18 Amendments of Marije CORNELISSEN related to 2013/2277(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 a (new)
Citation 1 a (new)
1a. having regard to its resolution of 11 June 2013 on “Social housing in the European Union” (2012/2293(INI)),
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Citation 1 b (new)
Citation 1 b (new)
1b. having regard to its resolution of 4 July 2013 entitled “Impact of the crisis on access to care for vulnerable groups” (2013/2044(INI)),
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Recital H a (new)
Recital H a (new)
Ha. whereas the policies conditional to financial assistance not only largely failed to achieve the Commission's primary aim of achieving fiscal sustainability, financial stability and restoring competitiveness, but also caused significant harm to pre-crisis progress made in policy areas such as environmental protection and health care.
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Deplores that a fair distributional impact of the measures was not among the key objectives of the adjustment programmes;
Amendment 125 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Is concerned that, among the conditions for financial assistance, the programmes include recommendations for specific cuts in fundamental areas of the fight against poverty, such as pensions, basic services, health care and pharmaceutical products for the basic protection of the most vulnerable; highlights the fact that the main impact of these measures is on the fight against poverty and child poverty;
Amendment 132 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9a. Calls on the Commission to draw lessons from the fact that labour market reforms in the programme countries have not succeeded in combatting labour market duality but instead led to a larger gap between insiders and outsiders
Amendment 151 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 13
Paragraph 13
13. Regrets the fact that, for Greece, Ireland and Portugal at least, the programmes included a number of detailed prescriptions on health system reform and expenditure cuts, despite the fact that Article 168(7) TFEU prohibits such intervenwhich has led to an alarming number of people without health insurance coverage or access to social protection;
Amendment 158 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15a. Regrets that the Troika put a heavy pressure on national authorities in order to end the moratorium on evictions for inhabitants victims, while those people were severely hit by the crisis and by austerity measures, therefore unable to bear the costs of their mortgage credit; recommends to Member states and their local authorities to set up neutral housing policies favouring social and affordable housing, to tackle the issue of housing vacancy and to implement effective prevention policies to reduce the number of evictions.
Amendment 201 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 20
Paragraph 20
20. Calls on the Commission to ask the ILO and the Council of Europe to draft reports on possible corrective measures and incentives to ensure full compliance with the European Social Charter and the Protocol thereto and with the ILO Core Conventions, since the obligations deriving from them have been affected by the budgetary adjustment measures and the structural reforms requested by the Troika including with regard to ILO Conventions 87 on Freedom of association, Convention 94 on Inclusion of labour clauses in public contracts or Convention 98 on Right to organise;
Amendment 212 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Calls on the EU to provide support, after the assessment, including through sufficient financial resources where appropriate,above and beyond the multiannual financial framework for the recovery of social protection standards and of the fight against poverty reduction and the renewal of social dialogue through a social recovery plan; calls on the Commission, the ECB and the Eurogroup to phase out the exceptionalreview and where necessary revise measures that have been put in place;
Amendment 214 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 22
Paragraph 22
22. Calls for compliance with the above- mentioned legal obligations laid down in the Treaties and in the Charter of Fundamental Rights, as failure to comply constitutes an infringement of EU primary law; calls on the fundamental rights agency to thoroughly assess the impact of the measures on human rights and issue recommendations in case of breaches of the Charter;
Amendment 224 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24
Paragraph 24
24. Calls on the Commission and the Council to give the same attention to social imbalances, and to correcting them, as it does to macroeconomic imbalances, and to that end to put EPSCO and its priorities on an equal footing withand ensure full coherence with those of the ECOFIN and the Eurogroup;
Amendment 231 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24 a (new)
Paragraph 24 a (new)
24a. Considers that only genuinely democratically accountable institutions should steer the political process of designing and implementing the adjustment programmes for countries in severe financial difficulties; Commission, should have the political steering role : calls for the ECB, IMF role to be limited to technical assistance furthermore calls for the ILO to be involved in an advisory capacity; calls for an increased transparency and political and societal ownership in the design and implementation of the adjustment programmes;
Amendment 234 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24 b (new)
Paragraph 24 b (new)
24b. Calls on the Commission and the Council to give the same attention to social imbalances, and to correcting them, as it does to macroeconomic imbalances, and to that end to put EPSCO and its priorities on an equal footing and ensure full coherence with those of the ECOFIN and the Eurogroup;
Amendment 235 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24 c (new)
Paragraph 24 c (new)
24c. Calls on the Commission to present a progress report on the EU2020 with specific attention to the lack of progress in programme countries and come forward with proposals to put these countries on a credible path towards all EU 2020 targets;
Amendment 238 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24 d (new)
Paragraph 24 d (new)
24d. Calls on the Commission to carry out social impact assessments prior to imposing major reforms in the programme countries and to consider the spill-over effects of these measures such as the effect on poverty, social exclusion, crime rates and xenophobia;
Amendment 240 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24 e (new)
Paragraph 24 e (new)
24e. Considers that the burden of adjustment should not only come from programme countries which are member states with current account deficits, but that member states with a current account surpluses should also contribute to a rebalancing of the eurozone economy; calls on the Commission to issue recommendations on macroeconomic policies to non-programme countries with this aim;
Amendment 244 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 24 f (new)
Paragraph 24 f (new)
24f. Notes that according to Article 19 of Regulation (EU) No 472/2013 the Commission shall issue a report to the Parliament before 1 January 2014 on the application of this regulation; calls on the Commission to present this report without delay and to include the implications of this regulation for the economic adjustment programmes in place;