2 Amendments of Kostas PAPADAKIS related to 2020/0006(COD)
Amendment 45 #
Draft legislative resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Adopts its position at first reading hereinafter set outRejects the Commission proposal;
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 1 a (new)
Recital 1 a (new)
(1a) The European Green Deal of the EU and national governments, whose first legislative initiative is the Just Transition Fund - as part of the ‘Just Transition Mechanism’ - is a strategic plan to strengthen the position of major EU monopolistic groups vis-à-vis their global competitors supposedly in order to address the destruction of the environment and ‘climate change’. It will exacerbate the problems facing ordinary working families and increase the main source of these problems, namely production based exclusively on the criterion of capitalist profitability. Employees will be required to foot the bill for corporate profits through soaring energy prices, thousands of redundancies, the desertification of entire regions and a deterioration of the situation of self-employed people. There is no way to benefit both employees and corporate groups at the same time. A solution and way out for ordinary working people with the potential to satisfy all their needs is for the energy sources and the means of production, transmission and distribution of energy to be state social property. Without entrepreneurial groups and the criterion of profit in production, it will be possible to boost energy efficiency and step up the production of lignite and hydroelectric power plants and to meet the energy needs of ordinary working class families, and measures can be taken to protect the environment and the health and safety of workers and residents and to increase the wages and rights of workers in the industry.