6 Amendments of Victor NEGRESCU related to 2016/2050(BUD)
Amendment 1 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Notes that the financial contribution will target 557 workers made redundant out of which 194 persons are men and 363 are women;
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Recalls that another 543 young people under the age of 30 that are not in employment, education or training in the same region might be provided with personalized services such as occupational guidance under the Youth Employment Initiative;
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the Greek economy was in deep recession for six consecutive years (from 2008 to 2013) and that since 2008, private consumption decreased by 32,3 percentage points while unemployment increased by about 19 percentage points; points to the closure of thousands of enterprises in Greece and the decline in household consumption and purchasing power since the beginning of the financial and economic crisis in 2008 and the fact that volumes of retail trade of food, beverages and tobacco were more than 30 % lower in 2015 than the early-crisis volumes of 2008; notes that, for those reasons, the sales of Supermarket Larissa followed the same downturn as the Greek economy and that sales in 2013 were 24 % lower than in 2009; notes that Greece has also been taking unpopular measures such as increasing tax rates, streamlining public expenditure and decreasing public employees' salaries to deal with foreign debt repayments;
Amendment 10 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes, therefore, that Supermarket Larissa, a cooperative of small grocery stores formed in 1986 that reached 42 shops and 600 workers, could not overcome its losses and had to close its shops during the second quarter of 2014; points out that this was not prevented by the austerity measures, in particular wage cuts (-30%), the renegotiation of leases and the putting off of the maturity date of bills; notes that this situation is also due to the drastic reduction in loans to enterprises, in a context where quantitative easing by the ECB failed to kickstart loans; notes that this case is a dramatic result of the continuous pressure by creditors on Greece and of European austerity policy ;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5 a. Notes that although the cooperative applied some austerity measures such as wage cuts, renegotiation of the leases, putting off the maturity date of bills, proposing cheaper products and reducing operation costs it had to start closing its shops one after another;
Amendment 13 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5 b. Notes that implementation of the mentioned actions are imperative in the region, taking into consideration that Supermarket Larissa's debt to third parties is estimated at around EUR 33,5 million, worsening the supermarket suppliers that might result in a cascading of bankruptcies and additional redundancies;