Activities of Hugues BAYET related to 2016/2101(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
European Semester for economic policy coordination: implementation of 2016 priorities (A8-0309/2016 - Alfred Sant) FR
European Semester for economic policy coordination: implementation of 2016 priorities (debate) FR
Amendments (22)
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Reiterates that investments in education and culture reinforce employability and contribute to sustainable growth and job creation in the EU; underlines the need for structural reforms of the education and training systems in the Member States and the need to foster better interaction between the EU and the Member States and to facilitate the exchange of best practices among the Member States; takes the view that it is essential to boost public investment in order to preserve and enhance the quality of health and education systems and the quality of services provided for the public, as well as in order to create favourable conditions for economic development;
Amendment 28 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital Cb (new)
Recital Cb (new)
Cb. having regard to the social and human toll and the poor economic results of the austerity policy within the Union;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C a (new)
Recital C a (new)
Ca. whereas almost 125 million citizens of the EU are at risk of poverty;
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C c (new)
Recital C c (new)
Cc. whereas the EU must develop policies to help the victims of austerity;
Amendment 45 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas political developments such as the question of the UK’s membership of the Union, and relations with Russia and the refugee crisis have compounded uncertainties and further served to inhibit investment;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Calls for debt and deficit calculations not to factor in public investment carried out by Member States’ public operators, particularly in view of the impact of the new ESA 2010 system of accounts, which is preventing Member States from putting up co-financing for projects eligible for structural funding (in particular under the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Youth Employment Initiative) and thus from using this important source of funding to help find a way out of the economic crisis and kick- start investment in the area of culture, growth and employment;
Amendment 62 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1a (new)
Paragraph 1a (new)
1a. Strongly objects to the decision by the members of the euro area to support the European Commission's recommendation that Spain and Portugal be declared in breach of EU budget rules;
Amendment 70 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the challenges in the EU are linked to the deteriorating international environment and, the divergences in the economic and social performance achieved in different parts of the Union and the effects of the austerity policies;
Amendment 83 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. WelcomNotes the Commission’s focus in its 2016 country-specific recommendations (CSRs) on the three main priorities to further strengthen economic growth: supporting investment, pursuing structural reforms and preserving responsible public finances;
Amendment 90 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3a (new)
Paragraph 3a (new)
3a. Recalls that the final objective of economic growth must be to create employment and improve the well-being of all citizens;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. WelcomNotes the Commission’s continuing approach to limit the number of recommendations and its effort to mainstream the semester by covering mainly key priority areas of macroeconomic and social relevance, when setting the policy objectives for the next 18 months; reiterates that this facilitates the implementation of recommendations according to a comprehensive and meaningful range of social benchmarksese recommendations are very subjective and have not proved to be fully effective;
Amendment 101 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
Amendment 114 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5a (new)
Paragraph 5a (new)
5a. Notes that the structural reforms introduced by those Member States worst affected have not borne fruit; calls therefore for a review of the austerity policy in Europe and, given the context, for the encouragement of public investment;
Amendment 127 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that Europe’s long economic crisis has shown that there is a strong need to focus on public and private investment, in order to boost job creation as much as possible and to enhance the EU’s competitiveness;
Amendment 132 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6a (new)
Paragraph 6a (new)
6a. Takes the view that it is essential to boost public investment in order to preserve and enhance the quality of health and education systems and the quality of services provided for the public, as well as to create favourable conditions for economic development;
Amendment 151 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7a (new)
Paragraph 7a (new)
7a. Reiterates the importance of ensuring a quality workforce within the EU and ensuring full respect for the right to health and safety at work; recalls also the urgent need to adapt legislation concerning the posting of workers in order to put an end to the unacceptable practice of social dumping within the Union;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10a (new)
Paragraph 10a (new)
10a. Calls for neutralisation in the calculation of debt and deficit in public investment carried out by Member States’ public operators, particularly with regard to the impact of the new ESA 2010 system of accounts, which prevents Member States from paying their co-financing share to the Structural Funds (in particular the European Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund and the Youth Employment Initiative) and thus using these funds to escape from the economic crisis and re- launch growth and employment;
Amendment 219 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11a (new)
Paragraph 11a (new)
11a. Calls for continued investment in the Structural Funds across all regions including transition areas in order to ensure continuity in the effects of the funding and efforts already invested;
Amendment 252 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Highlights the importance of resilient labour markets where an appropriate trade-off is maintained between economic, social and human costs in accordance with the EU values of solidarity and subsidiarity, with a focus on the upgrading of educational systems and vocational education and on the protection of workers' rights;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Invites the Commission to give priority to measures that reduce the obstacles to greater investment flows, which arise at both an EU level from a lack of clarity regarding strategies that are to be followed, especially in the fields of energy, transport, communications and the digital economy, as well as from the effect on bank lending in the wake of the adoption of the banking union, and at national level from the application of austerity policies, cumbersome legal systems, corruption, lack of transparency, outdated bureaucracy, inadequate digitalisation of public services, lack of mutual recognition of academic and technical qualifications in the professions and certain services sectors, and educational systems that remain out of synch with modern requirements;
Amendment 276 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14a (new)
Paragraph 14a (new)
14a. Calls for a full review of the European Fiscal Pact (TSCG) so as to include an economic recovery policy from which all European citizens and the European economy will benefit;
Amendment 289 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Underlines the importance of better addressing the high tax wedge on labour given that high taxation diminishes incentives for the inactive,by shifting the unemployed, second earners and low- wage earners to return to employment, by promoting a growth-friendly tax shift towards consumption and environmental taxeshasis to taxation of capital and by waging a permanent war on fraud and tax evasion;