Activities of Emilie TURUNEN related to 2012/2003(INI)
Shadow reports (1)
REPORT on Social Investment Pact – as a response to the crisis PDF (167 KB) DOC (102 KB)
Amendments (11)
Amendment 41 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
I a. whereas SMEs have an important job creation potential and play a crucial role in the transition towards a new sustainable economy;
Amendment 47 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that social investments, being the provision and use of finance to generate social as well as economic returns, aim at addressing emerging social risks and needs, and focus on public policies and human capital investment strategies that prepare individuals, families and societies to adopt to various transformations and to manage their transition towards more flexiblinclusive labour markets;
Amendment 61 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes that the crisis requires a modernisation of the European Social Model, a rethinking of national social policies and a transition from an ‘'active welfare state’', that only responds to emerging damages caused by market failure, to an ‘'activating welfare state’', that invests in people and gives citizens instruments and incentives to participate while ensuring respect for the individual, transition security, income security and protection against social risks, including decent income for those who cannot participate in the labour market;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 2
Subheading 2
Amendment 72 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point a a (new)
Paragraph 5 – point a a (new)
a a) invest in a social security system which provides decent income to the people in need,
Amendment 92 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5 – point e
Paragraph 5 – point e
e) reform pension systems and create working conditions forthat allow the individual the choice of working longer,
Amendment 107 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Encourages Member States to invest in supportingInsists that youth unemployment must be at the heart of a social investment pact; encourages Member States to put forward ambitious strategies to avoid the loss of a generation by investing intensively in young persons, and in improving their access to the labour market, by providing training and youth internship programmes of a high quality, by promoting entrepreneurship and creating incentives for employers to engage graduates, by securing a better transition from education to work and by promoting European and regional mobility;
Amendment 115 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7 a (new)
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Welcomes the Commission's initiative to promote a Youth Guarantee ensuring that young people are either offered a decent job, education or (re-) training within four months after becoming unemployed; calls on all Member States to implement such a Youth Guarantee as soon as possible
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Encourages Member States to introduce necessary reforms in order to increasegear the necessary reforms towards creating pension systems that are inclusive, sustainable and financially stable; acknowledges that reforms are necessary in order to maintain a sufficiently large workforce and notes that many Member States already increased the statutory retirement age and limited early retirement possibilities, and; urges Member States to combine thireforms with the constant improvement of working conditions and the implementation of lifelong training schemes enabling longer professional careers; as an attempt to prevent age discrimination;
Amendment 146 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on Member States to consider signingthe European Council to commit to a ‘'Social Investment Pact’' before the end of 2012, through which they would create a reinforced control mechanismset up targets and strategies for social investments, linked to the Annual Growth Survey, including evaluation mechanisms in the NRPs. This would create reinforced control for improving efforts to meet employment, social and education targets of Europe 2020;
Amendment 148 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13 a (new)
Paragraph 13 a (new)
13 a. Believes that a European Social Investment Pact could be an important element of shifting the one-sided fiscal austerity approach towards a more balanced one and a new impetus to push Europe out of the crisis if it includes concrete commitments on national and European level for investments to create growth and jobs in key sectors such as resource efficiency and management, renewables, energy efficiency or recycling/reusing;