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Motion for a resolution
Recital A

A. whereas the refugee crisis is first and foremost an economic and humanitarian crisis, but one with long-term impacts and thus requiring long-term responses;

2016/04/01
Committee: EMPL

Joëlle MÉLIN, Dominique MARTIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital C

C. whereas the native working-age population in the EU is projected to decline by 7.5 million by 2020; whereas projections on the development of labour market needs in the EU point to emerging and future shortages in specific fields;

2016/04/01
Committee: EMPL

Joëlle MÉLIN

Motion for a resolution
Recital D

D. whereas social inclusion and integration of refugees into the labour market ~~is a dynamic two-way process representing a challenge and an opportunity, requiring efforts from local administrations, host communities and the refugees themselves, as~~can only be considered if there is no hope that they weill ~~as the involvement and support of social partners (representatives of employers and employees’ organisations) and civil society and volunteer organisations~~be able to return to their home countries in the near future;

2016/04/01
Committee: EMPL

Joëlle MÉLIN, Dominique MARTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5

5. Highlights the fact that in order to facilitate the social inclusion and integration of refugees into the labour market, it is necessary to address serious and multi-faceted issues such as discrimination, linguistic barriers, diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, health needs, including psychosocial and post-trauma support, family reunification and the significant share of disadvantaged groups among refugees, in particular worrying numbers of children, including unaccompanied children, people with disabilities, the elderly and women8; _________________ 8http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset- Management/oecd/social-issues- migration-health/making-integration- work-humanitarian- migrants_9789264251236-endeleted

2016/04/01
Committee: EMPL

Joëlle MÉLIN, Dominique MARTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6

6. Reiterates the importance of recognising the gender dimension of refugee status determination9, the needs of women who apply for international protection and the specific social inclusion and labour market integration challenges that women face; calls for gender to be fully mainstreamed into all policies and procedures relating to asylum and migration; _________________ 9EP Draft Report: http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getD oc.do?pubRef=- %2F%2FEP%2F%2FNONSGML%2BC OMPARL%2BPE- 571.702%2B01%2BDOC%2BPDF%2BV 0%2F%2FENdeleted

2016/04/01
Committee: EMPL

Joëlle MÉLIN, Dominique MARTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)

7a. Feels, moreover, that access to employment, the tax system and self- esteem should be given as a priority to the more than 21 million unemployed Europeans who also have a right to their place in society;

2016/04/01
Committee: EMPL

Joëlle MÉLIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8

8. Points out that early intervention is crucial to allow for successful social inclusion and integration of refugees into the labour market, provided that they do not return;

2016/04/01
Committee: EMPL

Joëlle MÉLIN, Dominique MARTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9

9. Highlights the fact that labour market conditions within host countries are a determining factor for the successful and durable integration of refugees; stresses that unemployment in the EU, in particular youth unemployment, is still at alarming levels, and that the Commission and the Member States should continue to prioritise policies and investments aimed at quality job creation and economic growth, with priority going to young Europeans;

2016/04/01
Committee: EMPL

Joëlle MÉLIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10

10. Stresses the need for an early, fair, transparent and free-of-charge assessment of refugees and asylum seekers’ formal and non-formal skills, as well as recognition of their qualifications, in order to develop tailored measures allowing them to make full use of their potential, and to match labour supply and demand in the host countries, provided that the formal and non-formal skills of our unemployed young people, first and foremost, have been recognised;

2016/04/01
Committee: EMPL

Joëlle MÉLIN, Dominique MARTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11

11. Highlights the fact that expansive public fiscal policies, covering the extraordinary investments in social inclusion and labour market integration measures and programmes, are likely to have a positive effect on national GDPs in the short term, while medium- or long- term impacts on public finances will depend on the effectiveness of these measures;deleted

2016/04/01
Committee: EMPL

Joëlle MÉLIN, Dominique MARTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18

18. Supports the Commission’s efforts in updating the European Agenda on Migration, in particular by revising the Dublin III Regulation; underlines the positive impact that intra-EU mobility of refugees would have on addressing labour shortages and refugees’ inclusion into the labour market; stresses that further efforts are necessary to create a truly uniform Common European Asylum System and a comprehensive and sustainable legal migration policy in the EU to meet labour market demand in terms of skills, in which social inclusion and active integration policies play a central role;deleted

2016/04/01
Committee: EMPL

Joëlle MÉLIN, Dominique MARTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24

24. Calls on the Commission to put forward a revision of the Reception Conditions Directive in order to ensure that applicants of international protection have access to the labour market no later than six months from the date when the application was lodged;deleted

2016/04/01
Committee: EMPL

Joëlle MÉLIN, Dominique MARTIN

Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25

25. Encourages the Member States to shorten the processing time of applications for international protection and to extend early intervention measures such as language training, skills assessment and civic integration courses in particular to those asylum seekers who have good prospects of being granted international protection;deleted

2016/04/01
Committee: EMPL

13 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2015/2321(INI)

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