Activities of Ulrike TREBESIUS related to 2016/2307(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on the European Semester for economic policy coordination: Employment and Social Aspects in the Annual Growth Survey 2017 PDF (385 KB) DOC (94 KB)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 2 a (new)
Citation 2 a (new)
- having regard to the Interinstitutional Agreement on Better Law-Making between the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission;
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 11 a (new)
Citation 11 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission communication of 22 November 2016 entitled 'Europe's next leaders: the Start- up and Scale-up Initiative' (COM(2016)733);
Amendment 22 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 48 a (new)
Citation 48 a (new)
- - having regards to the fifth and sixth European working conditions survey 2010 and 2015. 1a __________________ 1a http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/europea n-working-conditions-surveys-ewcs
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
C a. Whereas the primary responsibility for tackling youth unemployment rests with the Member States in terms of developing and implementing labour market regulatory frameworks, education and training systems and active labour market policies;
Amendment 52 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C b (new)
Recital C b (new)
C b. Whereas structural challenges in the labour market such as low participation as well as skills and qualification mismatches remain a concern in many member states;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
C c. Whereas wage-setting is and needs to continue to be a matter of national competence;
Amendment 91 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G a (new)
Recital G a (new)
G a. Whereas the provision and management of social security systems are a Member State competence which the Union coordinates but does not harmonise;
Amendment 109 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Supports the Commission concept of the "virtuous triangle of investment, structural reforms and responsible public finances"; warns that structural reforms are lagging in some member countries; warns that deficit criteria are being broken in some member states and sometimes regularly;
Amendment 112 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Highlights that public and private debt is too high in some member states which prevents investment, economic growth and employment;
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Highlights that continual disregard of EU deficit rules by some member states is undermining the rule of law at EU level which erodes trust among member states; stresses that the current situation is not a good basis for further economic integration;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Recognises that women continue to be under represented in the labour market; believes in this regard that flexible employment contracts including voluntary temporary and part-time contracts can play an important role in increasing the levels of participation from groups that might otherwise have been excluded from the labour market including women;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Calls on Member States to exchange best practice and to consider new innovative ways of developing an adaptable and flexible labour market to meet the challenges of a global economy while ensuring high labour standards for all workers;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Highlights the importance of the EFSI insofar as it permits improvedWarns that EFSI is the wrong tool to increase social and economic convergence of Member States and their regions within the Union; calls on the Commission to ensure that Member States are fully using the possibility of accessing this fund as it is based on project quality alone; reminds that most projects are being approved in the economically more healthy regions of western Europe; asks the Commission to help the weaker regions with the application process but not modify the basic premise to select projects only based on quality; calls on the Commission to monitor and control investments under the EFSI and to measure their economic and social impact;
Amendment 310 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Calls on the Member States to set minimum social standards based on their own country-specific requirements;