Activities of Gabriele STAUNER related to 2007/2290(INI)
Reports (1)
REPORT Report on the future of social security systems and pensions: their financing and the trend towards individualisation PDF (246 KB) DOC (159 KB)
Amendments (14)
Amendment 24 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Urges the Member States, in the light of the Lisbon strategy and the need for action to keep the social security and pensions systems sustainable, to make more progress in shifting from a social expenditure to a social activation outlook and to attract and retain more people in quality employment with compulsory social insurance cover, increase labour supply, modernise social protection systems and increase investment in human capital through better education and training;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Recalls its belief that EU labour law should reinforce employment contracts of indefinite duration as the genertraditional form of employment under which adequate social and health protection is provided and respect for fundamental rights is ensured;
Amendment 38 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Recalls that the core of European social models is solidarity between economically active and economically inactive peoplepeople and those outside the world of work, primarily financed by work- related earnings, such as social security contributions or labour taxation; nevertheless points out that the ageing population will put serious pressure on the active work force; stresses that this could jeopardise solidarity and as a consequence European social models; stresses the significant importance, therefore, of rethinkingadopting a new approach to the principle of solidarity, including finding a new,a fair funding balance;
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Points to the ongoing development of individualisation, which should be accompanied by more strenuous efforts to individualise social rights in order to enable people, especially women, to become more independent and to build up their own history of contributing to pension schemes;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Believes that a decreasing work force will, if the present situation continues, lead to a decrease in the total number of hours worked; considers that it maywill be necessary to compensate this development primarily by recruiting more new employees, and possibly also by increasing the hours worked by the remaining workers or reducing the number of people who work part-time;
Amendment 55 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Recalls that higher employment rates are heavily dependent on the need to keep all groups active and therefore stresses the need to fight discrimination on the labour market and find employment for inactive but employable people;
Amendment 56 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Considers that it might be necessary for people to work past the age 65, remaining as long as possible in the labour force; stresses the need to discuss raising the legal retirement age; considers that, irrespective of the various legal retirement ages which apply in the Member States, it is necessary that employees should at the minimum also in fact remain in employment (or have the opportunity to do so) until the age which applies;
Amendment 75 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Draws attention to the existing discrimination against vulnerable groups in the labour market, which leads to lower employment rates and lowparticularly those in minor employment without compulsory social insurance cover, wages and therefore fewer opportunities for those groupshich gives those groups less opportunity to builtd up adequate pensions; insists on the need to provide equal opportunities for all;
Amendment 78 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Recognises that increasing public spending on pensions could be reduced by a partial switch to privately funded schemes, including occupational supplementary pension schemes; emphasises that a stronger focus on privately funded pensions would increase the need for appropriate regulation of private pension funds and for the promotion of occupational supplementary pensions;
Amendment 93 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Observes that it is predominantly women who take care of children, voluntarily or involuntarily under the pressure of cultural attitudes and social norms or of the poor quality or lack of childcare facilities; stresses the need to compensate women and to provide them with real choices as regards having children, without fearing possible financial disadvantages or suffering detriment to their career progression; welcomes action by Member States to compensation thie for this, for example by arranging for the accumulation of statutory pension entitlements during periods spent raising children and caring for families;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Stresses the need for the Member States to preserve adequate levels of funding for social security and pensions systems, the need to for them to find alternative and robust tax bases in face of increased competition brought about by globalisation; warns of the possible reduction of tax revenue caused by flat tax rates, given the fact that they are strictly related to the total number of people in the labour force; stresses the importance of reducing reliance on labour taxation in order to increase the competitiveness of Member States' economies and provide more work incentives; recognises the complexidifficulty involved in shifting to a more capital taxation, given the smaller capital tax base and greater mobility of capital; suggests that increasing the use of environmental taxes and greater reliance on consumption as tax base be considered, and thus the need for greater progressiveness, which would reduce the pressure on lower incomes;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Observes that public funding of health care contributes to efficiency and fairness byhelps to providinge protection against financial risk and by not linking payments to theirrespective of the personal risk of ill health, whereas, in contrast, private contribution mechanisms involve limited or no pooling of risks and usually link payments to the risk of ill health and ability to pay, but at the same time guarantee long-term financing irrespective of demographic change;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19 a (new)
Paragraph 19 a (new)
19a. Notes that, in the light of the principle of freedom to provide services and the right of the insured under health insurance schemes to choose a doctor or establishment freely, it is not permissible for Member States to impose fixed ceilings on the cost of treating their citizens abroad;