers it regrettable that there is no reference to the importance of increasing wages, especially in those countries where wages are below the poverty threshold; recalls that minimum wages differ substantially between Member States (Bulgaria EUR 184/month, Luxembourg EUR 1 923/month), and reiterates its request for a study4 on this issue; calls for the inclusion of recommendations that Member States set their minimum wage as a 'living wage' - i.e., calculated according to the basic cost of living in the particular Member State; __________________ 4 Resolution of 11 March 2015 (Texts adopted, P8_TA(2015)0068), paragraph 47.
Amendment 83 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Notes that some labour reforms have introduced new contractual formulas that, according to the Commission, have increased precariousness in the labour markets; of particular concern are some Member States whose rates of temporary employment are over 90 % for new contracts, which particularly affects young people and women and which, according to the OECD1, is one of the direct causes of increasing inequality; calls for inclusion of a recommendation that Member States take steps to restrict and reverse the growth of such precarious employment contracts; __________________ 1 OECD report ‘In it together: Why less inequality benefits all’, 21 May 2015.
Amendment 121 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Notes that there is significant disparity in the success of the implementation of the Youth Guarantee and Youth Employment Initiative between Member States to date; notes that the International Labour Organisation has estimated that resolving youth unemployment in the EU requires a budget of EUR 21 billion and that the Commission's current financial commitment is wholly inadequate and needs to be raised to a sufficient level; calls on the Commission to work with Member States and representative youth organisations to propose minimum standards and best practice in the implementation of the Youth Guarantee;