7 Amendments of Jasenko SELIMOVIC related to 2017/2043(BUD)
Amendment 4 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that growth is the key to more jobssustainable growth and investment are the key to job creation and increased prosperity and that it is necessary to direct the structural funds more effectively towards promoting growth;
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Emphasises that the 2018 budget must play a key role in enhancing the Union’'s contribution to growth and jobssustainable growth, jobs and social inclusion, especially in combatingthe areas of youth unemployment and inequality;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Recalls that youth unemployment rates remain verunacceptably high in the Union1a and that the situation of unemployed young people, especially NEETS (not in education, employment, or training), is particularly worrying; emphasises that, in order to address this issue, it is of the utmost importance to ensure the properadequate and timely funding of the Youth Guarantee schemes through the European Youth Initiative and the European Social Fund;Youth Employment Initiative and the European Social Fund; in this regard, highlights the importance of continuing the YEI up to the end of the current MFF; also notes the Court of Auditors statement that it is not possible to address the whole NEET population with the resources available from the EU budget alone1b; _________________ 1aIn March 2017, the youth unemployment rate was 17.2% in the EU28 and 19.4% in the euro area, compared with 19.1% and 21.3% respectively in March 2016 - Eurostat, 2nd May 2017: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/29 95521/8002525/3-02052017-AP- EN.pdf/94b69232-83a9-4011-8c85- 1d4311215619 1bSpecial report No 5/2017: Youth unemployment – have EU policies made a difference?, p. 8
Amendment 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Believes it is essential that the Youth Employment Initiative continues to be adequately funded and stresses in the context of the Multiannual Financial Framework mid-term review that the Council must adopt the agreed increase of EUR 500 million;
Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Underlines the importance of sufficient funding and good budgetary management of the programmes within the 2014-2020 Multiannual Financial Framework that aim to address unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, such as the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), the different axes of the Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD); insists, therefore, that for 2018 these programmes’' resources should at least be maintained at the levels of the previous EU budget; notes that payment amounts for this year's budget were limited as the structural funds have not been absorbed as quickly as expected and stresses that adequate payment appropriations be provided for in budget 2018;
Amendment 38 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Urges that financial support be provided for programmes creating jobs for those with multiple disadvantages onfrom EU funds reaches as many targeted beneficiaries as possible in particular for those furthest from the labour market, such as the long-term unemployed, people with disabilities and people from minority backgrounds;
Amendment 44 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Reiterates that pilot projects and preparatory actions are very valuable tools to initiate new activities and policies in the fields of employment and social inclusion; stresses that several ideas of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs have been implemented successfully in the past as pilot projects/preparatory actions; is of the opinion, therefore, that that committee will make further use of those instruments in 2018; encourages the full use of the margins available under each heading; calls for Parliament to be given regular, detailed updates on the various stages in the implementation of pilot projects and preparatory actions by the Commission.