Activities of José Inácio FARIA related to 2015/2285(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on European Semester for economic policy coordination: Annual Growth Survey 2016
Amendments (8)
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1 c. Asks the Commission to carefully monitor the application of funds from the European Fund for Strategic Investments in order to reach the political objectives of re-launching investment and modernising the economy and fostering economic and social convergence across the European Union;
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 d (new)
Paragraph 1 d (new)
1 d. Takes note of the moderate economic recovery in the European Union. Highlights the importance of the "Investment Plan for Europe", an initiative aimed at kick-starting jobs and growth. Calls on the need to prioritize investment to areas such as education, clean energy, resource efficiency and research and innovation infrastructures for green technologies, enabling the transition towards a sustainable growth model;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that reducing external resource and energy dependence is key to achieving long-term growth and will enhance the competitiveness of the EU; a sustainable system of secure energy and resource supplies for the Union which could at the same time enhance the competitiveness of the EU; stresses the need to eliminate infrastructural, tax and regulatory barriers to the single energy market; calls on the Commission to issue recommendations to Member States in order to effectively tackle implementation obstacles to the energy the Energy Union, detected under the monitoring process of the European Semester;
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to use the European Semester as a vehicle to fulfil EU commitments emanating from the Europe 2020 Strategy and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and in particular to include in the process policissue country recommendations and to consider policy measures addressing climate change, sustainable production and consumption, and biodiversity, incorporating steps to more effectively reach those goals;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 c (new)
Paragraph 4 c (new)
4 c. Urges the Commission to better take account, in the process of the European Semester, of social and environmental indicators, assessing convergence across the EU and progress towards a more sustainable society, proposing measures to reach such goals in a more effective and timely manner;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers it important to assess the performance and sustainability of healthcare systems in the framework of the European Semester and supports a shift to an outcome-based approach; calls on the Commission to develop tools to assess health promotion and disease prevention and enabling the long-term health and fiscal impacts of measures targeting prevention to be taken into account in country-specific recommendations and to monitor health outcomes and measure access to high-quality healthcare with the aim of reducing divergences and health inequalities between and within Member States.;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 f (new)
Paragraph 5 f (new)
5 f. Highlights that European leadership in sectors of the green and blue economies can only be based on labour markets offering human capital with adequate skill-training; calls on the Commission to include in the country- specific recommendations investment needs in human capital in the areas of Science and Technology, making training and education systems more responsive to future labour markets' needs;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 g (new)
Paragraph 5 g (new)
5 g. Calls on the Commission to recommend Member States to revise policies that subsidize or incentivise the continued use of fossil fuels; calls on the Commission to ask Member States for fiscal strategies that reward development of sustainable policies and the circular economy while shifting away the tax burden from labour, ensuring growth- friendly tax systems and enhancing support to the green economy.