11 Amendments of Siôn SIMON related to 2014/2249(INI)
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital S a (new)
Recital S a (new)
Sa. whereas the principle of equal pay for male and female workers for equal work or work of equal value, as laid out in Article 157 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union has still not been realised;
Amendment 156 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital V a (new)
Recital V a (new)
Va. whereas there are some predictable challenges that the Union needs to be better prepared for, such as the effect that the aging population will have on the demographic make-up of many Member States and the subsequent financial and social pressures that it will present;
Amendment 161 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital V b (new)
Recital V b (new)
Vb. whereas discrimination based on any ground, such as sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or otherwise, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age, gender identity or sexual orientation still remains a problem in every Member State;
Amendment 170 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Notes that the European Union and its Member States are facing unprecedented challenges, such as the refugee crisis, the foreign policy challenges in the immediate neighbourhood and the fight against terrorism, as well as globalisation, climate change, an aging population, the growth of precarious employment, the consequences of the financial and debt crisis, the lack of competitiveness and the social consequences in several Member States, and the need to reinforce the EU internal market, which have so far been inadequately addressed;
Amendment 198 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the Community method is superior tohas a number of advantages over the intergovernmental method as it is the only one that allows for greater transparency, QMV in the Council, and the equal right of co-legislation by the European Parliament and Council, as well as preventing a fragmentation of institutional responsibilities and the development of competing institutions;
Amendment 256 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Encourages meaningful political dialogue with national parliaments on the contents of legislative proposals; insists, however, on a clear delineation of the respective decision-making competences of the national parliaments and the European Parliament, where the former should exercise their European function on the basis of their national constitutions, in particular via the control of their national governments as members of the European Council and the Council, which is the level where they are best placed to directly influence the content of and exercise scrutiny over the European legislative process more directly; is therefore against the creation of joint parliamentary bodies with decision-making bodiespowers, or otherwise influence, for reasons of transparency, accountability and ability to act;
Amendment 302 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Proposes that the Council be transformed into a true legislative chamber by reducing the number of Council configurations to a single legislative one by means of a European Council decision, thus creating a genuinely bi-cameral legislative system involving the Council and Parliament, with the Commission acting as the executive; suggests involving the currently active specialised Council configurations as preparatory bodies for the legislative Council, along the lines of the Committees in the European Parliament;
Amendment 370 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27 a (new)
Paragraph 27 a (new)
27a. Considers it necessary that the Commission reforms the European Citizens' Initiative into a functioning tool for democratic engagement, taking into account the Own-Initiative Report of 28 October 2015, and calls on the Commission, inter alia, to raise public awareness and give the ECI a high profile; make its software for the online collection of signatures more user- friendly, making it accessible to people with disabilities; provide appropriate and comprehensive legal and practical guidance; consider setting up a dedicated ECI office at its representations in each Member State; explain in detail the reasons for rejecting an ECI and explore ways of referring proposals within initiatives that may fall out of the scope of the Commission's competences to more appropriate authorities;
Amendment 684 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 71
Paragraph 71
71. Stresses that the rights of workers, when they exercise their right of mobility, should be guaranteed, along with their social rights, in accordance with Articles 45, 151 and 153 TFEU, and guarantee that there is no discrimination in employment and renumeration as well as guaranteeing social protection at the same place of work, in order to ensure a stable social basis for the EMU;
Amendment 701 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 72 a (new)
Paragraph 72 a (new)
72a. Points out the facilities provided by the Union and the necessity to actively include young workers into the labour market and further encourage the exchange of young workers, in accordance with Article 47 TFEU;
Amendment 875 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 104
Paragraph 104
104. Recalls the obligation for the accession of the Union to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR), in line with Article 6 (2) TEU, and urges the swift re-launching of negotiations with the Council of Europe to this effect, taking into account the opinion of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) of 18th December 2015; and reminds the Commission, in its role as the chief negotiator that such accession will improve the human rights protection of all European citizens;