5 Amendments of Elisabeth MORIN-CHARTIER related to 2015/2353(INI)
Amendment 10 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Points to the need to provide the EU budget with a genuine own resources system, thereby lowering the proportion of GNI-based national contributions to the budget;
Amendment 19 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Underlines that the employment rate in the EU currently stands at 69.2%, which is well below the Europe 2020 target, and calls for increased European public investment in job creation and skills, to be achieved by ring-fencing and strengthening the European Social Fund;
Amendment 23 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Maintains that investment in research and development is crucially important for the competitiveness of the European economy and for job creation; notes, however, that, according to the most recent Eurostat figures, R & D investment accounted for just 2.03% of EU GDP, which is well below the Europe 2020 target; urges the Commission, therefore, to find a way of fully offsetting the cuts by which the EFSI has been financed at the expense of the Horizon 2020 budget;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Stresses that the resources of the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived are not sufficient to address the unprecedented flow of refugees and that competition for scarce funds may lead to social conflict; calls on the Commission to increase social policy funding and in that way enhance cohesion policy in order to help refugees to integrate into society and enter the labour market while doing its best to achieve its goals of promoting employment and social inclusion; insists that the ESF share amount to 25% of the total cohesion budget, that no reductions in the national envelopes for ESF measures be made and that sufficient cash flow be provided annually for payments from the EU budget;
Amendment 71 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 8 a (new)
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. Maintains that the common agricultural policy (CAP) contributes significantly to growth and employment, especially in rural areas, and points out that one job in the agricultural sector generates seven jobs elsewhere; calls for the amounts entered under MFF heading 2 to remain unchanged, bearing in mind that the CAP is vitally important for employment; points out that the CAP not only helps to reduce farm income volatility, particularly in times of crisis, but also helps farmers, young people included, to set up in farming and develop their farms, making them profitable, prosperous, and a source of direct and indirect employment;