7 Amendments of Anne SANDER related to 2018/2024(BUD)
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Emphasises that the 2019 budget should contribute towards achieving the Europe 2020 targets in the social and employment area, which are furthest from being achieved, and a successful implementation of the European Pillar of Social Rights, particularly when it comes to combating youth and long-term unemployment, rising inequalities, social exclusion and poverty; stresses, in this regard, that the 2019 budget cannot be understood outside the context of the 2014- 2020 multiannual financial framework (MFF);
Amendment 8 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that robust recovery and, sustainable growth and structural reforms are key factors to creating quality jobs, increasing prosperity and boosting upward social convergence, and that the European structural and investment funds should be directed more effectively towards creating employment, promoting inclusive growth, fostering social cohesion and, reducing inequalities and promoting upskilling measures and life-long-learning;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Underlines the importance of adequate funding for the programmes and initiatives within the 2014-2020 MFF that seek to address unemployment, poverty and social exclusion, and especially those aimed at the most disadvantaged in society, such as the European Social Fund (ESF), the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF), the various axes of the Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI), the separate budget lines supporting European social dialogue and workers’ organisationmeasures towards social partners, and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD); insists, therefore, that the resources of these programmes should be increased for the 2019 budget, or at least maintained at the levels of the previous year;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Expects the 2019 budget to continue demonstrating great ambition to fight youth unemployment; calls on the continuation of efforts to improve the implementation of the Youth Employment Initiative, by ensuring that the offers of employment, education or training match with participant profiles and labour market demand in order to place participants in sustainable employment;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Paragraph 4 – subparagraph 1 (new)
Sees that the low absorption rate is partly due to administrative barriers; calls therefore further reduction of administrative barriers to improve the access to funds;
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4a. Recalls that the principle of proportionality must prevail in the management and control of structural programs; calls on the Commission and the Member States to explore the possibilities of an online system of application more conducive to administrative simplification for project managers;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4b. Calls on the Commission, in line with the ECA Special Report 06/2018, to better identify and monitor funding addressed to labour mobility in the scope of EaSI and ESF, to ensure complementarity and better performance monitoring of the funds, and hence their efficient and effective use;