1 Amendments of Donata GOTTARDI related to 2007/2201(INI)
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Recalls the importance of developing financial education as a complement to adequate consumer protection, especially in the field of retail banking (for instance loans, mortgages, diversified and safe saving and investment); calls on the Member States and the banking sector to take and coordinate measures to raise financial literacy among citizens, including children, young people, employees and retired people, with a view to educating and empowering consumers in order to enable them to seek better, cheaper and more appropriate products and services and to foster competition, quality and innovation within the banking industry; recalls that confident investors can provide additional liquidity to capital markets;