7 Amendments of Dominique MARTIN related to 2017/2279(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. wWhereas unemployEurostat estimates that 17.978 million ment and youth unemploywoment in the Union have been falling gradually since 2013, but are still above 2008 levels, with considerable differences amongEU28, of whom 14.153 million in the Euro area, were unemployed in December 2017; whereas the employment recovery rate remains very unequal across Member States to the benefit of those countries which have not adopted the single currency or have not been subject to deep European structural reforms; whereas from 2002 to 2016 the number of part- time workers aged between 20 and with64 in the Member StatesEU-28 rose slowly but steadily from 14.9% to 18.9%;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas while the risk of poverty or social exclusion in the EU has fallen back to its pre-crisis level, it remains very high and far from reaching the Europe 2020 poverty and social exclusion target;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas a concrete positive impact of the cohesion policy investments funds cannot be achieved without a more effective involvement of all partners at national, regional and local level;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas policies to reconcile the work-life balance are of paramount importance in removing single parents and families from poverty and combating the worrying phenomena of the falling birth rate and ageing population;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. RegretUnderlines the sluggish implementation of the 2014-2020 programmes; consireiterates its concern regarding the funding unders that faster implementation, a smoother transition between programming periods, genuine simplification and capacity development are necessarye EU budget and its role in supplying concrete answers to the needs of citizens; underlines the need to properly evaluate which funds could be better managed at national level in order to guarantee full respect of the subsidiarity principle; urges for the future programming of cohesion policy more transparency, accountability and genuine simplification;
Amendment 55 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls the Commission not to consider in the calculation of the public spending deficit the co-financing of EU programs for the purpose of complying with the Maastricht criteria, thus facilitating negotiations and improving the implementation of these programs;
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls the Commission to pay particular attention to the important relationship between the cohesion policy and the most geographically and demographically disadvantaged areas, suffering from severe and permanent natural or demographic handicaps, such as islands and mountain regions;