Activities of Marije CORNELISSEN related to 2012/2257(INI)
Plenary speeches (1)
European Semester for economic policy coordination: employment and social aspects in the annual growth survey 2013 (A7-0024/2013 - Veronica Lope Fontagné) (vote)
Amendments (52)
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph -1 (new)
Paragraph -1 (new)
-1. Calls on the Commission and Council to enter into an Interinstitutional Agreement with the Parliament in order to give the Parliament a full role in the drafting and approval of the Annual Growth Survey and the Economic Policy and Employment Guidelines;
Amendment 49 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Deplores the fact that priorities identified during last year's European Semester cycle, in particular those relating to job creation, job quality and the fight against poverty and social exclusion have not given the expected results and were not put at the centre of the AGS 2013;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Points out that the economic situation and the social consequences of the crisis have further deteriorated during the last year and therefore stresses the importance of critically evaluating the short term impact of fiscal consolidation on employment and social inclusion, and stepping up the Member States' commitment to following the 2013 policy guidance, in particular in the employment and social policy area.
Amendment 54 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the European Council to ensure that the yearly policy guidance set out on the basis of the AGS is fully focused on fulfilling all the objectives of the Europe 2020 Strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth; Regrets that no EU2020 progress report was included in the AGS 2013, calls on the Commission to deliver this report in time before the Spring European Council meeting;
Amendment 58 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Member States to adoptincrease the necessary commitments in the 2013 National Reform Programmes 2013 towards the fulfilment of the Europe 2020 objectives; calls on the Commission to accommodate for public investments in EU2020 related expenditure in its assessment of Stability and Convergence Programmes and excessive deficit procedures;
Amendment 64 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Member States to adopt measures favourable to job creation such as labour tax reforms that provideincentives employment incentives, promote and support genuine and voluntary self-employment and business start-ups, improve the framework for doing -business, and facilitate the access to financing for SMEs, transform informal and undeclared work into regular employment, reform labour markets to make them more adaptive, dynamic and inclusive, modernise wage-setting systems to align wages with productivity developmentdevelop with social partners the coordination of collective bargaining across borders to ensure that wages develop in line with productivity developments within the boundaries of decent living wages, exploit the high employment potential of sectors such as the green economy, health and social care, and the ICT sector to create jobs.;
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
Subheading 4
Subheading 4
Youth unemployment
Amendment 79 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Calls on the Member States to take decisive measures to fight youth unemployment, including targeted active labour-market policy measures, measures tackling skills mismatches in the labour market, in particular by preventing early drop-out from school or apprenticeship schemes and ensuring that education and training systems provide young people with the relevant skills in an efficient way, and promote entrepreneurship and effective business development support for young people and frameworks securing the transition from education to work; by implementing the Youth Guarantee as proposed by the Commission without delay, and ensuring sufficient funding for it;
Amendment 80 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Urges Member States to develop comprehensive strategies for young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET). Urges Member States to show financial solidarity in the development of these strategies towards Member States with limited fiscal space;
Amendment 96 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Member States, while pursuing sustainable, growth friendly and differentiated fiscal consolidation, to secensure efficient and sufficient investments in education and training.
Amendment 105 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Acknowledges the need to continue fiscal consolidation programmes in order to guarantee the sustainability of public finances, but warns about the negative short-termStresses that the impact of fiscal consolidation programmes should be evaluated critically with regard to their impacts on growth and employment effects thereofin the short term, especially in countries in recession or with marginal growth rates; Calls on the Commission and European Council to allow for investments to achieve the EU2020 strategy and to make full use of the flexibility in times of economic downturn that Regulation (EU) No 1175/2011 and Council Regulation (EU) No 1177/2011 provide for;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Considers that fiscal consolidation must continhas to be pursued in a proportionalte and growth-friendly manner and thatway and the rhythm of consolidation musthas to be differentiated across countries according to their fiscal space, in order to achieve the proper balance between potential to avoid negative growth and negative employment effects and the risks towhile ensuring medium and long term debt sustainability;
Amendment 116 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. Calls on the European Council to ensure coherence between the different priorities in its policy guidance, so that fiscal consolidation does not compromise sustainable growth and job creation potential, increase poverty and social exclusion, or prevent the provision of public services of quality; believes that the main priority must be to put into place integrated reform measures and investments that promote growth and job creation while guaranteeing the sustainability of public finances;
Amendment 120 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 a (new)
Paragraph 26 a (new)
26 a. Calls on European Council, should it endorse the first priority of the AGS "differentiated growth friendly fiscal consolidation", to specifically explain how this can be implemented in full compliance with the aim to increase social cohesion and combat poverty as outlined in its fourth priority "tackling unemployment and the social consequences of the crisis";
Amendment 121 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26 b (new)
Paragraph 26 b (new)
26 b. Calls on the Commission to include social indicators into the scoreboard for the correction of macro-economic imbalances such as income inequality and labour market participation;
Amendment 122 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 27
Paragraph 27
27. Stresses the need to attain a correct balafull coherence between budgetary consolidation and economic measures on the one hand and social policy, growth and employment measures on the other.
