Activities of Laura AGEA related to 2015/2351(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on assessment of the EU Youth Strategy 2013-2015
Amendments (8)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes the impact of the second cycle of the Youth Strategy (2013-2015) in providing a flexible framework for cross- sectoral involvement; values the structured dialogue with youth organisations in this regardemphasises the importance of developing the multilevel dialogue instrument in order to match stakeholders and their requirements; points out that any measure to boost youth employment is effective if it fosters dialogue between the education and training sector, businesses and young people;
Amendment 11 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses the importance of the Youth Strategy, given the EU’s alarmingly high youth unemployment and NEET rates; stresses that the next cycle (2016-2018) should contribute to the two objectives of the Youth Strategy by focusing on youth unemployment, education, training and the transition to the labour market; emphasises the need to discontinue austerity policies, in particular in those countries where levels of youth unemployment are highest;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to implement expansionist economic policies which offer greater leeway in the area of public investment in education, training and high-quality apprenticeships;
Amendment 25 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses the need to combat early school-leaving by adequately informing students about future labour market opportunities and qualitative apprenticeships; points out that the poverty affecting many families is one of the main causes of early school-leaving, so that the latter can be reduced by tackling the former;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that employment and entrepreneurship constitute one of the eight priorities identified in the EU Youth Report (2010-2018); points out that, if the potential offered by youth entrepreneurship is to be exploited, all the obstacles which prevent young people from developing their ideas, their potential and their attitudes must be done away with; stresses that youth work and non-formal learning play a vital role in developing young people’s potential, including entrepreneurial skills;
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Urges the Member States to implement fully the Erasmus+ programme, thereby fostering further cross-border career and labour mobility; emphasises that labour mobility makes sense only if it is voluntary; points out that fostering mobility must not serve to encourage the brain drain;
Amendment 65 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Notes that thus far the aims of the Youth Guarantee Scheme have not been achieved in many Member States; urges the Commission to carry out impact studies with a view to determining precisely what results have been achieved thus far and to take additional measures, in the form of more stringent oversight and monitoring mechanisms, the sharing of best practices and the organisation of workshops which bring together all the actors concerned, designed to make this instrument more effective;
Amendment 74 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7a. Calls on all the Member States to introduce a minimum guaranteed income in order to offer young people who have finished school and university the resources they need to live decently until they find work;