13 Amendments of Rosa D'AMATO related to 2015/2351(INI)
Amendment 11 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas young people should be helped to address the extremely serious problems currently facing them and to tackle the challenges they facwill face in future through a more coordinated and targeted use of resourceconomic, employment and social policies at national and EU level;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas there is a need to reinforce the mainstreaming of youth policy and, cross sectorial cooperation and social action within the EU in order to guarantee that policy making takes into account young people’s situations and needeffectively addresses the situations and needs of young people, who are having to deal with severe economic, employment and social problems;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. WelcomNotes the 2015 ‘Youth Report’ based on the Commission communication on the implementation of the renewed framework for European cooperation in the youth field (2010-2018) of 15 September 2015 with the main results of the latest 3- year cycle of the EU Youth Strategy and proposing priorities for the next cycle (COM(2015)0492); regards as extremely harmful the failure to make a proper analysis of the adverse effects of austerity policies and labour market reforms, which in many Member States have exacerbated socio-economic inequalities, raised poverty levels, heightened job insecurity and increased the number of NEETs among young people;
Amendment 50 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Is firmly convinced that the EU and the Member States should move away from an economic approach based on austerity policies; believes that austerity policies and increasing job insecurity may be regarded as the root causes of the extremely high youth unemployment rate, the huge rise in the number of poor workers and NEETs and the continuing deterioration of standards in the cultural and state education sectors; calls for the EU and the Member States to take practical and effective action to address these serious problems as a matter of urgency;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Views the Open Method of Coordination as an appropriate means for framing youth policiesBelieves that the tools and methods used to frame youth policies at EU and national level have been shown to be severely inadequate and highly ineffective in addressing the serious crisis still affecting young people; reiterates its call for closerproperly targeted cooperation on youth issues at local, regional, national and EU level that can deliver effective means of successfully addressing the problems of youth unemployment, job insecurity and social exclusion;
Amendment 57 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls for the introduction of a basic income that is above the poverty threshold set by each Member State, with a view to reducing socio-economic inequalities and countering growing poverty among young people;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls onfor the Member States to make the best use of available EU and national policies and financial frameworks in order to promote investment in young people and job creationand the EU to adjust policies and financial frameworks in the manner best suited to promoting appropriate investment in young people and the creation of secure jobs that can provide a decent quality of life;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Calls for better coordination between education and training curricula and the needs of the changing labour markets that are steadily moving towards a circular economy;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Stresses the need to include elements of entrepreneurial learning at all levels of education and training and the need to promote and uphold policies to foster youth entrepreneurship in the social, cultural and creative and fair trade fields in order to create jobsecure, high-quality jobs in those sectors;
Amendment 172 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17a. Calls for the EU and the Member States to step up efforts to ensure that apprenticeships and traineeships are not used as forms of insecure labour that take the place of real jobs and that all the necessary labour protections, including in connection with pay and other financial entitlements, are guaranteed;
Amendment 174 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Calls for targeted and simplified measures to enhance Member State capacity to make use of available funding through the European Structural Funds, the European Regional Development Fund, the European Cohesion Fund, the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI), the Youth Employment Initiative, Horizon 2020 and programmes and actions in the area of citizenship;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Maintains that the establishment of the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) has not boosted the EU economy at all but has instead hampered the adoption of the economic measures that are necessary to achieve the goal of markedly improving the quality of life and living conditions of young Europeans, especially those from the most disadvantaged groups; takes the view that the European Fund for Strategic Investments (EFSI) is a major threat to the state education sector because of the privatisation processes it could trigger;
Amendment 178 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Calls for a review of the operational mechanisms of the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) established by the European Council at its meeting of 7 and 8 February 2013, with a view to making it an effective means of helping to resolve the continuing problem of high youth unemployment; criticises the fact that the Youth Employment Initiative has hitherto failed to achieve the goal of improving working and economic conditions for young people;