Amendment 139 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Stresses the need to undertake the necessary reforms in order to guarantee the sustainability of pension systems; believes that retirement age shcould be linked toevaluated against the evolution of healthy life expectancy, but recalls that there is still scope to raise the actual retirement age without raising the mandatory retirement age by reducing early exit from the labour market in particular by improving working conditions; believes that, if actual retirement ages are to be raised successfully, reforms in pension systems need to be accompanied by policies thatprimarily need to develop employment opportunities for older workers' access to life-long learning, and introduce tax benefit policies giving incentives to stay longer at work, and support active healthy ageing;
Amendment 143 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 34
Paragraph 34
34. Calls on the Commission to work with the Member States to ensure that austerity programmes do not hinder employment creation measures and growth-promoting policies, and do not compromise social protection; urges Member States to prioritise growth-friendly expenditure such as education, lifelong learning, research and innovation energy efficiency, and at the same time to ensure the efficiency of this spending;
Amendment 158 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 43
Paragraph 43
43. Welcomes the Commission's announcement that it is to present a youth employment package; calls on the Member States to promote and develop, in close cooperation with the social partners, a Youth Guarantee, with the aim of offering every young person in the EU a job, an apprenticeship, additional training or combined work and training after a maximum period of four months' unemployment; recalls that this can be co- financed by the European Social Fund; calls on the Commission to provide Member States and regions with technical assistance to make good use of the ESF in order to develop Youth Guarantee schemes; Calls on Member States to implement the Youth Guarantee with concrete measures;
Amendment 173 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 53
Paragraph 53
53. Believes that structural labour market reforms should introduce internal flexibility to maintain employment in times of economic disruption, and ensure job quality, security in employment transitions, unemployment benefit schemes based on strict activation requirementlinked with reintegration policies that maintain work incentives while ensuring sufficient income, contractual arrangements to combat labour market segmentation, anticipate economic restructuring, and ensure access to lifelong learning;
Amendment 176 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 55
Paragraph 55
55. Calls on the Member States to simplifyrove employment legislation where necessary, and support and develop conditions for offering more flexible working arrangements together with adequate level of social security, especially for older and younger workers, and to promote workers' mobility through mobility support schemes;
Amendment 180 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 56
Paragraph 56
56. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to address the low level of labour market participation of disadvantaged groups, including people belonging to minorities (e.g. Roma) and people with disabilities, and to respect decent living wages at all times;
Amendment 184 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 60
Paragraph 60
60. Calls on the Commission and the Member States in order to deepen the European labour market integration to take steps to improve mobility within and across labour markets and toby removeing legal and administrative barriers to free movement of workers within the EU in order to deepen European labour market integrationsuch as the transitional labour market restrictions for workers from Romania and Bulgaria and by improving the social security rights and working conditions of workers making use of their right to free movement; cCalls on the Member States to increase their use of EURES in order to enhance the matching of jobs and job-seekers across borders.;
Amendment 186 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 61 a (new)
Paragraph 61 a (new)
61 a. Calls on the Member States to ensure that negative effects of fiscal consolidation on gender equality, female employment and poverty are reversed by adopting a gender mainstreaming approach in national budgets, addressing stronger gender-specific recommendations to Member States, and disaggregating the EU 2020 headline targets and the corresponding national targets by gender;
Amendment 195 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.2 - 2nd paragraph
Recommendation 2.2 - 2nd paragraph
Member States should consider to reduce taxation on labour when fiscal conditions allow, especially well targeted temporary reductions in social security contributions or job subsidy schemes for new recruits,shift the tax burden away from labour towards environmentally harmful activities when fiscal conditions allow, stimulating new recruits and benefiting especially on low paid and low skilled workers, long-term unemployed and other vulnerable groups.
Amendment 199 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.3 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 2.3 - 1st paragraph
Transform informal and undeclared work into regular employment amongst others by increasing the capacity of labour inspections.
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.4 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 2.4 - 1st paragraph
Amendment 203 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.5 - 1st indent
Recommendation 2.5 - 1st indent
- REffective retirement age should be linked to the evolution ofput on a sustainable footing, taking into account healthy life expectancy and inequalities in life expectancy.
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.5 - 2st indent
Recommendation 2.5 - 2st indent
- Raise the effective retirement age by improving working conditions, reducing early exit from the labour market (for example by introducing tax benefit policies giving incentives to stay longer at work) and enable workers to make flexible transitions from work into retirement
Amendment 206 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.5 - 3rd indent
Recommendation 2.5 - 3rd indent
- Reforms in pension systems need to be accompanied by policies that developPolicies to increase employment opportunities for older workers, access to life-long learning, and support active healthy ageing need to be at the core of reforms in pension systems to prevent longer periods of unemployment for older workers;
Amendment 207 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.6 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 2.6 - 1st paragraph
- ASusterity programmainable growth friendly fiscal consolidation measures should not hinder employment creation measures and growth-promoting policies, neither compromise social protection.
