7 Amendments of David CASA related to 2009/2221(INI)
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Calls on the Council and the Commission to define a job strategy for the EU that combines financial instruments and employment policies in order to avoid "jobless growth", and entails setting ambitious benchmarks for the employment of young people, whilst ensuring that the Parliament is involved in the decision- making process;
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Calls on the Commission to expand financial capacity fornsure better use of the European Social Fund, to earmark a minimum of 10 % of this fund for projects targeting young people and to ease access to the fund; urges the Member States to improve their targeting of youth;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Calls on the Member States to intensify efforts to reduce early school leaving in order to achieve the Lisbon goal of no more than 10 % of early school leavers by 2012goals set out in the EU2020 Strategy; invites the Member States to make use of a wide range of measures to fight early school leaving, e.g. lowering the number of students in each class, introducing mentors at all schools, establishing an immediate follow up of early school leavers that should include career counselling facilities; points to Finland which has succeeded in reducing the number of early school leavers; invites the Commission to coordinate a project on best practices;
Amendment 123 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on Member States and the Commission to provide better childcare opportunities for young parents, thus facilitating the possibility for young motherparents to participate in the labour market;
Amendment 138 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. Recognises the importance of young people being able to be financially independent and calls for Member States to ensure that all young people are individually entitled to a minimum level of income, when pursuing initiatives such as those falling within the ambit of the Lifelong Learning Programme, that secures for them the possibility of creating an independent adult life;
Amendment 145 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls for new binding youth benchmarks; invites the Commission to evaluate existing youth benchmarks and the Youth Guarantee every year in order to deliver results and progress;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21