10 Amendments of Doru-Claudian FRUNZULICĂ related to 2017/2226(INI)
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Highlights, however, the persistent structural problem of insufficient growth of potential output and productivity, flanked by too low a level of investments and wages, leading to persistent social inequalities; underlines the importance of socially-balanced structural reforms in order to achieve social justice, diminish income inequalities and foster convergence towards better outcomes;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the importance of a responsible wage increase at European level in order to boost private consumption as the main support for growth; points out the need to focus on the interaction between monetary, fiscal and incomes (including wage and profit development) policies rather than only fiscal issues;
Amendment 160 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls the importance of public investment for accelerating the pace of reforms and for boosting and leveraging investment in the EU; considers that the policy mix proposed in the AGS 2018 should be further developed to remedy the current decrease in public investment in the EU; highlights that this decrease also affects local and regional authorities, threatening their ability to deliver quality public services;
Amendment 183 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. URecalls the Commission’s efforts to reinforce the role and visibility of social indicators encompassed in the European Semester and calls, when formulating country-specific recommendations and the euro-area recommendation, to take into consideration the existing scoreboard of key employment and social indicators; underlines that the European Semester and the Country-Specific Recommendations should achieve the objectives set out in the Pillar of Social Rights;
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Insists on the need to develop within the European semester a comprehensive and an ambitious strategy to support investment that enhances environmental sustainability; calls on the Commission, in this respect, to demonstrate how its statement that ‘the SDGs are now fully integrated in the Semester’ (Commission communication of 22 May 2017, COM(2017)0500) is reflected in Annual Growth Survey 2018 and will be reflected in the subsequent Semester process;
Amendment 217 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Welcomes the fact that the AGS 2018 acknowledges the need for efficient and fair tax systems to ensure sustainable finance and reverse the current fall in capital income taxation; recalls that fair and growth-friendly tax systems can diminish inequalities and poverty and boost employment; supports the Commission’s initiatives to achieve increased transparency, a reformed VAT system and a common consolidated corporate tax base;
Amendment 257 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recalls that the role of the Member States is to guarantee equal opportunity and access to quality education and training; underlines that this requires to invest in both initial and continuing education and training and to upgrade vocational training and strengthen work- based learning, including through quality apprenticeships;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Underlines that a fiscal capacity – on top of existing capacities, and not through redeployments that would undermine the vital role currently played by structural funds and cohesion policy – represents a necessary tool for increasing incentives for convergence and to counter asymmetric or symmetric economic shocks; stresses that the fiscal capacity should be complementary and additional to other existing instruments of the EU budget;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Is concerned that gaps and discrimination on the labour market remain high throughout the European Union, contributing to differences in remuneration, retirement, participation in decision- making and wealth between men and women and considers that more efforts have to be made in order to improve the participation of women in the labour market, to eliminate gender pay gaps and to promote a better work-life balance for men and women; stresses the importance of preserving high standards in relation to the quality of the proposed employment;
Amendment 367 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Underlines that any further step towards a deepening of the EMU must go hand in hand with stronger democratic ownership, legitimacy, accountability and controls; insists that, to this end, the role of the European Parliament and national parliaments must be strengthened; asks to include trade unions in the negotiation process at both national and European level; urges the launch of the long-awaited negotiation of an interinstitutional agreement (IIA) on the Semester;