4 Amendments of Romana TOMC related to 2015/2353(INI)
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that the employment rate in the EU currently stands at 69.2%, which is well below the Europe 2020 target, and calls for increased public investment in job creation and skills, as well as in infrastructure, not least through the EFSI; also maintains that the MFF revision should be used to find a way of fully offsetting the cuts by which the EFSI has been financed at the expense of the budgets of major EU programmes, including Horizon 2020 and the Connecting Europe Facility, bearing in mind the importance of those programmes for economic development and job creation in particular, without, however, undermining the EFSI, which has an essential part to play in revitalising investment in Europe;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Insists on the continuation of the Youth Employment Initiative and the Erasmus+ programme and calls for the resources for this initiativeese programmes to be provided at least until 2020;
Amendment 48 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the resources of the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived are not sufficient to address the unprecedented flow of refugees and that competition for scarce funds may lead to social conflictust not interfere with the elements of the fund; insists that the ESF share amount to 25 % of the total cohesion budget, that no reductions in the national envelopes for ESF measures be made and that sufficient cash flow be provided annually for payments from the EU budget;
Amendment 64 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Draws attention to the huge problem of child poverty in Europe, which is afflicting over 20 million children, and reiterates its call for the establishment of a Child Guarantee with dedicated special resources, together with programmes to assist parents in getting out of social exclusion and unemployment; calls on the Commission to establish mechanisms for training and skills development in education and in work in order to increase the employability of EU citizens;