Activities of Sandra PEREIRA related to 2021/2251(INI)
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the implementation report on the Recovery and Resilience Facility
Amendments (14)
Amendment 7 #
Draft opinion
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas the COVID-19 pandemic is placing a heavy burden on people in the EUworkers and people, particularly those from more vulnerable groups, such as precarious workers, women, people with disabilities, children, young people and the elderly, in their everyday lives, working lives andevery dimension of their lives and with regard to their livelihoods23; _________________ 2 Bundesinstitut für Bevölkerungsforschung, Belastungen von Kindern, Jugendlichen und Eltern in der Corona-Pandemie, 2021. 3 European Commission, Joint Employment Report 2021.
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the RRF created an unprecedented structure adaptestablishment of the RRF set limits to its use, whether owing to an insufficient figure or to the frontloading of funds or because it is being mobilised in the form of loans, causing further indebtedness, or because of the associated conditionalities, which prevent it from being an effective support for the response needed to addressing the complex effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on economy, society and institutions;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights that the COVID-19 crisispandemic has already left many peoplethousands of workers jobless or in precarious employment; calls on the Commission and Member States to fight against youth unemployment and to ensure that young people, especially thos and that many have seen their wages cut, their hours deregulated and their rights undermined; points out that COVID-19 is often used as an excuse to further exploit workers; calls on the Commission and Member States to fight for the promotion of full employment and work with rights, and against unemployment, including for young people, and against the risk of poverty and social exclusion and to ensure that young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs), receive adequate, properly paid and quality first working experience;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to push for equality at all life stages, including the beginning and the end of life; calls, therefore, for the establishment of a programme to support Member States that plan to establish or bolster a public, universal and free network of high-quality care and education for children (including under threes) and persons with a disability, a public, universal and free care for the elderly, and for people with long-term care needs;
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses that the amount earmarked for the RRF is nowhere near enough to compensate for the impact of the pandemic, and is even further from enough to relaunch and modernise the Member States' economies;
Amendment 82 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Deplores the fact that the RRF ties the economic recovery and investment policies to constraints arising from macroeconomic governance, the European Semester and its instruments (country-specific recommendations, national reform plans and sanctions by means of suspension of payments in the event of non-compliance with deficit and debt criteria);
Amendment 87 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 c (new)
Paragraph 2 c (new)
2b. Rejects the Commission's intervention in the setting of the content of the Member States' Recovery and Resilience Plans, which has led to pressure being exerted to change the draft versions of some RRPs, either by abandoning planned investments or by including some 'reforms';
Amendment 89 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 d (new)
Paragraph 2 d (new)
2d. Stresses that, as it offers the EU budget as a guarantee for debt issuance on the markets, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) is actually, by its very nature, an advance payment to Member States, made towards future payments; rejects the fact that the RRF funds now transferred to the Member States will, from 2028 onwards, be deducted from future transfers under cohesion policy and its instruments;
Amendment 92 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 f (new)
Paragraph 2 f (new)
2f. Stresses the importance of access to sport, leisure and culture to the physical and mental health of every generation of society; calls strongly, in this regard, for the RRF to support the creation, bolstering and renewal of public infrastructure and initiatives that promote sport, leisure and culture for all generations, along with the right to play;
Amendment 94 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Paragraph 2 g (new)
Amendment 97 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 h (new)
Paragraph 2 h (new)
2h. Takes the view that the RRF must be used to combat physical accessibility barriers, but not only those for persons with a disability;
Amendment 104 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support legislative and policy initiatives aimed at reducing inequalities and promoting decent working conditions for all, with a particular focus onincluding with regard to telework, the right to disconnect, mental well-being at work, occupational health and safety, ensuring quality jobs for essential workers, and strengthening the role of the social partners and collective bargaining; calls in this regard for the swift adoption of the directives on improving working conditions in platform work and on adequate minimum wages in the European Unionstable employment relationships and regulated working hours, to promote decent wages and pensions and their progressive increase, and strengthening the role of unions and collective bargaining;
Amendment 113 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Takes the view that companies that fail to meet the highest social and labour standards – particularly those whose organisational model is based on precarious employment relationships or which close down and dismiss workers for no apparent reason – should be barred from accessing public funds, including EU funds;
Amendment 118 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Calls for the public debt taken on by the Member States under the RRP not to be counted for the purposes of macroeconomic governance and for the part of the public debt issued by the Member States, for the entire period in which they are tackling the consequences of the pandemic, held by the ECB and appearing on their balance sheets and on the balance sheets of the National Central Banks (Eurosystem), to be cancelled in order to give the Member States room for manoeuvre to address public investment needs properly;