Activities of Marco VALLI related to 2017/2039(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on implementation of the Youth Employment Initiative in the Member States
Amendments (14)
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the financial and economic crisis caused the youth unemployment rate to rise from 15 % in 2008 to a peak of 24 % in early 2013, with this average rate masking huge divergences across Member States and regions; whereas youth unemployment rates in 2013 stayed close to 10 % in Germany, Austria and the Netherlands while peaking at close to or well over 40 % in Italy, Spain, Croatia and Greece; whereas, moreover, the unemployment rates of young people not in education, employment or training (NEETs) have reached alarming levels;
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
Ba. whereas mobility has added value only if it is pursued on a voluntary basis and not when it is dictated by a lack of professional opportunities in one’s home country;
Amendment 34 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas, having peaked at 24 % in 2013, the youth unemployment rate in the EU-28 has steadily dropped, reaching below 17 % in 2017;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas a quick mobilisation of funds was sought by frontloading the YEI budget for 2014 and 2015, a decision taken belatedly since the crisis had already begun in 2008 and its effects ought to have been anticipated;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital K
Recital K
K. whereas the YG is designed to achieve the sustainable integration of NEETs into the labour market by offering an individualised approach, leading to a good-quality offer and enhancing young people’s employabilityment, while in a broader context helping to address skills mismatches on the (regional) labour market;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital L
Recital L
L. whereas in 2015 the International Labour Organisation (ILO) estimated the cost of implementing the YG throughout the EU-28 to be EUR 45 billion; whereas the YEI for the 2014-2020 programming period was endowed with a modest budget of EUR 6.4 billion, with the aim of complementing national funding and not replacing it- resources which in any case should be used in an effective and targeted manner in order to optimise the results for which they are allocated;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital N
Recital N
N. whereas in its recently published second Special report on the YEI and the YG, conducted on the basis of a seven Member State sample, the ECA voiced concerns that limited progress had been made with YG implementation, with results falling far short of initial expectations;
Amendment 87 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. NoteRegrets the significant divergence in economic performance in terms of both economic and employment growth across the EU-28; urgdeplores the Member States that continue to lag behEU economic policies which impose upon Member States austerity and constraints, which are leadindg to implement the necessary structural reforms in order to catch up with other EU economiesa progressive impoverishment of citizens, an increase in unemployment - particularly youth unemployment - and the dismantling of the welfare state; notes that it is sound and expansive economic policies, which are ultimately a Member State responsibility, that create jobs;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the YEI aims to complement national funding and not to replace it; stresses that the YEI budget cannot and was never meant to shoulder on its own the ambition of offering all young people a good-quality offer within a period of four months of becoming unemployed or leaving formal education;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need for the YEI to be a driver for policy reform in particular and for better coordination in the fields of employment and education, especially in those Member States experiencing high rates of youth unemployment, with a view to ensuring that those Member States introduce integrated, comprehensive and long-term approaches to tackling youth unemployment which enhance the employabilityment of young people and lead to sustainable employment, as opposed to having a range of fragmented (existing) policies, which often target NEETs who are relatively easy to integrate anyway;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Takes the view that in order to be truly effective, the strategy to be adopted in order to boost youth employment should provide for round-table discussions involving those concerned, while assessing the territorial context in which it will have to be applied and providing for targeted training that is able to meet the needs of businesses whilst balancing them with the aspirations and skills of young people; the same strategy should ensure high-quality training and total transparency in the allocation of funding to training agencies, including through careful monitoring of its use;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on Member States to take all necessary precautions to avert the danger that work placements and the instruments made available by the YG might be used improperly to bypass the issue of illegal undeclared work;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls for a discussion about the future status of the YEI which does not question its continuation but addresses the question of transforming it from a crisis instrument into a more permanent, main EU financing instrument for tackling youth unemployment, and which establishes a co- financing requirement in order to underline the primary responsibility of the Member States; points out, moreover, that to make this instrument into a structural measure, all the weak points and errors still contained therein need to be remedied;
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Stresses that ongoing efforts to tackle youth unemployment and increase YEI funding are highly necessary, though insufficient;