9 Amendments of Joëlle MÉLIN related to 2016/2101(INI)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. NotArgues that the country-specific recommendations (CSRs) demonstrate the differences that exist between Member States; argues that the Member States should continue to give priority to reforms that will strengthen their economic recovery, making a commitment to investment, implementing structural reforms and taking an approach based on fiscal and budgetary responsibilitMember States are the only stakeholders that are able to manage the crisis democratically and efficiently and that, accordingly, procedures such as the 'European Semester' and the Commission's continuous interference in the day-to-day affairs of the Member States should cease immediately;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points out that the EU-imposed austerity measures, strengthened in particular under the European Semester, are helping to exacerbate the social and economic crisis; highlights the fact that these measures have worsened working and social conditions throughout the EU, increasing rates of unemployment, poverty and inequality;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. BelievNotes that economic growth should guarantee a positive social impact; welcomes the introduction of the three new social indicators in the macroeconomic imbalances procedure; reiterates the call for these to be placed on an equal footing with existing economic indicators, thereby guaranteeing that internal imbalances are better assessed and making structural reforms more effective; calls, the Commission has attempted to 'humanise' its 'structural reforms' by including three new social indicators in the macroeconomic imbalances procedure: the activity rate, youth unemployment and long-term unemployment; notes that this attempt has turned out to be ineffective in combating this connection, for a social imbalances procedure to be introducede further destruction of the social rights of EU citizens;
Amendment 59 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 76 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Notes that the establishment of the 'European Semester', as a result of the proposals put forward by the Commission in 2010, is the umpteenth attack on the national sovereignty of Member States; points out that with the introduction of the European Semester, the coordination of national economic policies – both fiscal and structural – actually becomes ex ante rather than ex post, by implementing a system of governance that is totally lacking in transparency, undemocratic and does not take account of the subsidiarity principle;
Amendment 91 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recognises the significant progress made byat, in spite of the Member States in' commitment to implementing structural reforms, while nevertheless taking the view that further progress is necessary:the positive effects of these efforts have had no impact on unemployment, which continues to be unsustainably high;
Amendment 112 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 128 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for account to be taken of the challenges that have been emerging in the EU since 2015, which have required serious adaptation effortthe problems afflicting EU citizens, requiring an urgent response, to be addressed immediately; these include the fight against unemployment and poverty and support for our businesses; calls on the Commission not to apply any penalties to the Member States in 2016;
Amendment 135 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Regrets that Parliament’s position, after being adopted in plenary, will not have any possibility of influencing the CSRs under discussion; calls for an agenda in which Parliament’s position is strengthened and can be taken into consideration before the Council takes a decision.Condemns the repeated marginalisation of the role of this Parliament, the only European institution that is democratically elected by the citizens;