10 Amendments of Dominique BILDE related to 2016/2307(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Considers it necessary to refocus the European Semester on the delivery of the Europe 2020Takes the view that the European Semester is an economic straitjacket which restricts Member States and prevents them from pursuing policies through which they can meet the objectives ofor smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, paying; stresses that, if they are to pay more attention to the social, education and employment targets, as well asMember States will have to regain their full monetary and budgetary sovereignety so that each government can adapt their policies to their country's specific structural context, and not to the demands of undemocratic institutions promoting a liberal-libertarian and globalist ideology; recognises that it is necessary to properly recognise the contribution of culture in reaching the so-called ‘Social Triple A’ for the development and wellbeing of individuals and societies;
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. ReiterEncourages Member States, its call on the Commission and Member Statesf appropriate to their national situation and the specific needs that arise from that situation, to shift their macroeconomic approach towards encouraging social investment in the public sector;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
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Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission, in this perspective, to use the flexibility clause of the Stability and Growth Pact to allow Member StatesPoints out that the so-called flexibility clause of the Stability and Growth Pact is no more than a weak concession granted to Member States to offset the disastrous effects of the policies imposed on them via the European budgetary pact; points out that, in view of the current situation in most Member States (with 20% youth unemployment rates across the EU, ever lower educational standards and higher poverty rates with an increase in homelessness of more than 40% in six years), they must be given the chance to enhance investment in cultural and youth policies, in education and training and in research, in particular by excluding such investments from the calculation of national budget expenditure;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission and theEncourages Member States to promote the right to high-quality education, by investing in outreach to the most vulnerable learners, and to use the new skills agenda to strengthen human capacity, support an inclusive labour market and tackle social inequalities, therefore focusing on social, intercultural, creative and transferable skillsthe universalisation of learning of basic knowledge, reading, writing and mathematics, as advocated by the OECD; draws attention to the worrying results obtained by most European countries in the most recent PISA survey and points out that the good results obtained by Asian countries are partly due to tried and tested teaching methods such as the 'rote-learning' method;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Stresses that social inequality will become ever more entrenched if efficient teaching methods are not brought back, as the OECD has shown to be the case in France, where the socio-economic background of pupils aged 15 accounts for more than 20% of their performance, as against the OECD average of 13%; stresses that ever lower teaching standards will increasingly prevent young Europeans from getting steady, high- quality and rewarding jobs;
Amendment 32 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the need to invest in children and youth, especially with regard to thematic areas with direct relevance to the Europe 2020 strategywithout forgetting the central role parents and the family have to play, especially with regard to thematic areas, such as early school leaving (ESL), higher education, youth employment, vocational education and training (VET), and lifelong learning and mobility;
Amendment 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls for the creation of a child guarantee and for a proper and swift implementation of the Youth Guarantee, including through a proper funding allocationReiterates its concerns regarding the inefficiency of the Youth Guarantee; points out that the results of national implementation of the mechanism are unconvincing, given that, as the Commission said in its working document 'Country report France 2016 including an in-depth review on the prevention and correction of economic imbalances', subsidised contracts ('emplois d'avenir') cannot lead to lasting inclusion in the labour market because 75% of them are in the non-market sector, and the education and training component of the system is often delayed and leads to a qualification in only one-third of cases;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. RecallsPoints out that the European Semester should be a more open, transparent and democratic process; calls on the Commission to introduce guidelines for stakeholder dialogue in order to improve the quality of civil society participation.is an anti-democratic process given that it is established in the 2017 annual growth survey, in which the Commission, an unelected technocratic body, declares itself to be in charge of political orientation, and in which the Member States, whose governments are democratically elected, are treated as mere implementing bodies;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Expresses concern at some of the Commission's statements in the annual growth survey, where it states in particular that 'demographic developments are important sources of change, which need to benefit all' and that 'these developments can and must not be reversed'; expresses all the more concern about the statement that 'a number of Member States will need to put in place adequate structures for dealing with the influx of migrants including refugees beyond the immediate short-term needs';
Amendment 56 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 b (new)
Paragraph 7 b (new)
7b. Points out, in that connection, that poverty and disenchantment with the public authorities have reached alarming levels among the peoples of Europe, and emphasises that continued mass immigration will only generate disastrous levels of precarity in European countries and fan ever greater public opposition to decision-makers, in particular at EU level.