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.6 - 2st paragraph
Recommendation 2.6 - 2st paragraph
- Member States should prioritise growth- friendly investments in education, lifelong learning, research and innovation and energy efficiency.
Amendment 213 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 2.8 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 2.8 - 1st paragraph
Amendment 221 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 3.2 - 2nd paragraph
Recommendation 3.2 - 2nd paragraph
Member States and regions should promote and developimplement, in close cooperation with the social partners, a Youth Guarantee with the aim that every person under 25 years in the EU is offered a job, an apprenticeship, additional training or receives a good-quality offer of employment, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within four months of becombing unemployed work and training after a maximum period of four months’ unemployment leaving formal education.
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 3.2 - 2nd paragraph a (new)
Recommendation 3.2 - 2nd paragraph a (new)
Urges the European Council to integrate progress on the implementation of the Youth Guarantees in the European Semester process
Amendment 228 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 1st indent
Recommendation 5.1 - 1st indent
- Introduction of internal flexibility together with adequate level of social security, with the objective to maintain employment in times of economic distress,
Amendment 229 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 1st indent a (new)
Recommendation 5.1 - 1st indent a (new)
- Putting in place the conditions for combining labour and care responsibilities
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 3rd indent
Recommendation 5.1 - 3rd indent
Amendment 233 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 4th indent
Recommendation 5.1 - 4th indent
Amendment 235 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 6th indent
Recommendation 5.1 - 6th indent
Amendment 236 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 9th indent
Recommendation 5.1 - 9th indent
Amendment 237 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.1 - 10th indent
Recommendation 5.1 - 10th indent
- SimplifyImprove employment legislation and support and develop conditions for more flexible working arrangements, especially for older and younger workers.
Amendment 240 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.2 - 2nd paragraph
Recommendation 5.2 - 2nd paragraph
Remove legal and administrative obstacles and improve working conditions and social security to supporto free movement of workers within the EU in order to deepen the European labour market integration.
Amendment 242 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 5.3 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 5.3 - 1st paragraph
The European Council should pay attention toinclude job quality in its 2013 policy guidance, in particular in relation toguarantee that workers’ have access to a core set of labour rights as enshrined by the Treaties and without prejudice to the Member States legislation, and that these are not compromised by other elements of the policy guidance.
Amendment 243 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 6.2 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 6.2 - 1st paragraph
Tackle the increase ofhe European Council should make combating poverty and unemployment amongst all age groups, especially in-work poverty, poverty among people with limited or no links to the labour market and poverty among elderly people a priority in its policy guidance;
Amendment 244 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 6.2 - 4th paragraph a (new)
Recommendation 6.2 - 4th paragraph a (new)
Ensure that negative effects of fiscal consolidation on gender equality, female employment and poverty are reversed by adopting a gender mainstreaming approach in national budgets, addressing stronger gender-specific recommendations to Member States, and disaggregating the EU 2020 headline targets and the corresponding national targets by gender.
Amendment 245 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 6.2 - 5th paragraph
Recommendation 6.2 - 5th paragraph
Develop policies and measures to reduce in-work poverty, fostering a sufficient labour market participation in the household and facilitating upward transitions for those trapped in low-paid or precarious jobs.
Amendment 247 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 7 - 1st paragraph
Recommendation 7 - 1st paragraph
Pursue with fiscal consolidation programmes in order to guarantee the sustainability of public finances, but it has to continue in a proportional and growth- friendly way allowing for investments to achieve the EU2020 strategy and making full use of the flexibility that the Stability and Growth pact provides for.
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 7 - 2nd paragraph
Recommendation 7 - 2nd paragraph
The rhythm of consolidation has to be differentiated across countries according to their fiscal space to reach the right balance between potentialavoid negative growth and negative employment effects and the risks to, while debt sustainability should be guaranteed;
Amendment 251 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 7 - 3rd paragraph
Recommendation 7 - 3rd paragraph
Ensure coherence between the different priorities in its policy guidance, so fiscal consolidation does not compromise sustainable growth and job creation potential, increase poverty and social exclusion, or prevents the provision of public services of quality.
Amendment 254 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 7 - 4th paragraph
Recommendation 7 - 4th paragraph
Attain a correct balafull coherence between budgetary consolidation and proposed economic reform measures on the one hand and social policy, growth andpoverty reduction and increasing employment measurrates on the other;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Recommendation 8 - 3rd paragraph a (new)
Recommendation 8 - 3rd paragraph a (new)
Enter into an Interinstitutional Agreement with the Parliament in order to give the Parliament a full role in the drafting and approval of the Annual Growth Survey and the Economic Policy and Employment Guidelines;